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Justin Neil Davis, 24, a U.S. Army veteran, was shot and killed by Germantown police during a standoff in Cameron Brown Park on the evening of Tuesday, July 15, 2014. He had spent part of that day at the Memphis Veterans Medical Center for an MRI and reportedly expressed suicidal thoughts to an employee there. Family and friends later described ongoing struggles after his Iraq deployment, including a PTSD diagnosis, recent bereavement when his father died, unemployment, and a pending divorce; he was also a father to a young daughter.

That night Fayette County authorities notified Germantown police that Davis might be at the park and possibly suicidal. Responding officers found him in his car armed with a rifle, evacuated nearby citizens and cordoned the area, and attempted to communicate with him by phone and public address. Police say Davis escalated the encounter, after which three Germantown officers fired and Davis was struck and pronounced dead at the scene. No arrests or charges involving the officers were reported at the time.

Are there witnesses or others who were in the park that night who can add details about what happened in the standoff?