Police killings
2013-2020

Dustin Robert Pigeon

Male, Native American

Date of the incident: 11/15/2017

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, OK
1400 SW 20th

About 2:40 a.m., Dustin Robert Pigeon called 911 and told a dispatcher he was going to kill himself. Responding police found Pigeon holding a bottle of lighter fluid in his left hand and a lighter in his right hand. As officers approached, he began pouring the lighter fluid on himself and tried to light the lighter as officers ordered him to the ground. Pigeon reportedly ignored the commands and officer Troy Nitzky fired a single round from his bean bag shotgun. Sgt. Keith Sweeney then shot and killed Pigeon.