Darrell Norwood

How they died

Suicide

Officer James Morningstar was reportedly working an unscheduled overtime shift when he stopped a Chevrolet Cavalier driven by Darrell Norwood in the Immanuel Reformed Church parking lot at about 2:30 p.m. Relatives said Norwood, who had schizophrenia and lived in a group home for the mentally disabled, took a bus to Benton Harbor to spend Thanksgiving with relatives and had taken his grandparents' Chevrolet Cavalier along with two guns. Initial reports said that Morningstar fired several shots at Norwood after Norwood shot him in the arm, and that one of Morningstar's shots struck Norwood in the head. In January, police said that Norwood had shot himself in the right side of his head and that the bullet exited his body and out a partially open window striking Morningstar. The shooting was officially declared a suicide.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Darrell Norwood, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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