Police killings
2013-2020

John Daniel Dixon

Male, White

Date of the incident: 2/20/2020

Decatur, DeKalb, GA
1300 Balsam Drive

About 3:30 p.m., officers were sent to a home. Someone had called 911 in distress but hung up. Police used the coordinates from the call to locate the home. When police arrived, John Dixon came out of the home with a gun, and police shot and killed him when he failed to drop it.