David O’Neil Brown Jr.

How they died

Deadly force

Sweating profusely and wearing only boxers, Brown approached a white Mitsubishi Galant and shot the driver, Jeremy Jontae McMillan, fatally in the head with a pistol. Officers responded. Brown, trying to drive away in a Dodge Stratus, pointed a semiautomatic rifle at the officers. He and Officer Craig Shaw fatally shot each other. Brown was bipolar, using PCP and marijuana, and had not been taking his medications. His father had just become Chief of the Dallas Police Department.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that David O’Neil Brown Jr., and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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