Michael Malley

How they died

Deadly force

Malley was armed with a rifle was shot and killed outside his home by a Peoria police officer who had responded to a domestic violence call at the house. A police statement says an officer used a Taser on 37-year-old Michael Malley when he refused commands to put the rifle down, and then an officer fired four shots at Malley with his rifle after the suspect lowered the barrel of his own rifle in the direction of his wife and officers.

Why we remember them

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

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