| Unique ID | Name | Age | Gender | Race | Date | City | State | Latitude | Longitude | Agency involved | Cause of death | Intended use of force | Brief description | Supporting document link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16990 | Jason Bryant | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 12/10/2015 | Indianapolis | IN | 39.7413377 | -86.1966441 | Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department |
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| Bryant fled from officers who chased the truck until they saw him ditch the vehicle and go into a home. Police determined the truck was stolen from Whiteland on Nov. 23. Officers surrounded the home until they secured a search warrant to enter, police said. When police went inside the home, they saw Bryant sitting in a back bedroom with a gun. Two officers fired their weapons, killing Bryant. Bryant did not fire his gun. | indystar.com |
| 16991 | Robert Patrick McMurrer | 59 | Male | European-American/White | 12/10/2015 | Georgetown | TX | 30.6330365 | -97.6780318 | Georgetown Police Department |
|
| Officers pulled over McMurrer for reckless driving. He shot and killed himself. | force.com |
| 16989 | Thomas Arthur Gendreau Jr. | 54 | Male | European-American/White | 12/10/2015 | Marina | CA | 36.680194 | -121.7822278 | Marina Police Department |
|
| Police said Thomas Arthur Gendreau Jr., 54, of Marina, stabbed his wife with a knife inside their house. The man continued stabbing her even after officers arrived, police said. One officer shot Gendreau to stop the attack. Both Gendreau and his wife died. | ksbw.com |
| 16992 | Steven Wickert | 36 | Male | European-American/White | 12/11/2015 | Tucson | AZ | 32.3219435 | -110.8452073 | Pima County Sheriff's Department |
|
| Deputies were called to The Lodge at Ventana Canyon, where there were reports of a disturbance. When a deputy approached a man for questioning, sheriff's officials say the man began attacking the officer. The man was shot and killed. | kvoa.com |
| 16996 | Nicholas Robertson | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 12/12/2015 | Lynwood | CA | 33.9171236 | -118.2096605 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department |
|
| Deputies responded after receiving multiple calls about a man in a checkered shirt with a gun and shots being fired. An eyewitness said Nicholas Robertson was shooting in the air and did not comply with police orders. Deputies said they yelled multiple commands at the suspect to drop the gun, and shot and killed him when he didn't obey. The family was awarded $3.6 million for the wrongful death. | abc7.com |
| 16998 | Javario Shante Eagle | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 12/12/2015 | Chattanooga | TN | 34.9893944 | -85.3074723 | Chattanooga Police Department |
|
| Police were responding to a mental health/unknown trouble call. On the scene, police encountered an armed individual at the residence with a small child. Police said the individual when in and out of his house multiple times, refusing to comply with orders from police. Police said the man then left the house holding the small child and brandishing a knife and a firearm. He released the child, but then "moved aggressively toward the officer and small child while brandishing the weapons." He was shot and killed. | chattanoogan.com |
| 16997 | Christopher Goodlow | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 12/12/2015 | Indianapolis | IN | 39.8273869 | -86.0290712 | Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department |
|
| Police said officers had responded to a call about a suicidal man who was bleeding and carrying a "butcher knife." Police said a group of at least four officers at the shooting scene employed a "progressive use of force," including verbal commands and less-than-lethal force, before shooting and killing Christopher Goodlow as he advanced upon them. | indystar.com |
| 16995 | Jonathan Wardlow | 36 | Male | European-American/White | 12/12/2015 | Healdton | OK | 34.2209316 | -97.4785174 | Healdton Police Department |
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| A Healdton officer responded to a report of a domestic disturbance at a home. When the officer arrived, he found Wardlow acting erratically. Wardlow tried to hit the officer, who pulled out his Taser and told Wardlow to get on the ground, police said. Wardlow got on the ground, and the officer holstered the Taser and tried to handcuff him. While trying to handcuff Wardlow, Wardlow got on top of the officer and took the Taser, pointing it at the officer who shot and killed Wardlow. | kxii.com |
| 16999 | Andrew Joseph Todd | 20 | Male | European-American/White | 12/12/2015 | East Stroudsburg | PA | 40.9906578 | -75.1821483 | Stroud Area Regional Police Department |
|
| Todd, armed with two handguns and a machete, entered a Walmart and began threatening customers and pointing a gun at them, police said. Stroud Area Regional Police arrived minutes later and ordered Todd to drop his weapons. After he refused, SARP officers shot and killed him. | poconorecord.com |
| 16994 | Roy Manuel Carreon | 49 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 12/12/2015 | San Bernardino | CA | 34.1083537 | -117.3219855 | San Bernardino Police Department |
|
| Carreon, allegedly armed with the knife, had reportedly gotten into an argument with a neighbor. He was holding a woman at knifepoint when the police arrived. The woman was released, but he refused to drop the knife or listen to police orders. He was shot and killed by Officer Dominick Martinez. | sbsun.com |
| 16993 | Efrain Villanueva | 51 | Male | Race unspecified | 12/12/2015 | Aurora | CO | 39.7261749 | -104.8613919 | Aurora Police Department |
|
| Police responded because a man was stabbing a woman. He was shot and killed. The woman, idenified as Mireya Ramirez, also died. | denverpost.com |
| 17005 | Enrique Gonzalez | 32 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 12/13/2015 | Denver | CO | 39.7765655 | -105.0509127 | Mountain View Police Department |
|
| Police pulled Gozalez over for a traffic stop. He got out of the vehicle with a shotgun and fired it, and Officer Andrew Fulton shot and killed him. | denverpost.com |
| 17007 | Ryan Gillette McMillan | 21 | Male | European-American/White | 12/13/2015 | Denton | TX | 33.2156899 | -97.1464336 | University of North Texas Police Department |
|
| McMillan had been smashing car windows with an ax. Police arrived to intervene. McMillan approached the police while still holding ax. The police shot and killed him. | nbcdfw.com |
| 17004 | Shirley Farmer Weis | 51 | Female | European-American/White | 12/13/2015 | Arlington | TX | 32.7280445 | -97.1007151 | Arlington Police Department |
|
| Police were responding to a call from a man who claimed his wife was suicidal. She refused to answer the door when the police arrived. She went to the garage and began to leave in her car. The police tried to stop her. She pointed a handgun at them. The police shot her. | star-telegram.com |
| 17006 | Nephi Leiataua | 30 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 12/13/2015 | Olympia | WA | 47.0016526 | -122.7632483 | Thurston County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Leiataua had stabbed cousin. When the police responded, armed with a knife, he barricaded himself in bedroom with his 3-year-old daughter. A sheriff sniper shot him through a window. | theolympian.com |
| 17012 | Mharloun Verdejo Saycon | 39 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 12/14/2015 | Long Beach | CA | 33.8025575 | -118.1892661 | Long Beach Police Department |
|
| Police received reports that Saycon was waving the knife and that some customers had left in fear for their lives, said police. Police said the man had also been thrown out of the business on prior occasions for being disruptive. He did not drop the knife when instructed, and police shot and killed him. | lbpost.com |
| 17009 | Jeffrey Gene Evans | 52 | Male | European-American/White | 12/14/2015 | Middle River | MD | 39.3044546 | -76.3715552 | Baltimore County Police Department |
|
| Evans' girlfriend called police because he was suicidal. He threatened the police with kitchen knives. They Tased him, then shot him. | baltimoresun.com |
| 17011 | Roberto Ortiz Sanchez | 45 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 12/14/2015 | Las Vegas | NV | 36.229529 | -115.0902236 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department |
|
| Police were attempting to arrest suspects in a robbery. Their suspects had parked in a driveway. Sanchez came out of the house with a gun. Police say he pointed the gun at them, and they shot him. | clarkcountynv.gov |
| 17016 | Jacob David Ciprian | 23 | Male | European-American/White | 12/14/2015 | Ozark | MO | 37.0538815 | -93.2303124 | Ozark Police Department |
|
| Ciprian apparently killed himself while police were trying to arrest him on suspicion of distributing child pornography. | news-leader.com |
| 17013 | Mark Toney | 33 | Male | European-American/White | 12/14/2015 | Mt Hope | WV | 37.893924 | -81.1601929 | Mount Hope Police Department |
|
| Police were called because Toney was drunk and had stabbed two people. When they arrived, Toney was armed with a shotgun. He pointed it at them, and they shot and killed him. | wowktv.com |
| 17008 | Michael Thomason | 56 | Male | European-American/White | 12/14/2015 | Milan | TN | 35.867306 | -88.784083 | Milan Police Department, Gibson County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Seven police and sheriff's officers attempted to arrest Michael Thomason for charges of murder. They found him hiding in a shed. At least four officers shot him as he brandished a handgun. | jacksonsun.com |
| 17015 | Hector Alvarez | 19 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 12/14/2015 | Gilroy | CA | 36.9950363 | -121.572907 | Gilroy Police Department |
|
| Police were responding to a domestic dispute. Alvarez was unarmed. Police say he attacked them. Alvarez's girlfriend claimed he was complying with officers, and they shot him while he had his hands up. | mercurynews.com |
| 17014 | Calvin McKinnis | 33 | Male | African-American/Black | 12/14/2015 | New Orleans | LA | 30.0028115 | -90.0443586 | New Orleans Police Department |
|
| McKinnis was pulled over for a traffic violation. While approaching the car, the police heard gunshots. They fired back, killing McKinnis in his vehicle. | nola.com |
| 17010 | Brenda Dean Kimberling | 48 | Female | European-American/White | 12/14/2015 | Las Vegas | NV | 36.2435411 | -115.0574412 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department |
|
| A friend called the police because Kimberling was trying to kill herself. After police arrived she barricaded herself in her house. She came out three times. Twice with a handgun. The third time she came out with a shotgun and tried to shoot herself, but couldn't work the trigger. Then she pointed gun at police and they shot her. | reviewjournal.com |
| 17017 | Ronnie Dubose Carr | 51 | Male | African-American/Black | 12/15/2015 | Boone | NC | 36.216428 | -81.674714 | Dallas Police Department |
|
| Police tried to arrest Ronnie Carr in relation to a check fraud crime. He fled in his car and led police on a chase, and then crashed. Carr resumed his flight, drove in the direction of officers, and was shot and killed. Police alleged vehicular assault. | wbtv.com |
| 17021 | Bryant Neil Duncan | 23 | Male | European-American/White | 12/16/2015 | Camarillo | CA | 34.2192967 | -119.0507164 | Ventura County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Duncan made 911 call from a convenience store to report a crime that was about to occur. Armed with a knife he then approached a police officer while shouting "kill me!." The officer then shot and killed him. | vcstar.com |
| 17022 | Douglas Yon | 25 | Male | European-American/White | 12/17/2015 | Kent | OH | 41.1631696 | -81.3396348 | Kent Police Department |
|
| Yon refused to leave the home of a family member. The family member called the police. When they arrived Yon had a machette. The police shot possibly as many as 18 times. | record-courier.com |
| 17023 | Christopher Fletcher | 24 | Male | European-American/White | 12/17/2015 | Modesto | CA | 37.638551 | -120.998503 | Modesto Police Department |
|
| Christopher Fletcher was riding a bike and carrying a gun. Police ordered him to drop the gun. He fled on foot into a parking garage where he was shot as he brandished a handgun. | modbee.com |
| 22185 | Raul Martinez III | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 12/18/2015 | Huntington | IN | 40.905759 | -85.4885479 | Huntington Police Department |
|
| Police responded to a 911 call from Raul Martinez III, who told dispatchers he was taking Destiny Shanks to the hospital with gunshot wounds to both of her legs. When Martinez arrived at the hospital, he got into a gun battle with two officers, police said. Officers shot Martinez in the hip, and he fatally shot himself in the head. | journalgazette.net |
| 17024 | Erica Michelle Lauro | 22 | Female | European-American/White | 12/18/2015 | Northwood | OH | 41.618174 | -83.4614576 | Northwood Police Department, Oregon Police Division |
|
| Oregon officers were conducting an investigation into an assault at a bar. The three suspects, all of whom were from out of state, assaulted three people—two men and a woman—when an altercation sparked by a verbal exchange between a woman in the suspects' group and a woman in the victims' group spilled into the parking lot. The suspects fled in a vehicle into Northwood and were pursued by Oregon police. The vehicle, parked in a driveway and with lights off, eluded officers until a Northwood resident called the Northwood police to report noises. Oregon police were notified and also arrived. The suspects apparently intended to steal a license plate from a vehicle at the location. Officers then tried to take one of the male suspects into custody. The armed suspect ran and circled around the area, coming up behind some of the officers. There was a gunfight, and Lauro was killed. | toledoblade.com |
| 17025 | Robert L. Martinez | 58 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 12/18/2015 | Taos | NM | 36.3813857 | -105.5788721 | Taos County Sheriff's Office, Taos Police Department |
|
| Police and sheriff's officers were responding to a domestic abuse call. When they arrived, Martinez was armed with a gun. The law enforcement officers shot him as he brandished a rifle. After reviewing the 911 call, police believe Robert Martinez placed the call himself, disguising his voice to sound female. | taosnews.com |
| 17026 | Amos Frerichs | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 12/18/2015 | Knoxville | TN | 35.9076247 | -84.0926033 | Knox County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Police attempted to arrest Frerichs for shoplifting. He fled, got in his car, and ran over on officer. The officer who had been hit by the car shot him. | tennessean.com |
| 17027 | Ruben Jose Herrera | 26 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 12/19/2015 | Torrance | CA | 33.8299092 | -118.2947193 | Los Angeles Police Department |
|
| Ruben Herrera was picked up for vandalism. He was tasered and taken to a hospital. When police removed handcuffs, a fight began, and Herrera was shot and killed as he allegedly reached for an officer's gun. | ktla.com |
| 17030 | Edel Cato Moreland | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 12/19/2015 | Linthicum Heights | MD | 39.204685 | -76.647558 | Baltimore Police Department |
|
| Moreland attempted to hold up an off-duty police officer with a realistic toy gun. The officer drew his service weapon and fired. | baltimoresun.com |
| 17029 | Travon Jeremy Scruggs | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 12/19/2015 | Concord | VA | 37.393409 | -79.0182015 | Virginia State Police |
|
| A man took his 3-year-old son hostage.During a 15-hour standoff, he twice fired shots at police, and eventually shot and killed himself. The child was unharmed. | wsls.com |
| 17032 | Mark Angel Ramirez | 31 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 12/20/2015 | Amarillo | TX | 35.207968 | -101.8551305 | Amarillo Police Department |
|
| Amarillo police were called out to a home about a suicidal suspect. They were told Ramirez, either had access to or was in possession of a gun. When police arrived at the home, Ramirez opened the door with a gun in hand and started to move it in the direction of the officers who shot and killed him. | myhighplains.com |
| 17033 | Leroy T. Browning | 30 | Male | African-American/Black | 12/20/2015 | Palmdale | CA | 34.5713387 | -118.0449439 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department |
|
| Police said Browning attempted to grab a deputy's gun after apparently drunkenly running his car into a building. | nbclosangeles.com |
| 17039 | Casey Van Armstrong | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 12/20/2015 | DeWitt | IA | 41.8265626 | -90.5275461 | Clinton County Sheriff's Office, Iowa State Patrol, Clinton Police Department, DeWitt Police Department |
|
| At 1:17 p.m., a deputy responded to a disturbance near Andover where Casey Van Armstrong allegedly pointed a handgun at him, then fled in a Dodge pickup truck. A chase began and continued through northeastern Clinton County. Armstrong eventually stopped in DeWitt and officers surrounded the truck. According to police, Armstrong fired a handgun out the passenger window, but officers didn't return fire. At 3:31 p.m., officers reportedly heard a gunshot and found Armstrong with a self-inflicted wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene. | wqad.com |
| 17042 | Robert L. Teter | 39 | Male | European-American/White | 12/21/2015 | Deltona | FL | 28.886652 | -81.189978 | Volusia County Sheriff's Office |
|
| A call over a dispute about taxi fare resulted in the passenger pulling a gun and police shooting and killing him. | news-journalonline.com |
| 17043 | Guadalupe Quiroz | 34 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 12/21/2015 | Hemet | CA | 33.7238145 | -116.9736927 | Hemet Police Department |
|
| Officers responded to a mobile home park because someone was waving a gun around. He had the gun when they arrived, and he was shot and killed. | riversidecountynewssource.org |
| 17047 | Derek DeGroat | 21 | Male | European-American/White | 12/21/2015 | Waymart | PA | 41.569025 | -75.380667 | Pennsylvania State Police |
|
| Troopers responded to 911 reports of a man with gun threatening to kill himself and threatening to kill police if they came to the home, police said. Derek DeGroat allegedly brandished a long gun and was shot and killed. | wnep.com |
| 17040 | Bobby Daniels | 48 | Male | African-American/Black | 12/21/2015 | Douglasville | GA | 33.7561757 | -84.7053204 | Douglas County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Details are sketchy, but apparently a security guard called 911 and said he had been kidnapped.W hen Douglas County deputies arrived, they encountered three men, one of whom had a gun. One of the deputies took the gun and placed it on the hood of a car. Bobby Daniels then grabbed the gun and pointed it at deputies. Another deputy shot and killed him. | ajc.com |
| 17046 | Chan Duol Lieth | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 12/21/2015 | Denver | CO | 39.7331041 | -104.8851426 | Aurora Police Department |
|
| A stolen Jeep was spotted at a 7-Eleven parking lot. An officer pulled in behind the stolen car in an attempt to pin in the car. The driver drove back and forth into patrol cars and the building. Officers Josh Stuteville and Teresa Fields shot and killed him. Police alleged vehicular assault. | sentinelcolorado.com |
| 17044 | Michael Noel | 32 | Male | African-American/Black | 12/21/2015 | St Martinville | LA | 30.239415 | -91.864048 | St. Martin Parish Sheriff's Office |
|
| Family members called police to get help taking Noel to a psychiatric hospital. He was tasered and fought, eventually being shot and killed. | theadvocate.com |
| 17045 | Brandon E. Barsnick | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 12/21/2015 | Smartsville | CA | 39.190503 | -121.297426 | Yuba County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Police went to Barsnick's home to serve a search warrant and an arrest warrant.The man, who was in a wheelchair, met police on the porch. He was armed with a rifle, and did not follow police orders. Police said he pointed the gun at them, and he was shot and killed. | theunion.com |
| 17048 | Charles Reynolds | 61 | Male | European-American/White | 12/22/2015 | Ludlow | KY | 39.0948981 | -84.5452917 | Ludlow Police Department |
|
| A Ludlow police officer stopped a man driving a red Chevrolet van for a traffic violation near the Riverside Marketplace. They pulled into the crowded shopping center parking lot outside Family Dollar and gunfire was exchanged, police said. An officer was wounded, and Reynolds was killed. | fox19.com |
| 17051 | Jose Rodriguez | 19 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 12/22/2015 | Albuquerque | NM | 35.0744598 | -106.5548368 | Albuquerque Police Department |
|
| According to the Albuquerque Police Department, their officers were responding to a 911 call about an attempted car-jacking around 9:30 a.m. Officers said Jose Rodriguez was armed. Officers located Rodriguez, who brandished a gun and was shot and killed. | abqjournal.com |
| 17049 | Kenneth Stephens | 56 | Male | European-American/White | 12/22/2015 | Burlington | VT | 44.4832611 | -73.213746 | Vermont State Police, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration |
|
| Officers executing the search warrant for drugs confronted a man inside the residence. Officers shot and killed him as he fired a rifle at them. | burlingtonfreepress.com |
| 17050 | Michael U. Hilber | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 12/22/2015 | Brooksville | FL | 28.4680323 | -82.3842912 | Hernando County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Two men robbed a dollar store. Police shot and killed Michael Hilbert after a manhunt. Hilbert was allegedly armed. What prompted police to fire is uncertain. | tampabay.com |
| 17052 | Kevin Matthews | 35 | Male | African-American/Black | 12/23/2015 | Detroit | MI | 42.3510588 | -83.194439 | Dearborn Police Department |
|
| Matthews was wanted on a probation violation warrant and suspected in a larceny. He ran when police found him, and there was an apparent struggle. Matthews was shot and killed. The family was awarded $1.25 million in March 2021. | freep.com |
| 17053 | Guy Franklin Barlow Jr. | 59 | Male | Race unspecified | 12/23/2015 | Lewisville | AR | 33.3850457 | -93.5747491 | Lafayette County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Deputies kicked in the door on a drug raid, and Barlow shot and killed himself, police said. | texarkanagazette.com |
| 17057 | Gregory Sanders | 54 | Male | European-American/White | 12/24/2015 | Pride | LA | 30.6939923 | -90.9718259 | East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office |
|
| Gregory Sanders was threatening to harm himself and destroying his house when police arrived. He pointed a rifle ot police, who shot and killed him. | theadvocate.com |
| 17058 | Daquan Antonio Westbrook | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 12/24/2015 | Charlotte | NC | 35.3525528 | -80.8511888 | Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department |
|
| Police said an off-duty Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officer heard shots and went to the scene of a five-person fight outside the Northlake Mall. Witnesses said he ordered Westbrook to put his gun down, but he turned around and fired. The officer shot and killed him. | wbtv.com |
| 17054 | Terrozza Tyree Griffin | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 12/24/2015 | Lansing | MI | 42.6732633 | -84.5782631 | Lansing Police Department |
|
| Lansing Police officers responded to a report of a home invasion in progress. When officers arrived, they established a perimeter around the house, and confirmed that a male suspect was inside. Officers talked to the man in the home for almost two hours, until a fire was seen inside the house. Officers entered the residence, and shots were fired at the officers. A short time later, they encountered the accused male suspect and he challenged them with a gun. Sgt. Kevin Schlagel, Officer Walter Kim and Officer Ryan Hackenberg shot and killed him. | freep.com |
| 17056 | Schuylar A. Gunning | 36 | Male | European-American/White | 12/24/2015 | Winnsboro | LA | 32.1855413 | -91.7272814 | Franklin Parish Sheriff's Office |
|
| Franklin Parish deputies were in pursuit of a reckless driver and set up a roadblock ahead of the pursuit in attempt to stop the car. The suspect refused to stop and as he fled in the general direction of the deputies, they feared for their lives, and shot and killed him. Police alleged vehicular assault. | thenewsstar.com |
| 17055 | Omar Ventura | 23 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 12/24/2015 | Porterville | CA | 36.0693635 | -119.0057132 | Porterville Police Department |
|
| Porterville police had first responded to the house after getting a family disturbance call. There were reports the man had possibly assaulted a woman outside the house. Police say an officer was talking with possible assault victims when the man came back to the house. The shooting happened in the driveway, and police say Omar Ventura had a knife and was moving toward a woman. | visaliatimesdelta.com |
| 17060 | William David Raff | 31 | Male | European-American/White | 12/25/2015 | Palo Alto | CA | 37.4479548 | -122.1555199 | Palo Alto Police Department |
|
| Raff was shot just outside a home for residents with mental-health issues. Police said Raff was shot and killed by Officers Zachary Wicht and Nicolas Enberg moments after he began charging at the officers with a knife. | paloaltoonline.com |
| 17064 | Lonnie Niesen | 41 | Male | European-American/White | 12/26/2015 | Phoenix | AZ | 33.5963689 | -112.142649 | Phoenix Police Department |
|
| Niesen threw a rock or brick at an officer's vehicle as he was leaving the precinct station, police said. The man threw another rock or brick at the station door, shattering it. The man also attempted to hit an officer a heavy rock as he was coming out of the station. That officer shot and killed Niesen. | azcentral.com |
| 17063 | Quintonio LeGrier | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 12/26/2015 | Chicago | IL | 41.8922947 | -87.7439522 | Chicago Police Department |
|
| Police were responding to a domestic disturbance. In trying to subdue Quintonio LeGrier, who apparently had a baseball bat, they shot and killed him, and accidentally shot and killed Bettie Jones, who was a bystander. | nbcchicago.com |
| 17065 | Bettie Jones | 55 | Female | African-American/Black | 12/26/2015 | Chicago | IL | 41.8922947 | -87.7439522 | Chicago Police Department |
|
| Police were responding to a domestic disturbance. In trying to subdue Quintonio LeGrier, who apparently had a baseball bat, they shot and killed him, and accidentally shot and killed Bettie Jones, who was a bystander. | nbcchicago.com |
| 17066 | Gilberto Heredia | 38 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 12/26/2015 | Homedale | ID | 43.6196701 | -116.9395329 | Homedale Police Department |
|
| Officers had gone to the house to help with a custody transfer of four children, from Heredia to their mother. The mother was not there, and no one else was outside the house when Heredia was shot, police said. Police were called to the home several times in the two days before the shooting. Police said investigators believe Heredia and Owyhee County Deputy Terry McGrew and Homedale Police Officer Chris Steed fired their guns, but Heredia ended up shot and killed. | idahostatejournal.com |
| 17067 | Gayneaux Paul Trahan Jr. | 52 | Male | European-American/White | 12/27/2015 | Franklin | LA | 29.848755 | -91.612994 | St. Mary Parish Sheriff's Office |
|
| Deputies responded to a 911 call of a possible shooting. Police said a man was found with injuries at the home, and after he was transported to a hospital, a gunman opened fire on deputies, and barricaded himself in the home for three hours. Trahan's role has not been disclosed. | katc.com |
| 17068 | Sean Mould | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 12/27/2015 | Tempe | AZ | 33.3817427 | -111.9529049 | Tempe Police Department |
|
| Police were responding to a domestic disturbance. Upon arriving at the house, one of the officers attempted to make contact with Mould who was in the garage and holding some sort of folding pocket-knife, police said. As the officer made contact, Mould began walking toward the officer. The officer attempted to back away from Mould, giving him multiple commands to drop the knife. The suspect ignored commands and continued to walk toward the officer at which time the officer shot and killed him. | phoenixnewtimes.com |
| 17069 | Michael A. Parker | 36 | Male | European-American/White | 12/27/2015 | Lucedale | MS | 30.8890188 | -88.6427963 | George County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Police shot and killed Parker after a chase and a crash, but it has not been disclosed whether Parker had a gun or attempted to run over officers. | sunherald.com |
| 17071 | Ryan W. Perkins | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 12/27/2015 | Akron | OH | 40.9940739 | -81.5539903 | Summit County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Perkins died in Coventry Township of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after a four-hour standoff with a SWAT team, according to police. | google.com |
| 17075 | Cody Lienemann | 24 | Male | European-American/White | 12/28/2015 | Culbertson | NE | 40.2297012 | -100.8301373 | Nebraska State Patrol, Hitchcock County Sheriff's Office |
|
| A trooper attempted to stop Cody Lienemann's SUV for speeding at the Highway 6/34 junction near Culbertson just before 11 p.m. Lienemann reportedly refused to pull over and a pursuit ensued that lasted about 18 minutes going through back roads in and around Culbertson. Lienemann stopped the SUV at the intersection Colorado and Warsaw, got out and ran. The search took troopers and deputies to a camper, where they found Lienemann dead inside with with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. | wowt.com |
| 17072 | Corey Jason Achstein | 28 | Male | European-American/White | 12/28/2015 | Suffolk | VA | 36.7268452 | -76.5963456 | Suffolk Police Department |
|
| Achstein was screaming and threatening people with a BB gun when police arrived. He was ordered to the ground. He allegedly reached to his waist and was shot and killed. | suffolknewsherald.com |
| 17076 | Tien Phuong Hua | 33 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 12/29/2015 | Rosemead | CA | 34.0728632 | -118.0561969 | Los Angeles Police Department |
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| Tien Hua was shot in the backyard of his family home as officers were trying to serve arrest and search warrants connected to the fatal shooting of Henry Xavier Estrada, a 27-year-old Latino who was killed Sunday, Dec. 27, in the Hollywood Hills. Hua was fleeing on foot, while holding a butane lighter that police considered could be a gun. | lacounty.gov |
| 17077 | Siolosega Velega-Nuufolau | 50 | Female | Asian/Pacific Islander | 12/29/2015 | Santa Nella Village | CA | 37.0902587 | -121.0224509 | Merced County Sheriff's Office |
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| Police were called to the scene by a neighbor, who reported that Velega-Nuufolau was in the neighbor's driveway, screaming for someone to call 911. Velega-Nuufolau had a knife and apparently charged at the deputy upon his arrival, police said. The deputy shot and killed Velega-Nuufolau. | fresnobee.com |
| 17079 | Fred Granado Perez | 55 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 12/30/2015 | Fresno | CA | 36.7507982 | -119.8127859 | Fresno Police Department |
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| Police responding to a domestic disturbance heard screams coming from the apartment. Officers broke out a window to see what was happening and they saw a man inside and armed with a knife, and blood all over. Early reports said he was stabbing the woman when police shot and killed him. | abc30.com |
| 17078 | John Randell Veach | 39 | Male | European-American/White | 12/30/2015 | Rawlins | WY | 41.7985111 | -107.2163073 | Rawlins Police Department |
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| John Veach was allegedly selling marijuana in the parking lot of a Rawlins gas station. Police officers approached Veach's vehicle, he attempted to flee, and was shot and killed. The Uinta County Attorney determined that the shooting was justified, but information from a subsequent lawsuit indicated that officers were not endangered by Veach's flight. Police alleged vehicular assault. | wyodaily.com |
| 17080 | Keith Childress | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 12/31/2015 | Las Vegas | NV | 36.1331702 | -115.272241 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department |
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| Childress was under surveilance by U.S. Marshals. He was wanted on felony counts including attempted murder. When the marshals lost him, they called LVMPC for assistance. The officers found him and instructed him to drop the cell phone he was holding, thinking it was a gun. He didn't follow orders and was shot and killed. | lasvegassun.com |
| 17082 | Joshua Adam Sisson | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 01/01/2016 | San Diego | CA | 32.7545083 | -117.1596483 | San Diego Police Department |
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| Police were called on a domestic violence complaint. They caught up with the suspect a short time later, ordering him to drop the knife he was carrying. He was shot and killed. | cbs8.com |
| 17081 | Kenneth Flemming | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 01/01/2016 | Liberty Township | OH | 39.3713191 | -84.3663789 | Ohio State Highway Patrol |
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| The Ohio State Highway Patrol said that a trooper pulled over a vehicle for a speed violation when the occupant of the car told officers he had a gun in the vehicle. The trooper radioed for backup. When backup arrived, officials said that the man was ordered out of his vehicle. Officers said that the man grabbed a handgun and shot himself in the chest. | journal-news.com |
| 17083 | Daniel Ramirez | 25 | Male | Race unspecified | 01/01/2016 | Long Beach | CA | 33.8189167 | -118.200241 | Los Angeles Police Department |
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| Daniel Ramirez reportedly died a day after stabbing and shooting himself following a carjacking, pursuit and standoff that ended in Long Beach. | latimes.com |
| 17085 | Sean Patrick O'Brien | 37 | Male | European-American/White | 01/02/2016 | Livingston | MT | 45.656738 | -110.5721046 | Livingston Police Department |
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| Livingston police responded to a report of a man threatening Shopko Hometown employees that "someone was going to die" if the police were not called to the store, police said. Officers found O'Brien outside of the store and threatened them with a knife. Police tried to subdue O'Brien using a Taser, but the attempt was ineffective. O'Brien ran at the officer with a knife, and he was shot and killed. | helenair.com |
| 17086 | Lonnie Haskell Powers Jr. | 37 | Male | European-American/White | 01/02/2016 | Sioux Falls | SD | 43.5466694 | -96.7113883 | U.S. Marshals Service |
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| Powers was wanted on a federal warrant for a murder in South Carolina. He pulled out a gun during an arrest in a parking lot, according to police. | argusleader.com |
| 17084 | Lance Erwin Light | 54 | Male | European-American/White | 01/02/2016 | Sweetwater | TX | 32.4481999 | -100.3980963 | Sweetwater Police Department |
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| Lance Light allegedly shot and killed Lonnie Odell Sturdivant, 59, on January 2nd. Police have not revealed any additional details on the murder. Light was shot by a Sweetwater police officer during a pursuit that began at the crime scene and ended near the intersection of I-20 and TX-70. Light reportedly brandished a gun. | ktxs.com |
| 17087 | Germonta Wallace | 30 | Male | African-American/Black | 01/03/2016 | Charlotte | NC | 35.2184277 | -80.8854278 | Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department |
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| Police said they were searching for Wallace, who was wanted for the Dec. 30, 2015, murder of Norris Martin. When officers arrived Wallace and Marquez Breon Springs-Owens, 29, came outside. Police said Wallace started firing at the officers, hitting Officer Jessica Zinobile in the ankle. Multiple detectives shot and killed Wallace. | charlotteobserver.com |
| 17089 | Eric John Senegal | 27 | Male | African-American/Black | 01/04/2016 | Ragley | LA | 30.493824 | -93.2076083 | Beauregard Parish Sheriff's Office |
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| Louisiana State Police Troop D spokesman Sgt. James Anderson said. A dog at the residence on Gene Stanley Road was also shot and killed. Deputies were serving a narcotics search warrant when the shooting happened, Anderson said. The house is under investigation for illegal drug activity. This description depends entirely on the police narrative. | kplctv.com |
| 17090 | Rodney Turner | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 01/04/2016 | Oklahoma City | OK | 35.5136566 | -97.5817419 | Oklahoma City Police Department |
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| Police were called to the Crestpark Apartments, where a victim said that multiple people broke into the home, showed a gun and demanded money. Rodney Turner, 22, was walking in the complex and matched a suspect description. Police said Turner grabbed the officer's rifle and attempted to disarm him. Police said the officer drew his sidearm and shot at Turner during the scuffle. Turner fled, but his weapon was found at the scene. Police were called to an apartment in reference to a shooting victim a short time later. According to police, Turner was found in the apartment.Turner again attempted to disarm an officer and was shot at again. He ran away, but police received a second call stating that a shot individual was inside another apartment at a different location approximately two blocks away. It's unclear from articles when Turner died. | kfor.com |
| 17094 | Stephen John Bukwich | 52 | Male | European-American/White | 01/05/2016 | Redding | CA | 40.613018 | -122.3677541 | Redding Police Department |
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| Redding police officers responded to multiple calls that said 6-8 gunshots had been fired at an apartment complex. Officers arrived and found Stephen John Bukwich, 52, inside apartment #A. Officers spoke with Bukwich via a patrol car PA system. Police said Bukwich would open the door to the apartment briefly and yell at officers. Police said that witnesses told them he was upset about recent legislation regarding gun laws passed by President Barack Obama. Officials said Bukwich was not cooperative when asked to come out of his apartment with his hands up. Less lethal methods were attempted, but eventually nine officers fired at Bukwich with handguns and rifles, striking him multiple times and killing him. | redding.com |
| 17098 | David Hoffman | 25 | Male | European-American/White | 01/05/2016 | Niobrara | NE | 42.7547231 | -98.0286823 | U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation |
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| Authorities said Hoffman, who was sought after assaulting and disarming a police officer, shot himself as officers tried to arrest him on the Santee Sioux Indian Reservation. | norfolkdailynews.com |
| 17095 | Albert Thompson | 28 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 01/05/2016 | Ceres | CA | 37.5840758 | -120.9474483 | Ceres Police Department |
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| Officers were patroling in the area of a small apartment complex because of past drug activity. Thompson ran, but it's uncertain what caused officers to shoot and kill him. Officers Justin Canatsy and Jesus Salinas were cleared. | modbee.com |
| 17092 | James K. Maher | 38 | Male | European-American/White | 01/05/2016 | Johnson City | TN | 36.3026927 | -82.3781759 | U.S. Marshals Service |
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| Maher confronted the deputy marshals and brandished a knife as they attempted to serve a warrant for his arrest at a home in the Mary Street vicinity. The situation escalated and resulted in the two marshals firing their weapons, striking Maher, who died at the scene. | heraldcourier.com |
| 17093 | Carlton Antonio Murphy | 33 | Male | African-American/Black | 01/05/2016 | Charlotte | NC | 35.2419679 | -80.9135123 | Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department |
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| Police said someone called 911 around 5 a.m. saying shots had been fired. When officers arrived, a person began shooting at them from a second-floor balcony, police Chief Kerr Putney said at the scene. Police later said Murphy fired more than 30 shots at responding officers. Officer Jacob Meadors returned fire, police said, and the man retreated into the apartment. A SWAT team and negotiators were sent to the scene, CMPD said. They went inside the second-floor apartment and found the suspect dead, Putney said. | charlotteobserver.com |
| 17096 | David Zollo | 54 | Male | European-American/White | 01/05/2016 | Upper Darby | PA | 39.9229285 | -75.3080442 | Upper Darby Township Police Department |
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| David Zollo, called 911 threatening to harm himself. Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood says his officers had a number of dealings with Zollo over the years, mostly to address mental health concerns. Officers found Zollo in the parking lot of the Bishop Hollow Apartments with a knife. When a Taser failed to subdue him and he continued to threaten them, officers fired a dozen shots, killing him. | delcotimes.com |
| 17097 | Joel Anthony Nelson | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 01/05/2016 | Tumwater | WA | 46.9528114 | -122.9078546 | Thurston County Sheriff's Office |
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| A Thurston County sheriff's deputy fatally shot a man near Tumwater after he attacked the deputy and tried to steal his patrol car, and rammed other vehicles, the Sheriff's Office said. | theolympian.com |
| 17100 | Charles J. Hollstein | 38 | Male | European-American/White | 01/06/2016 | Zion | IL | 42.4555724 | -87.833329 | Zion Police Department |
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| Officers were called to the area of 22nd Street and Bethesda Boulevard near Lakeview Elementary School in Zion around 8:30 a.m. The 911 caller said he was taking photos of Lakeview and Zion-Benton High Schools new tech campus. The suspicious man, who police said appeared to be wearing body armor, was located by officers, and a foot pursuit ensued. The man and officers fought, and the man was shot by Officer Steven Vines. It was reported that the man was shot in the back and that a Taser was used but it was ineffective. | cbslocal.com |
| 17099 | Thy Anh Ho | 43 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 01/06/2016 | Buford | GA | 34.0793606 | -83.8916058 | Gwinnett County Police Department |
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| Police say Ho shot himself and his 2-year-old son, Phillip Nguye,n as police entered his home after a 19-hour standoff in Gwinnett County. According to police, the standoff stemmed from a domestic situation involving Ho and his girlfriend. | usatoday.com |
| 17102 | Kenneth P. "Kenny" Clay | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 01/07/2016 | Owensboro | KY | 37.78667 | -87.1800219 | Daviess County Sheriff's Office |
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| Deputies were dispatched to the burglary in progress. Daviess County Sheriff Keith Cain says deputies were told by the 911 caller who discovered the intruder that the intruder was brandishing a firearm as they left. Deputies started searching a wooded area near the house. Law enforcement found someone who met the description of the intruder. Officers confronted him and told him several times to surrender and the person knelt down to comply with the orders. An officer went to go for his Taser, but before he could get to it, the person raised a handgun in the direction of the officers, and he was shot and killed. | 14news.com |
| 17101 | Alan Huberth Franco-Armenta | 32 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 01/07/2016 | Carrizozo | NM | 33.6468627 | -105.8721849 | New Mexico State Police |
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| According to New Mexico State Police, deputies initially encountered the man earlier that evening during a domestic violence call in Capitan. Deputies said the man fled when they arrived, resulting in a pursuit. Deputies were able to disable the man's vehicle with a tire deflation device on U.S. 380 near milepost 53. They said the suspect refused to get out of his vehicle and began pointing a gun at his head, telling officers he wanted to kill himself. AState police said the man fired shots from his vehicle at officers, who shot and killed him. | dchieftain.com |
| 17104 | Joseph Christopher Buckley | 25 | Male | European-American/White | 01/07/2016 | Terrell | TX | 32.7025502 | -96.283827 | Terrell Police Department |
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| Captains Ken McKeown and Arley Sansom and Officers Sanchez and Melton responded to a complaint that a man with a downcast face had drawn a gun in public. Captain Sansom made contact with Buckley, then seated in a vehicle. Buckley fired two shots. Captain Sansom fired one shot. EMS took Buckley to Parkland Hospital, where was pronounced dead. He had shot himself twice in the torso. Captain Sansom's shot had not penetrated the door of Buckley's vehicle. Ranger V. Patton investigated. Buckley was a PTSD sufferer. | inforney.com |
| 17105 | Andrew Earl Abernathy | 50 | Male | European-American/White | 01/08/2016 | Acworth | GA | 34.1330449 | -84.6767607 | Bartow County Sheriff's Office |
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| According to officials, deputies were called to the home for a domestic call. When deputies arrived, officials say they found a man and woman drunk inside the home. Deputies began interviewing the woman and that's when investigators say the man, the woman's boyfriend, stepped out onto the porch with a .22 caliber rifle and pointed it at responding deputies. They shot and killed him. | santacruzsentinel.com |
| 17106 | Eric C. Olsen | 26 | Male | European-American/White | 01/08/2016 | Lake Geneva | WI | 42.60853 | -88.494601 | Geneva Township Police Department |
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| Two town of Geneva police officers, Jason Sweeney and Eric Anderson shot and killed Eric C. Olsen, 26, when they say he charged at them with a with a long knife, according to a news release issued by the Town of Geneva Police Department. | wsaw.com |
| 17108 | David Jay Kent | 37 | Male | European-American/White | 01/09/2016 | Kelso | WA | 46.1601146 | -122.6688672 | Cowlitz County Sheriff's Office |
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| Police received reports of a minivan that struck a utility pole around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, police said. Officers arrived on the scene and spotted Kent in the minivan, but when they tried to stop him, he reportedly attempted to strike their patrol car. Kent then drove off and stopped his car and reportedly threatened law enforcement with a chainsaw. A Taser was used to subdue the suspect, but when that didn't work Cowlitz County Sheriff's deputies Brent Harris and Alexis Tonissen and Kelso Police Officer Darrel Stair shot and killed him. | tdn.com |
| 17110 | Christine A. Lucas | 45 | Female | European-American/White | 01/10/2016 | Rising Sun | MD | 39.7176554 | -75.958603 | Maryland State Police |
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| Police received a 911 call from a woman who repeatedly said that an intruder was inside her home. At some point, the call was disconnected and attempts to call her back were unanswered. Troopers, Cecil County Sheriff's Office deputies and an officer from the Rising Sun Police Department responded to the two-story home. Screams were then heard from within the home and troopers forced their way into the attached garage and eventually inside the home. Police found Lucas in the living room and gave her verbal commands that she did not heed. She picked up what appeared to be a handgun, telling troopers that she did not believe they were "real police," officials said.She ignored their commands and then raised the gun, pointing it toward the troopers. Out of fear for their lives, troopers Justin Rann and Timothy Graham shot and killed her. | foxbaltimore.com |
| 17112 | Alan Paul Bartley | 56 | Male | European-American/White | 01/11/2016 | San Fernando | CA | 34.2903936 | -118.4494525 | San Fernando Police Department |
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| A man was shot to death by San Fernando police following a short chase that ended in a crash. According to San Fernando police, the pursuit lasted for about a block before the suspect crashed into another car. That's when the pursuing officer opened fire, and the suspect was killed. It has not been disclosed why the suspect was being chased. | latimes.com |
| 17111 | Robert Tenbrink | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 01/11/2016 | Cincinnati | OH | 39.1137977 | -84.5845288 | Cincinnati Police Department |
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| Police got two 911 calls about an armed robber. The suspect tried to hold up the Walgreens on Glenway but the clerk told him there was no money in the register. An employee at the Deal$ across Glenway says she was robbed of $400. Both clerks gave a similar description of the robber, including that he was wearing pajama pants. Officers caught up with the suspect, identified as Robert Tenbrink, 45. They ordered him to keep his hands up. Dash cam video shows him turning slightly toward the officers, reaching down into his jacket and reach. Police say Tenbrink pointed the gun at police. They fired, killing Tenbrink. | local12.com |
| 17115 | Keith Richardson | 58 | Male | European-American/White | 01/11/2016 | Norfolk | VA | 36.856475 | -76.188225 | Norfolk Police Department |
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| Police were called for a person with a weapon. When they arrived, they were told that a woman and her husband, Keith Richardson, were involved in a domestic disturbance and that Richardson was armed with a gun. According to Officer Daniel Hudson with Norfolk Police, the wife was able to escape and Richardson barricaded himself in the home alone. Negotiators were called to the scene and after several hours of unsuccessful negotiations with Richardson, armed with a gun, exited his home. Richardson opened fire and shot and killed a police dog. After killing the dog, a member of the Special Operations Team shot Richardson. A second dog was released and partially restrained Richardson until Special Operation Team members were able to take him into custody. He died the next day. | wtkr.com |
| 17113 | Ciara Meyer | 12 | Female | European-American/White | 01/11/2016 | Duncannon | PA | 40.3985366 | -77.033887 | Pennsylvania State Constable |
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| A 12-year-old Pennsylvania girl was home sick from school when she was accidentally shot and killed by a constable serving her father with an eviction notice, police said. The girl's father, 57-year-old Donald Meyer, pointed a loaded rifle at Constable Clark Steele and Steele fired a single shot in return, the bullet traveling through Meyer's arm and striking and killing Ciara Meyer, who was standing behind him, police said. | abc27.com |
| 28435 | Robert Tenbrick | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 01/11/2016 | Cincinnati | OH | 39.1183448 | -84.5852806 | Cincinnati Police Department |
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| Robert Tenbrick allegedly tried to rob a Glenway Avenue Walgreens and successfully robbed a Deals store. He pointed a BB handgun at Cincinnati officers and they shot and killed him. | cincinnati.com |
| 17114 | Ramone Lonergan | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 01/11/2016 | Denver | CO | 39.7554537 | -105.01656 | Denver Police Department |
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| Police officers patrolling the parking lot of a Ramada Inn spotted a Toyota RAV4 that they said had been reported stolen. They called for backup, and two other officers saw a man, later identified as Ramone Lonergan, emerging from the RAV4. Lonergan allegedly tried to flee and was armed with a handgun. He brandished the gun, and police shot and killed him. His girlfriend, who owned the car, said the car had not been reported stolen. | denverpost.com |
| 17116 | Name withheld by police | 16 | Male | Race unspecified | 01/12/2016 | Costa Mesa | CA | 33.6475225 | -117.9123699 | Costa Mesa Police Department |
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| Authorities responded to an apartment, where a distraught teen inside was threatening to hurt himself with a handgun. Police first spoke with the boy by phone, before he hung up on negotiators. They then used a loudspeaker, but the boy did not respond. Most of the officers had left the scene around noon when it was determined the boy was not a threat to himself or anyone else. A family member went inside the apartment and discovered the boy had killed himself. | latimes.com |
| 17117 | Herman Bean Jr. | 49 | Male | Native American/Alaskan | 01/12/2016 | Anchorage | AK | 61.1916044 | -149.8941998 | Anchorage Police Department |
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| Anchorage Police Chief Chris Tolley said two officers responded to a report of a fight at an apartment. The man was apparently armed with a knife and threatened officers when he was shot and killed. | adn.com |
| 17118 | Brandon David Bearden | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 01/13/2016 | Sevierville | TN | 35.8383681 | -83.5639372 | Sevier County Sheriff's Office |
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| Bearden, 29, was shot Wednesday during an altercation in the parking lot of the Texas Road House. Police said Bearden was shot while deputies were trying to arrest him. Bearden's vehicle crashed into the deputy's vehicle and he tried to run, according to TBI. Officials say preliminary information indicates Bearden pulled out a gun in the deputy's direction, and the deputy shot and killed him. | knoxnews.com |
| 17120 | Timothy Meehan | 60 | Male | European-American/White | 01/13/2016 | Cle Elum | WA | 47.1966113 | -120.9541781 | Cle Elum Police Department |
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| Police say an officer in Cle Elum fatally shot a man who pointed a gun him at a motel. Cle Elum police say two officers responded to a check welfare call at a motel Wednesday night. Police say when they knocked on the motel room door, a man answered while pointing a handgun at one of them. The officer reportedly gave multiple commands to drop the weapon but shot the man when the commands were ignored. | ptleader.com |
| 17121 | Miguel Hernandez | 39 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 01/14/2016 | Santa Clarita | CA | 34.4195637 | -118.4599348 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department |
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| A man shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy in Canyon Country was a known gang member in a vehicle believed used during a drive-by shooting earlier this week in Newhall, a Sheriff's Department homicide detective said. | latimes.com |
| 17124 | Sergio Ramirez-Abeja | 43 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 01/14/2016 | Peotone | IL | 41.3356046 | -87.8176747 | Bridgeview Police Department, Burbank Police Department, Hickory Hills Police Department, Illinois State Police |
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| A man shot and killed his daughter's stepfather, and then led law enforcement officers from several agencies on a 40-mile, high-speed chase before police forced his car into the median and he killed himself, police said. | daily-journal.com |
| 17122 | Willie C. Holderfield | 41 | Male | European-American/White | 01/14/2016 | Hurst | IL | 37.8311574 | -89.1429521 | Illinois State Police |
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| Illinois State Police said a trooper was trying to serve an arrest warrant regarding a Carterville pharmacy robbery that happened a couple of weeks prior. The man brandished a gun and was shot and killed. | thesouthern.com |
| 17128 | William Keith Waldron | 26 | Male | European-American/White | 01/15/2016 | Elkins | WV | 38.9141156 | -79.8551801 | Elkins Police Department, West Virginia State Police |
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| Troopers assisted local officers serving a search warrant at a residence in Elkins. Police said in a statement that the troopers entered the residence and encountered a man later identified as William Keith Waldron. They said he pointed the shotgun at the troopers, who responded by firing their weapons at him. | times-standard.com |
| 17127 | Brandon William Ledbetter | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 01/15/2016 | Albuquerque | NM | 35.0872366 | -106.5568838 | U.S. Marshals Service, Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office |
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| A warrant was being served on a Colorado man for a federal probation violation on a felon in possession of a firearm charge. Marshals and deputies initiated a traffic and approached the vehicle, at which time the man, who was in the passenger seat of the vehicle, put a gun to his head and shot himself, according to Albuquerque police. | cbslocal.com |
| 17126 | Rakeem Bentley | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 01/15/2016 | Southfield | MI | 42.4843896 | -83.2768833 | U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation |
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| FBI's Southeast Michigan Crimes Against Children Task Force conducted a raid at the Southfield Marriott hotel and confronted a man allegedly involved in human trafficking. During the confrontation, the suspect shot at the officer who was wearing a bulletproof vest and was killed when the officers returned fire. | mlive.com |
| 17130 | Alfred Longoria | 34 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 01/16/2016 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.1037134 | -118.3588216 | Los Angeles Police Department |
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| Officers were dispatched about 2:15 p.m. Saturday to a home in the 1800 block of Courtney Terrace on a report of burglary, said Los Angeles police officer Rosario Herrera of the Media Relations Section. That street is in Nichols Canyon, a street just east of Laurel Canyon, and the shooting was about two blocks north of Hollywood Boulevard. "The resident confronted the suspect and the suspect fled," Herrera said. A perimeter was set up and around 3:30 p.m. Saturday the armed suspect emerged from the perimeter. The suspect encountered two officers, she said, and an officer-involved shooting occurred. | lacounty.gov |
| 17132 | Henry Bennett | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 01/16/2016 | Belle Glade | FL | 26.6828726 | -80.6769225 | Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office |
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| A deputy pulled Henry Bennett over in Belle Glade on Saturday, authorities say Bennett got out of the vehicle and ran away. The deputy chased Bennett and, at one point, authorities said Bennett turned and pointed a gun at the deputy. That's when the deputy fired at Bennett, hitting him twice, killing him. | cbslocal.com |
| 17133 | Clarence Clemmons Layfield Jr. | 55 | Male | European-American/White | 01/16/2016 | Petroleum | WV | 39.210815 | -81.275962 | West Virginia State Police |
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| Clarence Layfield was allegedly driving without a license plate, and fled when a trooper tried to pull him over. Eventually, he drove in the general direction of the officer and was shot and killed. Police alleged vehicular assault. | wchstv.com |
| 17131 | Kelsey Rose Hauser | 25 | Female | European-American/White | 01/16/2016 | El Cajon | CA | 32.793895 | -116.978653 | El Cajon Police Department |
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| A woman riding in a stolen car with three men was shot and killed by a police officer in El Cajon following a high-speed pursuit early Saturday, officials confirmed. Apparently, the chase ended on a dead end road, and when the officer attempted to approach the car, it drove in his general direction. The officer fired into the car, killing Kelsey Hauser in the passenger seat and a dog. Police alleged vehicular assault. | cbs8.com |
| 17129 | Adam Karjalainen | 44 | Male | European-American/White | 01/16/2016 | Beaverton | OR | 45.4462748 | -122.8259223 | Beaverton Police Department |
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| Residents called Beaverton police to say Karjalainen was in the neighborhood and wanted him gone. Although he didn't commit any crimes there, and police had already left, they returned after learning there was a warrant for Karjalainen's arrest. Karjalainen was armed when police returned, police said. They told him to drop his weapon repeatedly, but he kept moving toward the officers, and he was shot and killed. | kgw.com |
| 17137 | Jacob Carpio Vela | 32 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 01/17/2016 | Aransas | TX | 27.9276292 | -97.248713 | Corpus Christi Police Department |
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| Jacob Vela was the suspect in a homicide that left his cousin, Benny Vela, dead. Police say an argument broke out between the two at around 3AM Sunday morning. When they got to the Benny Vela was dead and his cousin was on the run. Police found Vela in downtown Corpus Christi and followed him to San Patricio County where he crashed his car into a field and then shot himself in the head. | caller.com |
| 17139 | Efrain Herrera Jr. | 24 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 01/17/2016 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.2301322 | -118.4601425 | Los Angeles Police Department |
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| Officers responded about 5:50 p.m. on a report of a suspect, armed with a knife, in the middle of the street, according to Lt. Kirk Kelley of the Los Angeles Police Department's West Valley Station, whose officers responded to the call even though it was in the Mission Station's patrol area. They were confronted by the suspect and he was shot and killed. | latimes.com |
| 17142 | Talmadge King | 47 | Male | European-American/White | 01/17/2016 | Jacksonville | FL | 30.3412087 | -81.6474722 | U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
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| King had helped move a washing machine into the upstairs of off-duty federal agent Wells' Springfield home earlier in the day. Wells paid King after the washer was moved in the afternoon but the man returned and said he lost his phone there. Wells looked but did not find the phone, then returned to the front door where King pulled a knife and attempted to rob Wells. Wells grabbed his gun and shot and killed King. | jacksonville.com |
| 17135 | Daniel Leetin Shaver | 26 | Male | European-American/White | 01/17/2016 | Mesa | AZ | 33.3857923 | -111.6924118 | Mesa Police Department |
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| Two guests who were in the motel pool area reported seeing a man pointing a rifle out the window of a room several floors above the pool, police said. Officers located the the room and began giving commands for the people to come out. A man and a woman came out. The woman was arrested without a struggle. Officers then began giving commands to the man, but he was unable to comply with confusing orders. He reached back apparently to pull up his pants, and he was shot and killed by Officer Philip Mitchell Brailsford, 27. The gun was apparently a pellet gun he used in his job of pest control. | azcentral.com |
| 17138 | Ashton Lane Morris | 27 | Male | European-American/White | 01/17/2016 | San Antonio | TX | 29.4062454 | -98.6187077 | San Antonio Police Department |
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| According to police, the officer arrived at the Selina Inn Motel after someone called to report a vehicle theft in progress, according to police. The officer chased the suspect on foot after he tried to leave the scene. Police said the suspect fired multiple shots at the officer during the foot chase, but did not hit the officer. The officer shot and killed him. | mysanantonio.com |
| 17134 | Joshua Tate Fielding | 38 | Male | European-American/White | 01/17/2016 | Rainbow City | AL | 33.9502889 | -86.0364572 | Rainbow City Police Department |
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| Police were called to the Dogwood Trace Apartments on a disturbance call. Police confronted the man, who was carrying a weapon, in the parking lot of the complex, and used a Taser in an attempt to subdue him. The armed man then ran from officers, and after a short foot chase around the complex, an altercation with a police officer ended with the man being shot and killed. | www.al.com |
| 17136 | Jeremiah J. Gillen | 35 | Male | Race unspecified | 01/17/2016 | Lancaster | NH | 44.4839609 | -71.5698696 | Lancaster Police Department |
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| Police in Lancaster received a report of shots fired. They learned that a domestic disturbance happened. As a car with a woman and children was leaving the driveway, police said the man shot at the vehicle, striking the hood. Police identified the man as Jeremiah Gillen and negotiated with him for several hours. Eventually, Gillen no longer answered the phone. Police used a robot to enter the home. They said he was found dead due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. | pressherald.com |
| 17141 | Cory Lee "Jasper" Henderson | 31 | Male | European-American/White | 01/17/2016 | Holladay | UT | 40.6739253 | -111.8292922 | Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake |
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| Henderson and a woman were seen leaving the scene of an accident. When Officer Officer Doug Barney approached them, Henderson shot and killed him. He was killed a short time later, after wounding another officer. Three officers were cleared by the district attorney: Unified Police Sgt. Ben Steiner, officer John Richey and officer Matt Brownlee. | scribd.com |
| 17140 | Crayton West | 52 | Male | African-American/Black | 01/17/2016 | St. Louis | MO | 38.5932512 | -90.2441086 | St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department |
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| Police responded to the scene after a citizen flagged down an officer driving by, saying there was an armed robbery in progress at a KFC. The officer saw the suspect inside the fast food restaurant and confronted him. The suspect raised his gun and the officer shot and killed him. | stltoday.com |
| 17147 | Jordan Szymanski | 33 | Male | European-American/White | 01/18/2016 | Tucson | AZ | 32.2792169 | -110.9782399 | Tucson Police Department |
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| After responding to a welfare check, police discovered a man had barricaded himself inside a duplex. The man started making threats about harming his family and police. He fired shots throughout the night. Police said the man was shot dead by SWAT team members. | tucson.com |
| 17144 | Vasilios Alexander Katsouras | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 01/18/2016 | Union City | CA | 37.5923633 | -122.0791633 | Union City Police Department |
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| An older woman called 911 reporting that an unknown person was in her backyard pounding on a sliding glass door, police said. When two officers responded to the home they found the man in the backyard "armed with a claw-style garden tool that had three steel spikes." The officers ordered the man to drop the weapon, but he did not comply and instead charged the officers with the weapon. He was shot and killed. | insidebayarea.com |
| 17146 | Eric Provost | 28 | Male | European-American/White | 01/18/2016 | Orlando | FL | 28.468231 | -81.30091 | Orlando Police Department |
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| Eric Provost's father called Orlando police on Monday night, concerned for his son's well-being. But when officers responded, Provost walked out of one of the units armed with an airsoft gun that appeared to be a real firearm. Provost kept ignoring their orders to drop the gun, and Officers Tino Cruz and Sonja Saunders shot and killed him. | orlandosentinel.com |
| 17143 | Levi Gene Wilson | 39 | Male | European-American/White | 01/18/2016 | Phoenix | AZ | 33.582099 | -112.0975882 | Phoenix Police Department |
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| Phoenix police were called to a home to assist a man who was threatening to harm himself, police said. The man got into an argument with his sister earlier in the day and that shots had reportedly been fired. The sister left the home and then called 911. Officers came to the home, but the man would not come out. They negotiated for hours until he came out with the gun at his head, then pointed it toward police, at which point he was shot and killed. | azcentral.com |
| 17145 | Timothy Joseph Alex Caruthers | 27 | Male | European-American/White | 01/18/2016 | Medford | OR | 42.3602462 | -122.8598929 | Medford Police Department |
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| An off-duty Medford police officer and others apparently chased a man after a shoplifting incident at Sportsman's Warehouse, where he menaced employees with a knife, police said. The alleged shoplifter then stopped next to a Dumpster and was about 6 feet away from the officer when he was shot and killed. | oregonlive.com |
| 17148 | Samuel Edward Grady | 55 | Male | European-American/White | 01/19/2016 | Statesville | NC | 35.8026662 | -80.8893808 | Iredell County Sheriff's Office |
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| Deputies John Fletcher and Reggie Allen went to serve a civil Writ of Possession for the house in which 55-year-old Samuel Edward Grady was living. Media reported, Grady, who was carrying a large knife, came at the deputies and refused to obey their commands. At that point the deputies shot and killed Grady. | wbtv.com |
| 17150 | Kenyon J. Hipps | 21 | Male | African-American/Black | 01/19/2016 | Dayton | OH | 39.7269152 | -84.264418 | Dayton Police Department |
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| Hipps, a murder suspect, was in the backseat of a car when he shot himself to death as two Dayton police officers were speaking with three people who had just gotten out of that car, police said. | whio.com |
| 17151 | Gary Wayne Jones | 36 | Male | European-American/White | 01/19/2016 | Dallas | TX | 32.6967081 | -96.6908084 | Forney Police Department, Mesquite Police Department |
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| Officers responded to a call about a suspicious vehicle behind a hotel along Pinson Road in Forney. When officers tried to pull the vehicle over, the driver—36-year-old Gary Wayne Jones—took off and led police on a chase into Dallas. Police said the suspect got out of the vehicle and began shooting at officers. He was shot and killed. | dallasnews.com |
| 17149 | Jim Bravis Redmond | 28 | Male | European-American/White | 01/19/2016 | Valdosta | GA | 30.753102 | -83.2717769 | Lowndes County Sheriff's Office |
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| According to Capt. Stryde Jones of the Lowndes County Sheriff's Office, the officer involved shooting came after the Hahira Police Department reported an armed robbery at Harvey's grocery store in Hahira and authorities began searching for the suspect. There were no injuries at the time of the armed robbery. The search led to an encounter with an armed suspect at the Pilot station, where Redmond was shot and killed and his female accomplice was arrested. | valdostadailytimes.com |
| 17155 | Randy Joe Sanders Jr. | 33 | Male | European-American/White | 01/20/2016 | Meridianville | AL | 34.844596 | -86.5780283 | Madison County Sheriff's Office |
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| Madison County Sheriff's deputies received a call about a man walking along the Highway 231/431 parkway with a gun in his waistband. Deputies say when they attempted to stop him, the man took off running. Deputies chased after him and cornered the man in the Inspiration Pointe subdivision in Meridianville. Deputies say the man pulled his gun, and one of the deputies shot and killed him. | waff.com |
| 17153 | Michael Clyde Lynch | 37 | Male | European-American/White | 01/20/2016 | Harper | TX | 30.2374232 | -99.2430291 | Kerrville Police Department |
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| Kerrville Police Department and Lone Star Fugitive Task Force were looking for Michael Lynch, who was believed to be in the Kerrville area. Lynch was located in Kerrville but fled from police. Lynch led police on a vehicle pursuit which ended in Gillespie County near Harper. Once in Gillespie County, Lynch got out of his vehicle and led police on a two-to-three mile foot pursuit through heavy brush and at one point swimming across a creek. With the assistance of a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) helicopter, police were able to locate Lynch. During the course of the pursuit, a Kerrville Police Officer shot and killed Lynch. | google.com |
| 17154 | Timothy R. Albert | 40 | Male | African-American/Black | 01/20/2016 | Port Barre | LA | 30.5437289 | -91.948602 | St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office |
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| Timothy Albert was shot by St. Landry Parish sheriff's deputies after he brandished a rifle at police in a nearly four-hour standoff, holding his girlfriend, Mindy Babineaux, hostage with the rifle. | klfy.com |
| 17156 | Cedric Lamont Norris | 39 | Male | African-American/Black | 01/21/2016 | Eufaula | OK | 35.3594089 | -95.5735904 | Oklahoma Highway Patrol |
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| Bank robbery suspects fled on Highway 69 but police caught up to them. One got out of the vehicle and shot at an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper, police said. The trooper shot and killed Norris. | theepochtimes.com |
| 17159 | Joshua Franklin Lee | 26 | Male | European-American/White | 01/22/2016 | Augusta | GA | 33.288534 | -81.926575 | Richmond County Sheriff's Office |
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| An off-duty Richmond County sheriff's deputy fatally shot a man following a domestic dispute with him Friday afternoon, police said. Police said that Crispin was picking up his two children from the house when he became involved in an argument that became physical with Joshua Franklin Lee. Witnesses told investigators that Lee brandished a pistol and pointed it at Crispin, prompting Crispin to draw his own weapon and shoot and kill Lee. | wrdw.com |
| 17161 | Michael Lamar Robinson | 43 | Male | European-American/White | 01/23/2016 | Clanton | AL | 32.8518146 | -86.6523274 | Chilton County Sheriff's Office, Clanton Police Department |
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| Officers with the Chilton County Sheriff's Office and the Clanton Police Department were called to a home on a report of a domestic disturbance. When officers arrived, 43-year-old Michael Lamar Robinson was brandishing either a sword or a machete, Houston said. As officers told him to drop that weapon, he pulled a pistol from his right side. Police said Robinson raised the gun three-quarters of the way to full point when the officers shot and killed him. | www.al.com |
| 17164 | Justin Richard "J.R." Noland | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 01/24/2016 | Corpus Christi | TX | 27.6863626 | -97.3622561 | Corpus Christi Police Department |
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| Officers received a call for an individual threatening suicide, police said. They backed off, they attempted to contact the individual, but they also contacted the SWAT team and hostage negotiation team. The 6500 block of Lyons was closed off, and they attempted to make contact again. Upon entry of the home, they found Nolan's body. Esquivel noted that she heard a gunshot from her neighbor's home next door. | wikitree.com |
| 17165 | Sergio Alvarado-Morales | 38 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 01/25/2016 | Reno | NV | 39.4770069 | -119.7861527 | Reno Police Department |
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| Reno police were called to a multiple-car chain reaction. Witnesses told officers about a man who had been involved in the crash who was holding a knife to his throat, and another person reportedly trying to disarm him. Officers found Sergio Alvarado-Morales with the knife and talked to him, trying to get him to put it down. He approached the officers, and they shot and killed him. Peculiarly, a witness claimed he pulled a gun. | ktvn.com |
| 17166 | Damon Jonard James | 42 | Male | African-American/Black | 01/25/2016 | Columbia | SC | 33.9726508 | -80.9583625 | U.S. Marshals Service, Columbia Police Department, South Carolina Law Enforcement Division |
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| Damon Jonard James, 41, was charged with murder in the death of Rita Joyce Salton, 43,on October 6, 2014. James, her ex-boyfriend, was identified as a suspect, and he was arrested the following day. He fled the state. Members of the US Marshals' warrant service team located James in Columbia, South Carolina, and attempted to arrest him. Authorities say James exchanged gunfire with the arrest team and was fatally shot. | postandcourier.com |
| 17171 | Maria Isabel Garcia | 57 | Female | Race unspecified | 01/26/2016 | Brownsville | TX | 25.8921436 | -97.443156 | Brownsville Police Department |
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| Off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent Juan Hernandez, 44, was sitting in his vehicle on Camelia Street with his unnamed girlfriend when the woman's ex-boyfriend, identified as 21-year-old Jesse Garcia drove up, police said. Garcia approached the driver's side of the agen's car and allegedly pointed a pistol at Hernandez. The two men reportedly struggled with the gun and Hernandez was shot in the leg. Garcia fled and was discovered a short time later at his family home. When deputies and police approached Garcia opened fire. He said officers returned fire. Garcia was struck in the leg, arm and torso. During the gunbattle Garcia's mother, 57-year-old Maria Isabel Garcia, came out of her house and was shot in the back and killed. | brownsvilleherald.com |
| 17170 | Robert "LaVoy" Finicum | 55 | Male | European-American/White | 01/26/2016 | Seneca | OR | 44.320697 | -118.949062 | U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Oregon State Police |
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| Finicum was a member of the white supremicist/anti-federalist group that occupied Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. He got out of the vehicle and allegedly reached for a gun inside his coat when the vehicle he was in was pulled over. He was shot and killed. | opb.org |
| 17175 | Thongsavanh Vandarack | 40 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 01/27/2016 | Lenoir City | TN | 35.8169466 | -84.2290284 | Loudon County Sheriff's Office |
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| Two Loudon County deputies went to the home to serve a warrant for aggravated statutory rape of a 13-year-old. The man's girlfriend invited officers into the home, Thongsavanh Vandarack reportedly was instructed to take his hands out of his pocket. When he did, police said he pulled out a replica handgun. The officers shot and killed him. | knoxnews.com |
| 17179 | Scott F. Scanlon | 52 | Male | European-American/White | 01/27/2016 | Mountain Pine | AR | 34.6581088 | -93.1640607 | Mountain Pine Police Department |
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| Mountain Pine Police Chief Chad King reportedly responded to a trespassing call. When King got to the scene, he found a man inside a van that was stuck in mud. Few details have been released at this time, but Scanlon ended up dead, and King was injured. | katv.com |
| 17178 | Janet Wilson | 31 | Female | African-American/Black | 01/27/2016 | Dearborn | MI | 42.3101364 | -83.2223917 | Dearborn Police Department |
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| Dearborn police were called to Fairlane Mall because a woman was causing a disturbance. Upon arrival, security guards told the officers she nearly hit two security guards with her car, one on foot and another in a security car. Police tried to stop the woman, but she fled the mall parking lot and became stuck in traffic. When traffic cleared, two police cars closed in and tried to stop her, but she attempted to flee again, "almost striking one of the officers." She was shot and killed. Police alleged vehicular assault. | mlive.com |
| 17180 | John Wesley Smith | 27 | Male | European-American/White | 01/27/2016 | Latta | SC | 34.3535862 | -79.5734893 | Dillon County Sheriff's Office |
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| Deputies were called about a home break-in. When they arrived they discovered a family dispute. One of the family members involved in the dispute was brandishing a knife, according police. Deputies attempted to control the person holding the knife and used pepper spray, which was ineffective. Confrontation with the suspect continued and a deputy shot and killed Smith. | wistv.com |
| 17174 | Johnathan Bratcher | 32 | Male | African-American/Black | 01/27/2016 | Memphis | TN | 35.1079171 | -90.0332842 | Memphis Police Department |
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| A MPD cruiser attempted to make a routine traffic stop when the gold Chevrolet Impala took off. Police initially chased the vehicle, but pulled back when the suspects began driving recklessly. The Impala crashed in front of Saint Andrews AME Church on South Parkway. The suspects then left their vehicles and ran from the officers, resulting in a chase on foot. That is when the two suspects opened fire. The two MPD officers both fired shots at the suspects, killing one. | wmcactionnews5.com |
| 17172 | Herman Flores | 31 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 01/27/2016 | Santa Fe | NM | 35.6549736 | -105.993801 | Santa Fe Police Department |
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| State police said Santa Fe police officers caught up with an armed robbery suspect at the motel. A witness said when the officer told the person to put his hands above his head the person refused and fired first. The witness said police fired back, chased him around the corner and fired three more times. | kob.com |
| 17173 | Dana L. William | 43 | Male | African-American/Black | 01/27/2016 | Fitchburg | MA | 42.5881367 | -71.8081659 | U.S. Marshals Service |
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| Dana William, who was wanted for killing a man and abducting a woman late last week, shot himself as police moved in. | masslive.com |
| 17177 | Israel Vladimir Rodriguez | 26 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 01/27/2016 | Marietta | GA | 33.9211777 | -84.4840541 | Georgia State Patrol |
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| State Trooper Jacob Fields tried to pull Rodriguez, but he refused to stop. Several other troopers joined the chase over the next 10 miles. As they neared Delk Road, the troopers tried to box Rodriguez in. He crashed into another car and disabled his own truck, police said. When Rodriguez jumped out, the shootout began. Fields was injured, Rodriguez was killed. | myajc.com |
| 17176 | Bruce Knapp | 33 | Male | European-American/White | 01/27/2016 | West Palm Beach | FL | 26.7165549 | -80.0906147 | U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, West Palm Beach Police Department |
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| After six robberies in nine days across the county and weeks of searching, police from three agencies surrounded the La Quinta Inn hoping to capture the alleged robber. After occupants were evacuated from the hotel, officials tried to make contact with him. Eventually, they entered the room, where they found Knapp dead of a likely self-inflicted gunshot wound. | palmbeachpost.com |
| 17181 | Nathan Lee Bailey | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 01/27/2016 | Alvarado | TX | 32.4883452 | -97.1755154 | Johnson County Sheriff's Office |
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| According to Johnson County Sheriff's Office Lt. Tim Jones, a business on the east side of Johnson County reported the theft of a firearm. At the same time, a Johnson County deputy saw a vehicle leaving the area of the theft traveling at an estimated 100 mph. The deputy pursued the suspect—later identified as 30-year-old Nathan Lee Bailey—to Vista Ridge Lane. Bailey ran into a home, where deputies and DPS troopers took up positions surrounding the mobile home. After a period of time, Jones said Bailey popped out of the residence and opened fire at Johnson County Sheriff's Office personnel, then did so again a few moments later. The second time, officers outside shot and killed Bailey. | star-telegram.com |
| 17187 | William A. Adams | 33 | Male | European-American/White | 01/28/2016 | Omaha | NE | 41.2251745 | -96.01653 | Omaha Police Department |
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| Police were investigating a stolen car report. A 911 caller reported the car at the address and police saw two men leave the car and enter the building. When the went to the door several people left. Adams stayed inside, threatening suicide. He pointed the gun at police and was shot and killed. | ketv.com |
| 17188 | Mark A. Kuzel | 53 | Male | Race unspecified | 01/28/2016 | Oakdale | MN | 44.9870296 | -92.9718259 | Oakdale Police Department, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension |
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| Oakdale police officers and an agent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension were attempting to serve a search warrent. After announcing themselves at the door and getting no response, the entered Mark Kuzel's home, according to the St. Paul Police Department, which is investigating the incident. Kuzel was inside the house and shot one of the Oakdale officers in the arm. Another Oakdale officer, Joe Groppoli, returned fire before retreating to the front door with the rest of the team, where they began talking to Kuzel. The officers involved told investigators that Kuzel said he did not want to go to jail. After hearing a single gunshot from inside the house, officers went back inside and found Kuzel dead with a single gunshot wound to his head. | weau.com |
| 17186 | Christopher Kalonji | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 01/28/2016 | Oak Grove | OR | 45.4089784 | -122.6250523 | Clackamas County Sheriff's Office |
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| One of Kalonji's relatives called police claiming the 19-year-old was threatening family members with a rifle. Police negotiators and staff with the county's behavioral health unit responded. Police spoke to Kalonji for two and a half hours, until SWAT members arrived, the sheriff's office said. At some point, deputies spotted Kalonji waving a rifle. One deputy fired a handgun, another shot a rifle and one more fired at least one beanbag round. After the officers fired, Kalonji retreated into his second-floor apartment and locked himself inside one of the rooms. Kraus said the deputies heard at least one shot come from inside the unit. It's uncertain who shot and/or killed Kalonji. | mentalhealthportland.org |
| 17185 | Jacqueline D. Salyers | 32 | Female | Native American/Alaskan | 01/28/2016 | Tacoma | WA | 47.229934 | -122.4540635 | Tacoma Police Department |
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| Police were searching for Kenneth Wright Jr., who was wanted on two outstanding warrants for first-degree robbery, unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful delivery of a controlled substance. Two police spotted Wright in the passenger seat of a car, got out of their patrol car and started to walk toward the car. Jacqueline Salyers, who was behind the wheel, drove in the direction of the officers, police said. She was shot and killed, Wright ran away. Tacoma Police Department’s Deadly Force Review Board found Officer Scott Campbell justified. Police alleged vehicular assault. | thenewstribune.com |
| 17192 | Randolph McClain | 33 | Male | African-American/Black | 01/29/2016 | Lynn | MA | 42.4723164 | -70.953816 | Lynn Police Department |
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| Four Lynn police officers went to execute five outstanding arrest warrants for restraining order violations and threats on McClain. Police called out to McClain and he answered that he had a gun and would kill them, police said. McClain fled the building onto a porch roof, pointed the gun at an officer and ran to the back of the house. He jumped to the ground, fled on foot, and attempted to steal a car at gunpoint. Officers approached the vehicle, McClain pointed his gun at officers and three officers shot and killed him. | itemlive.com |
| 17190 | Angela Hope Hiatt | 41 | Female | European-American/White | 01/29/2016 | Phenix | AL | 32.4873469 | -85.066724 | Lee County Sheriff's Office |
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| A deputy was on routine patrol when he encountered two occupants in a pickup with a license plate registered to another car. The deputy learned an outstanding warrant was issued for the woman.The deputy attempted to take the woman into custody when the pickup sped down Lee Road 443, also known as Stafford Road. After a short chase and the car stopped, the deputy again tried to take the woman into custody. Police said she drove in the direction of the officer, and he shot and killed her. Police alleged vehicular assault. | ledger-enquirer.com |
| 17191 | Jose Miguel Alegre | 64 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 01/29/2016 | Rossville | GA | 34.984234 | -85.2692109 | Walker County Sheriff's Office, LaFayette Police Department |
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| Police were responding to a domestic disturbance including shots fired. After unsuccessful negotiations, police fired tear gas into the house, at which point, Alegre shot at police, and they shot and killed him. | northwestgeorgianews.com |
| 17193 | Christopher Michael Dew | 29 | Male | African-American/Black | 01/29/2016 | Irving | TX | 32.8373708 | -97.0067774 | Irving Police Department |
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| Irving police say Dew held a woman hostage in the parking lot of a Cash Store he was suspected of robbing. Officers had responded to an alarm call from the store in the 4100 block of West Highway 183 around 1 p.m. Two officers fired shots, hitting and killing the suspect. | star-telegram.com |
| 17194 | Philip B. Salazar | 38 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 01/29/2016 | Fort Collins | CO | 40.5926788 | -105.0314527 | Larimer County Sheriff's Office |
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| Salazar was shot and killed having taken a woman hostage in a mobile home park. He also shot at police. | coloradoan.com |
| 17200 | Jeremy James Sinclair | 42 | Male | European-American/White | 01/30/2016 | Sugar Creek | MO | 39.1621011 | -94.3960537 | Missouri State Highway Patrol, Jackson County Sheriff's Office |
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| Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers had joined a pursuit involving a stolen vehicle. Sinclair drove his vehicle down a boat ramp in Sugar Creek before getting out of the vehicle. Police said Sinclair placed his hands into his sweatshirt and ignored commands to show his hands. A bean bag round was fired at Sinclair, initially stunning him, before he started shooting. Lowe says troopers and a Jackson County Sheriff's deputy returned fire, killing Sinclair. | kmbc.com |
| 17199 | Michael Dale Brown | 25 | Male | European-American/White | 01/30/2016 | Fort Worth | TX | 32.8732853 | -97.389358 | Saginaw Police Department |
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| Michael Brown attacked two police officers and several homeowners in a residential neighborhood Saturday night and was reportedly running up and down the street "making growling sounds" before he was fatally shot by police, Saginaw police said. | star-telegram.com |
| 17204 | Jeffry Graves | 62 | Male | European-American/White | 01/31/2016 | Newark | CA | 37.529616 | -122.0522382 | Newark Police Department |
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| A woman called 911 to report that a 52-year-old man was threatening suicide. Officers responded and removed the woman from the home and then spent 40 minutes negotiating with the man, who was holding a handgun to his head inside the home, according to police. When the man eventually came out of the house, he continued talking with a crisis negotiator while pointing the gun at his head, chest and mouth. When the man pointed the gun at officers and nearby people, he was shot and killed. | insidebayarea.com |
| 17203 | Juan A. Ruiz | 46 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 01/31/2016 | Immokalee | FL | 26.4184624 | -81.419449 | Collier County Sheriff's Office |
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| A deputy responded to a 911 call regarding two people fighting in a parking lot. When the deputy spotted one man wielding a knife, the deputy ordered the man to put it down. Instead, the man came toward the deputy, prompting the deputy to shoot the man, a sheriff's spokesperson said. | news-press.com |
| 17205 | Joshua Bispo | 42 | Male | European-American/White | 01/31/2016 | Bakersfield | CA | 35.3013776 | -118.914376 | California Highway Patrol |
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| Details are sketchy but, California Highway Patrol said there was a short pursuit, during which a man brandished a weapon. He was then shot and killed by Officers Rosa Archer and Rodney Black. | bakersfieldnow.com |
| 17201 | Charles M. Smith | 29 | Male | African-American/Black | 01/31/2016 | Chicago | IL | 41.7609784 | -87.6661467 | Chicago Police Department |
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| Police said they shot and killed a man who fired at officers responding to several calls of a man with a gun and a home invasion | dnainfo.com |
| 17202 | Bruce T. Kelley Jr. | 37 | Male | African-American/Black | 01/31/2016 | Pittsburgh | PA | 40.4379655 | -79.8853116 | Port Authority of Allegheny County Police |
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| Bruce Kelley Jr. and his father, Bruce Kelley Sr., got into a fight. They escaped officers, but Port Authority Police caught up with them near the Hamnett Place bus stop. Police say Bruce Kelley Jr. refused orders and when using a stun gun didn't work, they released a police dog to capture Kelley. He stabbed the dog and the dog went down. Officers Dominic Rivotti and Sgt. Brian O'Malley shot and killed Kelley Jr. The dog also died. | wtae.com |
| 17206 | Luis C. Torres Jr. | 25 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/01/2016 | Hammond | IN | 41.5720253 | -87.485744 | Hammond Police Department |
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| Hammond police were called to Torres' home for a potentially suicidal man, police said. A Hammond police sergeant responded and told police he could see a man with a handgun inside the home. Several attempts were made to establish communication with the subject by officers at the scene but those attempts failed. The Hammond police SWAT team entered the home and found Torres inside a bedroom with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. | nwitimes.com |
| 17207 | Peter John | 36 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/01/2016 | Washington | DC | 38.8935346 | -76.9246651 | Washington Metropolitan Police Department |
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| Police responded to a report of a suspicious. An officer attempted to stop John, who police say led the officer on a brief foot pursuit and then a struggle. During the struggle, John did not comply with the officer's commands and produced a BB gun, according to police. He was shot and killed. | washingtonpost.com |
| 17210 | Edgar Rene Alvarado | 21 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/02/2016 | Albuquerque | NM | 35.0946733 | -106.5841179 | Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office, Albuquerque Police Department |
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| A man suspected of shooting another man was shot dead by law enforcement officers after he carjacked three people and led officers on a chase through the city. | kob.com |
| 17209 | Justin Prescott | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 02/02/2016 | Cordova | CA | 38.5954709 | -121.2933417 | Sacramento Police Department |
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| Witnesses said Prescott shoplifted at Walmart, and when he threatened security guards with a knife, they waited for police. Police tried to subdue him with a Taser, but eventually shot and killed him. | saccounty.net |
| 17208 | Joe Molinaro | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 02/02/2016 | Carbondale | PA | 41.5801109 | -75.4953926 | Carbondale Police Department |
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| Molinaro and his girlfriend, Leticia Moncrief, were apparently walking on the street, talking loudly, when an off-duty, part-time Carbondale police officer, Patrolman Francis Schulze, approached them. Details are sketchy, but Moncrief said he didn't identify himself until after Molinaro was shot and killed. Schulze pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. | pennlive.com |
| 17215 | Christian Oliver Dubrino | 31 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/03/2016 | Ocala | FL | 29.168502 | -82.054004 | Marion County Sheriff's Office |
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| Deputies were called to the Marathon gas station on SE 58th Avenue about a man with multiple handguns in the parking lot. When deputies arrived, they went to talk to Dubrino, who was getting in and out of a vehicle with two handguns, according to a news release. Deputies said the man raised one of the handguns to his head, but while deputies were trying to talk him down, he began firing a second gun at the deputies. The deputies shot and killed him. | firstcoastnews.com |
| 17213 | John Henry Neuman | 53 | Male | European-American/White | 02/03/2016 | Okmulgee | OK | 35.5364869 | -96.0420646 | Okmulgee County Sheriff's Office |
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| The Okmulgee County Sheriff's Office said Neuman would not get out of his vehicle after it crashed near a Deep Fork Wildlife pond. When Neuman got out of the car he was armed and began shooting at people. A deputy fired back and hit Neuman who then fell into the pond. Emergency crews attempted to pull Neuman from the water but he began shooting again, prompting the deputy to shot him again. Emergency crews were then able to extract Neuman from the water and attempted to revive him, but he died at the scene. | kjrh.com |
| 17214 | Raymond Gassman | 22 | Male | Native American/Alaskan | 02/03/2016 | Rosebud | SD | 43.242143 | -100.842814 | Rosebud Sioux Tribal Police Department |
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| A police officer entered the home at Fairground Housing 285 to arrest Raymond Gassman. According to lakotavoice.com, Gassman was sleeping in the living room. The officer woke him, and told him to put his hands behind his back. Gassman resisted arrest. A witness said that the police officer and Gassman were wrestling in the living room and kitchen. Gassman was able to get on top of the officer, and the officer pulled out his gun, yelling, "I'mma shoot you!" Gassman yelled, "No, don't shoot!" The officer shot at point blank range and after shooting Gassman, shot his own wrist on his left arm. He yelled, "Call 911!" A second officer came into the home, handcuffed Mr. Gassman, and "left him on his stomach bleeding out, gasping for air. The paramedics arrived, rushed the officer to the ambulance and left the victim to bleed to death on our living room floor." | rapidcityjournal.com |
| 17218 | Thomas Hirko | 54 | Male | European-American/White | 02/04/2016 | Perry | OH | 41.7288928 | -81.1786504 | Lake County Sheriff's Office |
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| an earlier assault on a police officer, the Clatsop County District Attorney said. Ferry was also shot and killed. | fox8.com |
| 17217 | Scott Richard Harless | 47 | Male | European-American/White | 02/04/2016 | Kansas City | MO | 38.9186897 | -94.5099923 | Independence Police Department |
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| Scott was shot by an Independence police officer after a car chase turned into a foot chase. Independence police notified Kansas City police that they were pursuing a possible stolen car headed into Kansas City. Kansas City police deployed devices to flatten the car's tires. The driver stopped and ran from the scene. As the Independence officer chased the driver, the man allegedly turned toward the officer with a gun. He was shot and killed. | kansascity.com |
| 17219 | Kayden Clarke transitioning from Danielle Jacobs | 24 | Transgender | European-American/White | 02/04/2016 | Mesa | AZ | 33.4368498 | -111.6586096 | Mesa Police Department |
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| Mesa police officers responded to a suicidal person call and allegedly found Kayden Clarke with a knife. He was shot and killed as he lunged at officers. | nydailynews.com |
| 17222 | Hector Leroy | 43 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/04/2016 | El Paso | TX | 31.7569098 | -106.488698 | U.S. Customs and Border Protection |
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| Leroy had robbed a pedestrian and then shot the pedestrian. While officers were responding, on duty Border Patrol agents were in the area and saw a man run from the scene. He then attempted to carjack the driver of a vehicle at gunpoint. He apparently refused to surrender his gun and was shot and killed. | kvia.com |
| 17221 | Antroine Jerral Scott | 36 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/04/2016 | San Antonio | TX | 29.5326697 | -98.4963611 | San Antonio Police Department |
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| San Antonio police said undercover officers followed Antronie Scott, who was wanted on two felony warrants. The officers watching Scott called for a uniformed officer to approach the man, who was in a white Mercedes-Benz sedan in a parking lot. Scott quickly exited the vehicle and spun around toward the officer, who told him to put his hands up. That's when the officer shot and killed him. | mysanantonio.com |
| 17220 | Malik Chavis | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/04/2016 | Bronx | NY | 40.821244 | -73.9187319 | City of New York Police Department |
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| The housing police, along with another officer, were conducting a routine vertical patrol when they confronted two men drinking beer in a stairwell and asked for identification, police said. One of the men, armed with a .32-caliber handgun and carrying a black duffel bag with a sawed-off shotgun in it, said he had to go upstairs to get his ID. But before he reached the next landing, he turned and fired three times at the cops, hitting one in the torso and the other in the face. He committed suicide shortly thereafter. | nydailynews.com |
| 17227 | Ronald Barawis Jr. | 38 | Male | European-American/White | 02/05/2016 | Hilo | HI | 19.6920672 | -155.0670095 | Hawaii Police Department |
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| Ronald Barawis was a wanted fugitive. Police caught up with him at McDonald's. They ordered him to get out of his car. Instead of obeying their commands, Barawis drove over barriers in the drive-through, accelerated his car and drove in the general direction of an officer, ramming into two police cars. He was shot and killed. Police alleged vehicular assault. | bigislandnow.com |
| 17225 | Emily Thibodeaux | 23 | Female | European-American/White | 02/05/2016 | Addis | LA | 30.3584298 | -91.2540333 | Addis Police Department |
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| Ivy Thibodeaux, a reserve officer with the Addis Police Department, shot and killed his wife, Emily Thibodeaux, according to a spokesman for the State Police. No arrests have been made in the shooting, Lee said. | theadvocate.com |
| 17223 | Andrew Dean Howton | 43 | Male | European-American/White | 02/05/2016 | Cheyenne | WY | 41.1139296 | -104.800489 | Wheat Ridge Police Department, Laramie County Sheriff's Office |
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| Howton was wanted on a variety of charges. After a several-hour standoff, police sent a robot in and found him dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot. | kgwn.tv |
| 17226 | Phillip Ferry | 55 | Male | European-American/White | 02/05/2016 | Seaside | OR | 45.992964 | -123.926025 | Seaside Police Department |
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| Officers attempted to take Phillip Ferry into custody. Ferry killed one officer with a handgun and was himself shot and killed. | newslincolncounty.com |
| 17224 | Vinson Ray Strickland | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 02/05/2016 | Harmony | NC | 36.0081115 | -80.8374402 | Iredell County Sheriff's Office, North Carolina State Highway Patrol |
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| Strickland tried to rob a bank before closing time. He got away with cash and fled into a wooded area nearby, police said. A witness said deputies, K-9 units, and troopers with the North Carolina State Highway Patrol set up a 2-mile perimeter in the area and began looking for Strickland. Campbell said that law enforcement officers spent close to two hours looking for Strickland. He praised the helicopters from local television stations for helping deputies keep an eye on the suspect. Deputies eventually found Strickland in a ditch in the woods about a mile away from the bank. Police said he shot at them, and they shot and killed him. | independenttribune.com |
| 17228 | Blake Edward Fitzgerald | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 02/05/2016 | Milton | FL | 30.4975778 | -87.0624422 | Escambia County Sheriff's Office, U.S. Marshals Service |
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| This couple has been on a crime spree since Jan. 31, including car theft and armed robbery. A massive manhunt ended with Blake Fitzgerald dead and Brittany Harper wounded. | nbcnews.com |
| 17233 | Jose Mendez | 16 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/06/2016 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.0315977 | -118.2005361 | Los Angeles Police Department |
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| Officers were following a reported stolen car in the area of Sixth and Lorena streets, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Jose Mendez stopped the car in the 3300 block of East Sixth Street, brandished a shotgun, and was shot and killed. | lacounty.gov |
| 17234 | Stephen C. Davis | 47 | Male | European-American/White | 02/06/2016 | Kenton | OH | 40.6697491 | -83.7080416 | Kenton Police Department |
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| Police went to a disturbance at a home in Kenton. Davis left and police followed and participated in a stop-and-shoot gun battle that stretched more than five miles on city and country roads and ended with Davis wrecking. It's uncertain whether he was killed by gunfire or the wreck. | nbc4i.com |
| 17235 | Michael Laniado | 27 | Male | European-American/White | 02/06/2016 | Toms River | NJ | 39.9929982 | -74.2774716 | New Jersey State Police |
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| Michael Laniado allegedly held his girlfriend at knifepoint, pulled a knife on officers and couldn't be subdued by non-lethal rounds before Ocean County police shot and killed him at the Pine Acres Manor mobile home park, police said. | patch.com |
| 17232 | William Berrain Bradford | 16 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/06/2016 | Bradenton | FL | 27.4712121 | -82.5332217 | Manatee County Sheriff's Office |
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| According to the Sheriff's Office, a man discovered the 16-year-old inside his father's truck. When he and his father confronted the youth, the boy got out of the truck and threatened them with a handgun before running away. Two deputies tracked the teen to a wooded area. They say he fired shots at them, and they returned fire, killing him, but the death was later ruled a suicide. | bradenton.com |
| 17231 | Dylan Westerburg | 19 | Male | European-American/White | 02/06/2016 | Uvalde | TX | 29.1588872 | -99.7351101 | Uvalde County Sheriff's Office |
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| Westerburg apparently killed his mother, then two neighbors, and then himself during a standoff. | dailymail.co.uk |
| 17240 | Phillip Luchsinger | 36 | Male | European-American/White | 02/07/2016 | Austin | AR | 34.9496093 | -91.9338324 | Lonoke County Sheriff's Office |
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| Officers were sent to a domestic disturbance. Luchsinger came out with a gun and was shot and killed. | katv.com |
| 17239 | Marese Vince Collins | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/07/2016 | Columbus | OH | 39.945352 | -83.0558271 | Columbus Division of Police |
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| Officers were dispatched to the 700 block of Whitethorne when police said Collins fled in a dark-colored SUV. After police spotted and followed the vehicle, Collins then fled by foot through the neighborhood. Witnessess said officers gave numerous commands for the suspect to drop his gun before they opened shot and killed him. | nbc4i.com |
| 17248 | Gustavo Najera | 22 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/08/2016 | Anaheim | CA | 33.8422426 | -117.9337749 | Anaheim Police Department |
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| Police were called about a suspicious person who was knocking on strangers' doors. Gustavo Najera was shot and killed by Officer German Alvarez because he glared at him in a threatening way. | orangecountyda.org |
| 17242 | Shalamar Longer | 33 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/08/2016 | Chester | PA | 39.8402328 | -75.4045709 | Chester Police Department, Upland Police Department, Chester Township Police Department |
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| An officer tried to stop an SUV driven Longer for a burned out license plate light. Instead of stopping, police said, the Blazer took off, leading police on a chase through Upland Borough, onto I-95, then into Chester via the Highland Avenue exit. It ended about 6-10 minutes later when Shalamar jumped out of the SUV, pulled out a loaded gun and pointed it at police. Six officers shot about 100 rounds, killing him. | delcotimes.com |
| 17244 | Todd Steven Herreid | 48 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/08/2016 | Windom | MN | 43.8638357 | -95.1167135 | Windom Police Department |
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| Police were called to a disturbance. Shots were fired inside the home. Hours later, they went in and found Herreid dead, an apparent suicide. | dglobe.com |
| 17241 | David Joseph | 17 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/08/2016 | Austin | TX | 30.3963529 | -97.6674463 | Austin Police Department |
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| According to Austin police, officers responded after receiving multiple calls about a man acting aggressively toward neighbors. APD said when officers arrived, the man was naked, running through the neighborhood and continued acting aggressively. Details are sketchy, but at some point, a 10-and-a-half-year Austin Police shot and killed him. | nydailynews.com |
| 17243 | Eric Harris | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/08/2016 | New Orleans | LA | 29.9390996 | -90.0869109 | Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office |
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| Police said Harris was pointing a gun at people in a mall. He led them on a short chase, wrecking the car. When they approached the car, he attempted to back over them, and he was shot and killed. | theadvocate.com |
| 17247 | Nathan Roman | 10 | Male | European-American/White | 02/09/2016 | Latham | NY | 42.770434 | -73.787417 | Colonie Police Department |
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| Police said Colonie Patrol Officer Israel Roman shot both his wife and younger son, lit his home on fire, and then shot himself. | news10.com |
| 17249 | Deborah Roman | 44 | Female | European-American/White | 02/09/2016 | Latham | NY | 42.770434 | -73.787417 | Colonie Police Department |
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| Police said Colonie Patrol Officer Israel Roman shot both his wife and younger son, lit his home on fire, and then shot himself. | news10.com |
| 17246 | Scottie I.K. Yanagawa | 29 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 02/09/2016 | Hilo | HI | 19.7005982 | -155.0621983 | Hawaii Police Department |
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| Yanagawa was wanted for his alleged involvement in a Jan. 31 shooting at Honolii that left a Kona man hospitalized and for furlough escape from Hale Nani Reintegration Center in Hilo on Nov. 19. Police say a traffic stop was made on a Toyota minivan known to be operated by Yanagawa, who was described Monday in a wanted bulletin as armed and dangerous. Officers commanded Yanagawa, who they say was in the passenger seat, and the female driver to get out of the van. Yanagawa, while getting out of the van, shot at officers with a handgun, police say. Four officers shot and killed Yanagawa. | khon2.com |
| 17251 | David Brian Evans | 68 | Male | European-American/White | 02/10/2016 | Abingdon | MD | 39.4687662 | -76.3089671 | Harford County Sheriff's Office |
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| A deputy entered a restaurant, and David Evans shot him. Leaving the restaurant, he shot and killed another deputy before he was shot and killed. | cbslocal.com |
| 17250 | John Birkeland | 52 | Male | European-American/White | 02/10/2016 | Roseville | MN | 45.0062165 | -93.1687159 | Roseville Police Department |
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| According to the Star Tribune, police responding to noise complaints from neighbors made a forced entry and sent in a dog. When officers found Birkeland hiding in a closet, he stabbed the dog in the head with a kitchen knife, and police shot him dead. | startribune.com |
| 17255 | Anthony Bertoni aka James Frederick Torres | 56 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 02/10/2016 | Kemp | TX | 32.354928 | -96.239292 | Texas Department of Public Safety, Henderson County Sheriff's Office |
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| Bertoni allegedly shot his neighbor and then barricaded himself inside his rural Henderson County home. There was a stand-off, and Bertoni apparently came out shooting. He was shot and killed. | google.com |
| 17254 | Kenneth Barton | 61 | Male | European-American/White | 02/10/2016 | Tyler | TX | 32.3287385 | -95.4206927 | Smith County Sheriff's Office |
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| Kenneth Barton, 61, died during the standoff when law enforcement officers attempted to serve a search warrant at his residence. Officers believe Barton was connected with the disappearance of his mother, Frances Barton, who was reported missing three years ago. She was 78 at the time of her disappearance. It was not stipulated at the time of report whether Barton committed suicide or was killed by police. | tylerpaper.com |
| 17252 | Vincent Nageak III | 36 | Male | Native American/Alaskan | 02/10/2016 | Barrow | AK | 71.3012499 | -156.7383903 | North Slope Borough Police Department |
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| Vincent Nageak III reportedly confronted borough police officers responding to an emergency call of a "domestic disturbance" involving a man with a gun. Nageak, armed with a shotgun, pointed it at officers, and the officers shot and killed him. | ktuu.com |
| 17253 | Timothy Vessels | 41 | Male | European-American/White | 02/10/2016 | Louisville | KY | 38.1916985 | -85.857968 | U.S. Marshals Service |
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| Timothy Vessels was wanted in Jefferson County for possession of a firearm and forced burglary. He was on federal supervised release with pending violations. An investigation led the U.S. Marshals to Ladd Avenue around 11:45 where Vessels and a female associate, also wanted by the law, were believed to reside. Before arriving at the house, a Deputy Marshal noticed Vessels was a passenger in a car near the home. The two Deputy Marshals conducted a traffic stop. Vessels refused to comply with the traffic stop and, while seated in the car, pulled a gun out and pointed it at the Marshals. In response to the threat, the U.S. Deputy Marshals shot and killed Vessels. | wdrb.com |
| 17259 | Matthew Quinn | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 02/11/2016 | Lancaster | CA | 34.682049 | -118.0790211 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department |
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| Police went to reported disturbance and found a man with an ax. He walked toward them, and they shot and killed him. | theavtimes.com |
| 17262 | Mohamed Barry | 30 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/11/2016 | Columbus | OH | 40.0401927 | -82.909491 | Columbus Division of Police |
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| Barry apparently attacked several people in a restaurant with a machette. After leading police on a short chase, he crashed into a car, and when he got out, he was surrounded by police, who tried to shock him with a Tazer, then he was shot and killed. Terrorism is suspected. | 10tv.com |
| 17258 | Corey Paul Kieffer | 31 | Male | European-American/White | 02/11/2016 | Canyon Country | CA | 34.4265764 | -118.4784645 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department |
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| Details are sketchy, but deputies were pursuing a parolee. He was spotted in a shed, surrounded and then apparently shot himself, according to police. | dailynews.com |
| 17260 | Joaquim Dinon Gerry | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 02/11/2016 | Cordele | GA | 31.9361886 | -83.7470142 | Ashburn Police Department, Crisp County Sheriff's Office, Turner County Sheriff's Office, Georgia State Patrol |
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| Ashburn police attempted to stop the driver of a car that was believed to have been stolen. The woman driving the car instead fled north on Interstate 75 with the officers in pursuit. Police said as the chase continued, it was joined by officers with the Turner County Sheriff's Office, Crisp County Sheriff's Office and the Georgia State Patrol. After a male passenger inside her vehicle fatally shot himself, the driver stopped the car. The Crisp County Sheriff's Office said that before shooting himself, the passenger, Gerry, had fired at least three shots at law enforcement. | gazette.com |
| 17263 | Jerand Edward Ross | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/11/2016 | Riverdale | GA | 33.57412 | -84.4155346 | Riverdale Police Department |
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| Police were serving a no-knock warrant at an apartment when Jerand Ross ran out the back door shooting a gun, killing Maj. Greg Barney. Other police on the scene shot Ross, who died two months later. | cbsnews.com |
| 17257 | Alijah Jackson | 35 | Male | European-American/White | 02/11/2016 | Maiden | NC | 35.5601042 | -81.1929867 | Maiden Police Department |
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| Police responded to a call of a person cutting himself with a knife. He had the knife in his hand when they arrived and did not drop it. Police said he threatened them with it, and he was shot and killed. | observernewsonline.com |
| 17261 | Marcus Schumacher | 49 | Male | European-American/White | 02/11/2016 | Fargo | ND | 46.8856509 | -96.7838022 | Fargo Police Department |
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| Police were called on a domestic violence complaint. There was a standoff of several hours, and an officer, Jason Moszer, was shot and killed. Marcus Schumacher reportedly killed himself. | twincities.com |
| 17267 | David Glen Watson | 53 | Male | European-American/White | 02/12/2016 | Fort Worth | TX | 32.7169676 | -97.4421268 | Fort Worth Police Department, U.S. Marshals Service, Weatherford Police Department |
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| Watson was wanted in connection with an aggravated robbery of a convenience store in Cressen. When police approached, they say, he pulled a gun, and they shot and killed him. | nbcdfw.com |
| 17264 | Peter Fanfan | 29 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/12/2016 | Boston | MA | 42.3081465 | -71.078382 | Boston Police Department |
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| Police were responding to a 911 call about a shooting when they were confronted by a man with a gun. He was shot and killed. | suffolkdistrictattorney.com |
| 17266 | Kenneth Clark | 45 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/12/2016 | Omaha | NE | 41.2973583 | -96.1333678 | Omaha Police Department |
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| Police said Clark was involved in a domestic dispute with his ex-girlfriend. He fatally shot her two brothers who had arrived at her home with a trailer to help her move out, then held the woman hostage during a standoff with police before releasing her and taking his own life. | times-standard.com |
| 17265 | Sahlah Ridgeway | 32 | Female | African-American/Black | 02/12/2016 | Syracuse | NY | 43.0689918 | -76.1433176 | Syracuse Police Department |
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| A woman refused to drop a shotgun when police arrived. It has not yet been reported as to why they arrived at the scene in the first place. | syracuse.com |
| 17270 | Calin Devante Roquemore | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/13/2016 | Beckville | TX | 32.2396044 | -94.4583728 | Texas Department of Public Safety |
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| A state trooper tried to stop a vehicle for a traffic violation on Texas 149, but the driver fled in his vehicle. The driver then exited his still-running car in a Beckville residential neighborhood, where the car traveled a short distance and struck a tree. Roquemore then ran about 300 yards before he fell to the ground and then tried to get back up. The trooper told investigators he asked Roquemore to show his hands, and when Roquemore failed to comply, the trooper shot and killed him. No gun was found. | news-journal.com |
| 17272 | Dyzhawn L. Perkins | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/13/2016 | Arvonia | VA | 37.6730418 | -78.3954459 | Buckingham County Sheriff's Office |
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| Police were initially called because someone was attacking people inside a store. The suspect then went to a home and attacked the people within and when police arrived, he attacked them. He was shot and killed. | times-standard.com |
| 17269 | Ali Eisa Abdalla Yahia | 29 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/13/2016 | Urbandale | IA | 41.649079 | -93.6995061 | Urbandale Police Department |
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| Police say they initially went to the hotel on a drug complaint. After entering the lobby, officers confronted three people and a scuffle began with one of them. The person in scuffle was in possession of a handgun and fired it. He was shot and killed by Sgt. Jeff Casey and Officer Anthony Brooks. | whotv.com |
| 17271 | Calvin Smith | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/13/2016 | Baton Rouge | LA | 30.4676797 | -91.1333134 | Baton Rouge Police Department |
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| Officers were responding to a report that someone was damaging property when a suspect jumped into a vehicle and drove off. He led police on a 2-mile chase before bailing out of the car with a rifle. He fired at the two officers, striking both of them before officers Theodore Smith III and Sean Garic shot and killed him. | theadvocate.com |
| 17274 | Eduardo Rodriguez | 29 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/14/2016 | East Los Angeles | CA | 34.0217108 | -118.1633746 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department |
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| A man became combative during a traffic stop, which deputies made in the course of a stolen-vehicle investigation, according to police. During the fight, deputies said they believed the man was reaching for a gun. He failed to obey orders and was shot and killed. | lacounty.gov |
| 17273 | Marc Stoddart | 50 | Male | European-American/White | 02/14/2016 | Bradenton | FL | 27.4575996 | -82.4983352 | Manatee County Sheriff's Office |
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| Marc Stoddart's wife called law enforcement saying her husband was drunk, armed with a knife and threatening to hurt her and himself. Stoddart was outside and armed with a knife when deputies arrived and had cut his wrists. Deputies told him to drop the knife. He refused, then approached a deputy in what police said was a threatening manner. He was shot and killed. | bradenton.com |
| 17275 | Rammy Sam Jaradat | 26 | Male | European-American/White | 02/14/2016 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.1960275 | -118.4574765 | Los Angeles Police Department |
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| Officers responded to a report of "unknown trouble." The call was subsequently upgraded to a report of a hot-prowl burglary and later to an assault with a deadly weapon. The officers arrived to find a male victim suffering from a stab wound. As they attempted to render aid and called for an ambulance, they were directed to a man who was armed with a knife, police said. Police shot and killed him as he advanced upon officers. | google.com |
| 17276 | Brandon Lee Witt | 39 | Male | European-American/White | 02/15/2016 | Yorba Linda | CA | 33.8726235 | -117.7392924 | Orange County Sheriff's Department |
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| Deputies responded to a call of a suspicious-vehicle parked outside the Extended Stay America. When deputies, arrived they found Witt sitting in the vehicle. Police said a fight occurred between the deputy and a person in the car. Authorities have not released more details about what happened. | orangecountyda.org |
| 17277 | Guadalupe Sauceda | 52 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/15/2016 | Jal | NM | 32.1659656 | -103.4261943 | Lea County Sheriff's Office, Jal Police Department |
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| Police responded to a call about a home invasion. They met the suspect on the back porch and exchanged gunfire, killing him. | abqjournal.com |
| 17282 | Shawn Henry Allen Dickens | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 02/16/2016 | Mena | AR | 34.580045 | -94.249018 | Mena Police Department |
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| According to police, an officer approached Dickens outside a convenience store on Reeves Avenue around noon. During the confrontation, Dickens fled, dropping a handgun. The release says the man turned around to try and pick up the gun when he was ordered not the by the officer. Police say he repeatedly disobeyed this command and the officer shot and killed him. | katv.com |
| 17283 | Christopher Andrews | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 02/16/2016 | Fairfield | CT | 41.1792778 | -73.2641078 | Fairfield Police Department |
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| Police killed a man who attacked his wife and children with a knife. | www.ct.gov |
| 17284 | Destry Meikle | 48 | Male | European-American/White | 02/16/2016 | Republic | MO | 37.1183001 | -93.4685232 | Republic Police Department |
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| Police responded to a car accident that involved two homes. Driver Destry Meikle suffered a seizure and drove in the general direction of Sgt. John Tinsley, who shot and killed him. Police alleged vehicular assault. | news-leader.com |
| 17285 | Paul Gaston | 37 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/17/2016 | Cincinnati | OH | 39.1554991 | -84.6044691 | Cincinnati Police Department |
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| Police responded to a crash in which a man left the vehicle with a gun and appeared disoriented or intoxicated. At first, he appeared to cooperate with police who told them to drop the gun, and then he didn't, and he was shot and killed. | wcpo.com |
| 17286 | Dennis Solis | 61 | Male | European-American/White | 02/17/2016 | La Mirada | CA | 33.9217853 | -118.0077685 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department |
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| Dennis Solis reportedly shot himself during a 5-hour standoff with deputies. | whittierdailynews.com |
| 17290 | Ronnie Lee Padron | 32 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/18/2016 | Reno | TX | 33.673715 | -95.5109709 | Reno Police Department |
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| Police responded because someone was shooting out of a home. After several hours of standoff, Padron came out with a gun, shooting at police, and was shot and killed. | cbslocal.com |
| 17288 | Oscar Reyes | 35 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/18/2016 | Santa Ana | CA | 33.7480326 | -117.854206 | Santa Ana Police Department |
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| Officers responded after a report of a burglary. The officers made contact with four suspects and a confrontation ensued, police said. At some point, police opened fire. The spokesman did not know the specific circumstances that led to the shooting. Two people were killed by police and two arrested. | orangecountyda.org |
| 17289 | Jose Manuel Quintanilla | 30 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/18/2016 | Santa Ana | CA | 33.7480326 | -117.854206 | Santa Ana Police Department |
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| Officers responded after a report of a burglary. The officers made contact with four suspects and a confrontation ensued, police said. At some point, police opened fire. The spokesman did not know the specific circumstances that led to the shooting. Two people were killed by police and two arrested. | orangecountyda.org |
| 17287 | Joseph Noel | 25 | Male | European-American/White | 02/18/2016 | Commerce | GA | 34.1990456 | -83.4490019 | Commerce Police Department |
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| Three police responded to a call of a man allegedly beating his wife. When they arrived at the home, Brian Noel told the officers to arrest his son, Joseph Noel. The officers found Joseph Noel hiding in the attic. They said Noel held up an object that the officers believed to be a firearm. The officers said Noel charged at them. The officers deployed a Taser and fired shots at Noel. He was shot in the leg, which killed him. | wsbtv.com |
| 17297 | Curtis James Dugger | 31 | Male | European-American/White | 02/19/2016 | Elizabethton | TN | 36.330895 | -82.23632 | Elizabethton Police Department |
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| An officer was in the area looking for Dugger who was wanted on federal warrants. They exchanged gunfire, the officer was wounded and Duggar was killed. | wjhl.com |
| 17296 | Justin Patrick Moses | 35 | Male | European-American/White | 02/19/2016 | Ogden | UT | 41.2666184 | -111.9687689 | Ogden Police Department |
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| Details are sketchy, but Ogden police say they found Moses, 35, stabbing a woman near 400 N. 600 East when they responded to a domestic violence call. An officer shot and killed Moses. | sltrib.com |
| 17295 | Michael McClanahan | 18 | Male | European-American/White | 02/19/2016 | Cave City | KY | 37.101422 | -85.8741452 | Barren County Sheriff's Office |
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| The sheriff's department responded to a complaint of a loud car. A deputy pulled the car over; as he approached the deputy heard a gunshot from inside the car and saw glass from the driver's side window blow out. He found McClanahan dead from a gunshot wound. | wbko.com |
| 17298 | Danny Rendon | 30 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/20/2016 | Anaheim | CA | 33.8083982 | -117.9523323 | Anaheim Police Department |
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| A call of shots fired in the 900 block S. Roberts Street. Police said a male victim was shot in the leg by the suspect and is in stable condition. Police said the victim and suspect were related. Family members said one was a brother-in-law of the other, and the two were fighting before making their way to a second location where the fatal encounter took place. Rendon had apparently fired at a police helicopter. | orangecountyda.org |
| 17302 | Leroi D. Kocsis | 38 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/20/2016 | Bay City | MI | 43.5953683 | -83.8780822 | Bay City Police Department |
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| Police attempted to serve a felony arrest warrant on Kocsis. When approached by the officers, Kocsis fled into his home and opened fire on them. After a standoff, Kocsis apparently shot himself. | mlive.com |
| 17301 | Marcos Perea | 41 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/20/2016 | Lakewood | WA | 47.2069649 | -122.534857 | Pierce County Sheriff's Office |
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| Perea had killed his girlfriend as she worked at a nursing facility in University Place, police said. Police soon spotted him and chased his vehicle southbound on I-5 as he shot at them. He headed north on I-5, at which point the pursuing officers forced his car to spin out near an exit for Tillicum. He took cover behind his vehicle and engaged police in a shootout. Twelve officers from three agencies—Lakewood and Steilacoom police, as well as the sheriff's department—shot back, killing him. | times-standard.com |
| 17299 | Charles Lee Lambert | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 02/20/2016 | Iuka | MS | 34.7542645 | -88.1405843 | Tishomingo County Sheriff's Office, Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol, Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics |
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| Tishomingo County Sheriff's deputies responded to a domestic situation at a residence. Lambert, his wife and 10-year-old daughter were in the house when deputies arrived. The situation escalated to a stand-off when the man refused to comply with officers' instructions to come out. The Mississippi Highway Patrol (MHP) troopers and agents from Mississippi Bureau of Investigation (MBI) and Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics (MBN) responded at the request of the Tishomingo County Sheriff. After several hours, two combined tactical teams from MHP and MBN entered the home. Upon entry, shots were fired between the man and law enforcement officers and MBN Agent Lee Tartt and Lambert were killed. Additionally, three state troopers who entered the home were wounded. | wreg.com |
| 17300 | Edgar Camacho-Alvarado | 23 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/20/2016 | Albuquerque | NM | 35.0770117 | -106.722744 | U.S. Marshals Service, Albuquerque Police Department |
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| Police are withholding much information, but it appears agents went to arrest George Bond, who lived a couple trailers away. A confrontation occurred with Camacho-Alvarado, who brandished a handgun and was shot and killed. | krqe.com |
| 17308 | Name withheld by police | Male | Race unspecified | 02/21/2016 | Aurora | CO | 39.6529202 | -104.7498271 | Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office |
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| Deputies responded to a call for a welfare check. Upon arrival, they were shot at. Several hours later, a SWAT team entered the house, where the man had apparently committed suicide. | aurorasentinel.com | |
| 17306 | Sherrisa Homer | 36 | Female | Native American/Alaskan | 02/21/2016 | Phoenix | AZ | 33.4977453 | -112.1062603 | Phoenix Police Department |
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| Police responded to shots fired at an apartment complex. They could see Homer throught the window, and she pointed her gun at them, at which point she was shot and killed. | azcentral.com |
| 17309 | Augustine "Augy" Joe Chavez | 23 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/21/2016 | Springfield | MO | 37.2005763 | -93.3035744 | Springfield Police Department |
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| Police were called out to a house to check on a man who had been making suicidal statements to family members. A standoff ensued with officers using a megaphone to try to coax the man outside. Police entered the home and found Chavez dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. | news-leader.com |
| 17307 | Che Andre Taylor | 47 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/21/2016 | Seattle | WA | 47.6902932 | -122.3042977 | Seattle Police Department |
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| Police were investigating a suspictious car when they came upon an armed man. He didn't follow police orders and was shot and killed by Officers Scott Miller and Michael Spaulding. | kiro7.com |
| 30167 | Kisha Shelly Michael | 31 | Female | African-American/Black | 02/21/2016 | Inglewood | CA | 33.9617074 | -118.3617203 | Inglewood Police Department |
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| At approximately 3:10 a.m., Marquintan Sandlin, 32, and Kisha Shelly Michael, 31, were found asleep in a vehicle. A 9mm handgun was on Michael's lap. Police shot and killed them. In 2018, Inglewood agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a lawsuit by the families. | nbclosangeles.com |
| 30168 | Marquintan Sandlin | 32 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/21/2016 | Inglewood | CA | 33.9617074 | -118.3617203 | Inglewood Police Department |
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| At approximately 3:10 a.m., Marquintan Sandlin, 32, and Kisha Shelly Michael, 31, were found asleep in a vehicle. A 9mm handgun was on Michael's lap. Police shot and killed them. In 2018, Inglewood agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a lawsuit by the families. | nbclosangeles.com |
| 17304 | Marquintan Sandlin | 32 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/21/2016 | Inglewood | CA | 33.9616106 | -118.3617385 | Inglewood Police Department |
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| Officers said they received a call of a suspicious vehicle stopped. When they approached the car, they noticed the woman in the car had a gun and ordered her and a male occupant out of the vehicle, said Scott Collins, a spokesman for the Inglewood Police Department. Officers then took cover and opened fire, killing both people. The familiy believes the woman is Kisha Michael, the man is still unidentified. | scpr.org |
| 17305 | Kisha Michael | 31 | Female | African-American/Black | 02/21/2016 | Inglewood | CA | 33.9616106 | -118.3617385 | Inglewood Police Department |
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| Officers said they received a call of a suspicious vehicle stopped. When they approached the car, they noticed the woman in the car had a gun and ordered her and a male occupant out of the vehicle, said Scott Collins, a spokesman for the Inglewood Police Department. Officers then took cover and opened fire, killing both people. The familiy believes the woman is Kisha Michael, the man is still unidentified. | scpr.org |
| 17310 | Sean Paul Mabbun Jr. | 17 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/21/2016 | Houston | TX | 29.8340303 | -95.6559382 | Harris County Sheriff's Office |
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| Mabbun fatally shot James Ayala, 25, in a dispute over a woman. Mabbun's mother drove him to Harris County Courthouse Precinct Five and told a sergeant that she was turning him in for murder. The sergeant asked Mabbun if he had been involved in the shooting in Katy earlier that day. Mabbun said he had been, drew a handgun and shot himself in the forehead. | chron.com |
| 17311 | Patricia Kruger | 38 | Female | Native American/Alaskan | 02/22/2016 | Houston | AK | 61.5853224 | -149.7804559 | Alaska State Troopers |
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| Patricia Kruger entered a residence. Kruger was allowed into the residence by the homeowner at which time she grabbed the homeowner's gun. As the homeowner fled the residence, Kruger fired the gun. Troopers attempted to make contact with Kruger. Shots were fired by Kruger, and she was shot and killed. | adn.com |
| 17314 | Rouven Loch | 22 | Male | European-American/White | 02/22/2016 | Fairborn | OH | 39.8366123 | -84.0100257 | Fairborn Police Department |
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| Loch was suspected of burglary. Police contacted him on the telephone and asked him to come out. He refused and said he had a gun. They shot tear gas into the house, and when he came out, he pointed a pellet gun at them and was shot and killed. | daytondailynews.com |
| 17317 | Gerardino Cayetano Gonzalez | 33 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/22/2016 | Denver | CO | 39.7657533 | -105.0346296 | Denver Police Department |
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| Police said officers investigating a burglary call made contact with two suspects on Irving Street. One of the two was taken into custody. One of the suspects fled on foot and was chased by police. Police said the suspect then carjacked a vehicle and police began chasing that car. The chase ended a short time later when the suspect lost control and officers stopped the car at 35th and Lowell Boulevard. Shots were exchanged and the suspect was shot and killed. | denverpost.com |
| 17315 | Tyler O. Persellin | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 02/22/2016 | Murray | UT | 40.6319739 | -111.9075781 | Murray Police Department |
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| Police responded to a domestic disturbance when they were fired upon by Persellin. After a standoff, they found Persellin dead of a self-inflicted gunshot. | deseretnews.com |
| 17313 | Stanley Thomas Killebrew Jr. | 39 | Male | European-American/White | 02/22/2016 | Wayne | MI | 42.2857307 | -83.383776 | Wayne Police Department |
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| A man barricaded himself inside a home. After several hours of standoff, police entered the home and found him dead. | freep.com |
| 17316 | David Michael Green II | 38 | Male | European-American/White | 02/22/2016 | Mission | TX | 26.23781 | -98.324115 | Mission Police Department |
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| Mission police received a call for a domestic disturbance between a man and his adult son. The man said his son was outside with an ax, hitting the house and a car. When police arrived, they said David Green was outside with a machete. Officers told Green to put the weapon down, but he got into his truck and drove in the general direction of an officer. The police fired shots at Green. He led police on a chase through the RV park and struck a patrol car. Green again drove in the general direction of officers with the car and was shot and killed. He reportedly was off his medication. Police alleged vehicular assault. | google.com |
| 17312 | Jamie Clark Long | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 02/22/2016 | Bakersfield | CA | 35.3721912 | -119.0076905 | Bakersfield Police Department |
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| Bakersfield Police Department received a report of a male brandishing a knife and threatening employees at the Amtrak Station. Several minutes later, a second call was received from an employee of Amtrak who stated this same suspect was now charging at employees with a knife. Within minutes of the second call, a Bakersfield police detective arrived and contacted the suspect. During the contact, the detective shot and killed him. | bakersfield.com |
| 17320 | Angel Alan Gleason | 36 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/23/2016 | Ripon | CA | 37.752922 | -121.143354 | Manteca Police Department |
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| Police said Gleason was driving a stolen BMW when officers from the San Joaquin County Delta Regional Auto Theft Team spotted him. They gave chase, and at some point Manteca police got involved. It went south on Highway 99 and entered Ripon, where Gleason took the Jack Tone Road offramp. His car struck another car occupied by a woman and her young daughter, causing it to overturn. Gleason got out of the BMW armed with a handgun, jumped over a guard rail and onto an embankment above railroad tracks. Police shot and killed him. | manteca.ca.us |
| 17322 | Leo Mackie Sr. | 43 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/23/2016 | Oklahoma City | OK | 35.5560261 | -97.6206425 | Oklahoma City Police Department |
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| Police were looking for someone else when they found Mackie, who was apparently wanted. He barricaded himself in a home and then shot himself. | theweeklychallenger.com |
| 17323 | Baltazar Silva-Ramos | 40 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/23/2016 | Houston | TX | 29.7127106 | -95.3172237 | Houston Police Department |
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| The decedent caused a disturbance at a bus station. He was opening gas tanks with a machete, and apparently trying to light them. He may have struck an officer with the machete before he was shot and killed. | abc13.com |
| 17319 | Alex Buckner | 26 | Male | European-American/White | 02/23/2016 | Glendale | AZ | 33.5922347 | -112.162911 | Phoenix Police Department, Glendale Police Department |
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| Buckner shot his family and set their home ablaze. Killed were Kim, his mother, his father, Vic, and his sisters, Kaitlin, 18, and Emma, 6. Alex was shot by police as he pointed a gun at them. | azfamily.com |
| 17321 | Travis Stevenson | 48 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/23/2016 | Baton Rouge | LA | 30.4362489 | -91.1751531 | East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office |
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| Deputies were called out to a home after Stevenson's girlfriend reported that he had allegedly broken into her apartment and sprayed mace at her and her daughter. Stevenson left before the deputies arrived, but they were able to reach him on the phone when he threatened to jump from a bridge. Law enforcement checked both bridges crossing the Mississippi River in the area and were unable to find Stevenson. Two EBRSO homicide detectives found him and tried to get Stevenson out of his vehicle. Police say the detectives shot and killed Stevenson after he tried to ram into them with his vehicle. | theadvocate.com |
| 17328 | Christopher J. Davis | 21 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/24/2016 | East Troy | WI | 42.7964607 | -88.3846995 | Walworth County Sheriff's Office |
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| Police from the Town of East Troy Police Department, Walworth County Sheriff's Office and Village of East Troy Police Department approached a car in the parking lot of Roma's Ristorante and Lounge, according to the sheriff's office. The sheriff's office was assisting village of East Troy police with a drug investigation. Deputy Juan Ortiz shot Davis, it is alleged, as he drove in the general direction of officers. Police alleged vehicular assault. | jsonline.com |
| 17325 | Martin Wirth | 58 | Male | European-American/White | 02/24/2016 | Bailey | CO | 39.446133 | -105.475033 | Park County Sheriff's Office |
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| Eight deputies were trying to serve a high-risk eviction notice. Martin Wirth had been going through a lengthy eviction dispute over the property. Police say Wirth came out to his deck, paused and then went back inside. Officers then followed him inside the residence. As they entered, police say Wirth fired at the officers. Officers returned fire, shooting and killing Wirth. Corporal Nate Carrigan, who was with Park County Sheriff's Office for 13 years, was shot and died at the scene. | 9news.com |
| 17327 | Bobby Keith Brumfield | 40 | Male | European-American/White | 02/24/2016 | Auburn | AL | 32.5894508 | -85.4791558 | Auburn Police Department |
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| Police were investigating an armed convenience store robbery. Officers soon found the 1987 Jeep Wrangler and driver that matched the suspect description. Police said Brumfield refused to pull over for the traffic stop and led them on a pursuit. During this time, Brumfield allegedly shot at one of the pursuing officer and struck his vehicle. The officer was not injured and returned fire. The pursuit ended when Brumfield crashed into a 2008 GMC Yukon. The 47-year-old driver and a juvenile were injured and taken to a hospital. Authorities found Brumfield dead inside the Jeep from an apparent self- inflicted gunshot wound. | ledger-enquirer.com |
| 17326 | Robert Keil | 16 | Male | European-American/White | 02/24/2016 | Blue Springs | MO | 39.0013235 | -94.2879946 | Blue Springs Police Department |
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| Keil is said to have called police, saying there was a burglarly in progress, and then when they arrived, rushed them with a knife. | fox4kc.com |
| 17329 | Victor Rivera | 27 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/24/2016 | Phoenix | AZ | 33.46574 | -112.2206346 | Phoenix Police Department |
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| Phoenix police say Rivera was driving a stolen car when he was shot and killed by police after using the car as a battering ram in an attempt to flee. Police alleged vehicular assault. | azcentral.com |
| 17330 | Francisco Garcia | 26 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/24/2016 | Norwalk | CA | 33.8876024 | -118.0999869 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department |
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| A deputy was investigating a stolen car. He told Garcia to get out of the car, but Garcia attempted to flee and was shot and killed. | latimes.com |
| 17332 | Elvin Clyde Lloyd III | 28 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/25/2016 | Rockport | TX | 28.0622572 | -97.0545013 | Rockport Police Department |
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| A man is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a three-hour standoff with police. Police say the man barricaded himself and a child inside the home. San Patricio county SWAT entered the home after 3 hours and found the man dead, and the child unharmed. | caller.com |
| 17335 | Luke Nathan Miller | 37 | Male | European-American/White | 02/25/2016 | Evans | CO | 40.3773694 | -104.6935319 | Evans Police Department |
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| Officers were investigating a suspicious vehicle. Two suspects ran. One temporarily got away, but a couple hours later, police caught up with him. According to police, he shot at them and was shot and killed. | cbslocal.com |
| 17337 | Codey Matthew Harris | 21 | Male | European-American/White | 02/25/2016 | Houston | TX | 29.7127956 | -95.2727092 | Houston Police Department |
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| Harris slapped his common-law wife at their residence and threatened to shoot her and commit suicide. She left the house with her children. Officer E. Perez responded. Harris barricaded himself into the house. SWAT responded. After some hours of negotiation, Harris shot at himself twice, striking himself once in the head. | houstontx.gov |
| 17333 | Cedric Larry Ford | 38 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/25/2016 | Hesston | KS | 38.1373822 | -97.4269776 | Hesston Police Department |
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| Ford led police on a miles long shooting spree before being killed at a factory. He'd killed three and injured 14 before Hesston Police Chief Doug Schroeder shot and killed him. | nytimes.com |
| 17334 | Tristan Stearns Conti | 19 | Male | European-American/White | 02/25/2016 | Silver Springs | NV | 39.4162438 | -119.2249666 | Lyon County Sheriff's Office |
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| A deputy was shot, one suspect was killed and another was hurt in an officer-involved shooting that stemmed from a Sparks, Nevada, carjacking and ended in Silver Springs, 45 miles away. | rgj.com |
| 17331 | Greg Gunn | 58 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/25/2016 | Montgomery | AL | 32.348615 | -86.331481 | Montgomery Police Department |
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| An officer noticed a suspicious looking man walking in the area and stopped to talk to him. That's when a struggle between the officer and the man occurred, police say. The struggle lasted for about a block before the officer fired a shot at the man and killed him. The man was believed to have been armed with a painting pole or stick. Montgomery Police Officer AC Smith was found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death and sentenced to 14 years in prison. | wsfa.com |
| 17338 | David Wayne Campbell | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 02/26/2016 | Belfair | WA | 47.5041617 | -122.9313557 | Mason County Sheriff's Office |
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| Police say they used tear gas to flush a suicidal man who had killed several family members and a neighbor from his house—and that's when he stepped outside and killed himself. | kitsapsun.com |
| 17343 | David Lenzen | 57 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/26/2016 | Bloomington | IL | 40.4952798 | -88.9631606 | Normal Police Department |
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| David Lenzen reportedly shot himself during a police chase. Police said officers responded to a residence in Normal at around 10:30 a.m. after a woman reported that Lenzen was holding her against her will. Lenzen fled in a vehicle and police chased him until they said he shot himself as the vehicle stopped on Towanda Avenue near Rowe Drive in Bloomington. | wglt.org |
| 17340 | Travis Smith | 36 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/26/2016 | Goose Creek | SC | 32.9704233 | -80.0107193 | Berkeley County Sheriff's Office |
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| Deputy Kimber Gist was investigating a suspicious vehicle with two people inside behind the Food Lion in Goose Creek. She had detained Smith, and as she was getting information from him, a fight broke out. That struggle turned into a gunfight, police said. Smith was later found in a North Charleston home on Bexley Street. He was alive when found, but eventually died of either Gist's shots or a self-inflicted gunshot. | live5news.com |
| 17341 | Abraham Mitchell Fryer | 35 | Male | European-American/White | 02/26/2016 | Rapid City | SD | 44.0674667 | -103.1555329 | Pennington County Sheriff's Office |
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| After a traffic stop, Fryer and Pennington County Sheriff's Deputy Robert Schoeberl fought, although it has not been reported what caused the fight. Schoeberl shot and killed Fryer. | kotatv.com |
| 17339 | Kionte DeShaun Spencer | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/26/2016 | Cave Spring | VA | 37.2314755 | -80.0080891 | Roanoke County Police Department |
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| Officers told Spencer several times to stop walking northbound on Electric Road, but he would not, according to police. Police say there were two attempts to tase Spencer, but neither were effective. The Roanoke County police chief says two officers then fired shots at Spencer after he turned toward them. A BB gun was still in Spencer's hand when he was shot. | roanoke.com |
| 17344 | Brian Danis | 52 | Male | European-American/White | 02/26/2016 | George West | TX | 28.3372399 | -98.028676 | Texas Department of Public Safety |
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| Trooper Carlos Martinez responded to a complaint that Danis, was behaving oddly at a Valero gas station, which he had vandalized. Trooper Martinez tracked Danis to a Flying J gas station, where he started playing with a fuel nozzle and spilling gasoline on the ground. When he was confronted, Danis ran away, drew a revolver from his pocket and shot himself. Texas Ranger James Bennett investigated. | etypeservices.com |
| 17345 | Fernando Hernandez | 23 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/27/2016 | Floresville | TX | 29.1313272 | -98.155939 | Wilson County Sheriff's Office |
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| Police said Hernandez had stolen a car and fired shots at a house on a Wilson County road and began driving around Highway 181. Deputies began pursuing the man until he stopped, got out of the car and began firing at the deputies. Deputies returned fire, killing Hernandez. | mysanantonio.com |
| 17346 | Nathan Grissom | 41 | Male | European-American/White | 02/28/2016 | Ashville | AL | 33.8373129 | -86.2507997 | Ashville Police Department |
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| Police were called to a domestic disturbance. Police say Grissom took out a gun as officers approached him, and he was shot and killed. | wbrc.com |
| 17347 | Earl Wesson Hicks | 44 | Male | Native American/Alaskan | 02/28/2016 | Rapid City | SD | 44.0798069 | -103.2170235 | Rapid City Police Department |
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| Police were investigating a shooting. Police say Hicks pointed a gun at an officer, prompting him to shoot and kill him. | kotatv.com |
| 17348 | D'Londre Tyrell Minifield | 20 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/28/2016 | Winchester | VA | 39.1613852 | -78.1769202 | Winchester Police Department |
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| Police say they responded after receiving reports of a fight in progress with the possibility of a firearm present. Once officers arrived, they made contact with two men. One of the men is said to have fled on foot and officers pursued. Police say the man stopped, and as officers approached, shot and killed himself. | whsv.com |
| 17349 | Akiel Rakim Lakeith Denkins | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/29/2016 | Raleigh | NC | 35.7657357 | -78.6329557 | Raleigh Police Department |
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| Police say they were arresting Denkins on a warrant when he bolted. They say he pulled a gun, and they shot and killed him. | abclocal.go.com |
| 17350 | Mickey Dewayne Sweatt | 37 | Male | European-American/White | 03/01/2016 | Gautier | MS | 30.4473634 | -88.6458818 | Gautier Police Department |
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| Mickey Sweatt was shot and killed by a Gautier officer as he fired on the officer, after a two-hour standoff that started over a domestic disturbance, police said. | gulflive.com |
| 17351 | Dimitri Corcino | 39 | Male | European-American/White | 03/01/2016 | Palm Bay | FL | 28.0290981 | -80.6402753 | Palm Bay Police Department |
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| Corcino was shot and killed by a Palm Bay police officer after a two-hour standoff that started over threats about construction work next door, police said. | clickorlando.com |
| 17352 | Jorge Brian Gonzalez | 22 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/01/2016 | Euless | TX | 32.8303631 | -97.0913575 | Euless Police Department |
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| Officer David Hofer was shot and killed by Gonzalez after responding to a call of possible shots fired at the park. Gonzalez was then shot and killed by police. | star-telegram.com |
| 17355 | David Perry Peeples | 35 | Male | European-American/White | 03/02/2016 | Odessa | TX | 31.8656395 | -102.3271498 | Ector County Sheriff's Office |
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| Peeples struck his girlfriend with a hammer, threatened to shoot her, apologized for his behavior and threatened to commit suicide. He drove away. Deputies tried to pull him over. Peeples shot himself in the chest. | force.com |
| 17353 | Travis Boyd Bradley | 36 | Male | European-American/White | 03/02/2016 | Bel Air | MD | 39.4924034 | -76.3319585 | Harford County Sheriff's Office |
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| Police said Bradley was shot and killed after firing on sheriff's deputies and refusing to surrender during a standoff at a home. The Harford County Sheriff's Office said that deputies responded after reports of a suicidal person. Deputies had attempted to communicate with the man in person and by phone, but after some negotiations, he came out of the home and fired a gun. Police shot and killed him. | baltimoresun.com |
| 17354 | Daniel David Burkhardt | 41 | Male | European-American/White | 03/02/2016 | Johnstown | PA | 40.3539953 | -78.948951 | Johnstown Police Department |
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| Three police arrived at the location after being dispatched to the area for a report of a man with a knife. State police said the Johnstown officers said they came in contact with Burkhardt and that he was armed with two knives, one in each hand. State police said the officers told him to drop the knives, but he wouldn't and moved toward the officers. Officers fired bean bag rounds from a shot gun and a Taser at Burkhardt, but he continued to move toward them. That's when Officers Erin Kabler, Kevin Fickes and Justin Green shot and killed him. | tribdem.com |
| 17357 | George Biehs | 66 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/03/2016 | Livermore | CA | 37.6745274 | -121.7566084 | Livermore Police Department |
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| Biehs was sitting inside a car outside the Livermore Police Department when he shot himself, which caused an officer to shoot at the car, police said. The officer fired his gun four times after arriving to the back parking lot of the station on Pacific Avenue around 3 a.m. after hearing a shotgun blast that shattered the car's glass. | mercurynews.com |
| 17358 | Robert James Covington | 32 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/03/2016 | Dallas | TX | 32.9087702 | -96.7466421 | Dallas Police Department, U.S. Marshals Service |
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| Police said they were attempting to serve an arrest warrant out of Nebraska, and when they arrive, a shot was fired. Robert Covington barricaded himself in the apartment, there was a four-hour standoff, which ended abruptly. Police said that Covington shot and killed himself. | google.com |
| 17356 | Sergio Ochoa | 27 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/03/2016 | Gilbert | AZ | 33.3356575 | -111.7729691 | Mesa Police Department |
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| After threatening his girlfriend with a gun, Ochoa led police on a chase. Police tracked him down at a home with seven people inside. Officers chased him into the backyard where police say he pulled out several large kitchen knives. Officers attempted to use a less lethal beanbag round, but were unsuccessful. Ochoa continued to advance toward officers with the knives, and police shot and killed him. | azcentral.com |
| 17360 | George Kmetz | 60 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/04/2016 | Fort Wayne | IN | 41.0850517 | -85.1541151 | Fort Wayne Police Department |
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| Police were called after Kmetz's wife fled the home and told police Kmetz had pointed a loaded handgun at her during an argument, according to police. He refused to come out the home for responding officers, so the police department's Emergency Services Team and Crisis Response Team were called to assist. Kmetz was found dead by the police department's Emergency Services Team after members deployed a flash bang device in an attempt to get him to come out the home. | wishtv.com |
| 17362 | John Alan Chamberlain | 66 | Male | European-American/White | 03/04/2016 | Mount Ida | AR | 34.5567637 | -93.6340814 | Montgomery County Sheriff's Office |
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| Chamberlain was shot and killed when he confronted two deputies responding to a call. | swarkansasnews.com |
| 17361 | Brandon Stanley | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 03/04/2016 | East Bernstadt | KY | 37.1902454 | -84.1078007 | Laurel County Sheriff's Office |
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| A constable was attempting to serve an arrest warrant inside a gas station when Brandon Stanley was shot and killed. Stanley was unarmed. The officer was convicted of manslaughter. | sentinel-echo.com |
| 17364 | Eric Russell Deese | 43 | Male | European-American/White | 03/04/2016 | Houston | TX | 29.775638 | -95.178958 | Harris County Constable's Office Precinct 3 |
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| Deputies responding to a man with a gun call found Deese with a gun to his head. Deese ignored the deputies and walked away. A deputy tasered Deese in the back. When the five-second jolt was over, Deese put the gun to his head again and shot himself. | force.com |
| 17366 | Darrell P. Bosell | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 03/05/2016 | Buffalo | NY | 42.935915 | -78.715136 | Cheektowaga Town Police Department |
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| Bosell was wanted by state police on suspicion of stealing a handgun from a relative. When police caught up to him, he didn't drop the gun, which was not loaded. | buffalonews.com |
| 17365 | Herbert Ballance | 22 | Male | European-American/White | 03/05/2016 | Beaumont | TX | 30.070871 | -94.141466 | Beaumont Police Department |
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| Beaumont police officers fatally shot Ballance, a suspect of car theft, when he confronted the officers when they responded to the trailer park regarding a car theft. | beaumontenterprise.com |
| 17368 | James "Tony" Anthony Scott | 42 | Male | European-American/White | 03/06/2016 | Bismarck | ND | 46.8089534 | -100.7427999 | Bismarck Police Department |
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| Police responded to a 911 call regarding a person with a gun threatening another. When police arrived, Scott ran, leaving the weapon in the building. He was shot and killed by Officer Shaun Burkhartsmeier. | billingsgazette.com |
| 17370 | Osvaldo Torres | 41 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/06/2016 | South Gate | CA | 33.9406938 | -118.1755234 | South Gate Police Department |
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| Police said Torres led police on a car chase after refusing to pull over for a traffic stop. After crashing, he shot at police and was shot and killed. | lacounty.gov |
| 17369 | Mark Damien Minnick | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 03/06/2016 | Azle | TX | 32.864083 | -97.5137048 | Azle Police Department |
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| Police responded for a report of a man firing a gun. The first officer to arrive encountered Minnick and told him to drop his weapon. Minnick didn't comply and moved toward the officer, pointing his gun at him when the officer shot and killed him. | dallasnews.com |
| 17376 | Byron Rosas | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 03/07/2016 | San Jose | CA | 37.3236301 | -121.8783621 | San Jose Police Department |
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| Rosas apparently stabbed his estranged wife and another person before police shot and killed him. | cbslocal.com |
| 17375 | Phillip Vitullo | 49 | Male | European-American/White | 03/07/2016 | Rochester | NY | 43.2376877 | -77.6228607 | Rochester Police Department |
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| Officers were called to an apartment building for a report that a man there had threatened someone with a shotgun. A standoff ensued, with the suspect firing at least twice from inside the apartment building. When Vitullo leaned out of an apartment window with a shotgun, Officer Jeremy Nellist fired once, killing him. | democratandchronicle.com |
| 17372 | Name withheld by police | 52 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/07/2016 | Liberty | MO | 39.236826 | -94.4195201 | Liberty Police Department, North Kansas City Police Department, Independence Police Department, Missouri State Highway Patrol, Clay County Sheriff's Office, Riverside Police Department |
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| Police said they went to a home on Leonard Street after the call came in from a woman who needed help with her adult son, a man in his 50s. Investigators said officers were in the home with the man's family members when they heard a single gunshot. Police sent a robot and SWAT team into the home and said the man was dead inside. They said they believe he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. | kmbc.com |
| 17377 | Randall J. Selsor | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 03/07/2016 | Topeka | KS | 39.055537 | -95.6823859 | U.S. Marshals Service |
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| Police attempted to serve warrants on Selsor. Police say a fight started and that's when he was shot and killed. | cjonline.com |
| 17374 | Daniel Chavez | 41 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/07/2016 | Carlsbad | NM | 32.4217803 | -104.2802851 | Carlsbad Police Department, Eddy County Sheriff's Office |
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| According to police, the Pecos Valley Drug Task Force had gone to a home in Carlsbad to arrest Chavez. They say Chavez tried to escape on foot, and then in a vehicle before he was shot. | everythinglubbock.com |
| 17373 | John Charles "JC" Graham | 42 | Male | European-American/White | 03/07/2016 | Joliet | MT | 45.481793 | -108.971371 | Carbon County Sheriff's Office |
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| Three deputies were dispatched to a domestic disturbance, and around 20 minutes after their arrival Graham came out the front entrance of the residence and fired a shot at the deputies, police said. Deputies shot and killed Graham. | kulr8.com |
| 17378 | Jeffery Glen Casale | 27 | Male | European-American/White | 03/08/2016 | Tampa | FL | 28.0836467 | -82.4624204 | Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office |
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| Casale appeared to be having some sort of breakdown when he threatened officers with a CO2 powered toy gun. He pointed it at police and was shot and killed. | tampabay.com |
| 17381 | Stephen Allen Austin | 56 | Male | European-American/White | 03/09/2016 | Chino | CA | 34.0448386 | -117.6827045 | San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office, Chino Police Department |
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| A court services deputy went to serve an eviction notice and a person inside the home shot at the deputy, who called for backup from the the Chino Police Department. According to police, the man then allegedly shot multiple times at responding officers, engaging in a "gun battle" from the front of the home. The officers then deployed a non-incendiary chemical agent, but the residence became fully engulfed in flames, according to police. Investigators say the man set the fire himself. An autopsy ruled he died of a gunshot wound. | sbcountyda.org |
| 17384 | Arteair Porter | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/10/2016 | Reno | NV | 39.6049266 | -119.8558755 | Reno Police Department, Washoe County Sheriff's Office |
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| Porter called police claiming his child had died and that he wanted to shoot someone. They tracked him by his cell phone, and he threatened them with a BB gun before he was shot and killed. | kolotv.com |
| 17386 | German Gustavo Anchondo Gonzalez | 23 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/10/2016 | Colorado City | CO | 37.9614695 | -104.7943727 | Colorado State Patrol |
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| Police say German Gonzalez was pulled over a gas station off the interstate, ran, stole a nearby car, and drove in the general direction of officers. He was shot and killed. Police alleged vehicular assault. | 9news.com |
| 17382 | Martin Rene Hurtado | 21 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/10/2016 | Long Beach | CA | 33.8776896 | -118.2027059 | Long Beach Police Department |
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| Hurtado pointed a gun at police as he tried to run from a traffic stop. | nbclosangeles.com |
| 17385 | Jason Wade Meador | 50 | Male | European-American/White | 03/10/2016 | Odessa | TX | 31.8886817 | -102.373296 | U.S. Marshals Service, Odessa Police Department |
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| Police say a man was cornered in an alley and he poured flammable liquid on himself before he pointed his gun at law enforcement and was shot and killed. | oaoa.com |
| 17383 | Wesley Sheppard | 37 | Male | European-American/White | 03/10/2016 | Biloxi | MS | 30.4225685 | -88.9742314 | Biloxi Police Department |
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| Motorists reported a man with a gun on Popp's Ferry Bridge. At the time of this writing, it is uncertain if he fired on police before he was shot and killed. Sgt. Will Hipple and patrol officers Lance Miller and Matthew Boone were cleared in the killing. | sunherald.com |
| 17393 | Name withheld by police | Male | Race unspecified | 03/11/2016 | Mesa | AZ | 33.3648762 | -111.8424673 | Chandler Police Department |
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| A man robbed a bank and when police caught up with him at a gas station, showed them a gun, and then a few minutes later, shot and killed himself. | azcentral.com | |
| 17392 | Teodoro "Teo" Valencia Jr. | 23 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/11/2016 | Newark | CA | 37.5400138 | -122.0276843 | Newark Police Department |
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| Officers responded to a call of a male gunman holding up the restaurant. About three minutes later, the robbery suspect left through the kitchen where a police officer positioned outside the back of the restaurant ordered him to stop, police said. The man turned toward the officer and pointed a black semi-automatic handgun at him, police said. The officer shot and killed him. | insidebayarea.com |
| 17389 | Jack Goodman | 46 | Male | European-American/White | 03/11/2016 | Clinton | IL | 40.1452192 | -88.9553872 | Clinton Police Department |
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| Goodman called police saying he was armed and was going to kill himself. He advanced on police with a knife and was shot and killed. | news-gazette.com |
| 17390 | Tyre Devon Privott | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/11/2016 | Norfolk | VA | 36.9296513 | -76.2436771 | Norfolk Police Department |
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| Privott was wanted for questioning in a murder investigation. When police approached him, he shot at them and was shot and killed by Officer Ryan Crowder. | pilotonline.com |
| 17391 | Manford Moore Jr. | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 03/11/2016 | Rosalia | KS | 37.8101896 | -96.5942031 | Butler County Sheriff's Office |
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| A man was sitting in his truck with a gun pointed out the window, about a mile outside of town. He got out of the car and pointed it at deputies and was shot and killed. | kansas.com |
| 17397 | Keith Montgomery Jr. | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/12/2016 | Chester | PA | 39.843614 | -75.3671967 | Chester Police Department |
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| Police say the incident started as a suspected stolen car stop and escalated. A chase of three armed suspects ended in a shootout. Montgomery and Chester Police Captain Alan Davis was injured. | 6abc.com |
| 17394 | Marco Antonio Loud | 20 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/12/2016 | Houston | TX | 29.9936767 | -95.4866628 | Harris County Sheriff's Office |
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| A deputy interceded during an apparent carjacking attempt involving Loud, then struggled with him, police said. The deputy used a Taser to control the situation, to no avail. Police said Loud grabbed the Taser and struck the deputy, who shot and killed Loud. | chron.com |
| 17396 | Peter William Gaines | 37 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/12/2016 | Houston | TX | 29.7773156 | -95.3394298 | Houston Police Department |
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| Police said the man was along the feeder road of the Eastex Freeway where he appeared agitated and under the influence while yelling obscenities. An officer tried to calm down the man, but he charged at the officer and kept coming even after a Taser was used on him, police said. The officer then fired his weapon multiple times and struck the man. | chron.com |
| 17395 | Christopher Michael Tokazowski | 43 | Male | European-American/White | 03/12/2016 | Greensboro | NC | 36.1077244 | -79.8091666 | Greensboro Police Department |
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| Police went to a house and resolved a domestic dispute. Hours later, they returned to the home to serve papers, and Tokazowski met them at the door with a gun. After a standoff and a shootout, he was found dead. | greensboro.com |
| 17404 | Gevork Alachadzhyan | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 03/13/2016 | Glendale | CA | 34.1463326 | -118.2471899 | West Covina Police Department |
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| Alachadzhyan stole a West Covina police car and after a chase was shot and killed. | lacounty.gov |
| 17403 | Amy Jean McCoy | 38 | Female | European-American/White | 03/13/2016 | Vancouver | WA | 45.6813175 | -122.5745971 | Clark County Sheriff's Office |
|
| A woman driving erratically crashed her car, then tried to break into homes armed with hammer and knife. She attacked the police who responded to the attempted breakins, and they shot and killed her. | spokesman.com |
| 17400 | Jose Raul Cruz | 16 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/13/2016 | Addison | TX | 32.9400024 | -96.8557398 | Farmers Branch Police Department |
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| Off-duty Officer Ken Johnson saw a burglary and pursued the stolen car. While attempting an arrest, Johnson alleged that Jose Raul Cruz made a sudden threatening movement and shot and killed him. | google.com |
| 17402 | Joshua Grubb | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 03/13/2016 | Lenoir City | TN | 35.8290162 | -84.2815536 | Lenoir City Police Department |
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| Police responded to a call from the Ruby Tuesdays restaurant across the street from the Bimbo's gas station. Police were arresting the driver of a pickup, when a passenger took off. Officer Tyrel Lorenz got in the back of the truck and shot and killed Grubb. Lenoir City was later ordered to pay "six figures" to stave off the threat of a lawsuit from the family of the man. | police1.com |
| 17405 | Jacai Colson | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/13/2016 | Landover | MD | 38.9170672 | -76.8759246 | Prince George's County Police Department |
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| Prince George's County Police Officer Jacai Colson was killed when a gunman opened fire on officers outside the department's District III station, which is near the county headquarters, police said. Colson was intentionally shot and killed by another officer during the exchange of gunfire. He was not in uniform, and it may have been a case of mistaken identity. | washingtonpost.com |
| 17401 | Wesley Chad Deerman | 26 | Male | European-American/White | 03/13/2016 | Piedmont | AL | 33.9245454 | -85.6113501 | Piedmont Police Department |
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| Police say Deerman fired on them after he ran into a ditch, fleeing capture while driving a stolen car. He was shot and killed. | wvtm13.com |
| 17406 | Lamar Harris | 29 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/14/2016 | Chicago | IL | 41.8710302 | -87.7181233 | Chicago Police Department |
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| Officers were investigating "possible narcotics activity," police said. They approached Harris, who took off running and then turned and fired, hitting one officer in the back, another in the foot and the third officer in the chest, possibly in his bulletproof vest, police said. At least one of the officers shot and killed Harris. | chicagotribune.com |
| 17409 | Daniel Wooters | 38 | Male | European-American/White | 03/15/2016 | Evansville | IN | 37.9929525 | -87.5095105 | Evansville Police Department |
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| Evansville officers fatally shot a man after a chase that started when he charged at another officer with a knife and stole her squad car. | courierpress.com |
| 17408 | Joseph Harris | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 03/15/2016 | Russellville | KY | 36.8508644 | -86.8918894 | Russellville Police Department |
|
| Harris apparently shot his girlfriend and then fled. Police caught up with him a few blocks away and shot and killed him. | apnews.com |
| 17407 | Ed Russell McIver Sr. | 42 | Male | European-American/White | 03/15/2016 | Fort Worth | TX | 32.7309319 | -97.4957204 | Fort Worth Police Department |
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| Fort Worth police officers attempted a felony traffic stop for 43-year-old Ed McIver Sr., who was with his 21-year-old son, Ed McIver Jr. The pair fled, and the father was shot and killed not long later. The son was later captured. | google.com |
| 23457 | Name withheld by police | 33 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/15/2016 | Tucson | AZ | 32.2398059 | -110.9011857 | Tucson Police Department |
|
| An unidentified person was shot and killed by a Tucson officer. No news reports are available for this death. The person was allegedly armed with a handgun. | google.com |
| 17410 | Charles Thomas Sellers Jr. | 38 | Male | European-American/White | 03/15/2016 | Willow Park | TX | 32.731819 | -97.622604 | Parker County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Sellers shot himself during a DUI traffic stop. | force.com |
| 17412 | Dennis Matthew Penny | 40 | Male | European-American/White | 03/16/2016 | Lilesville | NC | 35.0204217 | -79.8940806 | Anson County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Deputies were called to check the welfare of a woman on Blewett Falls Road in Lilesville. The woman's boyfriend, Penny, exchanged gunfire with the deputies and was shot and killed. | ansonrecord.com |
| 17413 | Cristian Rene Medina | 23 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/16/2016 | Los Angeles | CA | 33.9811937 | -118.2411736 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department |
|
| Deputies responded to a false robbery report and found Medina, who held his hands as though he were holding a gun, pointing his finger at the deputies. He was shot and killed. | latimes.com |
| 17418 | Vincent Avila | 25 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/16/2016 | Apple Valley | CA | 34.5071819 | -117.2253505 | Fontana Police Department |
|
| An off-duty Fontana police officer shot and killed a suspected robber at the officer's home, according to police. The officer said he woke up and found a man—armed with a handgun—in his home, trying to steal property. The off-duty officer briefly struggled with the man, eventually holding him at gunpoint, but the man refused to comply with commands to show his hands or to lie down on the ground. When he reached for his waist, the officer shot and killed him. | ktla.com |
| 17411 | Eric Hernandez | 33 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/16/2016 | San Antonio | TX | 29.3627304 | -98.4894756 | San Antonio Police Department |
|
| Hernandez got into an altercation with neighbors who were moving furniture and fired shots at their home around 2 a.m. He went back inside his home, and while a search warrant was being prepared, police kept watch to make sure he didn't come out again with a gun. When SWAT arrived around 10 a.m. to the serve the warrant, the man came out of the house armed with a weapon and started pacing in front of his home and in the street. He was shot and killed. | ksat.com |
| 17417 | Dallis Hernandez | 23 | Male | European-American/White | 03/16/2016 | Davie | FL | 26.0418063 | -80.3536378 | Miramar Police Department |
|
| A Miramar police officer shot someone who attempted to break into his home, police said. The incident was reported shortly after 6 a.m. while Det. Tate Thomas was at home with his children. | local10.com |
| 17424 | Sunny Chin | 53 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 03/17/2016 | Tampa | FL | 27.888922 | -82.4991115 | Tampa Police Department |
|
| Police say officers responded to a domestic disturbance call. Once on scene, officers spoke to Sunny Chin, 53, who they say who refused to cooperate and pointed a handgun at them, misfired, and when back into the house. Later, Chin came out of the house and onto his carport, with a gun tucked into a towel around his waist. Officers approached the suspect while carrying a shield, and ordered him to keep his hands visible and not fire on them. Chin then reportedly reached for the weapon at his waist and fired one shot, which hit the shield. Officers then shot and killed Chin. | baynews9.com |
| 17421 | Wyllis J. "Will" Spillars | 44 | Male | European-American/White | 03/17/2016 | Conway | SC | 33.6913605 | -78.9983368 | Horry County Police Department |
|
| Police responded to a suicidal call. After a five-hour standoff, he apparently shot himself. | myrtlebeachonline.com |
| 17422 | Ryan Shorak | 37 | Male | European-American/White | 03/17/2016 | Midland | PA | 40.698386 | -80.4934 | Midland Police Department, Ohioville Police Department |
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| Authorities said Shorak, who had been drinking alcohol, threatened his wife and was armed with an AK-47 and 50 caliber pistol. She left the home, but when police arrived the man fired at least ten shots at officers with a semi-automatic rifle. After several hours of standoff, police shot and killed him. | ncnewsonline.com |
| 17423 | Map Kong | 38 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 03/17/2016 | Burnsville | MN | 44.7746951 | -93.3170555 | Burnsville Police Department |
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| Officers responded to a call about a man acting suspiciously outside the McDonalds off Hwy. 13 and Washburn Avenue. They confronted the man, who police say was brandishing a knife, and Officers Taylor Jacobs, John Mott and Maskim Yakovlev shot and killed him. | patch.com |
| 17419 | Christopher Demond Nelms | 30 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/17/2016 | Houston | TX | 29.929321 | -95.4105634 | Houston Police Department |
|
| Police were surveiling five suspects who attempted to rob an Affordable Furniture store, police said. The men came out running and ignored verbal commands to drop their weapons. Two were shot and killed. | chron.com |
| 17420 | Scott Lance Bennett | 29 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/17/2016 | Houston | TX | 29.929321 | -95.4105634 | Houston Police Department |
|
| Police were surveiling five suspects who attempted to rob an Affordable Furniture store, police said. The men came out running and ignored verbal commands to drop their weapons. Two were shot and killed. | chron.com |
| 17426 | Deontea Perry Mackey | 17 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/18/2016 | Greenville | SC | 34.837258 | -82.381533 | Greenville Police Department |
|
| Officer Allen Jacobs and his partner were on patrol when they spotted Mackey on Rebecca Street and pulled over for a field interview, police said. But Mackey ran, leading officers on a foot chase that snaked through woods and behind houses. Jacobs' partner radioed in, saying an officer was down. Jacobs was struck multiple times, despite wearing a bulletproof vest. Mackey kept running for about a half mile, crossing onto Baxter Street toward a spur to the Swamp Rabbit Trail. Two officers were there waiting. Cornered, police said officers saw Mackey call his mother before taking his own life. | greenvilleonline.com |
| 17427 | Michael Mallet aka Michael Mallett | 49 | Male | European-American/White | 03/18/2016 | Byron | CA | 37.878525 | -121.64742 | Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Police went to arrest a man for child molestation. After an overnight standoff, police sent in tear gas. He came out with a gun and was shot and killed. | sfgate.com |
| 17428 | David Alma Giles | 60 | Male | European-American/White | 03/18/2016 | Idaho Falls | ID | 43.4701735 | -111.9914279 | Jefferson County Sheriff's Office |
|
| A deputy was initially responding to a 911 call regarding a medical issue along U.S. Highway 20. When the deputy arrived with Giles at the EIRMC parking lot, a fight occurred and Giles was shot and killed. | eastidahonews.com |
| 17431 | Thurman Reynolds | 21 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/19/2016 | Park Forest | IL | 41.4765106 | -87.6861845 | Park Forest Police Department |
|
| Park Forest Police were investigating a break-in at a vacant home and a stolen vehicle found at the location. After learning a person was inside the building, police set up a perimeter around the home. As the suspect left, police say they tried to take him into custody, he produced a handgun and started shooting at the officers, and he was shot and killed. | cbslocal.com |
| 17433 | Tony Shakir | 38 | Male | Middle Eastern | 03/19/2016 | Maricopa | AZ | 33.0468027 | -112.0516197 | Maricopa Police Department |
|
| Maricopa Police Department officers responded to a call of shots fired. When officers arrived, they learned of a domestic dispute between an ex-husband and ex-wife and discovered Randy Phillips, 49, had already been fatally shot. A woman and two children were still inside the house with the shooter, identified as 38-year-old Tony Shakir. Negotiations with Shakir lasted more than five hours as officers were in contact with him via telephone. When police made their way inside the home, where Shakir was found dead in the garage from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. | inmaricopa.com |
| 17430 | Dylan R. Whitaker | 23 | Male | European-American/White | 03/19/2016 | White Plains | KY | 37.1418509 | -87.415275 | Kentucky State Police |
|
| Kentucky State Police says a trooper was involved in a chase with an ATV that ended on Dragline Road. Police said the driver of the ATV, Whitaker, lost control and overturned. The suspect then allegedly brandished a handgun and fired shots at the trooper, who shot and killed him. | wbko.com |
| 17429 | India M. Beaty | 25 | Female | African-American/Black | 03/19/2016 | Norfolk | VA | 36.9265566 | -76.1909179 | Norfolk Police Department |
|
| Police said Beaty threatened officers with a replica gun when they shot and killed her. | cbsnews.com |
| 17432 | Joshua Douglas | 24 | Male | European-American/White | 03/19/2016 | Covington | LA | 30.4256261 | -90.0602948 | St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office |
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| Police said a deputy killed Douglas in a residential area off Helenberg Road south of Covington. Deputies had been chasing Douglas for a traffic violation. | nola.com |
| 17437 | Boyd Keith Ballard | 61 | Male | European-American/White | 03/20/2016 | Hopewell | VA | 37.2911428 | -77.2888827 | Hopewell Police Department |
|
| Ballard stabbed his daughter's boyfriend and was shot and killed in the parking lot when he advanced toward officer with knives saying, "Shoot me." | nbc12.com |
| 17438 | Evan Dorsey | 35 | Male | European-American/White | 03/20/2016 | Russiaville | IN | 40.4141504 | -86.2744378 | Howard County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Several Howard Co. sheriff's deputies attempted to deliver an outstanding warrant out of Clinton County for possession of a syringe. The sheriff's department said Dorsey didn't respond when deputies knocked on the door, but he simply started shooting, hitting two officers; one died. After a two-hour standoff, police entered the residence and found him dead of an apparent suicide. | theindychannel.com |
| 17435 | Abraham Martinez | 62 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/20/2016 | Fort Wayne | IN | 41.0496417 | -85.1332755 | Fort Wayne Police Department |
|
| Officers with the Fort Wayne Police Department and Indiana State Police responded to a call about shots fired at an AutoZone. When they arrived on scene, officers found a man with a gun outside of the business. According to police, the suspect began to fire shots at officers while trying to flee. He was shot and killed by Fort Wayne Police Officer David Wilkins and Indiana State Police trooper John Grant. | dailyherald.com |
| 17436 | Robert Dentmond | 16 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/20/2016 | Gainesville | FL | 29.6404206 | -82.4055113 | Alachua County Sheriff's Office, Gainesville Police Department |
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| Officials say they responded to the Majestic Oaks apartment complex after Dentmond called 911 saying he had an automatic weapon and that he was going to shoot himself. Dentmond was shot and killed after officials told him to drop his gun, but he didn't comply. | gainesville.com |
| 17439 | Clarence Briggs | 55 | Male | European-American/White | 03/20/2016 | Fort Littleton | PA | 40.0505088 | -77.9597247 | Pennsylvania State Police |
|
| Armed with a handgun, Briggs, who retired from the police force four years ago, went to the toll booth and ordered two of the workers into the booth, police said. Briggs then attempted to tie up the victims, but when they began to fight back, Briggs tried to leave the scene, as the victims also tried to run. About that time, a turnpike fare collection vehicle arrived at the toll station, as Ronald Heist, who worked as a security guard at the turnpike, also came into view. At that point, Briggs opened fire, striking Grouse and Heist. The driver of the collection vehicle then fled, and Briggs took off in the vehicle and drove it to his own car, which was parked several hundred yards away. Briggs began to unload money from the collection vehicle into his own car when police arrived, and there was an exchange of gunfire. Briggs was shot and killed. | mcall.com |
| 17442 | Ralph "Phil" Grenon | 76 | Male | European-American/White | 03/21/2016 | Burlington | VT | 44.4769761 | -73.2158345 | Burlington Police Department |
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| Grenon, who was mentally ill and known to police, advanced on police with knives when he was shot and killed by Officer David Bowers. | burlingtonfreepress.com |
| 17443 | Edward Gorinski | 28 | Male | European-American/White | 03/21/2016 | Greensburg | PA | 40.27928 | -79.5471946 | Pennsylvania State Police |
|
| Gorinski was using a rifle in an attempted carjacking. He was shot and killed. | wtae.com |
| 17441 | Dylan Pape | 25 | Male | European-American/White | 03/21/2016 | Stamford | CT | 41.1135038 | -73.5278929 | Stamford Police Department |
|
| Police responded for a report that Dylan Pape had a gun and was threatening harm. After an hour of negotiations, police said Pape appeared with what appeared to be a gun and was shot by Lt. Christopher Baker and Sgt. Steven Perrotta. Assistant Police Chief James Matheny said the gun was a BB gun, although it appeared to be a real semiautomatic pistol. | stamfordadvocate.com |
| 17447 | Travis J. Blair | 33 | Male | European-American/White | 03/22/2016 | Fredericksburg | VA | 38.2808636 | -77.4786511 | Fredericksburg Police Department |
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| During a traffic stop, Blair refused to comply with the officer's commands, and they fought. Blair then put his vehicle in drive, dragging the officer before the car crashed into a ditch. The fight continued between Blair and the officer. Blair then fled the vehicle on foot. The officer pursued the suspect on foot for a few hundred feet before catching up to the suspect. Blair again refused to comply with the officer's commands, another fight happened, and the officer shot and killed Blair. Blair apparently was wanted for failing to appear in court on a felony drug possession charge. | wjla.com |
| 17445 | David Gillispie | 43 | Male | European-American/White | 03/22/2016 | Spencerville | OH | 40.6729009 | -84.3175933 | Lima Police Department, Auglaize County Sheriff's Office |
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| Sgt. David Gillispie, of the Lima Police Department, shoots and kills himself in cemetery in front of Auglaize County deputies. | daytondailynews.com |
| 17446 | Ethan James Rincon | 25 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/22/2016 | Palmetto Bay | FL | 25.5998868 | -80.3359092 | Miami-Dade Police Department |
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| Ethan James Rincon was shot and killed by police late Tuesday after cracking the windows and slashing the tires of six cars, then threatened three officers with a pickaxe, police said. | miamiherald.com |
| 17452 | Dustin Edward Jones | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 03/23/2016 | Okaloosa Island | FL | 30.3966304 | -86.6008301 | Escambia County Sheriff's Office |
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| Investigators say a disturbance began outside the Red Rose Gentleman's Club on Santa Rosa Boulevard and spilled over into a parking lot across the street where shots were fired. An off-duty Escambia County Sheriff's deputy was injured, as was another man. Jones was killed. | thegoodcountry.com |
| 17450 | Raymond Gonzalez | 34 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/23/2016 | Fresno | CA | 36.770475 | -119.7906315 | Fresno Police Department |
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| Gonzalez was standing with another man in front of Scotty's Liquor Store when officers spotted him. A plainclothes officer thought he was acting "suspiciously" and tried to contact him, police said. Gonzalez dropped a backpack and fled, and as he ran he pulled a handgun out of his waistband.An officer fired one round and missed. Police said body cam video shows when Gonzalez raised himself up, he had a black object in his hand that the officer believed was a gun. The officer fired again, this time killing Gonzalez. | fresnobee.com |
| 17449 | Sean Curtis | 38 | Male | European-American/White | 03/23/2016 | Ventura | CA | 34.2593774 | -119.2088773 | Ventura Police Department |
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| Police say Curtis shot himself when they arrived to question him about the molestation of two 10-year-old girls. | nbclosangeles.com |
| 17448 | Daven Scott Hannu | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 03/23/2016 | Thornton | CO | 39.8526338 | -104.9823125 | Thornton Police Department |
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| Police said an officer saw a suspicious driver pull into an RTD station lot. The car's lights were turned off. The officer talked to the driver, and walked back his patrol car. Police said the officer was seated back in his car when the suspect shot at him with a shotgun. The officer fired back, but the man returned to his car and drove off. The driver stopped in the middle of the road at Grant Street and E. 86th Avenue. Police said the suspect approached them with the shotgun and started shooting. Police shot and killed him. | thedenverchannel.com |
| 17451 | Alexio Allen | 30 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/23/2016 | Memphis | TN | 35.2113734 | -89.9457056 | Memphis Police Department |
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| Officers were called to the house by a woman who said Allen was having a mental episode that included hallucinations. Police said the officer shot and killed Allen as he struggled with a woman believed to be his girlfriend or fiancee over a rifle. | wreg.com |
| 17453 | Taylor Devon Smith | 21 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/23/2016 | Richmond | TX | 29.6868948 | -95.6930943 | Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office |
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| The Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force served a warrant on Smith at a residence for aggravated robbery. Smith hid under a bed with his hands beneath his chest. Task Force members tasered him twice. Smith shot himself. The Task Force is composed of local law enforcement who cooperate with the US Marshall's Service to capture fugitives and people accused of violent crimes. | force.com |
| 17454 | Joel Gonzales | 48 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/24/2016 | Pueblo | CO | 38.2937092 | -104.6252116 | Pueblo Police Department |
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| Police were responding to a disturbance call. When they arrived they encountered Gonzales inside the home, armed. He was holding a handgun in one hand and a knife in the other. Officers repeatedly told him to drop the weapons, but Gonzales refused and advanced on officers who shot and killed him. | kktv.com |
| 17458 | Andrew Bermudez aka Andrew Mike | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 03/24/2016 | Redlands | CA | 34.0608958 | -117.1809505 | Redlands Police Department |
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| A man abducted his ex-girlfriend from an Office Depot, holding her hostage for nearly three hours during a standoff with police before shooting her and being killed by police sharpshooters. | nbclosangeles.com |
| 17459 | Dominique "Nonny" Silva | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/24/2016 | Pawtucket | RI | 41.8905642 | -71.3710211 | Pawtucket Police Department |
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| Police responded to a call regarding an armed robbery. Police said the officer said Silva, who matched the description, tried to question him, and he ran, pointing a gun—later found to be a BB gun. He was shot and killed by Officer Julianne Borsari. | necn.com |
| 17457 | John Melvin Toles | 66 | Male | European-American/White | 03/24/2016 | Cape Coral | FL | 26.6743828 | -82.0600795 | Cape Coral Police Department |
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| Police detectives have identified the terminally ill man they say exchanged gunfire with officers. Police say after the exchange of gunfire, Toles re-entered his home. Police heard a gunshot from within the home and found Toles dead. | news-press.com |
| 17460 | Robert L. Dussourd | 44 | Male | European-American/White | 03/24/2016 | Braintree | MA | 42.1683929 | -71.0027436 | Braintree Police Department |
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| Police were investigating a domestic dispute. Police found Dussourd hiding under a parked car, police said. Police tried to talk Dussourd into surrendering, but he emerged from underneath the car brandishing a knife, which he continued to hold even after officers fired at him with non-lethal bean bags.He was shot and killed after reportedly telling police to shoot him. | patriotledger.com |
| 17456 | Mario Sandoval | 19 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/24/2016 | Albuquerque | NM | 35.0284477 | -106.9510475 | Laguna Tribal Police Department |
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| Police were investigating a stolen vehicle. Police say Sandoval fired first and was shot and killed. | abqjournal.com |
| 17455 | Jermon J. Seals Sr. | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/24/2016 | Blue Springs | MO | 38.9993708 | -94.2737377 | Kansas City Police Department |
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| Police were investigating a series of robberies. Seals was one of the suspects, and he was shot and killed during a robbery. Police said he pointed a gun at them. | kshb.com |
| 17461 | Robert Adams | 40 | Male | European-American/White | 03/25/2016 | Las Vegas | NV | 36.0990416 | -115.1083293 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department |
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| Adams shot himself during a foot chase with the police, according to police. | ktnv.com |
| 17464 | Jose Perez | 39 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/26/2016 | Lowell | MA | 42.6317907 | -71.3167432 | Lowell Police Department |
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| Two 911 callers reported a man at 75 Cambridge St. "threatening to kill everyone." Officers Guillermo Rojas and Chase Suong shot and killed Perez when he advanced on police and refused to drop his weapons. | necn.com |
| 17462 | Robert Guerin | 33 | Male | European-American/White | 03/26/2016 | Roswell | NM | 33.3848993 | -104.5546989 | Roswell Police Department |
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| People called 911 Saturday night to report Robert Guerin driving erratically while waving a gun out the window, police said. When officers pulled him over, there was a brief standoff. Police say Guerin pointed his gun at three officers, and one of the officers shot and killed him. | rdrnews.com |
| 17466 | Terrence Shane Blackburn | 36 | Male | European-American/White | 03/26/2016 | Grundy | VA | 37.2853345 | -82.0661847 | Grundy Police Department |
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| Virginia State Police say a Grundy Police officer and a Buchanan County Sheriff's Deputy responded to a call of a suicidal person. Before they got to the scene a second call came in saying the man was armed and outside the home firing a weapon. When the deputy and officer arrived, they got into a confrontation with Blackburn. Police say the Grundy Police Officer shot and killed him. | wset.com |
| 17467 | Baelyn Kruger | 18 | Male | European-American/White | 03/26/2016 | Shelbyville | MI | 42.630422 | -85.642497 | Allegan County Sheriff's Office |
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| Kruger, an armed robbery suspect, shot himself following a brief police chase and car crash, police said. | mlive.com |
| 17465 | Donald Andrew White | 55 | Male | European-American/White | 03/26/2016 | Myrtle Beach | SC | 33.7112497 | -78.882302 | Myrtle Beach Police Department |
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| According to Myrtle Beach Police Department, a person called to say that a man was acting strange at the intersection of 21st Avenue North and Robert Grissom Parkway. Officers arrived at the intersection and saw that the man had a gun in his hand. The man presented the gun in a manner that made officers fear for their lives, and they shot and killed him. | myrtlebeachonline.com |
| 17463 | Patrick Matthew McManamon | 46 | Male | European-American/White | 03/26/2016 | Tampa | FL | 28.0804697 | -82.4266069 | Tampa Police Department |
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| Police say two people started arguing and shooting at each other. A witness called 911 and followed the men to the Hyatt Place Hotel and led police right to where they could find the suspects. Police say one of the suspects, Edward King, 51, was already dead once officers arrived at the Hyatt parking lot. That's when police say 46-year-old Patrick McManamon opened fire and shot Officer Jose Rodriguez, 53. Rodriguez and another officer were able to return fire, killing McManamon. | tampabay.com |
| 24448 | Lisa Smith | 50 | Female | European-American/White | 03/26/2016 | Frankfort | IN | 40.2879583 | -86.5194507 | Colfax Town Marshall |
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| Deputy town marshal Keith Smith shot and killed his wife, Lisa Smith. Keith Smith stated he and his wife Lisa had been discussing a suicide pact between them when he apparently accidentally shot her. | wane.com |
| 17476 | Michael Alison | 35 | Male | European-American/White | 03/27/2016 | Little Rock | AR | 34.723433 | -92.193432 | Little Rock Police Department |
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| Officers responded to the residence after receiving reports that a man wearing a bullet-resistant vest had been firing a rifle in the area. According to a police incident report, Alison told officers to leave and then officers heard a single gunshot from inside the residence. Police sent a tactical robot inside the house and found Alison lying dead on the floor with a rifle beside him. | katv.com |
| 17473 | Deriante Deon Miller | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/27/2016 | Kinston | NC | 35.33212 | -77.635437 | North Carolina State Highway Patrol |
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| A trooper responded to a call for assistance by the Lenoir County Sheriff's Office involving a shooting that had occurred at Club Aries. As the trooper approached the scene, he encountered two men running toward him. The trooper saw that one of the subjects had a gun. The man failed to comply with the trooper's commands to stop and drop the weapon. Police say he pointed the weapon at the trooper who shot and killed him. | wnct.com |
| 17475 | Earl Thomas Ashby | 33 | Male | European-American/White | 03/27/2016 | Splendora | TX | 30.2333 | -95.1811 | Montgomery County Sheriff's Office |
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| Deputies responded to a home on a welfare check. When they arrived they were told Ashby had a gun and had gone into a shed near the home. A person in the home told deputies she heard a gunshot from the shed after Ashby went there. After deputies surrounded the shed and tried to speak with Ashby, the door of the shed suddenly swung open. Ashby came out carrying a handgun. Deputies ordered him to drop the gun and get down onto the ground, but they said Ashby ignored their commands. He moved toward the deputies, raised the gun and pointed it them, and he was shot and killed. | chron.com |
| 17472 | Jeffrey K. Lanahan | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 03/27/2016 | Lee's Summit | MO | 38.989028 | -94.3863343 | Lee's Summit Police Department |
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| Police responded to a domestic disturbance at Lanahan's home, police said. According to police, Lanahan charged out of the front door in the direction of the officer with a large knife in his hand. The officer shot Lanahan in the chest, killing him. | fox4kc.com |
| 17474 | Loreal Tsingine | 27 | Female | Native American/Alaskan | 03/27/2016 | Winslow | AZ | 35.0264256 | -110.7025117 | Winslow Police Department |
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| Two officers who responded to a reported shoplifting of beer from the Circle K in Winslow. The shoplifter was described as a Native American female wearing gray sweatpants and a white top. Two blocks from Villaescusa's house, the two officers attempted to apprehend Tsingine. According to police, while attempting to take the subject into custody, a struggle ensued. The subject displayed a weapon which the responding officer perceived as a substantial threat. The officer shot and killed Tsingine. Video contradicts some of the threat expressed by police. | azcentral.com |
| 17481 | Robert Morgan Garrison Jr. | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 03/29/2016 | Piedmont | SC | 34.7835562 | -82.4160112 | Greenville County Sheriff's Office |
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| A deputy was investigating an assault report when Garrison came out with a knife and gun. Garrison was ordered repeatedly to put the rifle down but police said Garrison did not comply. Garrison reportedly yelled at deputies "Kill me! Kill me! Kill me!" and then pointed his rifle as if to shoot. Two deputies complied. | wspa.com |
| 17483 | Denise Renie Fairchild | 50 | Female | European-American/White | 03/29/2016 | Fleming Township | MN | 46.6206768 | -93.5702639 | Aitkin County Sheriff's Office |
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| Deputies were called to check on the woman's welfare and located her vehicle in a rural area northeast of Aitkin. Police say the woman was armed with firearms and threatened to harm herself. Deputies and Department of Natural Resources personnel talked to the woman. Sheriff's officials say she shot at officers at least twice during negotiations. Officers returned fire, killing the woman. | startribune.com |
| 17482 | Joseph Louis Melvin | 46 | Male | European-American/White | 03/29/2016 | Clearlake | CA | 38.9730142 | -122.6542898 | Clearlake Police Department |
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| Police responded to a burgary alarm and found Melvin. They fought and the officer eventually shot and killed Melvin. | pressdemocrat.com |
| 17486 | Angel Montion | 33 | Male | European-American/White | 03/30/2016 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.012382 | -118.126995 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department |
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| Deputies were investigating a kidnapping. A man came out of the home and threatened deputies with a handgun, police say. Deputies shot him several times in the upper torso, killing him. | latimes.com |
| 17485 | Ruben Cossyleon | 25 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/30/2016 | Glendale | AZ | 33.5094006 | -112.2032339 | Phoenix Police Department |
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| Phoenix police received a call about a fight, possibly involving someone with a weapon. A few minutes later, a second call came in from that location reporting that a man with a gun had forced another man into a vehicle. Officers in the area spotted the vehicle and conducted a traffic stop in Glendale. Police said the suspect immediately fired at the officers. The passenger, Cossyleon, was shot and killed. The driver, Fernando Jaime, was to face murder charges. The owner of the bullet has not been disclosed. | azfamily.com |
| 17487 | Thomas Lagano | 52 | Male | European-American/White | 03/30/2016 | Jackson | GA | 33.2817525 | -83.9633106 | Jackson Police Department |
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| Police were called to respond to a domestic situation. Lagano met them with a gun, and he was ordered to put it down and he didn't. When he pointed it at police, he was shot and killed. | 11alive.com |
| 17493 | Michael Brown | Male | European-American/White | 03/31/2016 | St. Petersburg | FL | 27.8025263 | -82.6617735 | St. Petersburg Police Department |
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| Brown likely killed the mother of his child, and then shot himself as police closed in. | abcactionnews.com | |
| 17490 | Matthew Vincent Wood Jr. | 43 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/31/2016 | Baltimore | MD | 39.3090543 | -76.6104761 | Baltimore Police Department |
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| Police caught Wood and his son allegedly unloading loaded weapons from a van before a planned gang-related mass-shooting. Police fired and killed both armed men at the scene. | baltimoresun.com |
| 17491 | Kimani Michael Johnson | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/31/2016 | Baltimore | MD | 39.3090543 | -76.6104761 | Baltimore Police Department |
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| Police came upon a father and son (Johnson) who were unloading loaded weapons from a vehicle and taking offensive positions, allegedly about to use the guns in a gang-related act of violence when they were shot and killed by police. | baltimoresun.com |
| 17495 | James Craig Simpson | 31 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/31/2016 | Las Vegas | NV | 36.3269859 | -115.2959831 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department |
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| Police said Simpson shot and killed Branden Hughes, 31, and Felicia Wimberly-Hughes, 46, before Metro officers arrived in the neighborhood. Metro K-9 Officer Nicky was killed in an exchange of gunfire with Simpson and the officers. | reviewjournal.com |
| 17492 | James Brown III | 34 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/31/2016 | Richmond | VA | 37.571874 | -77.4656995 | Virginia State Police |
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| Subject with an alleged history of hatred toward police opened fire at a Virginia State Trooper at a Greyhound station in Richmond, Virginia. Nearby officers shot and killed the man. | richmond.com |
| 17496 | Jesus "Chuy" Juarez | 65 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/01/2016 | Lockhart | TX | 29.873895 | -97.670155 | Caldwell County Sheriff's Office |
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| Lockhart police were called to assist Caldwell County deputies looking for a person involved in a burglary. A deputy on the scene was flagged down by the initial complainant who had located Jesus Juarez near the Dairy Queen directly behind the burglary victim's home. The Caldwell County Sheriff's Office said the deputy told other officers Juarez had armed himself with a weed cutter. He was shot and killed as he advanced upon the officer. | kxan.com |
| 17498 | Name withheld by police | Female | Race unspecified | 04/01/2016 | Surprise | AZ | 33.6316666 | -112.4079643 | Surprise Police Department |
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| Officers were dispatched to a Surprise bank about a robbery that had just occurred. They say an adult female suspect fled the area in a vehicle. Police located the car not far from the bank and say the woman pointed a handgun to her head. At some point during negotiations with officers, police say she shot herself in the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene. | cbs5az.com | |
| 17497 | Joel Fabela | 37 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/01/2016 | Odessa | TX | 31.869146 | -102.3202152 | Odessa Police Department |
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| Police were trying to arrest Jody Threadgill at a Quality Inn & Suites. Joel Fabela allegedly grabbed a gun and pointed it at police officers during a fight and was shot and killed. Threadgill escaped. | newswest9.com |
| 29896 | Jesse Juarez | 65 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/01/2016 | Lockhart | TX | 29.873895 | -97.670155 | Caldwell County Sheriff's Office |
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| Police responded to a burglary in progress. Police asked for backup from the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office. By 4:24 a.m., deputies arrived at the home and began questioning the homeowners. They told deputies a man broke several windows and verbally threatened them before running away. As deputies searched for the burglary suspect, the homeowner alerted them the man, Jesse Juarez, had returned to the house. Deputy Michael Taylor said the man was carrying a long-handled weed cutter. Taylor ordered Juarez to drop the weed cutter but he allegedly refused and with the long-handled tool raised, he moved in the direction of the deputy who took several steps of retreat into a field, and Taylor shot and killed him. | kxan.com |
| 17500 | Cameron Gover | 30 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/02/2016 | Indianapolis | IN | 39.8233225 | -86.2373424 | Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department |
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| Police were called to a McDonald's as it was allegedly being robbed by Cameron Gover and another man. Police shot and killed Gover as he brandished a gun, and wounded his partner. | indystar.com |
| 17502 | Darrin Andrew Martin | 25 | Male | European-American/White | 04/03/2016 | Austin | TX | 30.2695977 | -97.7514338 | Austin Police Department |
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| A man was seen breaking into cars in the Austin City Lofts parking garage by private security, who was assisted by an APD cop on patrol in the area. As the officer attempted to restrain the suspect, the private security guard sees a gun, yells "Gun!" and the suspect fires a round at the officer, who returned fire and killed Martin. | kxan.com |
| 17504 | Melissa Boarts | 36 | Female | European-American/White | 04/03/2016 | Notasulga | AL | 32.5205771 | -85.6522753 | Auburn Police Department |
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| Police received a call about a possibly suicidal woman with a history of mental illness, threatening to hurt herself with a pocket knife. They made visual contact with her on the Interstate moving south toward Auburn and pulled her over when she exited on Red Creek Road. The woman allegedly got out of her car and charged at officers, who opened fire, killing her at the scene. | www.al.com |
| 17505 | Preston Paul Perez Sr. | 48 | Male | European-American/White | 04/03/2016 | Raceland | LA | 29.7356385 | -90.620118 | Louisiana State Police |
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| Stopped for reckless driving on April 3, Preston Perez was shot and killed as he brandished a flip-flop. He died on April 29, 2016. | houmatoday.com |
| 17503 | David S. Mack | 69 | Male | European-American/White | 04/03/2016 | Eau Claire | WI | 44.8236414 | -91.5466031 | Eau Claire County Sheriff's Office |
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| According to police, a deputy was conducting a traffic stop in a parking lot of Hope Gospel Mission. During the stop, it was discovered David Mack was wanted on two federal parole and probation warrants. He became confrontational when the deputy tried to take him into custody and was armed with a Taser. As the deputy tried to move away from him, Mack continued to be confrontational and advanced upon the deputy. The deputy shot and killed him. | startribune.com |
| 17507 | Raul Salvador Marquez Heraldes | 63 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/04/2016 | Minneapolis | MN | 44.9623578 | -93.244125 | Minneapolis Police Department |
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| Responding to an early morning call, police encountered Marquez Heraldes in a foyer armed with a knife. He lunged at them with the knife and escaped to the bathroom of an apartment. After attempting to contact the man, officers heard screams for help, forced their way inside and found Heraldes stabbing a man. Officer Eric Malmberg and Officer David Robins opened fire, killing him. | startribune.com |
| 17506 | Ivan Arellano | 29 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/04/2016 | Arlington | TX | 32.6809779 | -97.1219712 | Arlington Police Department |
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| Arellano, a convicted felon was wanted at the time of his death for felony violence assault in attacks on his 17-year-old former girlfriend, Desiree Morris, who had been killed, presumably by Arellano. | wfaa.com |
| 17508 | Kevin Hicks | 44 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/05/2016 | Indianapolis | IN | 39.7815692 | -86.1160977 | Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department |
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| A woman called 911 to report her husband was hitting her in the car at a local gas station. An officer already on the scene made contact with the suspect and an altercation ensued. The officer's TASER was allegedly knocked out of his hand and he fired at the subject, killing him at the scene. | indystar.com |
| 17509 | Peter Doherty | 52 | Male | European-American/White | 04/05/2016 | West Springfield | MA | 42.1330746 | -72.6264733 | West Springfield Police Department |
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| Neighbors called police to report cries of help during an alleged domestic situation. Upon arrival, the suspect, who had just allegedly stabbed his wife to death, charged them with a knife. They killed him at the scene. | masslive.com |
| 17513 | Cesar Frias | 20 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/06/2016 | Sylmar | CA | 34.3076087 | -118.4529836 | Los Angeles Police Department |
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| Officers made contact with the subject, known to be possibly mentally ill and armed with a kitchen knife. They attempted to subdue him with a Taser and a beanbag gun but the subject escaped into a nearby house. Officers fired gas shells into the home and the man walked out. They attempted to subdue him again with a Taser and bean bag gun but the man ran into the backyard of the house. Attempting to subdue him, the man allegedly attacked an officer with his knife. The officer fired his gun and the subject died later that night at a nearby hospital. | latimes.com |
| 17510 | LaRonda Sweatt | 40 | Female | African-American/Black | 04/06/2016 | Gallatin | TN | 36.3702482 | -86.4367475 | Gallatin Police Department |
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| Police were serving eviction papers on the subject when she allegedly took an ax and attacked a member of the sheriff's department. Officer James Spray fired and killed the woman. | tennessean.com |
| 17514 | Marvin Cremeans | 60 | Male | European-American/White | 04/06/2016 | Oak Hill | OH | 38.877284 | -82.669214 | Jackson County Sheriff's Office |
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| Police responded to a home-invasion, domestic violence call, shooting and killing Cremeans when he threatened his ex-wife with an ax. | wsaz.com |
| 17511 | Malik Henry | 19 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/06/2016 | Rochelle | IL | 41.9339915 | -89.0215952 | DeKalb Police Department |
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| A carjacking and pursuit ended when the suspect shot and killed himself. | wspynews.com |
| 17512 | Triandos Sherrard | 56 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/06/2016 | St. Louis | MO | 38.7390075 | -90.2562716 | St. Louis County Police Department |
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| Police said they responded to a shooting call. When they arrived, they found a 78-year-old man suffering from gunshot wounds. Around the same time, officers responded to the same block for a house fire. They said the house belonged to Sherrard. Police said the fire appeared to be started either prior to or just after the shooting, and believe Sherrard was the one who started it. Then, officers responded to a residence for an attempted suicide call, where a man was walking around outside with a gun. Officers arrived on the scene, but before they could make contact with the man, he committed suicide. Police identified him as Sherrard. | stltoday.com |
| 17517 | Luis Demetrio Gongora Pat | 45 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/07/2016 | San Francisco | CA | 37.7620235 | -122.4161084 | San Francisco Police Department |
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| A homeless outreach team of the police department was called about a homeless man allegedly wielding a knife. They tried to subdue him with beanbag shots. Gongora allegedly got up and charged at police, who opened fire and killed him at the scene. | patch.com |
| 17516 | Lance McIntire | 44 | Male | Native American/Alaskan | 04/07/2016 | Omaha | NE | 41.2125711 | -95.9604827 | Omaha Police Department |
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| Lance McIntire was wanted for evading police earlier in the day. They caught up with him outside Sol's Jewelry and Loan. Officers said that McIntire attempted to flee and drove in the general direction of an officer and was shot and killed. Police alleged vehicular assault. | omaha.com |
| 17522 | Melissa M. Abbott | 25 | Female | European-American/White | 04/08/2016 | Chippewa Falls | WI | 44.8835267 | -91.4218027 | Lake Hallie Police Department, Chippewa County Sheriff's Office |
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| Police responded to a disturbance call at a Wal-Mart where a developmentally disabled woman (shopping with chaperones) had allegedly "armed herself with a hatchet in the sporting goods department" and refused police commands to drop the weapon. Instead, she allegedly lunged toward an officer and was shot twice by Officer Adam Meyers, dying later at nearby hospital. | jsonline.com |
| 17520 | Dazion Flenaugh | 40 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/08/2016 | Sacramento | CA | 38.481371 | -121.440523 | Sacramento Police Department |
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| Police received a report that there was a man wandering around the Parkway neighborhood acting suspicious and appearing drunk or perhaps drugged. A couple hours later, police had detained the man in the back of a patrol car while they tried to sort out if there was any crime to hold him on. He allegedly escaped on foot and a chase ensued. He had managed to grab an ax and/or knives of some sort and when he allegedly charged officers, they opened fire and killed him. | dailymail.co.uk |
| 17521 | Lamont Gulley | 43 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/08/2016 | Kentwood | MI | 42.8974144 | -85.6071228 | Kentwood Police Department |
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| Gulley killed his wife, and fled as officers arrived. He was shot and killed a short time later when he resisted officers. | mlive.com |
| 17525 | Quron Williams | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/09/2016 | Philadelphia | PA | 40.0397078 | -75.1433925 | Philadelphia Police Department |
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| Police say off-duty officer, Erik Bullock, intervened when he saw the armed suspect robbing an elderly citizen. After identifying himself as police, the officer ordered the suspect to drop his weapon. The alleged robber then pointed a gun at the officer who fired his weapon, police say. He fled on foot with the officer in pursuit. Police say during the foot chase, the suspect fired his gun at the officer, and the officer shot and killed him. | 6abc.com |
| 17524 | Diahlo Grant | 27 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/09/2016 | New Brunswick | NJ | 40.4907687 | -74.4604024 | Franklin Township Police Department |
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| Grant was pursued by two Franklin Township police officers after an encounter on Somerset and Home Streets, officials said. The officers followed Grant across the town border on Somerset into New Brunswick where an exchange of gunfire and Grant was killed, according to police. Details are scant. | tapinto.net |
| 17531 | Arturo Yobani-Torrez Valdez | 27 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/10/2016 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.0491373 | -118.2269281 | Los Angeles Police Department |
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| A man smashed the windows of a house where an 83-year-old man lived alone. The suspect forced his way inside and began ransacking the home, Beck said, then took the older man hostage. Some neighbors grabbed baseball bats and knives, police said, and were getting ready to try to rescue the resident when two officers from the LAPD's Hollenbeck Division arrived at the scene. The officers ran inside and saw the man holding a knife to the victim's neck. The suspect "began to do things that indicated that he was going to kill the victim." One of the officers shot and killed the suspect. | latimes.com |
| 17532 | Lonnie Ball | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 04/10/2016 | Modesto | CA | 37.6485725 | -120.9618276 | Modesto Police Department |
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| Lonnie Ball was shot and killed after a woman called Modesto police to report a man was at her door with a gun. When police arrived, Ball drove off. Police chased him through the area until he returned back to the house. Neighbors said they heard police ask Ball to get out of the car. Modesto Police said he brandished a handgun and was shot and killed. | stanislaus-da.org |
| 17533 | Henry Ramone Brown | 30 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/10/2016 | Sanford | FL | 28.8285559 | -81.3266159 | Seminole County Sheriff's Office |
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| Brown stabbed and ran over his estranged wife and shot his two young children before shooting and killing himself as deputies closed in. | wesh.com |
| 17530 | William J. Clark III | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 04/10/2016 | Rotterdam | NY | 42.7758137 | -73.9365691 | Rotterdam Police Department |
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| Police responded to a mother's call regarding her son, a former Marine, who was having an emotional crisis. Police came in, and Clark attacked them with a knife. They tried less-lethal means, but Patrolman Mark Frodyma ultimately shot and killed him. | dailygazette.com |
| 17529 | Luis Philipe Soto | 29 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/10/2016 | Memphis | TN | 35.0852169 | -89.9312113 | Memphis Police Department |
|
| An off-duty Memphis Police Department officer shot and killed acquaintance's ex-husband, as he brandished a gun, during child visitation exchange. | commercialappeal.com |
| 17535 | Efren Eloy Trujillo-Soriano | 22 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/11/2016 | Las Vegas | NV | 36.1472468 | -115.1560311 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department |
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| Police responded to reports of a shooting. They found a man suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. While helping the victim, bystanders pointed out the possible suspect in the shooting, police said. As officers approached Trujillo, he started to run and officers pursued him. Trujillo fired several rounds at the officers, and the officers shot and killed him. | clarkcountynv.gov |
| 17536 | Pierre Loury | 16 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/11/2016 | Chicago | IL | 41.8674429 | -87.7109419 | Chicago Police Department |
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| Officers on patrol were trying to pull over a car they thought had been involved in a shooting when someone jumped out of the car and ran, according to police. A brief chase led to an "armed encounter" between the person and the officer, and it ended with the officer shooting and killing the teen. | chicagotribune.com |
| 17542 | Adam Troy Weimer | 40 | Male | European-American/White | 04/12/2016 | Waseca | MN | 44.0914294 | -93.5050976 | Shakopee Police Department, Waseca County Sheriff's Office |
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| A man and woman were found fatally beaten in their suburban Twin Cities home southwest of Minneapolis and the man's son, who had been identified by police as a suspect in the killings, fatally shot himself in a standoff with police at his home in Waseca, Shakopee police said. | dailymail.co.uk |
| 17540 | Ted Neil Hanson | 58 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/12/2016 | Las Vegas | NV | 36.1582465 | -115.1054648 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department |
|
| A woman being murdered called police. The apparent murderer killed himself as police surrounded the mobile home. | ktnv.com |
| 17541 | Travis Wood | 20 | Male | European-American/White | 04/12/2016 | Noma | FL | 30.991877 | -85.6157779 | Holmes County Sheriff's Office |
|
| According to a news release from the Holmes County Sheriff's Office, a deputy tried to conduct a traffic stop after seeing a GMC Jimmy run a stop sign near Main Street in Noma. A check of the truck's license plate revealed the tag was assigned to another vehicle. The driver, Wood, led the deputy on a chase that crossed several miles over the state line into Geneva County, Ala., and back into Noma. HCSO reported that as deputies were setting up a roadblock, Wood swerved and left the roadway, almost striking a patrol car before steering the truck toward a deputy. The deputy shot and killed Wood. | chipleypaper.com |
| 17543 | Dion Ray Damon | 40 | Male | European-American/White | 04/12/2016 | Denver | CO | 39.738449 | -104.9902579 | Denver Police Department |
|
| Damon, a bank robbery suspect, was unarmed when he was shot and killed in front of his wife and child by Officer Jeffrey Motz. Police say he made a threatening gesture. | denverpost.com |
| 17539 | Joshua Moreno | 38 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/12/2016 | Benton | IL | 37.9747385 | -88.9288724 | Franklin County Sheriff's Office |
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| Benton fled a burglary with stolen guns. He crashed a car, carjacked a second car, and after shooting at police, was shot and killed. | stltoday.com |
| 17544 | Rodney Watts | 35 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/13/2016 | Stockton | CA | 38.024229 | -121.2948176 | Stockton Police Department |
|
| Shot while attempting a carjacking. | cbslocal.com |
| 17546 | Koltlee Whitson | 26 | Male | European-American/White | 04/13/2016 | Sparta | TN | 36.0666219 | -85.489328 | White County Sheriff's Office |
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| Following a pursuit with White County Sheriff Office deputies, officers say Whitson shot at them when they attempted to conduct a traffic stop on his vehicle. | wkrn.com |
| 17545 | Jeffrey Gray Wise | 49 | Male | European-American/White | 04/13/2016 | Llano | TX | 30.7593422 | -98.6751801 | Texas Department of Public Safety, Llano County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Wise, 52, of Austin, was stopped as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into bank robberies in Louisiana and Round Rock, near Austin. Authorities say a trooper stopped Wise near the town of Llano. Wise refused to put down his gun and then pointed the weapon toward officers who opened fire, killing him. | dailytrib.com |
| 17547 | Jeff Robertson | 54 | Male | European-American/White | 04/14/2016 | McPherson | KS | 38.3767002 | -97.5743332 | McPherson County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Two deputies were trying to serve an arrest warrant when the suspect resisted and then started fighting with both deputies. One of the deputies fired his Taser numerous times with no success. The man hit one of the deputies several times in the face. The other deputy called for him to stop but the attack on both deputies continued. One of the deputies pulled his gun and shot and killed the man. | kwch.com |
| 17550 | Clemente Najera Aguirre | 38 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/15/2016 | Lake Elsinore | CA | 33.6706036 | -117.3296734 | Riverside County Sheriff's Department |
|
| A Riverside County Sheriff's Department news release said an officer responded to multiple reports of a man breaking windows on South Poe Street. The officer encountered a man a few blocks away on West Heald Street who matched the description of witnesses and asked him to surrender, according to the release. Police said the suspect had used a piece of wood to break windows and a sliding glass door to a residence, which he attempted to enter and was confronted by the occupants, one of whom was struck by the suspect and sustained injuries. In an effort to subdue the suspect the officer used pepper spray, but the man did not appear to be affected, said police. The man came back at the officer armed with two baseball bats, and he was shot and killed. | patch.com |
| 17551 | Name withheld by police | Male | European-American/White | 04/15/2016 | Silverhill | AL | 30.5601879 | -87.7425944 | Baldwin County Sheriff's Office |
|
| A sheriff's deputy was called on a welfare concern. A man, who was inside his trailer, had been involved in a recent dispute with family members. A relative contacted sheriff's deputies after not being able to contact the man. The relative informed deputies that the man had weapons inside his home. When a sheriff's deputy came to the home, he was able to contact the man via phone and tried to lure the man out of the home. Deputies tear-gassed the mobile home in a final effort to draw the man out of the home. When officers observed no response, a SWAT team entered the home and discovered the man was deceased, having suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound. | www.al.com | |
| 17552 | David Swatsky | 52 | Male | European-American/White | 04/15/2016 | Cache | OK | 34.604498 | -98.6026274 | Comanche County Sheriff's Office |
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| Police say says deputies responding to a report of a suicidal person at the home found Swaatsky in a bedroom, and when he came out of the room, he refused to put down a gun. He was shot and killed. | kswo.com |
| 17549 | Joseph Harper | Male | Race unspecified | 04/15/2016 | Vienna | GA | 32.0599557 | -83.6211985 | Dooly County Sheriff's Office |
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| During a standoff involving a domestic disturbance, there were gunshots. Eventually, police sent a robot in and found Harper dead. | walb.com | |
| 17553 | Robert Jerome Howard | 44 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/15/2016 | Baltimore | MD | 39.2886738 | -76.6397477 | Baltimore Police Department |
|
| An off-duty police officer shot and killed Robert Howard who was attempting to rob him and brandished a replica handgun inside a West Baltimore liquor store. | baltimoresun.com |
| 17548 | Storm Allen Smith | 26 | Male | European-American/White | 04/15/2016 | Muncie | IN | 40.1929134 | -85.3384253 | Muncie Police Department |
|
| The officer involved was dispatched to the 4200 block of East Jackson Street on a report of a threat. Police would not elaborate on the nature of the threat. Police say an altercation between the officer and Storm Allen Smith, 26, occurred. A foot pursuit and a struggle ensued between the two. Smith obtained the officer's Taser and aimed it at him. The officer shot and killed Smith. | thestarpress.com |
| 17554 | Gerald Robert Boyes | 53 | Male | European-American/White | 04/16/2016 | Antioch | IL | 42.4716715 | -88.1448807 | Lake County Sheriff's Office, McHenry County Sheriff's Office |
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| Police fatally shot Boyes, suspected of killing his father and the father's girlfriend in western Kentucky, in a pizzeria parking lot. Police said he was killed when he brandished a gun, | dailyherald.com |
| 17556 | Wade Austin Kloesel | 27 | Male | European-American/White | 04/16/2016 | Victoria | TX | 28.8922599 | -96.9969867 | Refugio County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Off-duty Refugio County Sheriff's Deputy Tammy Gregory fatally shot Wade Austin Kloesel, 27, on April 16 when he entered Gregory's home. Kloesel's mother said he was high on synthetic marijuana. | victoriaadvocate.com |
| 17558 | Kisha Arrone | 35 | Female | African-American/Black | 04/17/2016 | Dayton | OH | 39.7421206 | -84.2425843 | Dayton Police Department |
|
| Arrone had threatened her girlfriend with a gun, and she fled when police arrived. After a chase, she got out of the pickup and threatened officers with the gun before she was shot and killed. | wdtn.com |
| 17560 | Eric John Wilson | 22 | Male | European-American/White | 04/17/2016 | El Paso | TX | 31.872423 | -106.553971 | El Paso Police Department |
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| Police responded to suicide threat, and Wilson moved toward officers with something in his hand. He was shot and killed. The something was a cell phone. | kvia.com |
| 17557 | George Tillman | 32 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/17/2016 | Queens | NY | 40.6790399 | -73.8054241 | City of New York Police Department |
|
| Police shot and killed a man early Sunday morning when he reached for his gun after being chased by a team of officers in Queens, the NYPD said. They originally approached him because he had an apparent open container with alcohol. | nbcnewyork.com |
| 17562 | Richard Bard Jr. | 31 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/17/2016 | Vineland | NJ | 39.480877 | -75.0214828 | Vineland Police Department |
|
| According to prosecutors, two men allegedly mugged two other men. In the melee that ensued, police got involved, arresting one and killing Bard. | thedailyjournal.com |
| 17561 | Matthew Hall McCravy | 22 | Male | European-American/White | 04/17/2016 | Florence | AL | 34.8392918 | -87.6877194 | Florence Police Department |
|
| Police say following a vehicle chase just after 1 a.m., the suspect crashed in a church parking lot and fired multiple gunshots at officers, who didn't return fire. Holmes says the suspect was found in his vehicle with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. | timesdaily.com |
| 17559 | Edson Thevenin | 38 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/17/2016 | Troy | NY | 42.740125 | -73.686366 | Troy Police Department |
|
| Thevenin tried to evade a traffic stop but got hung up at the entrance to the Collar City Bridge where he pinned one officer against his car. He was shot and killed. | timesunion.com |
| 17564 | Demetrius Dorsey | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/18/2016 | Mableton | GA | 33.7947012 | -84.5608315 | Cobb County Police Department |
|
| Police responded to a robbery call at the gas station, officers found an armed robber still in the station and holding two employees hostage. The SWAT team was called out. Police shot and killed Dorsey. | georgia.gov |
| 17563 | Rico Don Rae Johnson | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/18/2016 | Greenbelt | MD | 39.0037463 | -76.9002989 | Greenbelt Police Department |
|
| Police say Johnson was fatally shot by an officer after he fired at police from a third-floor balcony. | wusa9.com |
| 17566 | Josue Roberto "Tito" Adrianzen-Cavallini | 27 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/18/2016 | Savoy | TX | 33.5981703 | -96.3599246 | Fannin County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Bryan County Sheriff's Office in Oklahoma warned neighboring Fannin County Sheriff's Office in Texas that Adrianzen had carjacked a white Chevy pickup in Oklahoma and was likely headed south. When Fannin County deputies cornered Adrianzen in a white pickup in Savoy, he shot himself in the head. | force.com |
| 17567 | Daniel Eric Blackmon | 38 | Male | European-American/White | 04/19/2016 | Blountsville | AL | 34.1599125 | -86.4690854 | Blount County Sheriff's Office, Marshall County Sheriff's Office, Snead Police Department, Blountsville Police Department |
|
| Blackmon led police around two counties, while he went on a shooting spree. He was eventually shot and killed. | www.al.com |
| 17568 | Sylasone Ackhavong | 41 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 04/19/2016 | Charlotte | NC | 35.245803 | -80.936933 | Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department |
|
| Charlotte-Mecklenburg police and a SWAT unit were called to the 7-Eleven on Little Rock Road after a gunman barricaded himself in the store around 3 a.m. Officer Olin Lester with the SWAT team shot and killed Sylasone Ackhavong during the standoff after he raised a gun at officers, police said. | charlotteobserver.com |
| 17569 | Jorevis Scruggs | 15 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/19/2016 | St. Louis | MO | 38.6541509 | -90.2197716 | St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department |
|
| A St. Louis officer who tried to stop a car that had been reported taken in a carjacking Monday shot and killed a passenger, Scruggs, who pointed a gun at the officer, according to police. | stltoday.com |
| 17573 | Jackie Kirkham | 52 | Male | European-American/White | 04/20/2016 | Perryville | AR | 34.9735862 | -92.7969676 | Johnson County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Little is known about this fatal shooting, except that the Memphis man wanted in connection with a Pulaski County theft investigation. | 5newsonline.com |
| 17572 | Francis Scot Dufore | 41 | Male | European-American/White | 04/20/2016 | Homestead | FL | 25.4371775 | -80.4966027 | Miami-Dade Police Department |
|
| Miami-Dade police officer fatally shot a shotgun-wielding man, Dufore, who kidnapped his ex-wife and forced her into a stolen car, police said. | local10.com |
| 17576 | Nikki Shae Bascom | 31 | Female | European-American/White | 04/21/2016 | Silver City | NM | 32.790628 | -108.262275 | Silver City Police Department |
|
| Police were called to a home after it was reported that off-duty Silver City police Capt. Marcello Contreras had fatally shot his girlfriend Nikki Bascom and then shot himself. | koat.com |
| 17575 | Mario Mejia-Martinez | 48 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/21/2016 | Everett | MA | 42.402881 | -71.0418939 | Everett Police Department |
|
| Witnesses saw Martinez acting strangely. They said he was walking around a light post and muttering to himself. But when police arrived, the situation escalated quickly. Police ordered him to drop his knife, and when he lunged at police, he was shot and killed by Officer Joseph Pepicelli. | patch.com |
| 17578 | Carl Baranishyn | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 04/22/2016 | Berne | NY | 42.589216 | -74.1829659 | New York State Police |
|
| Baranishyn called the police, saying he was feeling suicidal and homicidal. Two troopers found Baranishyn outside his house holding two 3- to 4-inch folding knives, police said. Baranishyn did not respond to several commands to drop his knives and then "aggressively approached" the troopers, who both shot and killed him. | timesunion.com |
| 17577 | Tyler Geoffrey Hunkin | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 04/22/2016 | Austin | TX | 30.1741433 | -97.8864655 | Austin Police Department |
|
| The first officer to arrive found a 29-year-old man standing outside his vehicle and holding knives in both hands, police said. The officer got out of his patrol car to confront the man. The officer instructed the man to drop the knives, the man charged toward the officer, who shot him with a long rifle. | statesman.com |
| 17584 | Willie Sherman Tillman | 33 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/23/2016 | Fayetteville | AR | 36.095109 | -94.152683 | Fayetteville Police Department |
|
| Fayetteville Police stopped Tillman for driving without headlights, according to police. Tillman stepped out of the vehicle, but dove back inside the car and attempted to flee from police. A struggle then began between the officers and Tillman, who was able to drive the vehicle while the officers were partially inside. Police said both officers attempted to deploy their tasers but were unsuccessful. One of the officers was able to get out of the vehicle, but another was still inside while Tillman continued driving. Officer Brandon Jones fired off multiple shots and struck Tillman in the chest, abdomen, and leg. He died on May 9. | 5newsonline.com |
| 17580 | Jakob E. Wagner | 18 | Male | European-American/White | 04/23/2016 | Antigo | WI | 45.1329663 | -89.1740467 | Antigo Police Department |
|
| A teenage gunman shot two students outside a Wisconsin high school's prom Saturday night, police said. Police, who were on campus, shot Wagner. | nbcnews.com |
| 17579 | Eric Wakup | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 04/23/2016 | Norfolk | VA | 36.869628 | -76.2799188 | Norfolk Police Department |
|
| Wakup barricaded himself inside a home Friday night. Early Saturday, police say Wakup fired at officers, and Officers Montrell Martin and Jason Casel fatally shot him. | pilotonline.com |
| 17581 | Mitchell Oakley | 24 | Male | European-American/White | 04/23/2016 | Chandler | AZ | 33.2891775 | -111.8380362 | Chandler Police Department |
|
| According to the Chandler Police Department, a Walmart employee saw a man trespassing on the premises. Two officers were called out and when the first officer arrived, witnesses saw Oakley fire at the officer. Chandler police said an "ambush" on the officer occurred, and he was shot in the face. A second officer responded to the scene and fired back at the suspect but was also shot by Oakley. The second officer shot and killed Oakley who was pronounced dead at the scene. | azcentral.com |
| 17582 | Demarcus "D-Mar" Semer | 21 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/23/2016 | Fort Pierce | FL | 27.4566181 | -80.3437382 | Fort Pierce Police Department |
|
| Two Fort Pierce officers conducted a traffic stop. During the traffic stop, the driver attempted to flee and ran over one of the officers, injuring his leg. The second officer was partially inside the car attempting to stop the driver and was trapped inside until it finally stopped approximately 600 feet from the original location. The driver fled on foot and allegedly brandished a cell phone. The officer fired his service weapon, killing the driver. | cbsnews.com |
| 17583 | Orlando Collins | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/23/2016 | Topeka | KS | 38.9989899 | -95.6873432 | U.S. Marshals Service |
|
| According to the FBI, police were serving an arrest warrant for Collins at the motel when gun fire erupted as they approached the motel room door. During the barrage, a fire started in the room and spread to envelop the entire motel. The FBI is still processing the crime scene, while ATF and the fire marshal are conducting the fire investigation. The Topeka Police Dept., Shawnee Co. Sheriff's Office, and Kansas Highway Patrol are assisting with the investigation. | wibw.com |
| 17586 | Kay Frances Campbell | 60 | Female | European-American/White | 04/25/2016 | East Flat Rock | NC | 35.284624 | -82.417936 | Henderson County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Deputies were sent to conduct a health and welfare check at the residence, police said. The shooting occurred during the encounter, as Kay Campbell brandished a weapon, and while awaiting the arrival of involuntary commitment papers. | wspa.com |
| 17591 | Antonio Gonzalez | 34 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/26/2016 | Lawrence | MA | 42.7001143 | -71.1725598 | Lawrence Police Department |
|
| Gonzalez barricaded himself in his house on Melrose Street with wife and child hostage and fired on officers before he killed himself. | cbslocal.com |
| 17588 | Jacquelyn Burke | 24 | Female | European-American/White | 04/26/2016 | Albuquerque | NM | 35.1462006 | -106.5282598 | Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Jacquelyn Burke was wanted for assaulting a police officer. When police caught up with her, she reportedly brandished a gun and was shot and killed. | krqe.com |
| 17589 | Joshua Brooks | 26 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/26/2016 | Chesapeake | VA | 36.8168083 | -76.2334082 | Chesapeake Police Department |
|
| Officers responded to serve Brooks an emergency custody order, and met a female family member at the door. An emergency custody order is secured when there is concern a person could harm themselves or someone else. Officers saw Brooks enter the house through the back door. He was armed with a .9mm handgun, and police say he shot one round inside the home. Brooks then came out of the house through the back door and kept firing the gun. He hit the female as she tried to run away and then fired at officers. Police shot and killed him. | pilotonline.com |
| 17590 | Robin Alan Barber | 28 | Male | European-American/White | 04/26/2016 | Lakewood | CO | 39.7232904 | -105.0814686 | Lakewood Police Department |
|
| Officers had been monitoring a suspicious vehicle that did not seem to be associated with any room at the Motel 6. When a man approached the car, police moved in to question him. Police said the man fled and, during a brief foot chase, fired shots at the officers. He was shot and killed. | jeffco.us |
| 17594 | David Shane Anderson | 36 | Male | European-American/White | 04/27/2016 | Murray | UT | 40.6466243 | -111.8713661 | Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake |
|
| Police were attempting to serve an arrest warrant on Anderson for an alleged assault on a police officer the week before, when their dog, "Aldo," was shot, and there was an exchange of gunfire. Anderson barricaded himself inside a closet in the residence as officers backed out, and then refused demands to surrender for the next five hours. SWAT police entered the home in a haze of tear gas and took Anderson into custody. Anderson died days later, killed by Sgt. Chad Reyes, Det. Kresdon Bennett and Det. Nathan Clark. | sltrib.com |
| 17592 | Cin Lam Mung | 34 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 04/27/2016 | Atlanta | GA | 33.8521282 | -84.2658983 | DeKalb County Police Department |
|
| Police said a man was walking in the neighborhood with a machete and a rooster. The officer told the man to drop the items in his hand but he refused. A fight ensued and the officer hit the man with his baton several times. Police said when the man did not drop his items after the scuffle, the officer shot the suspect. | ajc.com |
| 17595 | Damon Blair | 21 | Male | European-American/White | 04/27/2016 | Westminster | CO | 39.828783 | -105.043952 | Westminster Police Department |
|
| Police say several officers were investigating a stolen car when a man pulled out a gun and fired. He was shot and killed. | denverpost.com |
| 17593 | Darrel Machemehl | 44 | Male | European-American/White | 04/27/2016 | Seguin | TX | 29.5981826 | -97.9509721 | Seguin Police Department |
|
| After a botched robbery and a high speed chase, Machemehl refused to drop a backpack, and he was shot and killed. | kxan.com |
| 17599 | Ashtian Duane Barnes | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/28/2016 | Houston | TX | 29.7044547 | -95.5567897 | Harris County Sheriff's Office |
|
| A deputy pulled a car over for toll violations. After initially stopping, he tried to flee. The officer was carried with the car and shot and killed the driver. | abc13.com |
| 17600 | Matthew Ryan Melton | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 04/28/2016 | Friendswood | TX | 29.54639 | -95.190566 | Friendswood Police Department |
|
| Officers knocked on Melton's door after receiving a complaint that Melton had cut his wrist and was about to cut the other. Melton opened the door, looking confused, and pointed a pistol at the officers. The officers retreated. SWAT and crisis negotiators responded, communicating with officers by text. When Melton's cell phone battery ran down and officers received their last text message from him, they forced entry into his apartment. Melton shot himself. | chron.com |
| 17596 | Lee Howard Easter | 53 | Male | European-American/White | 04/28/2016 | Meridian | ID | 43.5535456 | -116.3213337 | Ada County Sheriff's Office |
|
| Dispatchers got a 911 call; a man told dispatchers that there was someone in his house and then hung up. Dispatchers called back and a man answered, put the phone down and left the line open. The deputies arrived and heard someone upstairs, so they went inside to investigate. Around this time, another man called 911 and said he was concerned about the mental state of the person inside the house. He told dispatchers that he had talked to the man and believed he might be suicidal. He also told dispatchers the man had a gun. Several minutes passed as the deputies waited at the bottom of the stairs and asked whoever was upstairs to come down. Easter moved down the stairs, pointing a handgun at deputies, both deputies shot and killed him. | idahostatesman.com |
| 17597 | Michael S. Kurtz | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 04/28/2016 | Spokane | WA | 47.655975 | -117.412994 | Spokane Police Department |
|
| Witnesses said that a man, armed with a knife, approached police officers. The officers told him to disarm himself as he approached them but he refused. The man was then reportedly tasered but continued to approach officers. He was shot and killed by Officers Ryan Akins and Brandon Lynch. | kxly.com |
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