Wyatt Folks

How they died

Suicide

Weatherford police responded to a call for a man with suicidal thoughts. Multiple officers began speaking with Wyatt Folks, who had a pistol in his hand during the negotiations, but eventually set the gun down while speaking with officers. He picked up the gun and raised it to his head, and officers shot him with a bean bag from his shotgun, in hopes of stunning him. Folks then shot and killed himself.

Why we remember them

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

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