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Juan Mendez
United States · Aged 38 · Died 01/23/2002
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On reports of a man in the streets with a gun, police found Mendez carrying a sawed-off shotgun. When ordered to drop the weapon Mendez ran and tried to elude police instead. He was shot once, through the heart, by a plainclothes officer.
Alleged responsible partyCity of New York Police DepartmentReported by the cited sources. “Alleged” is used pending verification.
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