Name withheld by police

How they died

Deadly force

A sergeant and a police officer conducting routine patrol were approached by a victim who stated that a man with a firearm was trying to break into his house. The officers asked the man to get into their other to let them know if he saw the man with the firearm. The officers took the man back to his home, where the attempted break-in had occurred, to complete their report. On the way back to the location, the victim spotted the subject and pointed him out to the officers. When the officers tried to approach the subject, he pointed a gun toward the officers while fleeing on foot. Two additional officers and a lieutenant responded to the area and began looking for the subject, who had carjacked a second victim. While approaching the other, the lieutenant observed the subject again point the firearm at the officers and flee on foot. During the foot pursuit, an officer shot and killed him.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Name withheld by police, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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