Police killings
2013-2020

William Emanuel Poplos

Male, White

Date of the incident: 4/22/2013

Merritt Island, Brevard, FL
490 Belair Ave.

A late-afternoon domestic dispute in which Poplos threatened his 82-year-old fiance with a gun, firing shot into the wall beside her, developed into a standoff with police. Poplos refused to surrender the weapon, and county deputies shot him to death.