Javier Ivan Lopez Garcia

How they died

Deadly force

Garcia, who was armed with a handgun and a stolen shotgun, was fatally shot by police after climbing to the sixth floor of a construction site and firing one of his weapons toward a hospital, according to authorities. He was said to have told police and a clerk at the store where he stole the shotgun that he wished to die.

Why we remember them

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

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