Ryan Askew

Death by Force

Ryan Askew, a 59-year-old retired Lake County Sheriff's Police Officer, tragically lost his life on June 16, 2020, at Munster Community Hospital in Munster, Indiana. Askew, who had been working as a security guard at the hospital, was responding to a disturbance involving a psychiatric patient, Jamal Williams. The incident began when Williams, a 22-year-old recent graduate of Western Michigan University, attacked a nurse. Askew and his fellow security guard, Benny Freeman, intervened to subdue W ...Read More

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