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Friends of man fatally shot by passerby during fight worry lethal force was unnecessary

That’s how Elizabeth Jenks described police reports that her friend Jeremy Sorensen was on the ground, fighting with an 18-year-old woman, when a passerby shot him to death.

Sorensen was the person who could calm down Jenks’ 3-year-old daughter during church and soothe her to sleep, she said. He was a voracious reader, Jenks said, and a loyal friend, though he often struggled to communicate and understand social cues.

“It only took maybe ten minutes into a conversation to realize how soft his heart was,” Jenks said.

Sorensen and the woman were fighting just before 8 p.