At Rest

Deadly force
Officers were called about 4:45 p.m. for a report of an armed person in downtown Vancouver. Shortly after, two officers shot and killed him. Michael Eugene Pierce was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia as a teenager but had stopped taking his prescribed medication, according to family members. Pierce brandished replica handguns.
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