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Kevin Eugene Norris

Age : 50

Gender : Male

Race : White

Date : 08/18/2021

Location : 219 Rural Acres Drive

City : Beckley

County : Raleigh

State : West Virginia

Agency : Raleigh County Sheriff's Office

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Gunshot

Event : Killed by police during response to indecent-exposure call

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

On 08/18/2021, a Raleigh County Sheriff’s Office deputy shot and killed 50-year-old Kevin Eugene Norris at an apartment complex on Rural Acres Drive in Beckley. The deputy encountered Norris while responding to a call reporting an indecent-exposure incident.
According to the Raleigh County Sheriff’s Office, the deputy encountered Norris outside the apartment complex and ordered him to show his hands. Police alleged that Norris did not comply and instead moved as though he were pulling a firearm from a holster. The sheriff’s office further alleged that Norris pointed what appeared to be a handgun toward the deputy.
The deputy fired at Norris, striking him. Norris was critically wounded and transported for emergency medical treatment. Authorities initially reported him alive and hospitalized following the shooting. Raleigh County officials announced on 08/20/2021 that Norris had died from the gunshot wounds. His death had occurred following the Wednesday-night shooting, but authorities delayed publicly confirming it until his relatives had been notified.
The object Norris allegedly drew during the encounter was subsequently identified as a pellet gun designed to resemble a semiautomatic handgun. The available reporting does not indicate that Norris fired the pellet gun at the deputy.
West Virginia State Police took responsibility for investigating the shooting rather than leaving the investigation solely with the Raleigh County Sheriff’s Office. The deputy who shot Norris was not injured.
The public record surrounding Norris’s killing remained exceptionally limited after the initial investigation. Searches for subsequent West Virginia State Police findings, a Raleigh County prosecutorial decision, grand-jury disposition, body-camera or dashboard-camera footage, ballistics or autopsy findings, civil litigation, settlement, or a later detailed reconstruction did not locate a substantive publicly released follow-up. The publicly available narrative therefore continues to rely largely on the law-enforcement account released immediately after the shooting.
No publicly available video was located documenting the confrontation. National police-shooting data compiled from the case also records the encounter as having no known body-camera footage.
The available record does not provide additional independent evidence establishing precisely how Norris handled the pellet gun, the distance between Norris and the deputy when the deputy fired, how many rounds the deputy fired, how many times Norris was struck, or whether civilian witnesses saw the critical portion of the encounter.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The Raleigh County Sheriff’s Office did not publicly identify the deputy who shot Norris in the contemporary reporting, and subsequent publicly indexed reporting located for this update does not reliably establish the shooter’s identity.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://wchstv.com/news/local/suspect-dies-in-officer-involved-shooting-in-raleigh-county-08-20-2021
https://www.wvva.com/2021/08/18/breaking-wvsp-investigating-deputy-involved-shooting-in-raleigh-county/
https://wvmetronews.com/2021/08/20/suspect-in-officer-involved-shooting-has-died-in-beckley/