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Article: Parents say victim had been depressed: A police officer shot Geoffrey Stephenson while trying to serve him an emergency custody order.
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- The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)
- Article date:
- February 22, 2007
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Byline: Amanda Codispoti
Feb. 22--Dying didn't scare Geoffrey Stephenson, his parents said.
Stephenson worked as a funeral director and was a member of a Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster team that recovers bodies.
He just had one wish: That he wouldn't die of a gunshot wound.
But bullets from a Roanoke police officer's gun ended Stephenson's life early Saturday morning.
The officer shot 30-year-old Stephenson, who Commonwealth's Attorney Donald Caldwell said was armed with a sword and two guns, while trying to serve him Friday night with an emergency custody order.
Stephenson, who served as a mortuary ...