Jose Salas

How they died

Deadly force

Officers responded to a fight and one of the suspects, Jose Salas, stole an unoccupied police car and fled the scene. Police searched for him and found a man fitting the description run into a storm drain. Police surrounded the area and told the man to surrender. He didn't, so they released chemicals into the tunnel, but he still didn't surrender. An hour and half later the man emerged on the other side of the storm drain where officers had been positioned. Salas was armed with a handgun stolen from the police car and refused orders to drop the weapon. Officers shot and killed him.

Why we remember them

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

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