Death by Cop 2022-2024
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Lee Roy Villareal
Gender : Male
Age : 36
Race : Latino/a/e
Date : 09/27/2022
Location : 2800 block of E Rogers Rd
City : Edinburg
County : Hidalgo
State : Texas
Agency : Edinburg PD
Officer(s) :Not Disclosed
Cause of Death : Gunshot
Event : Killed by police while doing donuts
OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :
Edinburgh PD were responding to a call about a man doing "donuts" with his vehicle in an open field. There was another report of a man entered a nearby residence who was highly intoxicated. He locked himself in his vehicle. Accounts by police are conflicting with bystanders stating that Lee Roy Villareal feared coming out of the vehicle because of a large number of officers standing around. When he did come out, he was shot "more than 30 times." Police claimed that it was a "suicide by cop" but family report that this was not true.
