Luis Guillen

How they died

Deadly force

Guillen's friends called the police to report his bad behavior after midnight on a Monday morning: flourishing a handgun, shooting into the ground, drinking heavily, pistol-whipping a friend, taking off on his bicycle. Officers caught up to him in a residential district. Already on probation for a weapons violation, Guillen refused to show his hands. He was shot twice in the chest and died at the scene.

Why we remember them

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

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