Jonathan A. Conway

How they died

Deadly force

Sgt. Jeffery Burk and officer Stephen Trentham shot Jonathan A. Conway when he allegedly he swung a sword at police inside his bedroom. Trentham, Burk and officer Stephen Nagle initially responded to a call from Conway's mother after her son, who suffered from depression, agoraphobia and panic attacks, threatened to hang himself. Burk went to Conway's bedroom door and identified himself and said Conway had to open the door because the officers needed to see him. Conway refused and asked the officers to leave. Conway said if the officers entered the room he would stab them. Burk called for a ballistics shield and Sgt. Scott Johnston, Lt. Mary Barton and officer Richard Muehlenbeck responded. Johnston kicked open the door and the officers entered the room. The officers said Conway swung the sword and moved toward them. Johnston discharged a beanbag shotgun, but Conway kept advancing with the sword. Trentham and Burk shot Conway, killing him.

Why we remember them

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

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