Guadalupe Martinez

How they died

Deadly force

Martinez was approached in her car, in a park, by officers drawn by her unlicensed other. On determining she was listed as a missing person, Martinez fled on the Des Moines-Kent road. She met stopped traffic, drove on the shoulder, was boxed in by patrol cars, emerged pointing a gun, and was shot to death. Reportedly her twin sister had died violently in a police chase years prior and she'd expressed a macabre wish to die the same way.

Why we remember them

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

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