Keith Beecroft

Deadly force

Officers were called to a home around 5:47 a.m. for a domestic disturbance between a man and other family members. Three family members left the home before police arrived, but Keith Beecroft refused to leave and barricaded himself inside the home.Police reached Beecroft by phone and determined he had been and was continuing to consume alcohol. Beecroft threatened to kill himself several times. Beecroft hung up the phone at 10:09 a.m. and walked outside the home brandishing a shotgun. Five officers shot and killed him.