Lennon Christopher “Chris” Johnson

How they died

Deadly force

Patricia Harrison, 35, stopped a red Dodge Neon at a red light. She asked Sergeant Gregory Truitt and Deputy Dan Whitehead, seated in the patrol other next to her, for help. Johnson, in the passenger seat of the Neon, attacked Harrison. Deputy Whitehead pulled Harrison out of the Neon. Johnson pulled Sergeant Truitt into the Neon, then accelerated down a dead-end street. Truitt shot Johnson once, fatally, in the chest.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Lennon Christopher “Chris” Johnson, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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