At Rest

Deadly force
Upshur County deputies and a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper responded to a check welfare call. Dale Hightower, 53, was shot and killed by Trooper John Smith III and Deputy Alex Ortiz when he pointed a rifle at officers.
This record exists so that Dale Maurice Hightower Jr., and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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