Police killings
2013-2020

William Boyd Plant

Male, Unknown race

Date of the incident: 4/19/2013

Glendale, Maricopa, AZ
4400 West Olive Avenue

Detectives identified themselves and tried to serve Plant with three felony warrants in a business complex parking lot, police said. Plant “turned on them quickly, in an aggressive manner, and produced and pointed an object at them. Fearing for their lives, all three Phoenix police detectives fired their duty weapons at the suspect. Plant was pronounced dead at the scene. It was determined the object he carried was not a firearm.