Hubert Thomas “Bones” Burns Jr.

How they died

Deadly force

Colorado River Indian Tribes Dispatch received a call from a reporting party requesting an officer respond to 100 Homes because there was a man with a knife pointing it at people. The officer made contact with the male subject who was still wielding the knife. The officer gave multiple commands to drop the knife, but the man did not, and he was shot and killed.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Hubert Thomas “Bones” Burns Jr., and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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