Theoddeus Gray

How they died

Deadly force

Police respond to calls of an armed man outside the Lakeland Manor banquet hall, where Theoddeus Gray's girlfriend was having a baby shower. Gray was armed with a handgun outside outside when police arrived. Police did not know that Gray had armed himself because a drug dealer he owed money to planned to assassinate him at the baby shower. Gray refused to disarm and took of running, firing at the police at the same time, who shot and killed him. The officers were cleared of any criminal wrongdoing, but Gray's family has filed a $10 million wrongful death suit that claims Gray was unarmed when he was killed by police.

Why we remember them

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

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