Kent Ashworth

How they died

Deadly force

Ashworth took his son's handgun and parked outside a maintenance shop for city-owned vehicles, where police were doing a training exercise. Police said Ashworth approached Averett with a gun and refused to drop it. He said the gun wasn't fake and allegedly fired it at a business complex across the street. Other officers arrived and fired on Ashworth as he allegedly began to raise the gun again.

Why we remember them

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

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