Ivar A. Rupley

How they died

Deadly force

Rupley was involved in a dispute with neighbors before authorities arrived, according to police. The reporting party told police Rupley struck his neighbors with a cane several times before officers arrived. After speaking with witnesses, officer Jeffery Frazier located Rupley who by then was armed with a knife. Rupley pulled the knife back in a threatening manner as to throw it at the officer, and he was shot and killed.

Why we remember them

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

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