Jeffrey Dean Turpin

How they died

Deadly force

Turpin arrived in a Scappoose residential neighborhood at 2 a.m. shirtless, barefoot, armed with a handgun and draped with an American flag. He was intercepted and questioned but--oddly--not brought into custody by local police, leaving him free to roam and then knock on the door of a Portland officer. The officer had been warned about Turpin and had gathered his family in their basement laundry. After a verbal exchange the officer fatally shot him through the door and side window.

Why we remember them

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

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