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Trinidad Marry

Age : 42

Gender : Male

Race : Latino/a/e

Date : 08/23/2021

Location : 500 block of South Bivins Street, near Southeast 5th Avenue and Browning Street

City : Amarillo

County : Potter

State : Texas

Agency : Amarillo Police Department

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Gunshot

Event : Killed by police during encounter at apartment complex

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

On 08/23/2021, Amarillo Police Department officers killed 42-year-old Trinidad Marry in the 500 block of South Bivins Street near Southeast 5th Avenue and Browning Street in Amarillo. Police were dispatched at approximately 8 p.m. after receiving multiple calls reporting a man walking through the neighborhood with a gun and allegedly pointing it at people. Later reporting identified the man as Marry.
According to Amarillo police, officers located Marry and repeatedly ordered him to put down the firearm. Police alleged that Marry did not comply and continued waving the gun in the air. Rather than immediately shooting him, officers followed or walked alongside Marry for some distance while continuing attempts to persuade him to put the weapon down. Police eventually fired at Marry in the area of 500 S. Bivins Street. He died at the scene. Available reporting does not indicate that Marry fired the gun at officers before police killed him.
Initial reports described the shooting only as occurring near South Bivins Street and Southeast Fifth Avenue, but subsequent APD information placed the fatal shooting specifically around the 500 block of South Bivins Street, close to Dick Bivins Stadium. Police subsequently asked anyone who witnessed or recorded the encounter to contact investigators, indicating that APD was seeking civilian video or eyewitness evidence in addition to officers' accounts.
The Potter County District Attorney's Office presented Marry's killing to a grand jury almost immediately. On 08/30/2021, only seven days after Marry was killed, 47th District Attorney Randall Sims announced that a Potter County grand jury had reviewed the shooting and returned a no bill, meaning no officer was indicted. The same special grand-jury session also considered the separate 08/20/2021 police killing of George Michael Mireles and returned no indictment in that case as well.
The grand-jury announcement provided no detailed public reconstruction of Marry's shooting, did not identify the officer or officers who fired, and did not disclose the evidence presented to jurors. The public account therefore remains largely dependent on Amarillo Police Department statements that Marry possessed a gun and failed to put it down before officers fired. No later publicly reported criminal prosecution resulted from the shooting.
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SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.newschannel10.com/2021/08/24/amarillo-police-identify-suspect-officer-involved-shooting-near-bivins/
https://abc7amarillo.com/news/local/apd-investigators-on-scene-of-officer-involved-shooting
https://www.newschannel10.com/2021/08/30/potter-county-grand-jury-cleared-officers-2-recent-shooting-deaths/
https://abc7amarillo.com/news/local/gallery/potter-county-grand-jury-no-bills-apd-officers-in-two-shooting-deaths-earlier-this-month
https://fatalencounters.org/view/person-csv/csv/?pagenum=62