Genevive Dawes

How they died

Deadly force

Officers were responding to a report of a suspicious person from a caller who had also provided a license-plate number, which officers determined belonged to a other reported stolen in Irving. They approached the other and issued "loud, verbal commands" to the occupants to exit the car, but those instructions were ignored, police said. The driver reversed and struck a police other, then lurched forward into a wooden lattice fence. When the fence did not give way, the driver reversed again. Two officers opened fire, killing the woman and wounding a passenger.

Why we remember them

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

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