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Timothy Eulis Coleman Sr.

Age : 50

Gender : Male

Race : White

Date : 12/31/2021

Location : Sykes Drive

City : Cleveland

County : Russell

State : Virginia

Agency : Russell County Sheriff’s Office

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Suicide

Event : Suicide under police duress

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

On 12/30/2021, Timothy Eulis Coleman, 50, of Honaker, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound as Russell County Sheriff’s Office personnel approached him in the Cleveland area of Russell County. Coleman had been sought following the fatal shooting of Scottie Ray Holmes earlier that day. Contemporary reporting states that authorities obtained a first-degree murder warrant for Coleman.
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According to reporting based on information from the Russell County Sheriff’s Office, witnesses alleged that Coleman shot Holmes following an argument and then left the scene. Law enforcement subsequently searched for Coleman and the vehicle in which he had left.
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At approximately 3 p.m., the Russell County Sheriff’s Office located the vehicle on Sykes Drive in Cleveland. As law-enforcement personnel approached Coleman, he retrieved a pistol and shot himself. Officers attempted lifesaving measures before Coleman was transported to a hospital.
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Coleman survived the initial encounter but died on 12/31/2021. His obituary independently confirms his full name as Timothy Eulis Coleman Sr., his age as 50, his Honaker residence, and his death on December 31. Under the database rule using the date of the fatal police encounter rather than a later hospital death, the Date field remains 12/30/2021.
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Coleman was not shot by law enforcement. This case qualifies for inclusion because he fatally shot himself while police were actively closing in to arrest him, making the appropriate database classification suicide under police duress.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The individual Russell County Sheriff’s Office personnel who approached Coleman have not been publicly identified in the located reporting.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.supertalk929.com/2022/01/03/russell-county-murder-suspect-dead-from-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound/
https://www.supertalk929.com/2021/12/30/russell-county-virginia-authorities-searching-for-armed-and-dangerous-murder-suspect/
https://www.hurstscottfuneralhomes.com/m/obituaries/Timothy-Coleman-Sr/