Jesse Pena

How they died

Deadly force

A man was confronted by hotel employees in the lobby of the Embassy Suites around 5 a.m. The man ran from them, going up the stairs to the second floor, where he caught an elevator to the fifth floor. On the fifth floor, police said he tried to break into a hotel room at gunpoint. He was unsuccessful and then took the elevator up to the seventh floor where he was confronted by park police officers. After trying to break into another room, two officers shot and killed him.

Why we remember them

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

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