Stephen Porter Johnston

How they died

Deadly force

Local police were called to the Johnston residence multiple times, ultimately finding Johnston outside with a rifle in hand. He retreated into the house but the re-emerged and started firing at officers, and was shot and killed. Neighbors were at a loss to reconcile the seemingly affable Johnston they knew with the heavily armed man in a house with an "arsenal of weapons, ammunition, body armor and hardened fighting positions" that police described.

Why we remember them

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

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