Shannon Brown

How they died

Less-than-lethal force

Shannon Brown died after police arrested him for allegedly resisting arrest. Officers Baeza, Jones, and Daily had responded to a trespassing complaint at Brown's apartment building at about 9 p.m. According to witnesses, the officers went after Brown instead of the trespassers. Witnesses said the officers pepper sprayed and beat Brown. The officers said that Brown had allegedly swallowed a plastic bag containing drugs. Baeza, Jones and Daily, along with officer Young, brought Brown to the Town Hill Station lock-up, where he began convulsing. Brown was dead on arrival at a hospital. According to the Cook County ME's office, Brown died from cocaine intoxication resulting from the plastic bag breaking in his stomach.

Why we remember them

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

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