Celestina Manuel was fatally shot by a Mesa police officer who was chasing a car in which the girl was a passenger.

Officer Jared Nichols shot Pennington twice after he led police on a chase. Nichols and another officer trapped Pennington's SUV in a cul-de-sac; Pennington kept revving his engine and trying to flee, police said. Pennington's parents sued the department for $1 million, but the lawsuit was dismissed at the stipulation of both parties. Nichols was found justified in the shooting. The other officer who trapped Pennington in the cul-de-sac was fired for failing to activate his emergency lights during the car chase.

Deputies and Morrison confronted each other at Morrison's rural cabin. He'd expressed suicidal thoughts on a phone call to a friend, and the friend had called 911. During the incident Morrison fired some 20 rounds from a .45-caliber pistol. He'd been drinking.

An unidentified man in his 60s reportedly killed himself during a 12-hour standoff on the Northwest Side. Police responded shortly after 7 a.m. to a report of a man threatening to kill himself. The man was reportedly in the terminal stages of cancer and had become despondent after learning his beloved dog also had cancer. Police entered the home to find the man dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. According to police, officers did not fire any shots during the standoff.

Police broke into a house during a standoff and shot and killed Grimes, who was pointing a gun at them.

Officer Marc Alvarez shot and killed Davon Maurice Johnson when he pointed a revolver at him and said, "You're not taking me."

Officer Royce Wimmer shot and killed Jaime Castellanos Suarez when he fought Wimmer for control of his service gun during a traffic stop. Wimmer had stopped a vehicle with two people inside for playing loud music. Wimmer reportedly determined that Suarez had a DUI warrant. Suarez allegedly pushed Wimmer and fled. Wimmer caught Suarez and took him to the ground where a struggle ensued. Suarez allegedly removed Wimmer's service gun and the two men fought over it. According to officials, Wimmer was able to fire the gun, striking Suarez, who later died of his wounds.

Following an abduction, murder and chase, Christopher White was shot and killed by police.

Maurice L. Johnson reportedly shot himself and was also shot by two officers after he pulled a gun from his waistband. Shortly before 9 a.m. police had gone to check on Johnson's ex-girlfriend at her apartment after a caller had expressed concern for her safety. Johnson reportedly snuck through the back door and pulled a gun on the officers, who shot Johnson, as he tried to escape down the back steps. Johnson died at the scene. According to the medical examiner's office, the fatal shot was self-inflicted.

Mario Johnson died September 5, 2009, from injuries suffered when an officer shot him in June.

The state medical examiner ruled that Weatherford had precipitated his own fatal encounter with local police. He'd cut his own wrists with a knife, was not stopped by a less-lethal "sponge" round, and continued to advance on officers until he was shot. The previous day he'd suicidally crashed his car into a tree.

A woman went to the police to report domestic violence by her fiance. When police went to the home, the man refused to exit the house. The SWAT team was called. Police tossed tear gas into the back of the home in order to force the man to leave the house through the front door. After the man refused to obey police commands, a Taser was used on the man, and when that failed to deter him, they tried bean bags, but the man continued toward police with a butcher knife, and he was shot and killed.

LAPD officers were assisting California state parole officers in a compliance search for a parolee in the 3800 block East Sixth Street when the 8:30 am shooting occurred. Ricardo Cabrales refused to open the door to officers and tried to escape from a side door when he was shot by LAPD officer, Jose Hidalgo.

Police said Darryl Elder stabbed his girlfriend, Tawanna Grant, repeatedly. When police arrived, Elder barricaded himself inside the apartment. Officers waited for backup and then forced their way in. When Elder lunged at them with a knife, Caldwell police Lt. Marc Driggs shot him twice in the chest, killing him.

Officers Greg Rogers, Dale Prosise, Lea Barrett, Joel Schmid and Sgt. Ted McKinnon shot Stephen Michael Bell after he aimed a gun at them.

Deputy Dustin Hensley was sent to David Dickey's about 10 p.m. for a shots-fired call. When Hensley arrived, he found Dickey at home and talked to him at his front door. Dickey told Hensley he had been shooting deer that had gotten into his potato patch. Hensley told him to stop shooting because of the time of night and for the safety of his neighbors. Dickey allegedly said, "I might just kill you." Dickey then reportedly pointed a 9 mm handgun at Hensley, who then fired his weapon as he retreated. Police said Hensley ran to an off-duty deputy's home, and the two of them went back to Dickey's house, where they found Dickey still conscious. Dickey was flown by LifeStar air ambulance to the University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville, where he later died.

Officers responded to a domestic violence call and found a 24-year-old woman and her 11-month-old child on the roof of the apartment building. She had escaped after her boyfriend had become violent while drunk. Her 6 and 4 year old children were still inside. Officers attempted to take him into custody, but he fought with them and continued to fight after they used a Taser. He pulled out a black object, which the officers took for a weapon, but was a wallet. They shot and killed him.

Daniel M. Autenrieth kidnapped his 9-year-old son, shot and killed Trooper Joshua Miller and shot and wounded Trooper Robert Lombardo before being shot and killed by the troopers.

Deputies surrounded Schleuning's vehicle in a rural area south of Ankeny at around 1:30 a.m., after he called 911 saying that he had a gun and wanted to kill himself. After three hours, police said Schleuning agreed to exit his car. Deputy Dale Petersen reportedly fired what he thought was a beanbag, but was actually a lethal, hard plastic round of ammunition designed to pierce barricades. The PCSO didn't stock or issue that style of ammunition; the reason for Petersen having it weren't disclosed. The county agreed to pay $385,000 to Schleuning's family to settle a lawsuit.

Haggins was the prime suspect in the stabbing death of his girlfriend, who was killed in the early morning hours on the grounds of an elementary school as she cried out for help. Police spotted him near her funeral, gave chase, exchanged fire with him, and killed him.

Officers responded to a domestic violence call and found a woman and her 16-year-old daughter outside the apartment. They had each been assaulted and forced to leave. As the police approached the front door, they saw a man standing with a kitchen knife. He verbally threatened them, charged, and one of the officers shot and killed him. Another woman and her three children were in the apartment at the time, but none of them were injured.

Police said Velarde entered the store with a pistol and made threats. A short time later, two Lakewood Police Department plainclothes officers driving an unmarked Nissan Pathfinder tried to pull over Velarde, who was driving a minivan, but Velarde rammed the vehicle, police said. Velarde ran from the crash and was shot twice.

Deputies with the Muscogee County Sheriff's Office were executing search and arrest warrants at a home when the homeowner opened fire on the officers, police said. One deputy, Investigator David Batastini, was shot. Another deputy, Investigator Tyler Findley, returned fire, killing Brockington.

Devon Manero shot and killed himself at the Lincoln Motel during a standoff that began when he refused to talk with police about two outstanding warrants in his name from Hilltown and Perkasie, according to police.

David Boggs reportedly killed himself after he shot at deputies and set a trailer on fire during a three-hour standoff at the Lamplighter Mobile Home Park.

Galloway, who had financial and legal trouble, threatened suicide. Family called 911. Officers responded. Billy, Galloway's brother, asked to be allowed to reason with him. Officers told him that he could not. Galloway pointed a .380-caliber pistol at officers. Officer Gilbert Guzman shot him fatally in the chest.

Gant was a passenger in a stolen vehicle. After a chase, the vehicle crashed. Police approached the car, and Gant pointed a gun at them. Police fired. Gant's gun had no bullets in it.

Officers responding to a reported domestic dispute encountered victim holding a pistol. Hughes pointed the weapon at officers and was shot, killing him. Officers then discovered that the pistol was a plastic toy.

Manny Morales' sister called 911 because her brother was drinking said he was "going to die" and was brandishing a knife. Police said Morales locked himself in a bedroom yelled that he had a shotgun and warned police not to enter. Two officers forced their way in around 1 a.m. and found Morales pointing a rifle. Officer Matthew Cuba fired a stun gun but only one prong made contact. Officer Albert Riccardi fired his handgun hitting Morales twice on the left side of his chest, killing him.

Adolfo Corral reportedly killed himself during a standoff with police. Police surrounded the home at about 10:30 p.m.after learning Corral was inside with his unarmed cousin. Detectives negotiated through the night. At 7:11 a.m., police said they heard a single shot and Corral's cousin ran from the house. Officers went inside and found Corral with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police later said Corral's cousin had remained in the home of his own accord, trying to prevent Corral from harming himself.

Police claimed that Omar Sandoval killed himself in a crawl space above the attic of his Southwest Side home. Police responded at about 5:45 p.m. to a report that Sandoval had fired shots in the kitchen while drunk and enraged. His family said Sandoval got scared and hid in the attic when officers arrived. Sandoval allegedly pointed a gun at the officers, who opened fire. At about 9:30 p.m., police said they found Sandoval unresponsive in the crawl space "with a gun in hand and apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to head." Sandoval's family challenged the police account, citing multiple bullet holes in the attic, and that both of his hands were under his head when he was found. They questioned how the officers could have seen Sandoval with a gun when he was squeezed into the crawl space. An autopsy conducted by the Cook County medical examiner's office disclosed that Sandoval died of multiple gunshot wounds.

A 43-year old white male died at the scene in Mauldin on 6/16/09 after threatening or assaulting one or more law enforcement officers with a weapon (probably a handgun). The medical cause of death was gunshot wound to the head and the manner of death was suicide. Source: South Carolina Deaths in Police Custody, 2009 - 2010

Deputies were working an undercover drug buy that led them to the Shoppes of South Semoran. Orange SO Around 4 p.m. deputies tried to box in suspect Kenneth Ayton's green Camaro. He attempted to escape striking deputies' unmarked vehicles as he careered through the parking lot. His passenger an informant wrestled for the steering wheel and then bailed from the car.Read moreAyton 26 was finally boxed in but continued to accelerate spinning his wheels and producing clouds of smoke according to police. Masked deputies surrounded the vehicle. Narcotics Deputies Todd Mohney and Aaron Wilson opened fire with at least 12 rounds striking Ayton seven times killing him.

Semi-homeless McCoy reportedly stole a cab, drove the wrong way down the MacArthur Causeway, collided with another car head-on, and emerged (according to police) "with guns blazing". He was fatally shot about 10 times. Questions later arose about whether he'd been armed or not. One of the two shooters had also controversially shot and killed Husien Shehada only four days before.

Troncoso left his mother's residence with his BB rifles after an argument. He drove away in a red 2008 Ford Mustang, causing multiple traffic-related disturbances. Officers, told that he was armed and suicidal, searched for him. Troncoso drove the truck at pedestrians, who scattered. Sergeant Louis Johnson shot Troncoso fatally in the head.

Lester H. McGowan was wanted for failing to report to his parole officer when he was fatally shot after fleeing from a contraband checkpoint at Tucker Maximum Security Unit in Jefferson County.

Carrillo paid Henry Canales $6,500 for televisions stacked in the back of his truck. Then, Carrillo pointed a gun at Canales and demanded the keys to his truck and his money back. Carrillo shot Canales in the back. Canales, an undercover officer, shot Carrillo in the chest. Officer Ruben Lopez rushed to help Canales and shot Carrillo in the back as he fled. Both Carrillo and Officer Canales died. Carrillo was an undocumented immigrant.

Fred Hesser kidnapped his former wife before he fatally shot himself when confronted by police.

Carlos Velazquez died from his injuries nearly a year after off-duty officer Derek Trusk shot him in a crowded parking lot outside Angel Stadium.

Deputy Terry Miller tried to serve a warrant on Mr. Coates in the parking lot of a Chick-fil-A. Mr. Coates told the deputy he would not go with him or to jail. Deputy Miller called for back-up, and Fort Oglethorpe Officer Mitchell Moore responded. Both men encountered resistance from Mr. Coates. During a struggle with officers, Mr. Coates retrieved a handgun from his vehicle's glove box and fired, striking Officer Moore in the back. Deputy Miller returned fire, fatally wounding Mr. Coates.

Cpl. Chris Scherrey and officer Ken Willyard shot and killed Ulmer when they were trying to shoot her boyfriend, Ricky Anderson, who was stabbing her.

Kimbery McLarry bought a shotgun and a revolver at a pawnshop. Half an hour later, she went to her ex-husband Robert's place of work and fatally shot him. Peace officers from multiple jurisdictions confronted her at her residence. She approached them with a revolver. They shot at her. A DPS trooper fired the fatal shot. Multiple law enforcement agencies, including the Texas Ranger Division, investigated.

Martin Jarrett was having an argument with his girlfriend at a bar when she called police. After a standoff, he shot and killed himself.

Police were called to an intersection close to the Richard Gerstein Justice Building on reports that one man was attacking another with a machete. The attacker was shot and killed by police. Few other details immediately were available.

Deputy Tom Courter responded to a hang-up 911 call in rural Hershey at about 1:45 a.m., and heard a woman screaming inside the mobile home, police said. Courter kicked in the door and found Robbin W. Gastineau and his ex-wife fighting. Courter Tased Gastineau, but the probes reportedly landed too close together, so Courter tried again, but it was ineffective. Gastineau allegedly grabbed a decorative Samurai sword and attacked Courter, who shot Gastineau twice. Gastineau died at the scene.

Rape suspect Bevins shot his mother dead—she'd seen it coming, and asked a court for protection—and set her house on fire. Shortly after midnight responding deputies found him with a gun at a nearby residential intersection. He was fatally shot.

Deputy Travis Randolph shot and killed Gabriel Munoz during a struggle.

Police responding to a workplace in mid-afternoon found Lee threatening his co-workers at an alarm company with a box-cutter knife. Twenty minutes of negotiation and Lee still appeared to be a threat. Police shot him to death.

Police found Douglas Scott Miller Jr. dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after a standoff. Miller had barricaded himself inside after allegedly firing at officers who were serving a search warrant. Officers returned gunfire, and Miller retreated to a back room. A Highway Patrol trooper, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, was reportedly struck during the exchange and sustained minor injuries.

Jelani Edwards was said to be one of three men who held up the First Citizens Bank on Atomic Road in Jackson. They received a bag of money and then took off in a burgundy vehicle, that was later reported stolen out of Georgia, and sped toward Beech Island on Old Jackson Highway. A Jackson police officer chased the speeding vehicle into Beech Island. The driver lost control and wrecked. All three suspects exited the vehicle, and Edwards reportedly pulled a handgun from his waistband and shot at a Jackson police officer. The officer returned fire, killing Edwards.

Police shot and killed Sedrick Bernard Cox when he allegedly came at them with a knife.

Las Vegas officer shot and killed sex assault suspect John Paul Hambleton, 32, who gained possession of his Taser before leading him on a foot pursuit on West Alexander Road.

Police were responding to a family disturbance, in which Esparza reportedly attacked his step-father. Esparza was in a bedroom, and claiming to be armed with a gun. Esparza suddenly exited the bedroom and raised a gun toward two officers. Officers immediately fired and killed Esparza. The gun turned out to be a BB gun.

Officer Robert Kane, 42, shot and killed Edwin Munoz during a car chase. The chase began when police saw someone attempting to break into a car.

Morgan Mumford was threatening people with box cutter when he was shot and killed.

Steven Wayne Branham was wanted in connection with a robbery in Little River. After a chase, he allegedly committed suicide in a cornfield near Conway.

Ian Sloan York reportedly shot himself after police shot him several times when he reached for his gun in a wooded creek near a shopping mall.

A 2:30 a.m. phone call from a suspicious neighbor brought police down on career criminal, serial killer and fugitive Burris. Discovered in the company of an unwitting couple of squatters, when pressed for ID Burris pulled a gun and was shot to death.

Ying He and her ex-boyfriend, Jianming Liang, were both found dead after a daylong standoff with police that reportedly began when Liang broke into He's house, shot and injured her husband and took He hostage.

A purported serial rapist from Los Angeles, Bynum had 80 rounds fired at him by police as they approached his wrecked white Cadillac on a stretch of interstate 70. He'd driven deliberate head-on into a tanker truck. Twenty-three of those rounds hit, killing him. The family pursued a protracted legal battle afterward but did not prevail.

Witnesses say two men were breaking into cars at the apartment complex at around 3:00, stealing stereos and CDs. When police made it to the scene, witnesses say one of the burglars raised what appeared to be a weapon. An officer then fired his gun and struck the suspect, who was taken to a local hospital where he died.

Todd Bostian used two women, including Kasey Myers, as shields against police. Police said he shot both women before a sniper shot and killed him. Myers died, the other woman was apparently wounded in the leg.

Two officers responded to a robbery in progress at a gas station. They shot and killed Lavonna Marie Dillon as she tried to go out the back door.

Jason Poss, 23, was killed on July 10, 2009, following a crime spree that ended when he lunged at Spokane police officers with a knife and they opened fire on him, hitting him several times. Moments earlier, Poss had kicked down the door of Tara Tanner's home, located in the 1300 block East Glass, beat her with a skateboard and stabbed her dog.

Police said that they were called to a home for a domestic disturbance. When officers arrived, they found Kitzmiller with a gun. A struggle took place over the weapon and then an officer from the Galion Police Department was shot in the hand by Kitzmiller, police said. Another officer shot and killed Kitzmiller.

Walker attempted to remove a man loitering on the stoop of his mother's apartment house, not realizing the man was an undercover narcotics detective. The two men fought, struggled, then the detective fatally shot the unarmed Walker three times. In July 2014 Walker's family settled with the city for $2.25M.

Police shot and killed Demarco Washington after a car chase when he allegedly brandished a firearm at narcotics investigators.

An officer shot and killed Deangelo Webb after he allegedly refused to drop his gun in an alley. According to police, two officers were responding to a report about a man with a gun at around 5:30 a.m. in Marquette Park when they encountered Webb. Webb was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Lamb matched the description of a wanted robbery suspect. Approached by two officers, a struggle broke out and Lamb was fatally shot. Both of the officers involved had killed other suspects in the previous year; one of them had injured 20 suspects while arrested them, had been formally reprimanded, and had shot himself in the foot during a SWAT raid.

Police responding to an assault call discovered Rebuelta with a knife in each hand. He disregarded commands to drop his weapons, became aggressive with the officers, and was fatally shot. This was the fourth such incident in the county within a month.

Barton L. Thompson was being sought by police for alleged arson. Police said he fired on them, was shot and shot and killed himself.

Johnson, naked, drove a Mitsubishi Mirage through a security gate at Northeast Houston Police Station, then struck two police cars. When his vehicle stopped, he pointed a 9mm pistol at officers who confronted him. They shot at him, then fled for cover. Johnson left his vehicle and shot at them again. Officers K.D. Eichman, E.T. Fendia, D.K. Marshall, T.M. Reese, N.G. Tovar III and D. Villarreal Jr. shot at Johnson, who died.

Officer Robert Heims shot Gianine "Geni" Desiderio-O'Hara as she reportedly held a knife to her mother's throat.

Lonnie Newton, who reportedly discarded a now missing handgun during a foot chase, threatened Trenton police officers with a large kitchen knife and slashed an officer on the leg. He allegedly advanced on Officer Yem Delgado, still brandishing the knife, and was shot and killed.

Michael Christopher Rogers and Erin Scarlett were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide after a SWAT team forced entry into a condo with flash grenades.

Officers were watching a stolen vehicle when a man and a woman exited a nearby building, and the man opened fire with a shotgun, shattering the passenger window of an unmarked police car, police said. Amanda G. Anderson, 22, and Hassan Skakur, 32, then ran back to the building, and Hosendove turned around and fired at another officer and struck him in the leg. Police evacuated the building and called in Emergency Services from Jersey City and Port Authority police. When police entered the building, gunfire erupted from inside the apartment, going through the door. All told, five Jersey City cops were shot, three others injured and Anderson and Skakur were killed.

Richardson was killed by a single shot by a local police officer after a traffic stop. The officer approached Richardson in a parking lot, and was dragged along and wounded when the driver attempted to flee.

An officer shot Jhmari Cornelius McCoy when he allegedly pointed a gun toward police. Police responded to a burglary call at about 11:15 p.m. The officers told McCoy to show his hands and get down on the ground, but the teen reportedly walked toward them and pointed a gun. A 22-year veteran of the department then shot McCoy twice. McCoy died during surgery. In 2011, Javaughn K. Garth, 19, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in connection with the McCoy's death.

Plainclothes county deputy engages Tyler Heilman, wearing only swim trunks, for driving erratically. An argument ensues and becomes physical. When Heilman saw the other man's gun, he started moving back, at which time the deputy drew the gun and shot him dead.

Baron D. Adams, a 22-year-old homeless man, was shot and killed by Philadelphia Police Officer Clarence Irvine after Adams allegedly took the officer's pistol.

Shot after Schwartz confronted officer with a handgun. A single officer responded to a Baker's report of a suicidal person. Baker was shot by accident.

Lucero came out of a closet armed with two knives and with amphetamine in his system and refused to drop the weapons, and he was shot and killed.

Three officers went to the home and found Vongpramai, suicidal, with a knife in the back yard of the home on Westinghouse Street south of Tait Street, police said. They ordered him to put down the weapon, but Vongpramai instead ran to the front of the home where he was again ordered to put down the weapon. Vongpramai raised the knife over his head and moved toward one of the officers, the captain said. The 4-year veteran fired at least three shots and paramedics attended to the wounded man, but Vongpramai was pronounced dead at the home.

Wasco State Prison Captain Angel Samma Santa Cruz shot and killed his wife, Andrea Plaza-Santa Cruz, who was also a correctional officer at the prison, then killed himself at the couple's home.

A local officer came across Phillips in a physical altercation with a woman, mid-afternoon, city street. Phillips fled and the officer shot him to death. In one of the rare cases where an officer was indicted for a line-of-duty killing, the officer was convicted of manslaughter and given five years of hard labor.

Officers responding to a burglary in progress saw Chavez-Salgado exit the caller's residence through a broken window. He ignored orders in English and Spanish to surrender, then tried to stab a police dog with a screwdriver when it was sent to subdue him. Chavez-Salgado stabbed Officer Smith with the screwdriver. The officer shot him fatally in the chest.

Montrose police responded to a 911 call from the wife of intoxicated, threatening and mentally ill Dennis Gurney.

Madison police were called to a report of a suspicious person in a vehicle. Officers found a man sitting in the vehicle armed with a handgun. Officers were attempting to gain control of him when he shot and killed himself.

The incident began when the Davenport officer stopped the suspect in the middle of the bridge to question him regarding an assault 15 minutes earlier at the Cafe on Vine coffee shop. Anderson told Mallory to get down on his knees several times, orders that Mallory did not heed. The officer deployed his Taser, which appeared to have no effect. Mallory then attacked Anderson, punching the officer, biting the officer's face and slamming the officer's head against the concrete, officials said. The suspect was on top of the officer and choking him when East Moline Police Det. Jim Weakley arrived on the scene and shot the suspect, Donchez said.

At least three 911 calls drew officers to a grocery where a man using a knife made multiple unsuccessful attempts to rob or carjack a number of people. Officers caught up with the suspect Tomlin about a half-mile away, with a knife in each hand, and clearly threatening the officer. Tomlin was shot once in the chest. He'd had a history of schizophrenia.

Polk was holding a hatchet over his head in a threatening manner when he was shot. The owner of Tolin Liquor Store had called police to report that Polk, 46, was causing problems inside the store by harassing the owner and store customers.

Rose, armed with a sawed-off shotgun, broke into a house and demanded to see his 19-year-old girlfriend. Rose got into a noisy confrontation with 56-year-old homeowner Gary Church, his girlfriend's father, whom he threatened to kill. Church and Rose were on the dining room floor wrestling over the loaded 20-gauge shotgun when the officer entered the house. The officer demanded that the two men drop the gun. Church complied with the order but Rose did not. Rose rolled over and pointed the gun at the officer, who shot and killed him.

A 14-year-old boy went to his neighbor's house for help because his father, Villasenor-Lopez, was attacking his mother, Carmen Beltran Villasenor. Villasenor-Lopez threatened the neighbor. Police responded, and the boy told them his father was stabbing his mother. The officers entered and demanded that he drop his weapon; he refused, and they used a stun gun on him. When he turned on the officer who used the stun gun, he was fatally shot.

Brought out on a domestic disturbance 911 call, police found Roos trying to slice open his own neck with a cleaver and his wife struggling to stop him. The officer stepped up and ordered Roos to drop the cleaver. When he didn't, he was shot. Roos died from some combination of the gunshot and the self-inflicted knife wounds.

Police say witnesses reported the man, who was not identified, fired shots at a local hotel and a house from a maroon pickup. They say a Carlsbad police officer was eventually able to ram the pickup to end the chase. While ordering the driver to get out of the pickup, officers at the scene heard two gunshots and then found the man dead inside the vehicle.

Sewer robbed a restaurant. Shortly after, armed with a knife, ignored commands by officers to drop the knife. Sewer was shot and killed.

Juan Lopez was shot when police were investigating an apparent murder. While a witness at the time said an officer shot him, it was never reported whether anyone was charged in his killing.

County police responding to an early-morning shots-fire call arrived at Keating's house to find him handling what looked like an automatic weapon. Keating retreated inside his house but re-emerged, reportedly pointing the weapon at the police. He was shot to death.

A motorist alerted Deputy Hostetter that Larson's pickup truck had been all over the road. The deputy approached the now parked truck. He and Larson had a short exchange. The deputy ordered Larson to show his hands. That's when Larson lifted his right hand and showed the deputy he was holding a .45 caliber handgun. The deputy yelled for Larson to drop the weapon, but Larson appeared to raise the gun and began pointing it in the deputy's direction. The deputy fired. He later learned that the gun was zip-tied to and taped to Larson's hand.

Officer Louis Abner Jones shot Tucker after Tucker allegedly led authorities on a low-speed chase on Interstate 80, which ended when a trooper executed a PIT maneuver, stopping Tucker's pickup truck near Saltair. Investigators say Tucker rammed a trooper's car and threw the car into reverse, turning his wheels toward an officer, when Jones shot him. Tucker's family sued police, saying that Jones' dash cam video showed he did not activate his lights or sirens to stop Tucker, who was suffering from medical problems and may have been in diabetic shock. The family said the case settled for $100,000.

Connors had just committed an armed robbery of a pharmacy in mid-afternoon, taking a large quantity of prescription pills back to his apartment. Police tracked him down there and confronted him in the apartment's kitchen. During the struggle the officer fired a single shot, which killed Connors. His weapon in the robbery had been a replica assault rifle.

Jacobo was shot and killed by sheriff's deputies in an alley behind an apartment complex after an altercation with deputies.

Two officers on patrol recognized Douglas, who they described as a parolee and known gang member. Officer Holguin exited the patrol car to approach Douglas and called his name. Douglas was holding his waist as he ran. He stumbled as he drew a gun from his waistband. He then turned toward the officer with his gun, and officer Holguin then shot and killed Douglas.

A sheriff pulled over Naranjo for a traffic stop and after the officer realized that Naranjo was armed, Naranjo fled by driving away. The officers chased him and police were able to stop his car by intentionally ramming a police car into Naranjo's vehicle and shooting into the vehicle. They ordered him to surrender, but he pulled out a gun instead, and officers shot him.

Police were called on a troubled Ramos, wandering a neighborhood looking for "Mary" and acting erratically. According to the police, Ramos wielded both a nail-bat and a screwdriver, and assaulted and threatened two officers before they shot him. According to witnesses, Ramos was relatively docile, cooperative, and in no physical condition to attack anybody.

Wilhelm was a businessman who recently presided over the closing of a century-old family-owned distribution company. He called police in the pre-dawn hours, suicidal. When they arrived they found Wilhelm's front door open and Wilhelm armed with a shotgun. After an exchange of gunfire officers found him dead on his front porch.

Foutes died when he pointed a gun at officers responding to a domestic disturbance call at his house at 6 a.m. He was fatally shot.

Burkett was shot and killed after pulling out gun and not allowing police to take it from him. Burkett was in the emergency room of a hospital being treated for a head injury. Police were called in when Burkett became agitated. The officers confiscated two guns from Burkett and remained while he was treated.

Plainclothes TABC Agents Michael Cronin, John Altum and Greg Lewis pursued Lunt, who was driving erratically. They cornered him in a parking lot. Agent Cronin yelled, "Stop, police!" from one of the officers' unmarked vehicles. Agents Altum and Lewis approached Lunt on foot. Lunt drove back in the direction of the officers. Agent Altum fired 16 times; Agent Lewis fired three times. Lunt was struck three times and killed. Note: D.A. statement attached.

Dorian Bryan was threatening people with a gun and threatening to kill himself. Bryan refused to surrender to arriving officers, went back in his house and locked himself inside. Police negotiators tried to get him to surrender before the SWAT team entered. Bryan shot at officers when they went inside and they shot and killed him.

Moore stabbed two adults and a baby, wounding them. A deputy responded. Moore stood in a street with a kitchen knife. The deputy told Moore to drop it. Moore approached the deputy, still armed. The deputy fatally shot him.

An officer shot and killed Brandon Harper under unclear circumstances while he was in a parked car near his south suburban home. The officer saw the car with three people inside, and said that he told them to show their hands. When Harper allegedly didn't comply, the officer apparently feared for his life and opened fire, according to police.

Police were called to a domestic dispute, and Matthew James Pysher, 42, fatally shot himself once with a hunting rifle, according to police.

Kendrick was one of five men who pistol-whipped a victim on South Miss Muffet Lane, took $60 from him, then forced him to strip naked. As police found and pursued the five, they tossed weapons and Halloween masks out the windows, then when their car was stopped the five scattered. Kendrick was the only one killed, with two shots. The other four were charged with participating in his shooting.

On an early-morning 17-minute 911 call from his car, Smith reported himself as drunk, armed, and suicidal. Officers responded and found Smith parked on the side of I-85. They fatally shot him four times. He'd been unarmed.

Trooper Daniel Britton and Deputy Ritchie Dyer, armed with rifles, responded to a domestic disturbance. Bradshaw approached them with a handgun in each hand. Taking cover behind a patrol vehicle, Trooper Britton and Deputy Dyer shot Bradshaw multiple times from a range of 10 to 15 feet, killing him. Texas Ranger Jay Womack investigated.

Doukas was the suspect in a number of local robberies. Deputies spotted his pickup in front of a liquor store immediately after another in-store bank robbery. Doukas rammed his vehicle backwards into the deputy's car, then forward as if to run his over. He was fatally shot.

Victim was chased into a church basement housing a daycare. After struggle with police, suspect (unarmed) was shot 8 times. Barmore's estate won a $1.1 million wrongful death suit against the city of Rockford on 12/16/2014.

Hawkins County Sheriff's Office deputies were called to a residence on a 911 domestic disturbance complaint. Shortly after deputies arrived and identified themselves, they heard four to five gunshots from within the residence, police said. At that time, Darran Blevins came to the upstairs window displaying a gun and discharged the firearm. Police said Dennis Christian, 65, and Brandy Seal, 30, were shot during the initial volley of shots heard by deputies. Blevins was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot.

CHP officers shot and killed an unnamed, unarmed man when he drove at them after a high-speed chase from Stockton to Elk Grove.

Police shot and killed Jacob Paul Stolarz as he reportedly held a knife to an 80-year-old bystander's throat. Police had responded to Wabash and Randolph after receiving a report of an aggressive panhandler who was brandishing a knife. According to police, officers followed Stolarz and tried to persuade him to drop the weapon. The officers pepper sprayed Stolarz, but police said it was ineffective. Stolarz continued onto State Street and grabbed a bystander. Officers opened fire after Stolarz didn't drop the knife. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

A police response to a shots-fired call developed into a seven-hour standoff between Herrera and SWAT forces when he barricaded himself inside his apartment. After he was fatally shot, police stormed the residence and found the body of his 70-year-old mother.

Brett Rivers brandished a firearm at an employee of an apartment complex, police said. Rivers returned to his second-floor apartment and fired shots from inside. Police evacuated apartment residents and negotiated with Rivers about two-and-a-half hours before he emerged and fired several shots at police who then shot and killed Rivers.

Police were called to a domestic dispute, prompting a standoff during which William Armpriester shot and killed himself.

An unidentified man reportedly shot himself after a rape and standoff in south St. Louis. Police arrived at around noon after a woman escaped and reported her attacker was inside her apartment. Officers tried to contact the suspect without result. Just before 2 p.m., police entered the apartment and found the man dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Officers were searching for a bank robbery suspect and reportedly found the suspect hiding in the area. The man allegedly threatened to harm the two officers, who fired their weapons and wounded the man. The man later died from his wounds.

Local officers attempted to stop Daniels for speeding. He refused to stop and evaded police. Blocked by a patrol car, and while officers approached on foot, Daniels rammed the police vehicle. Officers opened fire, fatally wounding him.

Weinberger was towing a trailer with an expired tag when a deputy began pursuing him, police said. The deputy turned on his blue lights, but Weinberger continued driving for about 3 miles before stopping. When the deputy approached, Weinberger took off at a high rate of speed. After a short distance, the car left the road, and the deputy found Weinberger dead of a single gunshot wound.

Dennis Carter Sr. shot and killed his estranged wife, son and grandson, and critically wounded his pregnant daughter-in-law before he reportedly shot himself to death after a police chase.

Brown shot a manager at his retirement home. When LAPD officers responded to the scene Brown allegedly pointed his weapon at the officers, and at least one officer shot him. The manager survived the shooting.

Chavez-Gutierrez crashed his vehicle into a tree. Police responded. Chavez-Gutierrez exited car holding gun, and began firing at police. Police returned fire, killing Chavez-Gutierrez.

Farnsworth shot an officer behind the N. 4th Street apartment building, beginning a three-hour siege in which Farnsworth barricaded himself in his apartment and sprayed his University District neighborhood with bursts from an AK-47, shot a second officer and then took his own life.

Dockery's estranged wife had called police, concerned that he was inside her apartment. Dockery killed North St. Paul police officer Richard Crittenden with his own service weapon after throwing a flaming T-shirt at him. He then turned the officer's gun on Maplewood Officer Julie Olson, who returned fire, killing Dockery. Olson was slightly wounded during the confrontation.

Police Sgt. Joe Land shot Edelen as he responded to a possible burglary. He thought Edelen had a gun, but it was a sockful of jewelry.

Officer Michael Ruiz drove into the parking lot at Starcrest Drive and Loop 410, police said, and saw Molinar running out of the gas station holding a shotgun in one hand and cash in another. A bandana covered part of Molinar's face and Ruiz believed he had just committed a robbery. He got out of his patrol car and ordered Molinar to drop his shotgun, and Molinar refused to comply. Molinar pointed his weapon at Ruiz, and Ruiz shot and killed him.

According to Daily Police Blotter, Chester fired a shotgun in a neighborhood. According to GPD, Officer M.D. Guentheman told Chester to stop. Chester pointed the shotgun at the officer. The officer shot Chester. Chester died at Baylor Hospital.

Wanted for domestic violence and assault from an incident a few days earlier, the driver of a vehicle shot and killed himself after being stopped by a Colorado State Highway Patrol trooper.

Bi-polar male in controversy with code enforcement officer ended up in three hour stand-off with police who shot him and killed him.

After a brief car and foot chase, Brian Simmermon was shot and killed when he pulled what police said they thought was a gun. It was a scissors. Simmermon was initially identified as Jonathan Fineman.

Sgt. Cauwels, Cpl. Chris Fodor and officer Zachary Blume fired 32 rounds at Levi B. Boynton when he fired a shot after a carjacking and chase.

An attempted traffic stop turned into a physical struggle between Barraco and a state trooper, with the unarmed Barraco apparently winning and seizing control of the officer's baton, before the trooper pulled his gun and shot him once in the chest. Barraco fled to the woods while the trooper lost consciousness. Barraco died of his wounds.

Police said Brian Scott Good first led them on a chase at about 9 p.m. Saturday, but officers lost sight of his truck. Officer Jerry Alan Jones reportedly saw Good again after midnight and gave chase. Good was joined by officers Christopher Burford, Owen Morris and Travis Hawley. The officers cornered Good on Quick Road, outside city limits. They fired 16 shots at Good after he allegedly rammed Morris' cruiser. Good was struck seven times and died. Jones was also killed, by what was described as a ricocheting or stray bullet fired by Burford.

Police attempted to stop a man in a stolen car. When the man drove the car directly at two officers on foot, the officers shot him.

Sgt. Peter Austen shot Marco Antonio Valdez when he pulled a pellet gun from his waistband.

Shot after attempting to ram a police officer on a motorcycle with his car. Police were pursuing Villareal for erratic driving. In March 2013, a federal judge determined that a wrongful death lawsuit against the officer could proceed to trial.

Herring reportedly asked officers to shoot him, and held a gun to his own head, during a brief standoff and firefight after a car crash. Herring faced some two dozen LEOs and was fatally shot.

Gary Varner pointed a gun at three of his neighbors, standing on his lawn, and threatened to kill them. He forced his family out of the residence. Varner threatened officers who responded. The officers called a SWAT team and hostage negotiators, who failed to reason with Varner. Varner left the residence pointing a pistol with a laser sight at officers. Senior Officer Kent fatally shot him.

Deputies saw Valdovinos and an unidentified man walking out of a "darkened alley and attempted to make contact with them," according to a statement released by the Sheriff's Department. Valdovinos reportedly ran from the deputies, then turned around and began to shoot at them, according to the statement. One deputy was shot in the leg. The deputies returned fire and chased Valdovinos to the onramp, where he was met by three more deputies. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Heavily armed Navy veteran marksman Reynoso, recently fired from his job, had a violent domestic dispute with his wife, then a five-hour standoff with police surrounding his third-story apartment unit. When he raised his weapon to target one of the officers, a police marksman fatally shot him.

Police responded at 5 p.m. after receiving a report that a man and his girlfriend were arguing at her house. According to police, the argument was over when officers arrived, but the man was in the front yard with a knife. The man allegedly lunged at an officer, who shot him once, killing him.

Suspect in at least nine armed bank robberies in the prior six months, and with a 30-year criminal and prison history, ten FBI agents and five other officers from other agencies converged on Gray's apartment at about 10 p.m. to apprehend him. He barricaded himself in and put up armed resistance with a shotgun, shooting and wounding a Texas state trooper and other officer. Gray was then fatally shot.

Off-duty Detroit officer Patricia Catherine "Katie" Ryan Williams was fatally shot by her estranged husband, off-duty Detroit homicide detective Ed Williams, after he convinced her to meet with him in a library parking lot adjacent to the Canton police department around 9:15 a.m. He then shot and killed himself. There were reportedly indications Ed Williams was suicidal and a number of domestic violence complaints reported by Katie Ryan Williams before the murder-suicide.

Police went to Ronald W. Giron's home to serve him with a protection from abuse order. After a standoff, police found him dead of a self-inflicted gunshot.

Local police responded to a domestic disturbance call to find Scott outside with a firearm. At first Scott complied with police directions to discard the gun and get on the ground, but then tried to get to the weapon. He was shot to death.

Deputies Tim Allen and Ken Marchese shot and killed Thomas Dale Scogland when he tried to hit them with a stolen Honda Accord.

A late-morning traffic stop on Johnson for rolling through a stop sign developed when the officer discovered Johnson's outstanding warrants. A second officer arrived. Johnson tried to get back into his car and drive off, but with one of the police hanging from the car, the officer was being dragged, which was the justification for deadly force. Johnson was killed with at least three shots.

A 44-year old white male died on 9-24-09 in Spartanburg. The Spartanburg Sheriff's Office was involved, but details regarding the circumstances of the death are unknown. The medical cause of death was contact wound to head from an unspecified firearm and the manner of death was suicide. Source: South Carolina Deaths in Police Custody, 2009 - 2010

Jonathan Latham was killed after a shoot out in St. Martin Parish.

Curtis Watts was shot and killed by an officer after Watts reportedly severed another officer's hand with an ax.

Officer Ivan Lopez shot Juan Robles twice in the back when he allegedly pointed a gun at police. A car chase began at about 11:55 p.m. in the 7900 block South Kedzie Avenue, involving at least four police cars and nine officers. Robles' car sustained severe damage when it hit a pickup truck north of 79th Street, and eventually stopped near the corner of 76th Street and Kedzie. Robles got out of the car and started running. Lopez shot and killed Robles when he allegedly aimed a gun at officers running after him.

Justin Schmitz reportedly shot himself and set his house on fire following a domestic dispute with his wife. While leaving in her mother's car, Schmitz's wife reported that her husband had shot the car three times. Neither she nor her mother were physically injured. As deputies responded and set up a perimeter, they reportedly noticed smoke coming from the roof. Firefighters entered the house after attempting to contact Schmitz and extinguished the fire before it engulfed the home. Firefighters found Schmitz's body inside with a gunshot wound.

Wells was shot and killed after he allegedly tried to run over a motorcycle officer and threatened others with a machete following a chase that began in Gautier.

Sergeants Kevin Mueller and James Hooper were hoping to question a suspected gunman in a recent robbery at King's Produce Store. When they arrived Joe Prevatt was standing in the doorway of his house. He refused to come out. Mueller and Prevatt got into a struggle. Prevatt pulled a handgun and started to fire at Mueller who fired back. As Mueller fired at and retreated he was unaware that the Prevatt had fallen to the floor. Prevatt received a bullet injury to the head. A preliminary autopsy determined that the fatal slug was not the same caliber as Mueller's service pistol and that Prevatt likely killed himself.

According to KPD, officers responding to a possible weapon-related disturbance confronted Ramirez, walking down a street with a .380-caliber pistol. Ramirez approached officers, gun in hand. He said, "Do what you need to do," and pointed the pistol at officers. Officers fatally shot him, then disarmed him. The slide of the pistol was locked back on an empty magazine. According to mysanantonio.com, Ramirez's girlfriend had just been fatally shot.

According to police, Johnny Ray Dixon slipped inside his ex-girlfriend's house sometime around 2 a.m. on September 27 and held her captive. She escaped shortly before noon and ran for help. Believing Dixon was still inside, Waterloo police surrounded the home for hours. They fired tear gas into the house, but Dixon was gone when they entered. For the next three days, police responded to sightings of Dixon, but didn't find him. Then at about 12:30 p.m. on September 30, police got a tip that Dixon was on the bike trail near Lookout Park. They located Dixon at about 1:30 p.m. and he reportedly threatened to harm himself when officers tried to get close. Police said that officers had been talking with Dixon in a wooded area for about two hours when he shot himself. Dixon died overnight at a hospital. Afterward, police said Dixon had likely been involved in the kidnapping of a mentally challenged man on Labor Day. Investigators initially were skeptical when David Foote, 49, said a man with a gun made him drive around the city on pointless errands, and then left him bound on his bed. Foote was found hanging September 10 in his home, a victim of suicide, police said.

Police say gang officers saw three men walking in the middle of the street and tried to stop them. Officers say two stopped, but Shem Lee, ran. Tulsa officer Kevin Warne chased Lee, who had a gun, and the officer shot and killed him.

A four-year veteran Las Vegas officer fatally shot a bipolar teenager who was holding a knife to his mother's throat near Vegas Valley Drive and Nellis Boulevard. The death of Tanner Chamberlin, 15, brought attention to the issue of how police handle calls involving the mentally ill.

Deputy Greg Ardoin shot and killed Jon Lucas when he allegedly aimed a weapon at the deputy.

Deputies were attempting to detain two suspected car thieves when they ran away. When they cornered one fo the men, he pulled out a knife. One of the deputies fired several rounds from his weapon, hitting the suspect.

Murray was a frequent visitor to his nearby convenience store, visiting for cigars or Coronas even 10 times a day. The store manager had no complaints. This Friday mid-afternoon another customer complained to an off-duty deputy about a man with a gun. In the parking lot the deputy told Murray to show his hands. Murray allegedly pulled a butcher knife from his waistband in response, and was shot dead.

Martinez, 36, allegedly was ramming a stolen car into other vehicles in a traffic jam on Interstate 805 in San Ysidro when San Diego police canine-unit Officer Randy Burgess opened fire on him about 11:15 a.m. Saturday. Martinez died at the scene.

A SWAT officer fired a single, fatal shot at Renardo Antonio Flores, who had reportedly fired at officers repeatedly from inside a house during a five-hour standoff.

Broken Arrow Police Officer Stephen Garrett II shot Samuel in Samuel's front yard, police said. Officers went to the residence after a neighbor called to report a domestic disturbance between a husband and wife. When the first officer, Garrett, arrived at the residence, Samuel had gone back into the house, leaving his wife in the yard with a neighbor. As Garrett approached the house, Samuel reportedly came out brandishing a knife. He was shot and killed.

Officer Jose Hernandez used his service weapon to kill his wife, Castillo, then commit suicide. She told family that Officer Hernandez abused her, but she refused to tell police. The marriage had lasted eight months. Officer Hernandez had been a peace officer for 23 years.

NYPD responded to a "man with a knife" call to find one wounded victim on the sidewalk—Lewis's mother's boyfriend, who Lewis was trying to evict. Six officers encountered Lewis inside on the stairs with a ceremonial blade, and fatally shot him. Inside they found that Lewis had also stabbed a good-Samaritan neighbor to death.

Wednesday mid-morning Evans went to his ex-wife's workplace, a chicken restaurant, to fight. Somebody called the police. The police chased him into an adjacent ravine where Evans surprised both officers with a gun. He fired and wounded both before being shot to death. One of the officers died from his wounds five days later.

Camper and hunter Bass smilingly threatened three Forest Service employees with a handgun, seated in a lawn chair, reciting Bible verses, and waved in a friendly way as they backed off. When five county deputies returned to investigate, Bass smiled, waved them in with his left hand lodged down in his jacket, then pulled a handgun with his right hand. He was fatally shot.

Hernandez had just perpetrated a late-evening rape, using a ski mask and a handgun, in the back parking lot of a grocery store, when he was confronted by county police. He refused to obey commands, reportedly went for one of their guns, and was shot to death.

Mario Chavez reportedly killed himself after officers pulled him over. According to police, an officer saw a car matching the description of one seen at a motel during a double shooting that morning. Police stopped Chavez's car just east of town and said that Chavez shot himself.

Oseguera tried to stab his girlfriend, then fatally stabbed a neighbor who tried to stop him. Officer Matthew Marin fatally shot him.