Police killings
2013-2020

Melvin Faison

Male, White

Date of the incident: 7/29/2016

Pleasant Hill, Northampton, NC
4794 Big Johns Store Road

Deputies responded to a domestic assault call. Upon arrival, Pamela Faison told deputies that Melvin Faison, 59, had assaulted her. Deputies attempted to arrest Melvin Faison, but he pointed a gun at the deputies, and they retreated and set up a perimeter, police said. Faison left his home and pointed a handgun Sgt. Christopher Collier and Deputy Teodore Antunez Jr, who shot him. He went back in the home and died.