Shawn Henry Allen Dickens

How they died

Deadly force

According to police, an officer approached Dickens outside a convenience store on Reeves Avenue around noon. During the confrontation, Dickens fled, dropping a handgun. The release says the man turned around to try and pick up the gun when he was ordered not the by the officer. Police say he repeatedly disobeyed this command and the officer shot and killed him.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Shawn Henry Allen Dickens, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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