Javier Duenas

How they died

Deadly force

Police responded to a call for a civil disturbance. According to police, Duenas threatened the officers with a large kitchen knife. Two of the officers tasered him, but Duenas was not subdued. The other two officers fired several shots, striking him multiple times. Duenas' wife said he should not have been killed, and that he had no knife in his hand when they shot him, but that he was trying to run back into the house.

Why we remember them

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

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