John Depoy

How they died

Deadly force

An officer shot John Depoy when Depoy allegedly tried to run over an officer who had gotten out of his car after a chase. The chase began at around 3:30 p.m., after an officer witnessed Depoy, who was driving an older-model Cadillac, rear-end another car at Rose and Nevada in Franklin Park, police said. Depoy backed up and fled, into Stone Park, where Depoy found himself boxed into heavy traffic, and eventually stopped his car. Two Franklin Park officers and two Stone Park officers were on the scene. One of the Franklin Park officers shot Depoy twice, and he was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Why we remember them

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

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