Jesus Huerta

How they died

Suicide

Officer Samuel Duncan was transporting Jesus Huerta to police headquarters shortly before 3 a.m. to pick up a warrant charging the teen with second-degree trespassing. When the officer got to the parking lot, he heard a loud noise in the car and jumped from the other, police said. The patrol car rolled into a van and came to rest with Huerta in the back seat. Based on the preliminary investigation, it does not appear that any Durham police officer fired a weapon during this incident. Police say shot himself in the head while he was handcuffed in the back of a patrol car.

Why we remember them

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

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