Death by Cop  2021-2025

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Harold Dakers

Age : 34

Gender : Male

Race : Black

Date : 11/08/2022

Location : Near Villa Trace and North Lassiter Street

City : Villa Rica

County : Douglas County

State : Georgia

Agency : Villa Rica Police Department; Douglas County Sheriff’s Office

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Suicide

Event : Suicide under police duress

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

On 11/08/2022, the Villa Rica Police Department and Douglas County Sheriff’s Office searched for Harold Dakers in connection with the killing of his former girlfriend, 29-year-old Kaleshia Lyons, whose body was found days earlier inside her grandmother’s Douglas County home with blunt force trauma. Officers located Dakers near Villa Trace and North Lassiter Street by a creek in a wooded area. As officers approached, Dakers ran and had a handgun. Officers lost visual contact briefly around a bend in the creek and then heard a gunshot. Officers reached him and found that he had shot himself. He died from the self-inflicted gunshot wound as officers were closing in to take him into custody.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2022/11/12/man-accused-murdering-his-ex-girlfriend-died-self-inflicted-gunshot/
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/harold-dakers-found-dead-villa-rica/85-a535fcb0-5add-456b-8bbb-c5df13a7f48b