Ricardo Moreno

How they died

Deadly force

Dispatcher Ida Villareal sent officers to the wrong house in search of a stabbing suspect. Officers told Moreno, the owner, to let them in. Neighbors told the officers that Moreno was mentally ill. Moreno told the officers that they were postal workers and asked them to leave his mail. Officers forced entry and cleared the house room-by-room until they came to the bedroom. Moreno, possibly armed with a knife, resisted arrest. Officers shot at him with six less-lethal rounds. Moreno continued to resist arrest. Officers fatally shot him. Moreno's family filed suit.

Why we remember them

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

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