Police killings
2013-2020

Jerald Wilson

Male, Unknown race

Date of the incident: 1/8/2019

Midland, Midland, TX
I-20 Frontage Rd & N County Rd 1120

Deputies were called to railroad tracks when 911 callers reported seeing a man walking along the highway and the tracks. When deputies arrived, they saw Jerald Wilson appeared to be cutting himself. A deputy reportedly tried to use his Taser to incapacitate Wilson, but was unsuccessful. Wilson alleedly lunged at the deputy with the item he had been cutting himself with, a broken bottle, and the deputy shot and killed him.