Troubled LDS man, trying to return, is killed by police (Choices trapped Ogdenite)
Deseret News 20Sep99 D2
By Jay Hinton and Jennifer Dobner: Deseret News staff writers

OGDEN, UTAH -- Dave M. Drain, 33, was shot and killed in the home of his nephew, in an apparent shooting by a cop.

Officers were dispatched to the mobile home at the request of an officer who was investigating the domestic assault of a woman claiming to be Drain's girlfriend. The officers entered the mobile home with the permission of the owner, who directed them to a bedroom where Drain was.

As they entered the bedroom, officers found Drain lying on the bed with a handgun sitting on his chest. When officers ordered Drain to raise his hands above his head, Drain, without saying anything, reached for the gun and pointed it at the officers, who opened fire, killing him. The gun later proved to have been empty.

Drian's sister Keri, said that he was trying to overcome the drug and alcohol addition that plagued him since he began smoking marijuana when he was 12. His addictions eventually cost him his wife and family and all earthly possessions. However, she said that she had noticed in the past four weeks of his life that he showed detailed signs of change. As his family had been lifelong members, he started attending church again. He even was actively looking for a job. She figured that he just couldn't break the cycle and reverted back.

"He was my little brother, who all of his adult life made wrong choices, when all of his adult life he wanted to make right choices," Keri said. She said she loved him, prayed for him to change and never lost hope that he would.

"I don't want to point any blame. Everything that happens, happens because of choices that are made, " Keri said. "Had he not made the choices that put him on the criminal side of the law, he wouldn't have been in there last night with the police there. He made those choices.î

"He wasn't a violent person, yet he died a violent death. I would have expected him, if he would have died violently, to be with one of his drug friends," she said.