Dolores Hernandez

How they died

Deadly force

Officers were called to the Discovery Village shopping center in Redding Wednesday evening, where Dolores Hernandez was yelling and cursing at patrons of a pizza parlor, police said. The woman left but continued to cause a disturbance in the parking lot for about 20 minutes before a security guard who had confronted her called police, police said. Arriving officers found the woman in a car. In trying to leave. She allegedly nearly hit an officer, then backed up, hitting an officer with a front tire. He fell down and was reportedly pinned under the tire. The other officer shot and killed the woman.

Why we remember them

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

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