Police killings
2013-2020

Samson G. Varner

Male, White

Date of the incident: 12/10/2016

Greenwood, Johnson, IN
832 Heatherwood Dr

A woman called police, saying her boyfriend had stabbed her. When the officer arrived, they found a man and a woman in a garage with the door open. The man had the woman at knifepoint, police said. The man wasn't following orders, and the officer was afraid he would take the woman's life, so he shot and killed the man.