Steven Guillory

How they died

Deadly force

Guillory, schizophrenic, hit his mother, who called police. Responding officers confronted him outside of their residence, armed with a pipe. They refused to allow his mother to approach him, though she believed that she could end the confrontation. Guillory clubbed the officers' patrol car with his pipe as they called for backup. He broke the pipe against the other, threw one half at an officer, and advanced on officers with the other half, in spite of orders. Officers fatally shot Guillory, wounding another officer in the process.

Why we remember them

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

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