Rickey Rozelle

How they died

Deadly force

An off-duty police officer was walking home from his family's bar at 11:30 p.m. when he encountered Rickey Rozelle allegedly trying to break into an apartment from the second story balcony. The off-duty officer announced he was a cop and told Rozelle to come down. The off-duty officer alleges that Rozelle threatened him and then turned toward him with a shiny object in his hand that might have been a weapon. The off-duty officer shot and killed Rozelle. No weapon or shiny object was found at the scene. Rozelle's family was paid $950,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit in 2016.

Why we remember them

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

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