Police killings
2013-2020

William Owens

Male, Black

Date of the incident: 1/14/2019

Swedesboro, Gloucester, NJ
200 Birch Creek Rd

William Owens was shot and killed by police at a UPS warehouse after he took two woman hostage, police said. He was killed when he and the hostages came out of the facility. It wan not immediately clear why Owens took the hostages, or why he held the standoff at the facility instead of elsewhere, but he was formerly employed there.