Denzel Marshal Taylor

Deadly force

Officers were called at 1:46 a.m. in reference to a shooting that occurred at a home. When officers arrived, they found a 49-year-old man had been shot multiple times. The man said his son shot him and fled. At 2:35 a.m., police were still processing the scene when the alleged shooter approached the officers. The officers confronted him, and the man asked the officers to shoot, and would not remove his hands from his hoodie pockets. Police shot and killed him. Denzel Marshal Taylor was unarmed but had a piece of wood in his hoodie pocket when he was killed