Thomas Aikens

How they died

Deadly force

Police received a call at around 1:15 p.m. saying there was a male and female yelling near her home, police said. When they arrived, they found a man sitting with his back against a garage and his arms wrapped around a woman with a knife to her neck. He told officers he was sitting on a bomb. When he charged at one of the officers with the knife, one officer shot and killed him.

Why we remember them

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

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