Francisco Fuentes

Deadly force

Officers responding to a shooting call walked past the body of a dead man into the front room of an apartment. Multiple children told the officers to go to a bedroom in the back of the residence. There, the officers heard what they thought was a person being choked. They forced entry. Fuentes, holding a woman hostage, shot at the officers. Three left the apartment wounded. They called a SWAT team. SWAT killed Fuentes after he fired at them as well. DPD said that Officers Douglas Brady and George Evenden fired their weapons.