Tom Algiers

Deadly force

Police were investigating a report of an assault. The person who was eventually charged, had called Blaine County Dispatch stating that he had been attacked at his campsite near River Run by Algiers and that he had defended himself. He told police he had defended himself with a machete and that Algiers might be dead. Algiers was killed when Deputy Curtis Miller shot him twice in a confrontation at the campsite. The sheriff said his deputy shot Algiers after he refused to heed police orders to drop a knife he was holding.