Keith Thomas Shumway

How they died

Deadly force

Shumway, with a history of mental health issues and reportedly depressed, assaulted a police officer at a service station while parked and doing paperwork. According to police accounts Shumway was able to steal the officer's weapon through an open car window, then grazed the officer's leg with a gunshot. Another responding officer commanded Shumway to drop the weapon. He refused, and was shot to death.

Why we remember them

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

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