At Rest

Deadly force
Around 2:30 a.m., officers responded to a call of shots fired inside a room of a two-story house. They encountered William "Billy" James Hughes on the front porch, armed with a handgun. The officers ordered Hughes to drop the gun, instead he pointed it toward them. The officer opened fire a total of 21 rounds at Hughes, killing him. Officers were cleared of wrongdoing.
This record exists so that William “Billy” James Hughes, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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