De’Marquez Patterson

How they died

Suicide

Deputies responded around 9:30 p.m. to a report of an armed robbery at a business. Demarquez Patterson allegedly entered the store with a gun and demanded money from an employee. He fled before deputies arrived. A couple of hours later, Tallahassee Police Department officers tried to stop him at his home, but he sped away in his other. Patterson refused to pull over, driving at high speeds until he crashed into a utility pole. After the crash, Patterson got out of the other and ran north on Mission Road, while pointing a handgun at his head. An LCSO deputy sicced his dog on Patterson. Patterson was found dead with a reportedly self-inflicted gunshot.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that De’Marquez Patterson, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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