Death by Cop 2022-2024
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Richard Edward Cousins
Gender : Male
Age : 62
Race : White
Date : 08/03/2023
Location : 115 Pat V Eller Lane
City : Newland
County : Avery
State : North Carolina
Agency : Avery County SO, Newland PD, SWAT
Officer(s) :Unknown
Cause of Death : Gunshot
Event : Suicide under police duress
OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :
Dispatch received a call from the local veterans’ home that Richard Edward Cousins was suicidal. Patrol officers went out on a welfare check and hound him hostile and called county deputies and SWAT. Some sort of siege happened for many hours until Cousins committed suicide under police duress.
