At Rest

Deadly force
Watts was fatally shot by an off-duty police officer at about 3:30 a.m. at an apartment complex as the result of an attempted armed robbery. Reportedly Watts's accomplice escaped. The same officer had shot two others in the county in 1989 and in 2001, killing one, wounding the other.
This record exists so that John C. Watts, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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