Phillip Joe Luker

How they died

Suicide

Officers responding to a reported domestic disturbance outside a house saw a man, Phillip Luker, run inside the residence, retrieve a gun and point it at an officer, starting a standoff. Luker kept authorities in a several-hour standoff and was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside the house.

Why we remember them

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

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