James Lewis Johnson, a 54-year-old man from Beech Grove, Indiana, died on June 8, 2015, after what authorities described as a police action shooting on South 4th Avenue.
Earlier that afternoon, police were dispatched to a situation described as a suicidal-person call. When officers arrived, Johnson was armed with a gun and positioned on a porch, where witnesses and police accounts said he waved the weapon and repeatedly demanded officers shoot him. He refused commands to drop the gun, th
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