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 |
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7494 | Jason Welsh | Male | Race unspecified | 09/16/2008 | Omaha | NE | 41.2147806 | -96.190963 | Douglas County Sheriff's Office | Deputies surrounded a home at around 11 p.m. where Jason Welsh was reportedly holding a gun to himself in the basement. Deputy Michael Dechellis shot and killed Welsh after about 2.5 hours of negotiations. Police said both Welsh and Dechellis had fired their weapons, though it was unclear who fired first. | wowt.com | |||
7495 | Warren Slater | 41 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/16/2008 | Birmingham | AL | 33.489097 | -86.862649 | Birmingham Police Department | Warren Slater reportedly shot and killed himself at some point during or before a six-hour standoff after killing his wife and critically injuring his stepson. | blog.al.com | ||
7496 | Derrick Jones | 31 | Male | African-American/Black | 09/16/2008 | Dallas | TX | 32.6904249 | -96.791145 | Dallas Police Department | According to DPD, Officer Rene Villanueva witnessed a hit-and-run. Jones fled the scene of the accident on foot. Officer Villanueva caught up to Jones, physically fought him, then shot him once. Jones was pronounced dead at Baylor Hospital. A toxicology report said that Jones was "under the influence of marijuana and phencyclidine." | dallaspolice.net | ||
7497 | Maurice L. Faulkner | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 09/16/2008 | Newark | DE | 39.6697348 | -75.7529901 | New Castle County Police Department, Delaware State Police | Faulkner conducted an armed robbery of a bank at closing time, then escaped in a rental truck. State, county and local police tracked him, easily, close to a train station. Officers fired 33 rounds at Faulkner, six of which hit him, fatally. | hockessincommunitynews.com | ||
7486 | Name withheld by police | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 09/15/2008 | Jonesboro | GA | 33.5833631 | -84.3777973 | Clayton County Police Department | Police say an unidentified man was distributing methamphetamine to dealers in front of a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant, and he carried $30,000 of crystal meth at the time of his death. Clayton County undercover police shot him to death, as he assaulted an officer in an attempt to get away. | google.com | |||
7487 | Kelly Coates | 39 | Male | European-American/White | 09/15/2008 | Bethany | OK | 35.5214137 | -97.6322093 | Oklahoma City Police Department | No details available on this death. | tulsaworld.com | ||
7488 | Brian Goddard | 19 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/15/2008 | St. Joseph | MO | 39.6736801 | -94.9513091 | Buchanan County Sheriff's Office, St. Joseph Police Department | Brian Goddard reportedly shot himself in a cornfield during a standoff. More than 30 law enforcement officers converged on the scene southwest of St. Joseph, after police believed Goddard had pretended to be someone else and called 911. Goddard reportedly displayed a 22-caliber rifle throughout the ensuing two hours of negotiations. At about 11 a.m., Goddard ran into the field and apparently killed himself. According to officials, a suicide note was found. | newspressnow.com | ||
7489 | Alizay Marchan | 7 | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 09/15/2008 | Chicago | IL | 41.8158241 | -87.6921707 | Chicago Police Department | Off-duty officer Dannie Marchan shot and killed his daughter, Alizay, and critically wounded his son, Anthony. He then turned the gun on himself. Sources said Dannie Marchan was depressed over his divorce. Police responded to a report of shots fired at the home and were told Marchan had barricaded himself inside and was holding his children hostage, police said. Police said they heard noises and entered the home using a flash bang device. Officers found the officer and both children in a bedroom. Dannie Marchan and Alizay died at the scene. Anthony died from his injuries on September 23, 2008. | policeone.com | ||
7490 | Anthony Marchan | 9 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 09/15/2008 | Chicago | IL | 41.8158241 | -87.6921707 | Chicago Police Department | Off-duty officer Dannie Marchan shot and killed his daughter, Alizay, and critically wounded his son, Anthony. He then turned the gun on himself. Sources said Dannie Marchan was depressed over his divorce. Police responded to a report of shots fired at the home and were told Marchan had barricaded himself inside and was holding his children hostage, police said. Police said they heard noises and entered the home using a flash bang device. Officers found the officer and both children in a bedroom. Dannie Marchan and Alizay died at the scene. Anthony died from his injuries on September 23, 2008. | chicagotribune.com | ||
7491 | Phillip Noto Sr. | 55 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/15/2008 | Peabody | MA | 42.5210825 | -70.9262209 | Peabody Police Department | Peabody officers responded to a domestic disturbance call, anticipating taking Noto in for violating a restraining order by contacting his wife. Noto confronted and threatened officers with a pistol. He was shot once in the stomach and died later of his injuries. | itemlive.com | ||
7492 | Maximo Torres Avila | 43 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 09/15/2008 | Pasadena | TX | 29.67749 | -95.1930327 | Pasadena Police Department | A Strawberry Food Mart cashier forced Avila, behaving erratically, to leave the building. Avila drew a knife in the parking lot of the store and continued to act strangely. An officer responded. Avila approached the officer and repeatedly refused to put the knife down. The officer, who had served for 16 years, shot at Avila three times, striking him at least once. Avila died at the scene. | chron.com | ||
19138 | Name withheld by police | Male | Race unspecified | 09/15/2008 | Oklahoma City | OK | 35.4641855 | -97.5655035 | Oklahoma City Police Department | A man driving a stolen pickup in a police chase crashed into a pillar of the Interstate 40 bridge over May Avenue, police said. Police weren't sure days later whether the man killed was a passenger in the suspect's pickup or a pedestrian. | newsok.com | |||
21203 | Name withheld by police | Male | Race unspecified | 09/15/2008 | Detroit | MI | 42.3438657 | -83.0492491 | Detroit Police Department | According to police, an unnamed, apparently homeless man walked into the lobby of the police crime laboratory at about 4 p.m. and told the desk officer he was depressed. As the man was talking to the officer, he allegedly lunged for his service Glock and shot himself in the head. Police said they believed the man cane there "to get someone to kill him." | google.com | |||
21204 | Name withheld by police | Race unspecified | 09/15/2008 | Newaygo | MI | 43.462726 | -85.776526 | One person was killed in a police-chase-related accident. Appears in mlive.com chase database. Accident report (#260588) states that the victim was 75 years old and that the vehicle (VIN# - 2MELM75W0PX6) hit a tree. The crash was reported at 1:40 a.m. Additional details were not available. | mlive.com | |||||
21717 | Emory Lamont Lewis | 25 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/15/2008 | Baltimore | MD | 39.3080179 | -76.64664 | Baltimore County Police Department, Baltimore Police Department | As police attempted to arrest a man for a probation violation, a gunfight broke out. Emory Lewis, not the man being sought, was killed and two deputies were wounded. | google.com | ||
7484 | Sirlinda Vernesa Price | 34 | Female | Race unspecified | 09/14/2008 | Augusta | GA | 33.4362523 | -82.0226399 | South Carolina Department of Corrections | Earl Demetrius Dinkins, an officer with the McCormick Correctional Institution, was accused of killing his child's mother. While he was charged, it was never reported as to whether he was found guilty. | google.com | ||
7485 | Branden Overlin | 29 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/14/2008 | Kimball | NE | 41.2356587 | -103.6629832 | Kimball Police Department | Branden Overlin's sister called police and said he'd stolen and wrecked her vehicle. She also asked police to remove him from the home. According to police, two officers responded between 3 and 4 a.m., found Overlin armed and shots were fired. | journalstar.com | ||
20332 | Barbara Ann Hersch | 57 | Female | Race unspecified | 09/14/2008 | Royersford | PA | 40.1994255 | -75.5300478 | Pennsylvania State Police | Barbara A. Hersch was being pursued by police when she crashed her car and was killed. | google.com | ||
21937 | Markieth Singleton | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 09/14/2008 | Jersey City | NJ | 40.6989634 | -74.0958064 | Jersey City Police Department | Markieth Singleton was one of four men in a Mercedes SUV that was pulled over because it allegedly matched the description of a vehicle used in a robbery, police said. It turned out not to be the car used in the robbery. Police said Singleton brandished a gun and was shot and killed by Police Officer Joseph Cossolini when he refused orders to stop moving. At least one witness said Singleton never drew a gun. | www.nj.com | ||
7479 | Jacob Josephat Stallworth | 49 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/12/2008 | Woodland | CA | 38.677928 | -121.781214 | Woodland Police Department, Yolo County Sheriff's Office | Jacob Josephat Stallworth reportedly committed suicide during a police standoff and hostage situation. | thereporter.com | ||
7480 | Joseph Giordano | 64 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 09/12/2008 | San Diego | CA | 32.7917924 | -117.0115561 | San Diego Police Department | Lieutenant Kenneth Hubbs, agent Gary Hill and officers Manuel Escalante, Larry Triplett, Riter Flores and Scott Wilkinson shot Joseph Giordano when he fired at the officers, who'd arrived at Giordano's house after he'd shot into the home of sheriff's sergeant Scott Ybarrondo in San Carlos and fled. | sandiego.gov | ||
7481 | Zachary Allan Atkinson | 21 | Male | European-American/White | 09/12/2008 | Porterville | CA | 36.0983647 | -119.0533017 | Tulare County Sheriff's Office | Detective William Seymour shot unarmed Zachary Allan Atkinson in the back after he became uncooperative and appeared to reach for his pocket during a traffic stop. | lawreport.org | ||
7482 | Riley Russell | 24 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/12/2008 | Olympia | WA | 47.0461118 | -122.9317209 | Olympia Police Department | Russell killed himself in a restaurant parking lot as a police officer approached. He was suspected in the shooting death of Doctor "Junior" Scott. | google.com | ||
7483 | Raymond Schaefer | 48 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/12/2008 | Loxley | AL | 30.6294568 | -87.6169999 | Loxley Police Department | Officers shot and killed Raymond Schaefer when he allegedly pointed a handgun at police. | blog.al.com | ||
7475 | Ihasan A. Khan | 28 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/11/2008 | Live Oak | CA | 39.2746593 | -121.666491 | Sutter County Sheriff's Office | Ihasan A. Khan died while being restrained by deputies. | appeal-democrat.com | ||
7476 | James Ronald Cockrum Jr. | 38 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/11/2008 | San Francisco | CA | 37.8017281 | -122.4037572 | San Francisco Police Department | James Ronald Cockrum Jr. fell to his death early after he climbed over a wall on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill while trying to flee from police, apparently unaware that on the other side of the wall was a 200-foot cliff, police said. | sfgate.com | ||
7477 | Roney Wilson | 46 | Male | African-American/Black | 09/11/2008 | Plant City | FL | 28.094883 | -82.1342002 | Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office | Delirium with agitation due to schizoaffective disorder was the medical examiner's official cause of death for Wilson, whose brother called authorities because he hadn't been taking his medication. Wilson had smashed the windshield of his mother's car and refused to budge out of it. Deputies Tased him three times, held his face in the dirt, cuffed him behind his back and put him in leg irons before his death. | tampabay.com | ||
7478 | Fernando Luis Sanchez | 30 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 09/11/2008 | Riverside | CA | 33.9343057 | -117.4570359 | Riverside Police Department | After a chase and struggle, the officer shot Sanchez who had a gun in his pocket that he kept reaching for during the struggle. | cityofriverside.org | ||
7473 | Name withheld by police | Male | Race unspecified | 09/10/2008 | Fresno | CA | 36.7564171 | -119.7384278 | Fresno County Sheriff's Office | A deputy shot and killed a man who threatened him with a knife. | yahoo.com | |||
7474 | Timothy Dale Johnson | 50 | Male | European-American/White | 09/10/2008 | Sheridan | AR | 34.3209858 | -92.3798403 | Grant County Sheriff's Office, Arkansas State Police | There was no known link between the men and no known motive for Target employee to abruptly resign from his job, drive 30 miles, and shoot and kill the state Democratic Party Chairman in cold blood. Police caught up to him on the road south of Little Rock, rammed his vehicle, and exchanged fire before mortally wounding him. | huffingtonpost.com | ||
19069 | Nicole L. Miller | 34 | Female | Race unspecified | 09/10/2008 | Easley | SC | 34.8831907 | -82.6031868 | Easley Police Department | Nicole L. Miller, 34, died when she attempted to elude police and crashed head-on with the oncoming car of Breton "Brent" J. Winchester, 38, of Easley. Winchester was also killed. Police were attempting to stop Miller to question her about keeping the car of a woman for whom she had gone to pick up pizza. When Miller didn't return after three hours, police were called. | upstatetoday.com | ||
19070 | Breton "Brent" J. Winchester | 38 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/10/2008 | Easley | SC | 34.8831907 | -82.6031868 | Easley Police Department | Nicole L. Miller, 34, died when she attempted to elude police and crashed head-on with the oncoming car of Breton "Brent" J. Winchester, 38, of Easley. Winchester was also killed. Police were attempting to stop Miller to question her about keeping the car of a woman for whom she had gone to pick up pizza. When Miller didn't return after three hours, police were called. | upstatetoday.com | ||
20331 | Jennifer McCaffrey | 30 | Female | European-American/White | 09/10/2008 | Levittown | PA | 40.1612096 | -74.8887945 | Middletown Township Police Department | Jennifer McCaffrey was shot and killed by Middletown Township Police Sgt. Peter Feeney when she fired at him while barricaded in a closet. | google.com | ||
7472 | David D. Wanzer | 31 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/09/2008 | Kansas City | MO | 39.1017088 | -94.5259507 | Kansas City Police Department | David D. Wanzer was killed and four people were injured after a police chase ended in a three-car collision. The pursuit began downtown at about 9:30 p.m., when officers swerved to avoid being struck by Wanzer, who was reportedly driving an Oldsmobile without its headlights on. The officers chased the car until it crashed into a Dodge pickup about five minutes later. | google.com | ||
23107 | Phyllis Malone | 31 | Female | African-American/Black | 09/09/2008 | Memphis | TN | 35.1720429 | -89.8372486 | Memphis Police Department | Memphis Police Officer Chancy Jones shot and killed his mistress, Phyllis Malone, as she sat in her car outside a convenience store. He reported to work at the Raines Station precinct hours later. That's where homicide detectives picked him up. | wmcactionnews5.com | ||
7470 | Andres Vargas | 43 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 09/08/2008 | San Antonio | TX | 29.3081769 | -98.5591414 | San Antonio Police Department | Officers Brandy Roell and Lawrence Robarts tried to serve a warrant on Vargas at his residence. He shot them with an AK-47. Officers Pedro Garcia and J.B. Garza responded. They moved Officer Robarts to cover. Vargas's rottweiler attacked them. Officer Garcia fatally shot it. Vargas shot at the officers from the second storey of the residence. Officer Roell dragged herself to the other officers' position. Officers Daniel Pue and Carlos Kella responded, helping the wounded officers to cover. Vargas continued to fire. SWAT responded. Vargas fatally shot himself. | mysanantonio.com | ||
7471 | John Robert Otten | 29 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 09/08/2008 | San Antonio | TX | 29.4324743 | -98.6715652 | San Antonio Police Department | Officer Jeremy Swindells chased Otten, a robbery suspect, into a backyard. Otten turned to face Officer Swindells in a fighting stance. Officer Swindell struck Otten with a baton. Otten took the baton and raised it. Officer Swindells shot Otten once in the chest, killing him. Joel Julian Castillo, near the fence of the backyard, shot Officer Swindells. Wounded, he took cover. Castillo was convicted of attempted capital murder. Officer Swindells survived. | mysanantonio.com | ||
21202 | Kirk Cook | 48 | Male | European-American/White | 09/08/2008 | Warren | MI | 42.4520917 | -83.0678364 | Warren Police Department, Center Line Department of Public Safety, Eastpointe Police Department | Police responded just before 4 p.m. to reports of gunfire at Kirk Cook's home. They found Cook's mother-in-law, 41-year-old Karen Gross, fatally shot in the driveway, and Cook barricaded inside his house. Police said negotiations appeared to be progressing when Cook announced at around 8 p.m. that he was going to bring his dog inside. According to police, the special response team fired a non-lethal round at Cook as he returned to the house. Cook allegedly produced a handgun from his pants pocket and fired numerous rounds at the officers, who returned fire. Cook died at the scene. According to police, two officers were hit by ricocheting bullets and were treated for minor injuries. | hvacproforums.com | ||
22374 | Stephen Todd Lee | 42 | Male | European-American/White | 09/08/2008 | Washington | IN | 38.659774 | -87.1515872 | Washington Police Department | Stephen Todd Lee had been arguing with his girlfriend. She called police and said he was suicidal. Police found him in the backyard, and he had a muzzle-loader gun. He was shot and killed when he didn't follow directions to drop the gun. | washtimesherald.com | ||
7467 | Eric Lynd | 59 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/07/2008 | Lenexa | KS | 38.9799841 | -94.764235 | Lenexa Police Department | Officers responding to a domestic disturbance encountered Lynd armed with a shotgun. Lynd lowered the barrel of the shotgun toward the officers and was shot, killing him. | dropbox.com | ||
7468 | Angela T. Rodney | 36 | Female | Race unspecified | 09/07/2008 | St. Petersburg | FL | 27.7763874 | -82.6340421 | Tampa Police Department | Rodney, her boyfriend and her 17-year-old son robbed a man at gunpoint. Police spotted their rented Impala within 10 minutes and gave chase. Rodney jettisoned the man's wallet and their shotgun as they fled southbound on I-275. According to the police narrative, officers had broken off the chase before Rodney's vehicle struck a light pole and killed her. | suncoastnews.com | ||
7469 | Marvin E. Parker | 54 | Male | African-American/Black | 09/07/2008 | Kansas City | MO | 39.0544355 | -94.5757286 | Kansas City Police Department | KCMO police were called in regard to a suspicious person yelling in the street. Upon arrival, officers observed a black male standing in the street holding a sword. After a short foot chase, a struggle ensued, at which time the suspect attempted to strike the officers with the sword. Officer's shot and killed the suspect. | kansascity.com | ||
7464 | Jose "Felix" Sandoval Jr. | 49 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 09/06/2008 | Martinez | CA | 38.0106777 | -122.1023712 | Martinez Police Department | Police shot Felix Sandoval after he reportedly shot and killed Catalina Torres and Sgt. Paul Starzyk, then continued pointing his gun at officers. | sfgate.com | ||
7465 | Bruce Manion | Male | European-American/White | 09/06/2008 | Carthage | MS | 32.67953 | -89.514546 | Leake County Sheriff's Office, Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol | Bruce Manion died of smoke inhalation when he reportedly set his house on fire during a 6-hour standoff with local and state law enforcement agencies trying to serve a warrant for his arrest. | google.com | |||
7466 | Roobik "Tony" Vartanian | 35 | Male | European-American/White | 09/06/2008 | Tampa | FL | 27.9602689 | -82.4408138 | Tampa Police Department | Vartanian was working as security at a nightclub and had ejected two patrons when they threatened him with visiting his residence. He drew his weapon and pursued the two, just as a van with two plainclothes officers pulled up. They saw Vartanian with a drawn handgun and (by their own account) identified themselves before yelling at him to drop the weapon. Witnesses disagreed. They shot him to death. Vartanian's widow pursued and won a $30K wrongful death settlement from the city. | tampabay.com | ||
7462 | Michael R. Long | 41 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/05/2008 | Wheaton | IL | 41.8638158 | -88.1095786 | Wheaton Police Department | Michael R. Long reportedly committed suicide after he took an officer's gun and used it to hold several people hostage for three hours inside the Wheaton Bank & Trust. According to police, the officer had responded to a fake traffic accident report in the bank's parking lot at around 1:30 p.m. when Long allegedly overpowered him and stole his gun. Long then fled into the bank and ordered the 10 to 12 people inside to the floor, police said. Officers negotiated with Long over by phone, but Long eventually shot himself with the gun, police said. | chicagotribune.com | ||
7463 | Rickey Shackelford | 47 | Male | European-American/White | 09/05/2008 | Troy | AL | 31.7108728 | -85.8967012 | Pike County Sheriff's Office | A deputy shot and killed Rickey Shackelford when he allegedly attempted to attack officers with a machete. | dothaneagle.com | ||
7460 | Shad Pfeifer | 29 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/04/2008 | Lebanon | MO | 37.6873681 | -92.6687628 | Camden County Sheriff's Office | Shad Pfeifer was killed when he crashed his 2000 Dodge van while being chased by officers. The chase began in Camden County at around 8:30 p.m. as sheriff's deputies were directing traffic while the highway patrol investigated an unrelated collision. Pfeifer reportedly pulled out the line of traffic, started passing vehicles and almost hit one of the deputies. Deputies pursued the van at high speeds into Laclede County, where Pfeifer lost control on a curve and crashed into Morgan Music. The van burst into flames, igniting the building. A music teacher and two students in the building escaped through a back door unharmed. | columbiatribune.com | ||
7461 | Keith A. Brown | 46 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/04/2008 | Warrendale | PA | 40.6649582 | -80.1008785 | Pennsylvania State Police | Motorcyclist Brown was struck on the turnpike at 4 a.m. by a Nepalese doctor's black BMW as the doctor fled from Ohio state troopers. The doctor reached 120 MPH or better, fleeing because of a previous drunk driving incident in OH. | post-gazette.com | ||
7455 | Andy Tran | 32 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 09/03/2008 | Garden Grove | CA | 33.770593 | -117.9339944 | Garden Grove Police Department | Andy Tran died after officer Richard Gendreau tasered him. | latimes.com | ||
7456 | Demetrio Sosa | 61 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/03/2008 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.0719169 | -118.2116926 | Los Angeles Police Department | Pedestrian Demetrio Sosa was killed when a Mazda being chased by the LAPD struck him in a crosswalk, then crashed into a minivan. | abc30.com | ||
7457 | Sheena Cheriee Bivens | 23 | Female | European-American/White | 09/03/2008 | Fort Worth | TX | 32.8095541 | -97.3729047 | Fort Worth Police Department | Around 10:40 p.m., two officers found a distraught Bivens sitting in a 2001 Ford Taurus at Buck Sansom Park. One officer touched Bivens's shoulder. She leaned back, pointed a .22-caliber handgun at her head and fired. She cocked the hammer and pointed the handgun at the other officer. He shot her twice in the chest, killing her. | star-telegram.com | ||
7458 | Cyrus Battle | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 09/03/2008 | Houston | TX | 29.5830835 | -95.4552368 | Houston Police Department | According to HPD, Battle and another man were present at an officer's residence when he was woken by the sound of breaking glass. The officer fatally shot Battle. HPD regards the shooting as a "Burglary of Residence." | google.com | ||
7459 | Freddie J. Pinkney Jr. | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 09/03/2008 | Tamarac | FL | 26.1920083 | -80.219891 | Broward County Sheriff's Office | Two deputies, apparently on scene and ready to intercept Pinkney, surrounded his car as he pulled up to a residence at this address. Pinkney refused to stop the car and was fatally shot. His passenger, also known as a cocaine dealer and also with a revoked driver's license, was wounded. | sun-sentinel.com | ||
23147 | Jessie Dale White Sr. | 66 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/03/2008 | Ottawa | WV | 37.9561165 | -81.817654 | Boone County Sheriff's Office | At around 1:30 p.m. Jessie Dale White barricaded himself in his home and garage, allegedly threatening to shoot anyone who came near him. A 9-hour standoff ensued. Witnesses reportedly heard what sounded like approximately 100 gun shots during the standoff. At about 11 p.m., White's daughter was heard crying, "Daddy's dead. He's dead." According to officials, preliminary reports suggested that White's death was caused by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. | google.com | ||
7448 | Steven Tracy Duigou | 43 | Male | European-American/White | 09/02/2008 | Irvine | CA | 33.6909349 | -117.7704851 | Irvine Police Department, Tustin Police Department | SWAT officers shot Steven Tracy Duigou after he pointed a rifle at police during a standoff. | ocregister.com | ||
7449 | Prince Swayzer III | 38 | Male | African-American/Black | 09/02/2008 | San Jose | CA | 37.3446758 | -121.8940525 | San Jose Police Department | Prince Swayzer III died after police tasered him when he resisted arrest, fought with three officers and swallowed drugs. | sfgate.com | ||
7450 | Nathan Skaret | 31 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/02/2008 | Kingsburg | CA | 36.5129953 | -119.5552164 | California Highway Patrol | Nathan Skaret was killed after he crashed head-on into a eucalyptus tree while being chased by CHP officers R. Pedersen and J. Morgan. | hanfordsentinel.com | ||
7451 | Samuel Lee Gates | 43 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/02/2008 | Montgomery | AL | 32.304469 | -86.219222 | Montgomery Police Department | Curtis Smith and Samuel Lee Gates were passengers killed in a fiery car accident while fleeing Montgomery police. | wsfa.com | ||
7452 | Curtis Smith | 45 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/02/2008 | Montgomery | AL | 32.304469 | -86.219222 | Montgomery Police Department | Curtis Smith and Samuel Lee Gates were passengers killed in a fiery car accident while fleeing Montgomery police. | wsfa.com | ||
7453 | Kelly Ryu Stenstrum | 31 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 09/02/2008 | Hawthorne | NV | 38.5317107 | -118.6253442 | Mineral County Sheriff's Office | Police were looking for a stolen car that was sending out OnStar information. They located the car, and Stenstrum walking away from it. A foot chase followed, with Stenstrum carrying a gun. He was shot in the back with a shotgun round. | google.com | ||
7454 | Alejandro Figueroa | 37 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 09/02/2008 | Pembroke Pines | FL | 25.9944931 | -80.2949375 | Pembroke Pines Police Department | Fellow apartment complex residents showed no surprise that the gunman killed by police after shooting at passing cars turned out to be Figueroa: he was known to be unstable, reckless, and a bad neighbor. He had no known motive for the outburst. The armed confrontation with the police caused a lockdown due to children returning from school in the afternoon. | sun-sentinel.com | ||
20330 | Michael Osborn | 41 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/02/2008 | Mayfair | PA | 40.032253 | -75.05768 | Philadelphia Police Department | Michael Osborn shot and killed his ex-girlfriend Patricia Moscato before barricading himself in a friend's apartment. He committed suicide during a standoff with police. | google.com | ||
7445 | Alberto Rodriguez | 24 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 09/01/2008 | Corona | CA | 33.8712725 | -117.5495068 | Corona Police Department | An officer shot and killed Alberto Rodriguez, who brandished a toy handgun during a foot chase. | google.com | ||
7446 | Carlos Olguin | 25 | Male | Race unspecified | 09/01/2008 | Elkhart | IN | 41.6739942 | -85.9703468 | Elkhart Police Department | Olguin, wanted by the police, fled from an attempted traffic stop at an apartment complex. Police chased him about seven blocks while he drove recklessly, causing a number of minor collisions, etc., at an estimated 70 MPH on city streets. The chase ended when Olguin crashed, fatally, running a red light at an intersection. | southbendtribune.com | ||
7447 | Carlos Quinonez | 48 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 09/01/2008 | Riverside | CA | 33.9340389 | -117.5021623 | Riverside Police Department | During a family barbecue, Quinonez got drunk and began physically abusing family members. When the police came later, he got a gun out of the garage. He pulled it out of the bag and racked it. They shot and killed him. | cityofriverside.org | ||
7441 | Michael Johnson | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 08/31/2008 | Clarksdale | MS | 34.199937 | -90.5533419 | Clarksdale Police Department | Shortly after 10 p.m., police responded to a report of a man who had been shot in the leg. They say they "walked up on a shooting" and allegedly found Johnson with a pistol and another man carrying a shotgun. Gunfire was reportedly exchanged and Johnson was killed; the fatal shots were fired by officers Bradley Hillhouse and William Gerald. The second man got away and was apparently never identified or found. Gerald was suspended indefinitely following his arrest in July 2009 for methamphetamine manufacturing and possession, and later pleaded guilty to federal charges. | pressregister.com | ||
7442 | Eddie Franco | 56 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 08/31/2008 | Inglewood | CA | 33.9573551 | -118.3522138 | Inglewood Police Department | Officers shot Franco, a homeless man to death. | latimes.com | ||
7443 | Richard Jackson | 40 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/31/2008 | West Valley City | UT | 40.6999925 | -112.0118669 | West Valley City Police Department | Jackson's 16-year-old daughter called dispatchers to report Jackson was choking her mother. Officers said they arrived to find Jackson had dragged his wife down the street, screaming while holding a knife to her neck. Longman shot Jackson once in the head after Jackson allegedly would not comply with officers' orders to release her. Jackson also allegedly began counting down from the number 10 to indicate when he would kill her. | sltrib.com | ||
7444 | Rbu Henry-Bey | 54 | Male | African-American/Black | 08/31/2008 | Savage | MN | 44.7462347 | -93.3795944 | Savage Police Department | Rbu Henry-Bey, 54, died when his vehicle crashed as he fled police in Scott County, minutes after robbing a 24-hour Walgreens of about $1,400 using a hot-glue dispenser, police said. | startribune.com | ||
7439 | Ruben Vega Reyna | 30 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/30/2008 | Delano | CA | 35.7879712 | -119.2596114 | Delano Police Department | SWAT officers shot and killed Ruben Vega Reyna, an alleged murder suspect, during a three-hour standoff and shootout. | bakersfield.com | ||
7440 | Lorenzo Granillo | 18 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/30/2008 | Albuquerque | NM | 35.1062131 | -106.6496119 | Albuquerque Police Department | Lorenzo Granillo was killed after leading police on a chase and crashing into a freeway overpass when his truck burst into flames, although his passenger, 22-year-old Mario Vargas, was rescued by officers, police said. Granillo led police on a chase after hitting a woman standing in the parking lot of Fantasia, a club. Granillo also nearly hit a police officer trying to flag him down as he was leaving the parking lot. | abqjournal.com | ||
22717 | Willie F. "Snowflake" Odom | 49 | Male | African-American/Black | 08/30/2008 | Emporia | VA | 36.7451321 | -77.6126676 | Greensville County Sheriff's Office | Deputies were called to a home in reference to a disturbance. When deputies arrived they were confronted by a hostile individual who ignored warnings and instructions from deputies and was shot and killed. It was not immediately reported whether he was armed. | google.com | ||
23106 | Charles Edward "Phil" Hyder | 72 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/30/2008 | Watauga | TN | 36.360392 | -82.251439 | Carter County Sheriff's Office | Deputy Stephanie Simpson was sent to a home after the department received a call about a fight. Simpson was met by Phillip Hyder Sr., who shot her in the face with a .309-caliber rifle. Lt. Harvey Guess shot and killed Hyder. | knoxnews.com | ||
7436 | Sam Akin | 55 | Male | European-American/White | 08/29/2008 | Houston | TX | 29.59833 | -95.115808 | Houston Police Department | Officers responding to an assault call arrested Akin. He did not resist arrest, but began to complain of breathing problems. Paramedics took Akin to Clear Lake Regional Hospital. He died of a stroke. According to family, Akin was on medication for a pre-existing medical condition. | houstontx.gov | ||
7437 | James Christopher Flory | 25 | Male | European-American/White | 08/29/2008 | Houston | TX | 29.8320543 | -95.5267269 | Houston Police Department | Flory, high on cocaine, walked behind the counter at a Chevron station to look for his children. Shamsudin Shariff, who was working behind the counter, called police. Officer S. Pham responded and told Flory that he had to leave. Flory refused to leave without his children and attacked Officer Pham, Shariff and a second Chevron employee. Flory was eventually handcuffed and hobbled. He continued to resist throughout the commute to Ben Taub Hospital, where he died. | google.com | ||
7438 | Justin Scott Ybanez | 20 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 08/29/2008 | San Antonio | TX | 29.4924657 | -98.5043754 | Olmos Park Police Department | An officer was called to a residence about a and a burglary and high speed car chase ensued. An off-duty police officer, in his full police uniform, heard the call and joined the chase in his police car. At one point the cars stopped and the suspect fired shots, hitting the first officer. The chase continued with both officers following the suspect. Eventually the suspect's car wrecked in a residential neighborhood. Here, more shots were fired and the wounded officer killed the suspect. | google.com | ||
7434 | Martin Padilla | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 08/28/2008 | Pinole | CA | 37.98228 | -122.273122 | Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office | Martin Padilla was killed when a driver in an stolen vehicle fleeing from deputies hit his car head-on a few blocks from his home. | sfgate.com | ||
7435 | Stanley Harlan | 23 | Male | European-American/White | 08/28/2008 | Moberly | MO | 39.4135397 | -92.4392247 | Moberly Police Department | Harlan argued with officers during a police stop within sight of his house. As friends and family looked on, he was tasered three times for 31 seconds total, lost consciousness, and stopped breathing. The family was awarded $2.5M in an excessive force suit against the city. Their suit against Taser rose to the 8th Circuit. The case inspired the 2015 documentary "Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle" about Taser International and the lethal effects of its product. | columbiatribune.com | ||
7433 | Mario Alejandro "Alex" Molina Campos | 26 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 08/26/2008 | Dodge Center | MN | 44.0294333 | -92.838458 | Owatonna Police Department | A plainclothes BCA agent working an undercover drug investigation met with Molina Campos in the parking lot of the Dodge Center grocery store. During the meeting, Molina Campos drove his car into the agent and tried to drive away. Police say several officers approached Molina Campos' car, and an Owatonna police officer fired. | startribune.com | ||
7425 | Robert Scott Day | 50 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/25/2008 | Corona | CA | 33.8141848 | -117.5062557 | Los Angeles Police Department | Off-duty LAPD officer Antonio Mendez shot Robert Scott Day, who was unarmed, following a traffic collision and car chase. | abclocal.go.com | ||
7426 | Joel Scott Cash | 48 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/25/2008 | Monroe | GA | 33.8457299 | -83.707427 | Walton County Sheriff's Office | Walton County Sheriff's Office Deputy Dan Dennington responded to a 911 call at a John Deere Road home after family members said Cash had fired two shots inside the home. Dennington arrived to find Cash outside the house armed with a shotgun, police said. Authorities said Dennington told Cash to drop his weapon, but he did not. Other deputies arrived on the scene and Cash continued to threaten officers with his weapon. It was then that Dennington shot and killed Cash. | google.com | ||
7427 | Jeffrey Miller | 37 | Male | European-American/White | 08/25/2008 | Chicago | IL | 41.98288 | -87.6964349 | Chicago Police Department | An officer shot Jeffrey Miller after he allegedly leveled an inoperable firearm at police following a carjacking and chase. | google.com | ||
7428 | Raymond Maddox | 37 | Male | African-American/Black | 08/25/2008 | Skokie | IL | 42.0334503 | -87.7448876 | Skokie Police Department | Officer Tim Gramins shot Raymond Maddox 17 times when Maddox allegedly fired at him. At about 5 p.m., Gramins saw Maddox driving a Pontiac Bonneville on the Edens Expressway after a reported robbery at the Fifth Third Bank in Northbrook. Gramins pursued Maddox into a residential neighborhood. Maddox turned right onto Kilpatrick, slammed on his brakes, and got out of the car with a Smith & Wesson 5906 9mm pistol. Maddox allegedly fired at Gramins as he charged toward the patrol car. Gramins returned fire. Initial reports indicated that Maddox had shot Gramins, but police later said Maddox had missed. | chicagotribune.com | ||
7429 | Cletus M. Ridgeway | 34 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/25/2008 | Heyworth | IL | 40.3121372 | -88.9775288 | Illinois State Police, McLean County Sheriff's Office, Heyworth Police Department | Cletus M. Ridgeway reportedly shot himself in the head during a 9-hour standoff. Police said the standoff began at about 5 p.m. when McLean County deputies and Heyworth police responded to a report of a man in his home with a weapon. An ISP tactical response team found Ridgeway dead in his home early the next morning. | herald-review.com | ||
7430 | Steven T. Smith | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 08/25/2008 | Jacksonville | AR | 34.893702 | -92.089591 | Jacksonville Police Department | After a several hour standoff precipitated by gunfire, Smith was shot and killed when he came out spraying bullets. | google.com | ||
7431 | Ronald Adkisson | 59 | Male | European-American/White | 08/25/2008 | Creston | IA | 41.0580041 | -94.3607713 | Creston Police Department | Ronald Adkisson reportedly had an epileptic seizure in a Fareway grocery store, rejected medical attention, and refused to leave when management asked him to. Adkisson allegedly became combative when officers tried to arrest him at around 5:10 p.m. for disorderly conduct, so police used force, including a Taser to subdue him. Adkisson was released from custody at about 6:45 p.m. 15-minutes later, an off-duty nurse found Adkisson had collapsed and wasn't breathing on the sidewalk in front of the police station. Adkisson died at the scene. Union County attorney Timothy Kenyon said the officers' actions didn't cause Adkisson's seizure. | iagenweb.org | ||
7432 | Michael S. Norton | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 08/25/2008 | South Portland | ME | 43.6180776 | -70.3085137 | South Portland Police Department | Police were called because of Norton's mentally unstable behavior. He threatened and approached them armed with a knife. He was shot with a beanbag by one officer and shot with a gun by another. | maine.gov | ||
22372 | Eugene Ray "Gene" Nusbaum | 43 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/25/2008 | Osceola | IN | 41.6629453 | -86.0774207 | Mishawaka Police Department | Eugene Nusbaum, 43, of Osceola, was shot and killed by off-duty Mishawaka police officer Jeremy Tyler who thought Nusbaum was stealing a catalytic converter, police said. | southbendtribune.com | ||
22373 | Rodney Moore | 34 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/25/2008 | Lincolnwood | IL | 42.0099277 | -87.7346472 | Skokie Police Department | Alleged bank robber Rodney Moore was killed after he allegedly opened fire on an unidentified Skokie police officer in Lincolnwood following a short high-speed chase, police said. | dailyherald.com | ||
7423 | Joseph Anthony Pinasco | 21 | Male | European-American/White | 08/24/2008 | Stockton | CA | 37.9111066 | -121.0659749 | California Highway Patrol | Pinasco was shot at 20 times in the side of his truck, but officers claimed that he was trying to run them over. The officers were cleared of criminal charges, but were ruled against in the amount of $1,006,000 in civil court. The CHP and state are also liable for the $1 million damages mentioned. | joeypinasco.com | ||
7424 | James Heitkotter | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 08/24/2008 | Henderson | NV | 36.0110888 | -114.9766602 | Henderson Police Department | When Henderson police arrive at a domestic dispute near College Avenue and Horizon Drive, they find James Heitkotter, 30, with a rifle to his chin. After talking with officers, Heitkotter drops the rifle in their direction, prompting them to shoot. Heitkotter is struck once in the chest, then picks up the rifle and shoots himself in the head. | google.com | ||
7420 | Roderick Lamar Johnson | 26 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/23/2008 | San Bernardino | CA | 34.1286344 | -117.2851632 | San Bernardino Police Department | According to news reports, officer Edward Andrade shot and killed a man who he took his baton and pistol after a traffic stop. | google.com | ||
7421 | Michael K. Wilson | 44 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/23/2008 | Montgomery Village | MD | 39.1962273 | -77.191653 | Montgomery County Sheriff's Office | Wilson was a private security guard at the National Cathedral who shot and killed his former girlfriend after holding her hostage in her garage. He was subsequently shot and killed by responding police. | baltimoresun.com | ||
7422 | Michael D. Hild | 43 | Male | European-American/White | 08/23/2008 | Melbourne | FL | 28.1288987 | -80.6550546 | Melbourne Police Department | Hild, an amputee known for concealing a gun in his prosthetic leg, wanted out of state in connection with the disappearance of his wife, fled from a traffic stop and fired at officers. They fired back and killed him. The two policemen involved were later awarded Officer of the Year for their actions. | highbeam.com | ||
7415 | Justin Ames | 14 | Male | European-American/White | 08/22/2008 | Highland | CA | 34.1156325 | -117.2107932 | San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office | Justin Ames died from injuries sustained when he was struck by a sheriff's patrol car while riding his bike after his first day of high school. | blogspot.com | ||
7416 | Charles Griffin | 37 | Male | African-American/Black | 08/22/2008 | Oakland | CA | 37.8057427 | -122.2747763 | Oakland Police Department | Police shot and killed Charles Griffin after he tried to flee an arrest with an officer in his car. | sfgate.com | ||
7417 | Martinez Winford | 16 | Male | African-American/Black | 08/22/2008 | Chicago | IL | 41.7331178 | -87.6094054 | Chicago Police Department | Officer Zachary Rubald, a former member of the disbanded Special Operations Section, shot Martinez Winford when he allegedly pointed a gun at officers from atop a fence. Winford was with a group of other teens that Rubald and officer Miguel Romero stopped at about 7:45 p.m. for a field interview. Winford ran into an alley and the officers chased him in their car. Winford climbed a fence and allegedly aimed a gun at the officers. Rubald then shot Winford, who was pronounced dead at a hospital. A wrongful death lawsuit challenged the officers' account of the shooting, including their statement that Winford had the gun his right hand, even though he was left-handed. | chicagotribune.com | ||
7418 | Cordell Dobey | 25 | Male | Native American/Alaskan | 08/22/2008 | Waterflow | NM | 36.682719 | -108.481449 | New Mexico State Police | Dobey was killed and another man severely injured, both shot by a state police officer defending himself in a three-on-one altercation that occurred west of the Four Corners Power Plant after an extended car chase, the FBI reported. | google.com | ||
7419 | Michael J. Knowles | 50 | Male | African-American/Black | 08/22/2008 | Sarasota | FL | 27.4032926 | -82.5708677 | Manatee County Sheriff's Office | Deputies were called to a domestic disturbance, and initially found nothing wrong until they heard a woman crying out inside. They found Knowles, her husband, stabbing her in the neck and the chest. Deputies fired on Knowles, and he died in a hospital shortly afterward. | heraldtribune.com | ||
7414 | Ma Phompong | 28 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 08/21/2008 | Fresno | CA | 36.756814 | -119.7634582 | Fresno Police Department | Ma Phompong reportedly killed himself during a 12-hour standoff with police and a manhunt that began after he shot and killed a woman and severely beat a man, then fled to Fresno. | blogspot.com | ||
7412 | Kevin Messinger | 38 | Male | European-American/White | 08/19/2008 | Palmer Township | PA | 40.6896003 | -75.2525898 | Palmer Township Police Department, Wilson Police Department | Kevin Messinger was suspected of stealing a $200 appliance, which resulted in police from two local jurisdictions chasing him the wrong way on a highway. Officers later claimed they weren't chasing him but "checking on the motorists left in his wake." Messinger's car struck Jolene LaBar's car head on at full speed, killing both. | mcall.com | ||
7413 | Jolene K. LaBar | 31 | Female | European-American/White | 08/19/2008 | Palmer Township | PA | 40.6896003 | -75.2525898 | Palmer Township Police Department, Wilson Police Department | Kevin Messinger was suspected of stealing a $200 appliance, which resulted in police from two local jurisdictions chasing him the wrong way on a highway. Officers later claimed they weren't chasing him but "checking on the motorists left in his wake." Messinger's car struck Jolene LaBar's car head on at full speed, killing both. | mcall.com | ||
7411 | Marcus Landrum | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 08/17/2008 | Chicago | IL | 41.8112504 | -87.7456928 | Chicago Police Department | Police shot and killed Marcus Landrum, who was allegedly armed and confrontational after a foot chase. Police said officers responded to a reported burglary at about 10 p.m. involving three males on bicycles and saw a group "matching the description." Officers reportedly caught two boys, ages 12 and 16, but Landrum fled into the LeClaire Courts public housing complex, where an "officer discharged his weapon when he was confronted by an armed offender," according to a police news release. The two boys with Landrum were not arrested because the residence had not actually been burglarized, police said. Landrum's death upset residents, and more officers were called to the scene, police said. | chicagotribune.com | ||
7406 | Name withheld by police | Male | Race unspecified | 08/16/2008 | Rosemead | CA | 34.0626575 | -118.0819482 | Los Angeles Police Department | A man reportedly shot himself and crashed the SUV he was driving after leading LAPD officers on a 20 minute pursuit. | latimes.com | |||
7407 | Dennis W. Roden | 19 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/16/2008 | Morris | IL | 41.3874053 | -88.3469999 | Morris Police Department | Dennis W. Roden was riding on the back of a Suzuki Quad Sport ATV that was struck by a squad car driven by officer Steve Huettemann. According to police, Huettemann was responding to investigate a report of an ATV driving around Evergreen Cemetery at around 12:20 a.m., when the ATV drove in front of him. The squad car struck the ATV and Roden died. The ATV's driver, Steffen Durkee, 20, pleaded guilty to aggravated reckless driving and was sentenced to 60 days in jail and 30 months probation. | morrisherald-news.com | ||
7408 | Christopher J. Jones | 44 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/16/2008 | Valmeyer | IL | 38.2500272 | -90.293715 | Monroe County Sheriff's Office | Deputy Jason Ettling was making a U-turn on Bluff Road at about 8:15 p.m. when the front of his car hit oncoming motorcyclist, Christopher J. Jones, killing Jones. | justia.com | ||
7409 | Guadalupe Zavala | 87 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 08/16/2008 | San Diego | CA | 32.5493806 | -117.0449828 | San Diego Police Department | Police reaction to an agitated 87-year-old Zavala dressed only in an adult diaper and armed with shards of glass was to fire four bean bag rounds at his chest, and tasered him. The coroner attributed his resulting death to "complications following blunt force injuries to the chest and abdomen." | sandiego.gov | ||
7410 | Cody Hanks | 29 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/16/2008 | Kimberly | ID | 42.548204 | -114.3646324 | Idaho State Police | A State Trooper made a traffic stop on State Highway 30 near the State Highway 50 junction. The trooper tried to arrest Hanks under charges of DUI and possible possession of a controlled substance. Officials say Hanks resisted arrest and ran back to his pick-up. The trooper was being drug down the roadway in the driver's door of the vehicle. The trooper shot and killed Hanks. | ktvb.com | ||
21810 | Manuel de Jesus Espina | 43 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 08/16/2008 | Langley Park | MD | 38.9887318 | -76.9842912 | Prince George's County Police Department | Officer Steven Jackson tried to arrest Manuel de Jesus Espina on an alcohol violation in the stairwell of an apartment building, police said. Jackson was moonlighting as a security officer and was wearing his police uniform. They fought and Jackson shot and killed Espina. | washingtonpost.com | ||
7405 | Kenneth Oliver | 45 | Male | African-American/Black | 08/15/2008 | Miami | FL | 25.633211 | -80.366462 | Miami-Dade Police Department | Oliver pounded on the door of a friend's house, screaming for help. His friend opted not to open the door because Oliver sounded so desperate his daughters were frightened. The police arrived and tasered Oliver four times, according to a witness, killing himself. The victim may have had pins in his shoulders, restricting movement, creating the impression that he was uncooperative. | foxnews.com | ||
21201 | Brandon Preslar | 24 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/15/2008 | Ypsilanti Charter Township | MI | 42.2501261 | -83.6609528 | Pittsfield Township Department of Public Safety | According to police, Brandon Preslar was killed when he ran a red light on his motorcycle and crashed into another car at about 1:30 a.m. The crash was apparently reported by police as linked to a chase, though contemporary reports give no indication that he was involved in a chase. | mlive.com | ||
7404 | James Monroe Segrest | 54 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/14/2008 | Morrow | GA | 33.5596376 | -84.3456055 | Clayton County Police Department | Speeding away from police for a reckless driving stop, an Oldsmobile Aurora driven by Lance E. Locke crashed into a motorcycle, crushing the bike, catching on fire and killing James Monroe Segrest. | news-daily.com | ||
20329 | Paul Richard Lomman | 62 | Male | European-American/White | 08/14/2008 | York Haven | PA | 40.1220172 | -76.7954478 | Newberry Township Police Department | Officials said Paul R. Lomman, 62, shot himself in the chest and was also shot in the neck by a Newberry Twp. office during a standoff at Lomman's home. Lomman died at the scene. | inyork.com | ||
7402 | Jeffrey Lewis | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 08/13/2008 | Waukegan | IL | 42.3480897 | -87.8363271 | Waukegan Police Department | Police shot Jeffrey Lewis after he allegedly attacked an officer with a hammer. Police were called to Lewis' home to break up a fight between him and his older brother. Relatives dispute the chain of events, saying Lewis never attacked police. | chicagotribune.com | ||
7403 | Hubert Stanley Tate | 65 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/13/2008 | Lula | GA | 34.3911826 | -83.662026 | Hall County Sheriff's Office | Officers responded to report of man walking on street with a large handgun. Tate fled to his camper, in which he lived. An hours long standoff ensued. When SWAT members shot tear gas into the camper, Tate fired at police, injuring one. Officers returned fire, killing Tate. | gainesvilletimes.com | ||
7401 | Gregory Martin Lamb | 28 | Male | European-American/White | 08/12/2008 | Hyde Park | UT | 41.7822275 | -111.8194232 | Logan Police Department, North Park Police Department, Smithfield Police Department, Utah State University Police Department | Lamb's father called 911 to report that Lamb was "totally intoxicated" and "threatening our lives." After police arrived at his Hyde Park home, Lamb allegedly fired several shots out the window. After phone negotiations failed, Lamb came outside with two pistols and allegedly began to point one of the guns toward officers, six of whom fired on Lamb. | hjnews.com | ||
21200 | Brian Thomas | 28 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/12/2008 | Westland | MI | 42.3387241 | -83.3493773 | Romulus Police Department | Police said undercover RPD narcotics officers were conducting a sting in the Merri-Warren Plaza parking lot at around 3:30 p.m.. where an informant had arranged to sell five men 3 kilos of cocaine. Three men arrived in a Chevrolet Lumina. Brian Thomas and another man got into the back seat of the informant's Mercedes with a bag police said they initially believed had the money, but that "there was no money in the bag. This was set up to be a robbery from the get-go." A Buick Rendezvous carrying the other two men arrived. According to police, the passenger got out and allegedly pointed a handgun at the informant, who grabbed the gun barrel. Nine officers jumped from two undercover vans parked behind the Mercedes as the passenger and Thomas allegedly ran toward the Bob's of Canton-Westland grocery store while shooting at police. The officers returned fire, hitting Thomas four times. He died in front of the market. The Buick's passenger was also hit, fled into the store and was arrested, along with another man. Both drivers fled. One was arrested later that night; the other surrendered the following night, police said. Witnesses said up to 100 shots were fired. No officers or bystanders were physically injured. According to police, the informant had minor injuries not caused by gunfire. | crimeindetroit.com | ||
23105 | Joe Leon Bier | 46 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/12/2008 | Lenoir City | TN | 35.8003652 | -84.2876281 | Lenoir City Police Department, Blount County Sheriff's Office, Loudon County Sheriff's Office, Tennessee Highway Patrol | Police received a report that Joe Bier had run over the lawn mower of a neighbor who lived about eight blocks away, and attempted to run over the neighbor, police said. Police asked Bier to come in to the police station to discuss the incident. When Bier didn't show up, police went to the home, and a standoff began, which ended with Bier's suicide. | knoxnews.com | ||
7398 | Ian Theodore Rendon | 37 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/11/2008 | Denver | CO | 39.7251161 | -105.0557163 | Denver Police Department | Police said Ian Theodore Rendon fled in a black Audi after a patrol officer tried to stop him for a routine traffic violation at West Sixth Avenue near Wadsworth Boulevard.Soon after, the officer found the car abandoned and spotted Rendon a half-mile away on foot holding a gun, police said. Rendon then shot himself in the head, police said | google.com | ||
7399 | Herbert Tate | 65 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/11/2008 | Lula | GA | 34.3891467 | -83.6665457 | Hall County Sheriff's Office | A man carrying a gun was seen two blocks from Lula Elementary School. After being approached by an off-duty officer, the man pointed the weapon at the officer and then barricaded himself in an RV that he lived in a few blocks from the school. A SWAT team was called to the scene. It was not reported exactly what caused Tate to be shot and killed. | google.com | ||
7400 | Jonathan Fontanez | 17 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 08/11/2008 | West Park | FL | 25.9809746 | -80.1860395 | Broward County Sheriff's Office | The county sent a five-man undercover team shortly before 2 a.m. to deliver a warrant to Fontanez at his parents' house. The teen resisted with a baseball ball, starting an ugly melee where Fontanez was beaten, tasered multiple times, and fatally shot in the chest. The parents filed suit saying the police were indistinguishable from home invaders. | sun-sentinel.com | ||
7396 | Kiethedric Hines | 31 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/10/2008 | Rockford | IL | 42.309152 | -89.097315 | Rockford Police Department | Kiethedric Hines died after being tasered by police. At around 5:30 p.m., police responded to a domestic call, and Hines reportedly led them on a foot chase. According to police, officers used several measures to get Hines to stop before they eventually used a Taser. Hines later died at the hospital. Winnebago County Coroner Sue Fiduccia said Hines died because of a heart condition. | rrstar.com | ||
7397 | Gerardo Arvallo | 32 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 08/10/2008 | Lynwood | CA | 33.9319041 | -118.2138057 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department | Officers say they responded to an deadly weapon assault call and the deceased had shot a woman and had her 2-year-old daughter as a hostage in the woman's home, and the officers shot the deceased to death after a standoff. | latimes.com | ||
7393 | Richard Allen Medeiros II | 31 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/09/2008 | Gustine | CA | 37.1876969 | -121.0126669 | California Highway Patrol | Officers reportedly found Richard Allen Medeiros II with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after he'd crashed while the CHP chased him. | modbee.com | ||
7394 | Laderrius Breon Christian | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 08/09/2008 | Longview | TX | 32.5262981 | -94.8085986 | Gregg County Sheriff's Office | Deputy Douglas Morgan saw Christian weave through traffic on a 2005 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle. He lost sight of Christian, then found him lying in Silver Falls Road, north of Annette Drive and south of Lee Street. His right foot had been severed from his leg. Deputy Morgan and two bystanders stabilized Christian, who was still armed with a pistol and in possession of cocaine. Deputy Gregg gave Christian's foot to EMS. Christian died at Good Shepherd Medical Center. | google.com | ||
7395 | John Derrick Johnson | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 08/09/2008 | Beulah | AL | 32.7237324 | -85.1660608 | Lee County Sheriff's Office | A deputy shot and killed John Derrick Johnson when Johnson allegedly attempted to flee a traffic stop, dragging the deputy with his truck. | wsfa.com | ||
22716 | Tameika Antionette "Meka" Jordan | 17 | Female | African-American/Black | 08/09/2008 | Norfolk | VA | 36.86069 | -76.265198 | Norfolk Police Department | Police responded to a call that a girl was barricaded inside her home, police said. Police said they had received a report that an armed person had threatened to kill a family member. Police set up a perimeter around the apartment building and called crisis negotiators. Negotiations went on for six hours but then broke down. Police decided to enter the apartment and were confronted by the girl aiming a gun at them, and they shot and killed her. | pilotonline.com | ||
7391 | Daniel Wayne Hough | 39 | Male | European-American/White | 08/08/2008 | Beaumont | TX | 30.0832708 | -94.1123247 | Beaumont Police Department | Officers responded to a report of a man with a knife. Hough, behaving erratically, refused to drop his weapon. An officer tasered him. Hough attacked officers with a barbecue fork. An officer shot him once in the chest. | google.com | ||
7392 | John Melchior | 47 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/08/2008 | Brunswick | OH | 41.238236 | -81.8413202 | Brunswick Police Department | Melchior, who was wanted by Parma police in an attempted rape and burglary case, was killed after a police chase in Brunswick. He died when his motorcycle collided with a sport-utility vehicle and a car. | google.com | ||
7390 | Charles Edward Quinn | 54 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/07/2008 | Loganville | GA | 33.8153273 | -83.9471315 | Gwinnett County Police Department | Quinn was found dead by a SWAT robot from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, concluding a standoff that was sparked when Quinn allegedly shot his next door neighbor several times while the man mowed his lawn around 12:45 p.m. | google.com | ||
16628 | Ortanzso Bovell | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 08/07/2008 | Brooklyn | NY | 40.6557776 | -73.9233195 | City of New York Police Department | Lt. John Chell was in charge of the Brooklyn South Auto Larceny squad. He and his team found Ortanzso Bovell breaking into a 2004 Mustang GT around 8 p.m. As Bovell fled, Chell discharged his weapon, killing the man. Ten years later, Brooklyn jury has awarded $2.5 million to Bovell's mother. | nydailynews.com | ||
7386 | Gene Lovell Ford | 48 | Male | African-American/Black | 08/06/2008 | Sacramento | CA | 38.5901809 | -121.4993933 | Sacramento Police Department | Gene Lovell Ford, who reportedly had been running naked and chasing people near the downtown railyard, died shortly after police detained him. | google.com | ||
7387 | Jose H. Vega | 38 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 08/06/2008 | Visalia | CA | 36.3294702 | -119.3021705 | Visalia Police Department | Jose Vega died after he was arrested by Visalia police. | google.com | ||
7388 | Walter Ward Davis | 74 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/06/2008 | Redlands | CA | 34.0618054 | -117.2046197 | Redlands Police Department | Walter Ward Davis reportedly shot himself after a deputy arrived to serve an arrest warrant at the nine-room Sunrise Motel. | highbeam.com | ||
7389 | Osbaldo Xavier Barrera | 44 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 08/06/2008 | San Antonio | TX | 29.368923 | -98.602876 | San Antonio Police Department | Barrera entered Juan Orosco's apartment and struck him with a hammer. Orosco pushed Barrera out of the apartment, slammed his head against a car and threw him to the ground. Officers Hilliard and Reygadas responded. When they put Barrera in a patrol vehicle, he complained about breathing trouble and passed out. | google.com | ||
20328 | Dashan White | 24 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/06/2008 | West Chester | PA | 39.9442936 | -75.5850147 | West Goshen Township Police Department | Dashan White was shot and killed by police, and an alleged 15-year old accomplice was arrested during an attempted robbery at a Chester County hotel. | 6abc.com | ||
23104 | Gerald D. Cox | 32 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/06/2008 | Memphis | TN | 35.2413309 | -89.8788713 | Shelby County Sheriff's Office | A chase began after noon when Deputy Troy Simmons, 43, tried to pull over a car after the driver allegedly made a left turn without signaling. The driver fled, eventually crashing into a ditch and killing the driver, Gerald Cox. | google.com | ||
7382 | Juan Herminio Carrasco | 35 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 08/05/2008 | Santa Ana | CA | 33.7395139 | -117.8586806 | Santa Ana Police Department | Officer Adrian Silva shot Juan Hermino Carrasco several times when he tried to grab another officer's gun during a pat down search that occurred while police had been looking for another person. | latimes.com | ||
7383 | Niccolo Hubbard | 19 | Male | European-American/White | 08/05/2008 | Mayfield Heights | OH | 41.5182351 | -81.4442696 | Orange Village Police Department, Oakwood Police Department | An Oakwood patrolman saw Hubbard's blue 2002 Chevrolet Monte Carlo run into a curb on Broadway Avenue. The officer stopped Hubbard and walked up to his car. He got close enough to the car to smell alcohol, then Hubbard sped away. Hubbard drove down two dead-end streets and spun around on both. He drove through yards and drove head-on toward the Oakwood police car, which had to swerve out of the way. The Oakwood officer, deeming the pursuit not worth the risks, ended the chase and exited the highway at Miles Road. An Orange sergeant spotted the speeding car on I-271 and turned on his lights and siren. He pulled up behind it. Speeds reached more than 100 mph. A rear tire blew out on Hubbard's car, and the officer backed off. Hubbard attempted to exit I-271 at Ohio 322 west, but he lost control in the cloverleaf curve. The Monte Carlo flew off the pavement into a large earthen basin. The car slammed to the ground, rolled over and threw Hubbard out. The driverless car then rolled up the side of the grassy basin and back down over Hubbard, killing him, police said. | cleveland.com | ||
7384 | Brandon Teague | 25 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/05/2008 | Chicago | IL | 41.7503976 | -87.6598043 | Chicago Police Department | SWAT officers shot and killed Brandon Teague after he allegedly shot at police on the South Side. Police said they'd approached Teague at about 10:30 p.m. because they thought he looked suspicious. According to police, Teague opened fire, hitting an officer's shoe. Teague then ran into a nearby gangway, and SWAT was summoned. Teague allegedly fired at officers and at a police helicopter. Police said a SWAT officer was hit in his protective vest. At about 12:30 a.m., the officers shot Teague. | chicagotribune.com | ||
7385 | Eric Lewis Liebowitz | 35 | Male | European-American/White | 08/05/2008 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.1757851 | -118.5215383 | Los Angeles Police Department | Officers say they responded to a call regarding shots fired, were directed to a different street, at which point Liebowitz came out of a house with a shotgun and fired at them, and the officers shot him to death. | latimes.com | ||
7379 | Jerry Lynn Jones | 45 | Male | African-American/Black | 08/04/2008 | Orange | TX | 30.1056659 | -93.74082240000001 | Orange Police Department | Jones followed Lillian Barnett into her house and wrestled her to the floor. Officers Howard DeVault and Michael Roush rolled Jones over. Officer DeVault shot Jones with a taser. Jones continued to resist. Officer DeVault put the taser to Jones's body and stunned him twice. The officers, assisted by Sergeants Wade Robinson and John Dee Taylor, put handcuffs and hobbles on Jones, then linked them together. Jones died of a cocaine overdose. | google.com | ||
7380 | Matthew B. Schoenwald | 24 | Male | European-American/White | 08/04/2008 | Bradenton | FL | 27.4888945 | -82.5788903 | Bradenton Police Department | Schoenwald charged at an officer with a knife as police approached his apartment, and he was fatally shot "almost immediately" four or five times. Police did not initially disclose the reason for their visit. | theledger.com | ||
7381 | Johnathan T. Sullivan | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 08/04/2008 | Albion | ME | 44.5368605 | -69.4203476 | Maine State Police | Shot while wielding a shotgun during confrontation with police. Officers were responding to report of domestic violence disturbance. | maine.gov | ||
19071 | Thomas John Dick | 40 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/04/2008 | Pamplico | SC | 34.0276088 | -79.5476136 | Florence County Sheriff's Office | Thomas John Dick had kidnapped his girlfriend's son and after a two-hour standoff was shot and killed by deputies. The boy was unharmed. | scnow.com | ||
20327 | Andre DeMon "Dre" Thomas | 37 | Male | African-American/Black | 08/04/2008 | Swissvale | PA | 40.4217721 | -79.8830908 | Swissvale Police Department | Andre Thomas died after he was tasered three times by police. He was unarmed during the incident. He had trouble breathing, was taken to the hospital, and died three hours after the shocks. | post-gazette.com | ||
7376 | Boback A. Pourfarhadi | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 08/03/2008 | Columbus | OH | 40.0774453 | -82.9285656 | Minerva Park Police Department | Columbus police said Pourfarhadi fell and was lying in the roadway when Minerva Park Officer Jason Gross ran over him. Friends--two women and a man--said that Boback had bent over to tie his shoelace. | dispatch.com | ||
7377 | Anthony Antwan Davis | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 08/03/2008 | Las Vegas | NV | 36.212496 | -115.091817 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | Las Vegas sergeant, investigating gang activity at an apartment complex off Las Vegas Boulevard North, fatally shot Anthony Antwan Davis, 24, after Davis struggled with him and tried to grab another officer's gun. | google.com | ||
7378 | Gullen Tavarez Perez | 23 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 08/03/2008 | Fitchburg | MA | 42.5838812 | -71.7989419 | Fitchburg Police Department | Tavarez Perez was apprehended on August 1 in his vehicle on drugs charges (heroin and cocaine). The report of the arresting officer noted that the arrestee had "swallowed something from another plastic bag," this officer had prior experience of detainees ingesting drugs and requiring medical attention. In two days Tavarez Perez was dead from opiate intoxication. In February 2014 a district court judge agreed with the victim's heirs that the arresting officer was potentially civilly liable for negligence and wrongful death. | leagle.com | ||
21199 | Marshan L. Worthey | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 08/03/2008 | Jackson | MI | 42.229453 | -84.410121 | Jackson Police Department | Jackson police Sgt. Timothy Hibbard and officers Jason Ganzhorn and Wesley Stanton shot and killed Marshan Worthey after he allegedly opened fire on them at around 5 a.m. as they approached Worthey after he'd shot and killed his girlfriend Shakia Kelley, 22. | wilx.com | ||
7372 | Lawrence Rosenthal | 54 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/02/2008 | Hemet | CA | 33.7479055 | -116.8724797 | Riverside County Sheriff's Department | Lawrence Rosenthal died in a hospital several days after deputy Christopher Cazarez shocked him with a Taser when he became confrontational and struggled with Cazarez and deputies Mark Janecka and David Dietrich in Hemet. | ocregister.com | ||
7373 | Christopher Dean Trivett | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 08/02/2008 | Rougemont | NC | 36.1667745 | -78.9785537 | Orange County Sheriff's Office | Trivett was wanted in connection with attempted first-degree murder and other crimes. Police were alerted by somebody who recognized him from news reports. Encountering police, Trivett ran, then reached into a backpack, and was fatally shot. Reports were unclear about whether he'd been armed. | wral.com | ||
7374 | Ruben Charles Debrosse | 16 | Male | African-American/Black | 08/02/2008 | Royal Palm Beach | FL | 26.6680921 | -80.2026914 | Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office | Driving a stolen Kia, Debrosse tried to elude a county deputy, then tried to run over the deputy during a traffic stop in a movie theatre parking lot. With no criminal record, and no driver's license, he was fatally shot in the head. Debrosse's family filed a lawsuit that was settled for $200K. | sun-sentinel.com | ||
7375 | Darryl Battle | 20 | Male | African-American/Black | 08/02/2008 | Brooklyn | NY | 40.683113 | -73.916645 | City of New York Police Department | While attempting to cash a forged $1000 check at a branch bank, Battle left an ID behind. At first during a police visit he was cooperative and willingly let them in, but as the conversation developed he became more agitated and resistant. He excused himself for a glass of water, and returned with an 11-inch knife. He was fatally shot in the chest once. | nydailynews.com | ||
7370 | James Gary Mahaffey | 35 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/01/2008 | Minneapolis | MN | 45.0308227 | -93.2556458 | Fridley Police Department | Two Fridley detectives responded to a tip that copper wire stolen in Fridley was being loaded into a pickup truck, police said. When they arrived, they saw a pickup truck accelerate and drive away, dropping what officials believe to be stolen property on the street. The detectives turned on their emergency lights and sirens and followed the truck. When the truck didn't stop, the detectives turned off their flashing lights and sirens because Fridley police have a no-pursuit policy. After turning down a nearby street, officers found the truck ablaze, having crashed into a tree, killing two men. | google.com | ||
7371 | Timothy James Ridge | 27 | Male | Race unspecified | 08/01/2008 | Minneapolis | MN | 45.0308227 | -93.2556458 | Fridley Police Department | Two Fridley detectives responded to a tip that copper wire stolen in Fridley was being loaded into a pickup truck, police said. When they arrived, they saw a pickup truck accelerate and drive away, dropping what officials believe to be stolen property on the street. The detectives turned on their emergency lights and sirens and followed the truck. When the truck didn't stop, the detectives turned off their flashing lights and sirens because Fridley police have a no-pursuit policy. After turning down a nearby street, officers found the truck ablaze, having crashed into a tree, killing two men. | google.com | ||
7368 | Steven Larry Holland | 43 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/31/2008 | Muscle Shoals | AL | 34.7556547 | -87.6348865 | Florence Police Department | Steven Larry Holland was killed when his car hit an 18-wheeler head-on during a police chase. | montgomeryadvertiser.com | ||
7369 | Jesse Moore | 56 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/31/2008 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.0380669 | -118.240097 | Los Angeles Police Department | Officers say they approached a narcotics suspect hiding in a tent, and he lunged at them with a knife, and they shot him to death. | latimes.com | ||
7367 | Richard Adam Pastore-Felix | 18 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/30/2008 | Mountlake Terrace | WA | 47.783803 | -122.2976179 | Mountlake Terrace Police Department | Shot after leaning out a window with a firearm. Officers were responding to report of gunshots. | seattlepi.com | ||
22371 | Name withheld by police | 67 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/30/2008 | Hanna | IN | 41.4186567 | -86.7169991 | La Porte County Sheriff's Office | A man reportedly called 911 early in the morning, threatening to shoot himself. When deputies arrived, they found the man sitting on a chair outside his home with a gun. According to a police report, the man spoke to officers but would not lay down his gun or comply with orders to keep his hands in plain sight. When police tried to negotiate with him, he declined to comply and tried to go inside his house. Deputies then fired "a less-lethal direct impact round" in an attempt to keep the man outside, but the projectile did not incapacitate him, and he shot and killed himself. | google.com | ||
7364 | Marvin Sullivan | 43 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/29/2008 | Buffalo | NY | 42.9402199 | -78.802558 | Niagara County Sheriff's Office | Officers executed a coordinated multi-jurisdictional dawn anti-cocaine raid, "Operation Third Strike", with 150 police who fanned out through Buffalo, detained 23 suspects, and confiscated $100,000. At Sullivan's residence, officers entering a second-story bedroom were confronted with Sullivan and a bolt-action shotgun. They fatally shot him three times. | masscops.com | ||
7365 | Brian Terrell Brock | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/29/2008 | Jacksonville | FL | 30.3617551 | -81.412276 | Jacksonville Sheriff's Office | Brock was a person-of-interest in a murder investigation. Sought by the police and found at an apartment complex, Brock attempted to flee and was fatally shot by police after making a hand gesture as if he'd been armed. | jacksonville.com | ||
7366 | Jermain Rogers Gaillard | 37 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/29/2008 | Prichard | AL | 30.752963 | -88.094012 | Satsuma Police Department | Officer alleged to have run over Gaillard after the suspect exited the passenger side of a vehicle that had stopped on the I-65 Interchange in Prichard following a high-speed case through Baldwin and Mobile Counties. | www.al.com | ||
7362 | Rocko M. White | 48 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/28/2008 | Lonoke | AR | 34.8036836 | -91.9005636 | Lonoke Police Department, Arkansas State Police | White shot at an officer during a traffic shot. He was shot and killed. | google.com | ||
7363 | Eddy Tiburcio | 41 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/28/2008 | Providence | RI | 41.7978264 | -71.4126093 | Providence Police Department | Police responding to domestic disturbance calls from Tiburcio's residence found his wife wounded and his three young boys distressed as they answered the door. Officers proceeded to the bedroom to find Tiburcio armed with a bayonet and threatening his wife with further injury. He raised the bayonet to threaten the officer, who killed hm with a single shot. | officer.com | ||
7360 | Tony M. Hayes | 33 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/27/2008 | State Center | IA | 42.0077209 | -93.1578483 | Nevada Police Department, Ames Police Department, Marshalltown Police Department | Tony Hayes reportedly shot and killed Lacrissa Davis, 27, at Casey's General Store in Ames. Officer Kailen Fitzgerald saw Hayes riding a bicycle toward Nevada. A gun battle allegedly ensued and Hayes climbed in the passenger side of Fitzgerald's police car and drove off, leading officers from multiple agencies on a high-speed chase. Hayes crashed into a ditch after running over stop sticks east of State Center. Police reportedly discovered Hayes had shot himself. According to police, dashcam video didn't show officers finding Hayes dead because the officer recording had to go tell onlookers to get back in their vehicles. | iowastatedaily.com | ||
7361 | Andre Luis DeCastro Martins | 25 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/27/2008 | West Yarmouth | MA | 41.6555653 | -70.2628178 | Yarmouth Police Department | Police spotted Martins speeding at 1 am and tried to pull him over. Martins fled the scene until getting rammed by officers trying to turn around from a road block. Officer exits car and is allegedly almost hit by Martins as he tries to flee again in car, but police fires 3 shots through side and rear window. Martins dies from wounds in hospital. | capecodonline.com | ||
7356 | Daniel Lee Humphreys | 47 | Male | European-American/White | 07/26/2008 | Lodi | CA | 38.115884 | -121.3975832 | California Highway Patrol | CHP officer Roberto Iniguez tasered Daniel Lee Humphreys 31 times in 7.5 minutes after he crashed his motorcycle during a freeway chase. | recordnet.com | ||
7357 | Shane Damond | 37 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/26/2008 | Lafayette | LA | 30.2317289 | -92.0026962 | Lafayette Police Department | Officer Michael Milazzo shot and killed Shane Damond when Damond allegedly dragged Milazzo in a vehicle that had been reported stolen. | finalcall.com | ||
7358 | Ryan Williams | 46 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/26/2008 | Mooringsport | LA | 32.6676529 | -93.973348 | Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office | An unnamed man reportedly shot and killed himself following a short pursuit that began after the man had allegedly fled a shooting scene. | ksla.com | ||
7359 | Anthony Jarvis | 53 | Male | European-American/White | 07/26/2008 | Claremont | NH | 43.3689106 | -72.3409757 | New Hampshire State Police | Twelve officers from five police jurisdictions comprising the "Western New Hampshire Special Operations Unit," along with two county attorneys, conducted a major paramilitary operation / warrant search / raid to arrest Jarvis's son and another person. After the arrests were made, police conducted a further improper warrantless raid on the camper of Jarvis, who shot and wounded two officers before being killed in a hail of 22 bullets. | fosters.com | ||
7353 | Tony Lamont Clay | 25 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/25/2008 | Tacoma | WA | 47.250881 | -122.52411 | Tacoma Police Department | Police responding to a report of a fight were rushed at by a man with a knife. An officer opened fire and killed the man. | thenewstribune.com | ||
7354 | Mack "Jody" Woodfox | 27 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/25/2008 | Oakland | CA | 37.7814277 | -122.2239429 | Oakland Police Department | Mack "Jody" Woodfox, 27, was shot and killed after an attempted traffic stop | colorlines.com | ||
7355 | John C. Watts | 18 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/25/2008 | Suitland | MD | 38.8296657 | -76.8784792 | Prince George's County Sheriff's Office | Watts was fatally shot by an off-duty police officer at about 3:30 a.m. at an apartment complex as the result of an attempted armed robbery. Reportedly Watts's accomplice escaped. The same officer had shot two others in the county in 1989 and in 2001, killing one, wounding the other. | officer.com | ||
19747 | Claudia Faye Wadlington | 5 | Female | European-American/White | 07/25/2008 | Louisville | KY | 38.2144677 | -85.7551147 | Louisville Metro Police Department | Kenielle Finch struck and killed Riley Lawrence and Claudia Wadlington, left one of their mothers with a broken arm, and then fled the scene. He was allegedly fleeing police. | wdrb.com | ||
19748 | Riley Jane Lawrence | 4 | Female | European-American/White | 07/25/2008 | Louisville | KY | 38.2144677 | -85.7551147 | Louisville Metro Police Department | Kenielle Finch struck and killed Riley Lawrence and Claudia Wadlington, left one of their mothers with a broken arm, and then fled the scene. He was allegedly fleeing police. | wdrb.com | ||
20326 | Brian Neiman | 50 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/25/2008 | State College | PA | 40.7633353 | -77.8797309 | Ferguson Township Police Department | Brian Neiman was shot and killed by police outside a Christian radio station. He'd apparently threatened the station while trying to rob a car dealership. He shot at police and tried to hit them with his car outside the station. | google.com | ||
22370 | Brian Szuflita | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 07/25/2008 | South Bend | IN | 41.7293771 | -86.2901908 | South Bend Police Department | Police arrived at an in-progress bank robbery. When Brian Szuflita came out, he allegedly threatened officers with a knife and was shot and killed. | nwitimes.com | ||
7349 | Eusebio Jobie Prieto | 31 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/24/2008 | Porterville | CA | 36.079855 | -119.0086721 | Porterville Police Department | Sgts. John Hall and Jeff Dowling shot Eusebio Jobie Prieto who fled from police and tried to enter the Foster Farms factory break room while holding a screwdriver. | bakersfieldcalifornian.com | ||
7350 | Donald Gaches | 43 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/24/2008 | Springfield | MO | 37.2056723 | -93.285065 | Springfield Police Department | Officer Jeff Ferneau shot Donald Gaches when he allegedly came at him with a knife. Ferneau, along with officers Terry Tauai and Dak Henning of the Missouri State substation, responded to an alleged assault at Gaches apartment. Gaches was allegedly wielding a knife and stepped toward Ferneau, who fired his weapon once, killing Gaches instantly. | google.com | ||
7351 | Bobby Dickerson | 49 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/24/2008 | Gonzales | LA | 30.2200537 | -90.9155081 | Gonzales Police Department, Louisiana State Police | Bobby Dickerson reportedly shot and killed his estranged wife before apparently taking his own life in a standoff with police. | wafb.com | ||
7352 | Christian Portillo | 34 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/24/2008 | Inglewood | CA | 33.9356806 | -118.3599158 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department | Officers say approached a man in a parked car and he was startled, agitated, and reached under his seat and one of the officers shot him to death. No drugs or weapons were found, but the police say Portillo had a suspended license. | latimes.com | ||
21198 | Antonio Barber | 39 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/24/2008 | Flint | MI | 42.9566474 | -83.7172098 | Flint Township Police Department, Oakland County Sheriff's Office | Antonio Barber, a former Flint officer who was fired over allegedly stealing a football video game seized during a drug raid, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot during a nearly nine-hour standoff with police. Police said Barber barricaded himself inside a Maple Park Terrace apartment at about 2:30 p.m. after two teens called 911 to say they and their mother had been held hostage by Barber for about 13 hours. The mother ran out of the apartment when police arrived. Police said officers discovered Barber was dead at around 11 p.m. | nbc25news.com | ||
7346 | Allen Cole Sr. | 40 | Male | European-American/White | 07/23/2008 | Toledo | OH | 41.7067659 | -83.544681 | Toledo Police Department | Gail Cole followed closely behind her husband as he walked along North Detroit Avenue, explaining to a 911 operator that he had a gun and threatened to harm her and himself, police said. Police officers approached Allen Cole, and a sergeant and two officers tried for more than five minutes to get Cole to put down his gun. At one point, he pointed the weapon toward his chest. Cole pulled a second gun from his waistband, pointed it toward the officers, and was shot and killed. | toledoblade.com | ||
7347 | Michael J. Taylor | 50 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/23/2008 | Paxton | IL | 40.4297018 | -88.1165671 | Paxton Police Department | Michael J. Taylor was killed in a crash while being pursued by two police cars in a rural area southwest of Paxton. According to police, they saw a 1999 Chevrolet Cavalier at around 9 p.m. with plates registered to a different vehicle. Police chased Taylor until he drove into a ditch, where the car struck a telephone pole and became airborne, ejecting Taylor. A Ford County coroner's jury decided Taylor's death was accidental. | news-gazette.com | ||
7348 | Richard Smith | 42 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/23/2008 | Dallas | TX | 32.8664891 | -96.7530456 | Dallas Police Department | Senior Cpl. Shawn Freeman and Officer Brenton Hughes met Smith outside of his apartment, where he was screaming and punching the air. They tried to reason with him. He returned to his apartment, then jumped from a second-story window. The officers tried to handcuff Smith. He punched them both. The officers shot Smith three times with stun guns as they cuffed his wrists and ankles. They took Smith to Green Oaks Hospital for mental health treatment. He took medicine, then suffered seizures. He died at Medical City Dallas Hospital the next day. | texasjusticeinitiative.org | ||
7343 | David Jeffery Bauman | 52 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/22/2008 | Frederick | MD | 39.4241066 | -77.4601292 | Frederick Police Department | Within a three-hour span police had been called to Bauman's apartment three times, the last time by a number of 911 hang-up calls. When they arrived at three in the morning, local police were confronted with Bauman on the sidewalk wielding a claw hammer, which he refused to drop. In the end he was fatally shot. | gazette.net | ||
7344 | Jason Aiello | 36 | Male | European-American/White | 07/22/2008 | Staten Island | NY | 40.6140827 | -74.0724577 | City of New York Police Department | Former NYPD sergeant Aiello was freshly escaped from a psychiatric emergency ward and under FBI investigation for an alleged mob-hit of a jeweler. Aiello returned home and caused a police confrontation in the street, clutching a Bible and briefly holding his wife and children against their will. Police confiscated one handgun and were in the process of arresting him when he produced a second gun. He was fatally shot by officers later commended for their action. | nypost.com | ||
7345 | Mark Reed Rohlman | 47 | Male | European-American/White | 07/22/2008 | Fort Walton Beach | FL | 30.4320257 | -86.6181669 | Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office | Mark was released from Fort Walton Beach Medical Center after being 'Baker Acted' for mental health reasons. He was readmitted and released again. After release he broke into his father's vacant home with a weapon and was holed up in the home. Tactical team was deployed by Okaloosa Sheriff's dept. They were unsure if he was alone so they entered the home to subdue Mark. He shot and killed two officers before being shot and killed by an officer. | sheriff-okaloosa.org | ||
21936 | Name withheld by police | Male | Race unspecified | 07/22/2008 | West Deptford | NJ | 39.8556918 | -75.1435969 | West Deptford Police Department | An unidentified man fatally shot himself inside his Lincoln Avenue home as police, responding to an undisclosed call, stood outside. | google.com | |||
7340 | Fenley B. Allen | 45 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/21/2008 | TX | 31.9685988 | -99.9018131 | Harris County Constable's Office Precinct 1 | As Deputy Jarryl Tudmon helped a stranded motorist, Allen, armed with a gun, stole his patrol vehicle and tried to drive away. His path was blocked by auto wreckers. Deputy Tudmon and a second deputy disarmed and handcuffed Allen. He passed out, then died at a hospital. Allen had been involved in a robbery and killing earlier that day. | google.com | |||
7341 | Kevin Wicks | 38 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/21/2008 | Inglewood | CA | 33.9628352 | -118.3486291 | Inglewood Police Department | Officers say they responded to a domestic disturbance, and Wicks answered the door raising a gun at the officers, and one shot him to death. Others say this was the wrong apartment, and Wicks, a postal worker with two daughters, came to the door with a gun for protection against robbers. | latimes.com | ||
20608 | Dion Joel Mueller | 19 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/21/2008 | Sheboygan | WI | 43.6882011 | -87.7513793 | Sheboygan County Sheriff's Office | Dion Joel Mueller died and a Sheboygan County sheriff's deputy was injured when their vehicles crashed and rolled into a ditch, where the deputy's squad car caught fire. The crash occurred as the deputy was responding to assist another deputy in a separate case. Whether the deputy had lights and siren on was not reported. Dion Joel Mueller was initially misreported as Dion J. Miller. | google.com | ||
7338 | John Michael Clark | 55 | Male | European-American/White | 07/20/2008 | TX | 31.9685988 | -99.9018131 | Texas Department of Public Safety | Trooper Israel Perez pulled over a red 1997 Jeep Wrangler on suspicion that the driver, Clark, was drunk. As Trooper Perez stepped out of his patrol vehicle, Clark put a .38-caliber Rossi revolver to his head and shot himself. | google.com | |||
7339 | Darry Edward Waters | 38 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/20/2008 | Jacksonville | FL | 30.3751111 | -81.6834485 | Jacksonville Sheriff's Office | Waters was a suspect in a stabbing and sought by police. When approached, Waters ducked away, circled back and stole the patrol car of the questioning officer, ran that patrol car into a group of other police cars at an apartment complex, and assaulted one of them with a "Rambo-style knife." He was shot to death. | jacksonville.com | ||
21197 | Marco L. Caponecchia | 25 | Male | European-American/White | 07/20/2008 | Detroit | MI | 42.3488239 | -83.025396 | Wayne County Sheriff's Office | According to police, a party was winding down around 4:30 a.m. at a house on Detroit's southwest side when two armed masked men interrupted. Homeowner Victor Akrawi said the men broke in his front door, told everyone to get down and started firing. An off-duty Wayne County deputy who was at the party, shot on man in the head, killing him. Akrawi said he removed the mask on the dead man, but did not know who he was. The second man was shot but managed to escape the house, police said. A man then called EMS from McDougal and Woodridge a few blocks from the house, claiming to have been shot down by the river, but police identified him as the second masked man and arrested him at a local hospital. No one at the party was physically hurt. Police said they didn't know the motive behind the shooting. | blogspot.com | ||
22714 | Donte Keivon Howlett | 18 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/20/2008 | Petersburg | VA | 37.1996254 | -77.434528 | Petersburg Police Department | Javon Butts, 19, and passenger Donte Howlett, 18, were killed when their car crashed into some trees. A 16-year-old girl was seriously injured. Police said Butts made a purchase at the 7-Eleven around the same time an officer was responding to a call of a possible shoplifting. Butts almost backed into the officer's patrol car in the parking lot, police said. The officer assumed they were the suspects and ordered them to pull over, but Butts fled, probably because he was driving without a license. | mydeathspace.com | ||
22715 | Javon Donta Butts | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/20/2008 | Petersburg | VA | 37.1996254 | -77.434528 | Petersburg Police Department | Javon Butts, 19, and passenger Donte Howlett, 18, were killed when their car crashed into some trees. A 16-year-old girl was seriously injured. Police said Butts made a purchase at the 7-Eleven around the same time an officer was responding to a call of a possible shoplifting. Butts almost backed into the officer's patrol car in the parking lot, police said. The officer assumed they were the suspects and ordered them to pull over, but Butts fled, probably because he was driving without a license. | mydeathspace.com | ||
7335 | Steven Paul Hirschfield | 37 | Male | European-American/White | 07/19/2008 | San Diego | CA | 32.727605 | -117.1786552 | Harbor Police Department | Officer Clyde Williams shot Steven Paul Hirschfield in the back when he fought with officer Wayne Schmidt on a rescue boat and tried to grab his gun after jumping off a ship into San Diego Bay. | portofsandiego.org | ||
7336 | Ricky L. Moore | 35 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/19/2008 | Dayton | OH | 39.7869077 | -84.2143112 | Dayton Police Department | Local police sought three suspects in a late-night armed robbery and found Moore in the neighborhood, matching the description, and with a gun in his pocket. An attempt to arrest him developed into a physical struggle, with Moore pile-driving the officer into the pavement at one point. He was fatally shot. | cityofdayton.org | ||
7337 | Lesley Xavier Allen | 21 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/19/2008 | Oakland | CA | 37.7163859 | -122.1869897 | Oakland Police Department | Police shot and killed him after a chase into San Leandro. | huffingtonpost.com | ||
7342 | Daryl Ray Wilson | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/19/2008 | Warr Acres | OK | 35.45629 | -97.513521 | Oklahoma City Police Department | Wilson apparently shot and killed his estranged wife's boyfriend, momentarily took the woman hostage, and then fled from police before shooting and killing himself. | tulsaworld.com | ||
19752 | Dean Christopher Sapon | 40 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/19/2008 | Morganfield | KY | 37.6728124 | -87.9257725 | Morganfield Police Department | Police say Dean Christopher Sapon, a Kentucky motorcycle rider, suspected of DUI killed himself during a traffic stop. | 14news.com | ||
7326 | Andres Avelino Cid-Velasco | 40 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/18/2008 | Brawley | CA | 33.035947 | -115.707832 | Westmorland Police Department | Passengers Andres Avelino Velasco, Angelica Contreras Reyes, Juan Velasco, Ofelia Govea, Leobardo Gutierrez Aparicio and Milagros Guadalupe Reyes drowned when a SUV carrying 19 suspected undocumented immigrants crashed into a canal near the border after a police chase. | sandiegouniontribune.com | ||
7327 | Angelica Contreras Reyes aka Alicia Reyes-Contreras | 33 | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 07/18/2008 | Brawley | CA | 33.035947 | -115.707832 | Westmorland Police Department | Passengers Andres Avelino Velasco, Angelica Contreras Reyes, Juan Velasco, Ofelia Govea, Leobardo Gutierrez Aparicio and Milagros Guadalupe Reyes drowned when a SUV carrying 19 suspected undocumented immigrants crashed into a canal near the border after a police chase. | sandiegouniontribune.com | ||
7328 | Juan Velasco aka Juan Manuel Velasco Cid-Contreras | 10 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/18/2008 | Brawley | CA | 33.035947 | -115.707832 | Westmorland Police Department | Passengers Andres Avelino Velasco, Angelica Contreras Reyes, Juan Velasco, Ofelia Govea, Leobardo Gutierrez Aparicio and Milagros Guadalupe Reyes drowned when a SUV carrying 19 suspected undocumented immigrants crashed into a canal near the border after a police chase. | sandiegouniontribune.com | ||
7329 | Leobardo Gutierrez Aparicio | 29 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/18/2008 | Brawley | CA | 33.035947 | -115.707832 | Westmorland Police Department | Passengers Andres Avelino Velasco, Angelica Contreras Reyes, Juan Velasco, Ofelia Govea, Leobardo Gutierrez Aparicio and Milagros Guadalupe Reyes drowned when a SUV carrying 19 suspected undocumented immigrants crashed into a canal near the border after a police chase. | sandiegouniontribune.com | ||
7330 | Miguel Gonzalez | 58 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/18/2008 | San Diego | CA | 32.7587111 | -117.0761339 | San Diego Police Department | Investigators say Gonzalez beat to death his father-in-law and then died from a gunshot wound when officers confronted him at his El Cerrito home yesterday. It was unclear whether Gonzalez, who was armed with a gun during the police encounter, shot himself or was killed by an officer's gunshot. | sandiegouniontribune.com | ||
7331 | Milagros Guadalupe Reyes-Plasa | 28 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/18/2008 | Westmorland | CA | 33.035947 | -115.707832 | Westmorland Police Department | Passengers Andres Avelino Velasco, Angelica Contreras Reyes, Juan Velasco, Ofelia Govea, Leobardo Gutierrez Aparicio and Milagros Guadalupe Reyes drowned when a SUV carrying 19 suspected undocumented immigrants crashed into a canal near the border after a police chase. | sandiegouniontribune.com | ||
7332 | Ofelia Solares-Govea | 31 | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 07/18/2008 | Westmorland | CA | 33.035947 | -115.707832 | Westmorland Police Department | Passengers Andres Avelino Velasco, Angelica Contreras Reyes, Juan Velasco, Ofelia Govea, Leobardo Gutierrez Aparicio and Milagros Guadalupe Reyes drowned when a SUV carrying 19 suspected undocumented immigrants crashed into a canal near the border after a police chase. | sandiegouniontribune.com | ||
7333 | Darren F. Wilson | 40 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/18/2008 | Rantoul | IL | 40.317288 | -88.142166 | Rantoul Police Department | Darren F. Wilson was found unresponsive in a squad car after officer Brandon Jensen and Sgt. Dustin Morgan arrested him. The officers responded at about 7:40 p.m. to a fight in the street. According to police, Wilson was arrested without incident. Upon arriving at the jail, Jenson reportedly found Wilson unresponsive in the back of the car. Wilson was pronounced dead at a hospital. An autopsy showed no signs of trauma, according to coroner Duane Northrup, who attributed Wilson's death to cocaine intoxication. | news-gazette.com | ||
7334 | Abel Arango | 26 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/18/2008 | Fort Myers | FL | 26.6434851 | -81.8698001 | Fort Myers Police Department | Felon and ex-con Arango had a 2 a.m. argument outside a downtown nightclub with his girlfriend. A rookie officer, also a former missionary, stepped into the dispute. Arango fatally shot him in the face at close range. Four other officers stepped in and returned fire on Arango, killing him. | usatoday.com | ||
21196 | Robert Hill | 35 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/18/2008 | Detroit | MI | 42.3833713 | -83.1696492 | Detroit Police Department | Police responded to reports of a man with a gun riding a bicycle at Buena Vista and Applelawn around 3:30 a.m. The officers approached Robert Hill. Hill allegedly pulled a gun, and the officers shot and killed him. | crimeindetroit.com | ||
7324 | Domaciano Valerio-Armendariz | 54 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/17/2008 | KS | 38.5675368 | -94.9974461 | Domaciano Valerio-Armendariz died when his pickup truck crashed into another pickup while being chased by police. Three people in the other pickup were injured. | google.com | ||||
7325 | Spencer Parris | 39 | Male | European-American/White | 07/17/2008 | New York City | NY | 40.7755466 | -73.9518218 | City of New York Police Department | Two NYPD officers were flagged down by a woman in a taxi, then accompanied her to a nearby apartment to retrieve her possessions from a bad domestic situation. Inside Parris shouted that he wouldn't open the door, then emerged wielding a large knife. Parris explicitly threatened the officers and advanced to within three feet before being fatally shot. | nydailynews.com | ||
23103 | Lakeisha White | 11 | Female | African-American/Black | 07/17/2008 | Murfreesboro | TN | 35.8257576 | -86.3704765 | Rutherford County Sheriff's Office | Lakeisha White was hit and killed by a police cruiser driven by Rutherford County Sheriff's deputy Ron Killings. Witnesses said they saw the on-duty Killings dump bottles of liquor from his cruiser, and he was not test for alcohol for two and a half hours. The results came back negative. Seven months after the crash, Killings was indicted on charges of reckless homicide, filing a false report and tampering with evidence | google.com | ||
7323 | William Spradling | 24 | Male | European-American/White | 07/16/2008 | Little Rock | AR | 34.758768 | -92.368673 | Little Rock Police Department | Shot by officers after allegedly pointing a gun at them. They were investigating a burglary. | fox16.com | ||
7320 | Kenwin Garcia | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/15/2008 | Parsippany | NJ | 40.853109 | -74.424061 | Hanover Township Police Department, New Jersey State Police | Troopers and local police found Garcia walking alongside a highway; they took him in on old warrants for stealing candy and jumping a turnstile. Garcia kicked out the window of a patrol car. He was pepper-sprayed, placed in leg restraints, and broke another car window with his head. Taken off life support a week later, an autopsy showed extensive and severe internal injuries consistent with a fatal beating (six cups of blood in his abdomen), contrary to the police narrative. The family won a $700K settlement. | www.nj.com | ||
7321 | Michael Lashon Honey | 32 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/15/2008 | Snow Hill | NC | 35.4466472 | -77.6638341 | Stantonsburg Police Department | An off-duty officer was visiting the apartment of his girlfriend when around midnight her ex-boyfriend, the father of her children, burst in through the front door. The officer shot him to death. | wnct.com | ||
7322 | Montellis Clark | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/15/2008 | Atlanta | GA | 33.7284006 | -84.4419842 | Atlanta Police Department | Shot after shooting at police. Officers approached three burglary suspects in front of a home when one began shooting at them. | wrdw.com | ||
7318 | Ralph Sanchez | 43 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/14/2008 | San Antonio | TX | 29.5102609 | -98.3733273 | San Antonio Police Department | Sanchez used a four-door Toyota Avalon to ram a patrol vehicle head on, pinning the patrol vehicle between the Avalon and a pillar. Sanchez backed up the Avalon, then tried to ram the patrol vehicle again. Officer Robert Ingram shot at Sanchez through the windshield of the patrol vehicle, killing Sanchez. A crack pipe was found in Sanchez's vehicle. Officer Ingram had served for 12 years. | theppsc.org | ||
7319 | Marion Wilson Jr. | 52 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/14/2008 | Houston | TX | 29.8534054 | -95.2826195 | Houston Police Department | Wilson ran away from the scene of a reported robbery. Officer P. Mayorga-Guerrero pursued Wilson to a wooded area. Wilson pinned the officer to the ground. Officer R.P. Johnson shot Wilson twice with a stun gun. The officers handcuffed Wilson, moved him to a clearing and called paramedics. Wilson died at Memorial Hermann Medical Center. The officers had served since January 2007. | houstontx.gov | ||
20325 | Rex Younkin | 45 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/14/2008 | Rockwood | PA | 39.9464377 | -79.122301 | Pennsylvania State Police | Rex Younkin had pointed a shotgun and threatened Roxanne Garrety, 47. Garrety escaped and ran to a neighbor's home, police said. State police were called and saw Younkin go back inside his home. Troopers attempted to contact him. After several hours, they entered the house and found him dead inside. | post-gazette.com | ||
21195 | Name withheld by police | Male | Race unspecified | 07/14/2008 | Detroit | MI | 42.3942879 | -83.115383 | Detroit Police Department | Police shot and killed a man they claim emerged from a house at Indiandale and 14th streets, pointing a gun at them. Police alleged that the man and three others were involved in an earlier drive-by shooting and carjacking. Police said they arrested the three other men, and tracked the fourth man with a K-9 to the house where they killed him. | crimeindetroit.com | |||
7313 | Maria Irma De La Torre | 45 | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 07/13/2008 | Salinas | CA | 36.680046 | -121.617842 | Salinas Police Department | Officer Steven Mattocks shot Maria de la Torre when she lunged at officer Robert Balaoro with a crochet hook after police responded to a medical call. | montereyherald.com | ||
7314 | Danny William Schmitz | 45 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/13/2008 | Centralia | MO | 39.1492584 | -92.1370062 | Centralia Police Department, Boone County Sheriff's Office, Missouri State Highway Patrol | Danny William Schmitz reportedly shot himself after a high-speed chase. Schmitz was allegedly seen taking part in a car-to-car drug transaction behind a building on Highway 22 in Centralia at about 5:40 p.m. Police pursued Schmitz's Honda onto the highway and Boone County sheriff's deputies joined the chase. According to police, Schmitz drove out of town on Route Z at more than 100 mph before losing control of the car and crashing into a front yard about 4 miles south of the city. Police said Schmitz got out of his car and ran behind the houses, where officers lost sight of him. A highway patrol canine unit arrived and indicated a person was in the area. According to police, officers announced themselves, then heard a shot. Officers found Schmitz unconscious with a gunshot wound to the head, apparently self-inflicted. He was pronounced dead a short time later. | columbiatribune.com | ||
7315 | Pedro Davila | 32 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/13/2008 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.1014635 | -118.3309359 | Los Angeles Police Department | Witnesses said pedestrians Cecilia Diaz and Pedro Davila were walking hand-in-hand. They'd been together for 19 years. They were killed when a suspect in an LAPD police chase, with four times the legal limit of alcohol in his bloodstream, ran a red light. | patch.com | ||
7316 | Cecilia Diaz | 40 | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 07/13/2008 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.1014635 | -118.3309359 | Los Angeles Police Department | Witnesses said pedestrians Cecilia Diaz and Pedro Davila were walking hand-in-hand. They'd been together for 19 years. They were killed when a suspect in an LAPD police chase, with four times the legal limit of alcohol in his bloodstream, ran a red light. | patch.com | ||
7317 | Rick G. Sarver | 55 | Male | European-American/White | 07/13/2008 | Middleburg Heights | OH | 41.3591535 | -81.8288178 | Middleburg Heights Police Department | With mental issues well known to police--in the habit of calling dispatchers to report rats driving cars downtown, or Jesus Mary and Joseph walking down a city street--Sarver was confronted by officers when he was reported waving a gun around on his front yard. After a six-hour armed standoff, he pointed a rifle at the police and was shot to death. | cleveland.com | ||
7310 | Deshoun Keyon Torrence | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/12/2008 | Long Beach | CA | 33.7745546 | -118.18767 | Long Beach Police Department | Deshoun Keyon Torrence died in the back of a Long Beach police car after being hit and detained by a resident and tasered several times by police. | presstelegram.com | ||
7311 | Carole Tierney | 65 | Female | European-American/White | 07/12/2008 | Pecatonica | IL | 42.3162203 | -89.3666016 | Illinois State Police | Carole Tierney died from her injuries several weeks after rookie trooper Mark Molitor's squad car t-boned the SUV in which she was riding. Tierney lived in a hospital bed for six weeks before her organs failed. She had a heart attack and died August 25. State's Attorney Joe Bruscato declined to charge Molitor, saying that he was on his way to make a traffic stop, but did not need to have his lights and sirens activated. | rrstar.com | ||
7312 | Julian De Leon | 20 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/12/2008 | San Antonio | TX | 29.3194738 | -98.5530924 | San Antonio Police Department | Officers responded to the last of multiple domestic disturbance calls made by De Leon's girlfriend during their arguments. De Leon pointed a pellet gun at officers, who stood in the hallway to his apartment. Officer Edward Pedraza, 35, drew his service weapon and shot De Leon once, killing him. He had served SAPD for 11 years. | expressnews.com | ||
21194 | Roy Lee Long | 30 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/12/2008 | Sterling Heights | MI | 42.5709887 | -83.0260425 | Sterling Heights Police Department | Police responded to a domestic incident at the Durham Apartments around 6:45 p.m. Two officers opened fire on Roy Lee Long after Long allegedly refused to relinquish his 12-gauge shotgun while advancing upon them. | google.com | ||
21935 | Joao "John" Marques | 41 | Male | European-American/White | 07/12/2008 | Newark | NJ | 40.7304127 | -74.1484357 | Newark Police Department | Newark narcotics detective Mark Hulse, 31, dodged criminal charges in the alleged drunk-driving death of Joao Marques. He was suspended for six months without pay following the accident. | www.nj.com | ||
7308 | Artemio Calderon Maldonado | 20 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/11/2008 | Saratoga | CA | 37.2332429 | -122.0407673 | Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office | SCCSD deputies Cregg Dibert and Marc Lehman shot and killed Artemio Calderon Maldonado, who began raising a gun and refused to freeze during what officials said was expected to be a routine pot farm eradication. | mercurynews.com | ||
7309 | Francisco Aguilar | 26 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/11/2008 | Wichita | KS | 37.680406 | -97.3711603 | Wichita Police Department | Officer Derek Purcell was shot by Francisco Aguilar, police said. He survived, authorities say, because of quick action by other officers, firefighters, emergency medical service workers and medical staff. Aguilar, 26, shot himself in the head minutes after wounding Purcell as officers closed in. | masscops.com | ||
19061 | Christopher Adam Timms | 26 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/11/2008 | Iva | SC | 34.3805933 | -82.6209907 | South Carolina Highway Patrol | Christopher Adam Timms died of injuries he received when a car driven by Korey Mayfield went off the road and hit trees on Leatherdale Road near Starr as he fled a police stop. | independentmail.com | ||
23206 | Joshua Darnell | 17 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/11/2008 | Kingsport | TN | 36.533144 | -82.508118 | Kingsport Police Department | Daniel Eli McGuire, 26, was fleeing a police stop when he ran into Joshua Darnell's motorcycle, killing him. McGuire left the scene, but ultimately pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide by intoxication, a Class B felony, and received a total of 12 years in prison with parole eligibility in four years. | timesnews.net | ||
7307 | Brandon Lee Rodriguez | 23 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/10/2008 | Hastings | MN | 44.7181751 | -92.8517885 | Hastings Police Department | When police were called to a domestic dispute at a home in Hastings, Rodriguez fled on foot to the nearby Elizabeth Ann Seton Cemetery. Rodriguez, wielding a 3-foot Samurai-style sword, refused to heed officers' commands to drop the weapon. Police fired a Taser stun gun in an attempt to subdue Rodriguez, but he continued toward the officers, one of whom shot him with his gun. | twincities.com | ||
7299 | Gilbert L. Valderrama | 55 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/09/2008 | Hacienda Heights | CA | 34.0081063 | -117.9675819 | Los Angeles Police Department | Off-duty officer, Lt. Gilbert L. Valderrama, and Ryan Steven Blakeslee were killed in a crash on the 60 Freeway. | latimes.com | ||
7300 | Ryan Steven Blakeslee | 18 | Male | European-American/White | 07/09/2008 | Hacienda Heights | CA | 34.0081063 | -117.9675819 | Los Angeles Police Department | Off-duty officer, Lt. Gilbert L. Valderrama, and Ryan Steven Blakeslee were killed in a crash on the 60 Freeway. | latimes.com | ||
7301 | Robert Eugene Forester | 50 | Male | European-American/White | 07/09/2008 | Lancaster | TX | 32.5929487 | -96.76029980000001 | Lancaster Police Department | Officers M. Mayes, A. Vaughn, J. Gordon and J. Tapscott responded to a complaint that Forester, who was mentally ill, had beaten his father at a residence. Forester approached the officers as soon as they opened the front door. An officer pepper-sprayed Forester. Forester slashed Officer Mayes's face with a knife. Officer Mayes shot at Forester twice, striking him twice. At Methodist Central Hospital, Officer Mayes received 20 stitches and Forester underwent surgery. Forester died the next day. | google.com | ||
7302 | Fernando Ramirez | 18 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/09/2008 | Los Lunas | NM | 34.7683633 | -106.6439315 | New Mexico State Police | Ramirez was suspected in a fatal shooting at an Isleta casino. He killed himself after State Police tracked him to a Valencia County residence and chased him on foot. | abqjournal.com | ||
7303 | Andres Seals | 24 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/09/2008 | Chicago | IL | 41.8502892 | -87.6464252 | Chicago Police Department | Andres Seals reportedly killed himself after exchanging gunfire with police on the Near South Side. According to police, officers responded at about 2:20 p.m. to reports of a suspicious person pacing in front of a business with a gun in his hand. Seals was pronounced dead at a hospital from a gunshot wound to the head, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. | chicagotribune.com | ||
7304 | Rodrigo Robles Aguirre | 25 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/09/2008 | Dallas | TX | 32.706179 | -96.846429 | Dallas Police Department | According to DPD, Officers Jocelyn Jenkins and Daniel Cole responded to a burglary in process at a residence. When Robles, inside the residence, saw the officers, he tried to flee through a window. He pointed a .40-caliber pistol at the officers. The officers shot at Robles three times, striking him once. He died at the scene. | dallaspolice.net | ||
7305 | Frank Alton Biddinger | 49 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/09/2008 | Harpers Ferry | WV | 39.3199206 | -77.7698794 | Jefferson County Sheriff's Office | Motorcyclist Biddinger fled from a 1:30 a.m. traffic stop and drew police from multiple jurisdictions on a long midnight pursuit down West Virginia roads at high speeds. He died as he tried to move past a police barricade and struck the back of one of the cruisers. | herald-mail.com | ||
7306 | Robert Hackworth | 35 | Male | European-American/White | 07/09/2008 | Cleveland | OH | 41.4364184 | -81.7218399 | Cleveland Police Department | Patrolman James Simone, aka "Supercop," shot and killed an unarmed bank robber, Robert Hackworth, 35, " the fifth suspect Simone had killed, and the 12th suspect shot, during his nearly 40-year police career. Simone was off-duty when he entered a bank on Fulton Road and a teller told him she had just been robbed. He chased Hackworth, who fled in a stolen truck. A passer-by gave Simone a ride and they gave chase. Hackworth crashed into a utility pole at West 52nd Street. Simone confronted him and shot him after he said Hackworth reached into the truck. No gun was recovered from the victim or the truck. | cleveland.com | ||
21934 | Francisco Taveras aka Francisco Martes | 40 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/09/2008 | Newark | NJ | 40.7520513 | -74.1706474 | Newark Police Department | Officer James Stewart and Sgt. Fernando Ramirez responded to a call about a mentally ill person in a basement and possibly armed with a knife. Taveras began climbing the steps, ignoring the officers' commands to drop the weapon. When Taveras was within five feet of the officers, he was shot and killed. | www.nj.com | ||
7293 | Carlos Vargas | 42 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/08/2008 | Apple Valley | CA | 34.5292861 | -117.2255906 | San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office | Carlos Vargas died after deputies shocked him three times with a Taser. | highbeam.com | ||
7294 | Ibn Rasheed Jones | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/08/2008 | Victorville | CA | 34.4790834 | -117.3398913 | San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office | Deputy Kent E. Watson shot and killed Ibn Rasheed Jones when he aimed a gun at him after a foot chase. Witnesses testified that Jones was running away with nothing in his hands when he was shot. A civil jury found the officer and the county liable for violations of Jones' Fourth Amendment rights. | highbeam.com | ||
7295 | Tomas Sanchez-Orzuna | 36 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/08/2008 | San Clemente | CA | 33.4304703 | -117.6198182 | U.S. Border Patrol | Undocumented immigrant Tomas Sanchez-Orzuna died after he struggled with and was pepper sprayed by Border Patrol agents in San Clemente. | latimes.com | ||
7296 | Samuel K. DeBoise | 29 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/08/2008 | Florissant | MO | 38.8055024 | -90.2499463 | St. Louis County Police Department | Samuel DeBoise died after being Tasered repeatedly by officers Joseph Percich and Bret Lively during a struggle. DeBoise had reportedly punched his own mother and smashed her head against the wall after holding her hostage and making her bow to him in praise. According to police, DeBoise was naked and claimed he was God on a mission to find weapons of mass destruction and discover the truth about Hitler. Officers surrounded the house and De Boise initially agreed to lie down and be handcuffed. DeBoise then allegedly jumped to his feet and charged at the officers, who shocked him with a Taser. DeBoise fell to the ground and was reportedly shocked repeatedly by Percich and Lively. Police contended that officers Tasered De Boise a total of seven times after he continued to struggle with them. His father said the officers Tasered De Boise 11 times. | stltoday.com | ||
7297 | Clarence Smith Jr. | 29 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/08/2008 | Windsor | NC | 36.0099287 | -76.954867 | Bertie County Sheriff's Office | Smith's parents had called for help getting him committed under court order for mental health issues. Smith physically resisted with the deputies, and was tasered. He died in the hospital within an hour of the police arriving at his house. | witn.com | ||
7298 | Reginald McGee | 55 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/08/2008 | Kansas City | MO | 38.9895423 | -94.5193217 | Kansas City Police Department | McGee crashed his car into a tree. He got out of the car holding a rifle. Officers ordered him to drop the rifle. He began firing at passing cars, then pointed the rifle at the police. Police shot him several times. | columbiamissourian.com | ||
7289 | Ismael Rodriguez | 20 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/07/2008 | San Bernardino | CA | 34.147472 | -117.245605 | San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office | Ismael Rodriguez and Michael Brinkman were killed when they crashed into an apartment building while being chased by a deputy. | san-bernardino.ca.us | ||
7290 | Michael Brinkman | 17 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/07/2008 | San Bernardino | CA | 34.147472 | -117.245605 | San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office | Ismael Rodriguez and Michael Brinkman were killed when they crashed into an apartment building while being chased by a deputy. | san-bernardino.ca.us | ||
7291 | Justin Bill Kennedy | 33 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/07/2008 | Kennesaw | GA | 34.051934 | -84.593811 | Cobb County Police Department | Police received a from the clerk of the Texaco that Kennedy was trying to pass a counterfeit bill.The responding officer, D.P. Rogers, made contact with Kennedy, who was still at the store when the officer arrived. According to police, Kennedy refused to comply with Rogers' instructions, physically assaulted Rogers and ran outside the store. Rogers drew his gun and told Kennedy to stop. Police say Kennedy then reached for a gun in his waistband, after which Rogers shot him twice, killing him. | google.com | ||
7292 | Mark Eric Betts | 49 | Male | European-American/White | 07/07/2008 | Sandpoint | ID | 48.4002863 | -116.5284751 | Bonner County Sheriff's Office | Idaho State Police say Mark Betts robbed the Ponderay Wal-Mart 20 minutes before robbing the State Liquor Store at knife-point. During an ensuing chase, the Betts tried to ram his car into police vehicles. The Bonner County Sheriff's Office says the suspect was stopped about one mile off Highway 95 on Colburn Culver Road where he was shot and killed. | bonnercountydailybee.com | ||
7288 | Name withheld by police | 25 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/06/2008 | Chicago | IL | 41.7827865 | -87.7032301 | Chicago Police Department | Police shot and killed an unidentified man after he allegedly shot at them. At 2:13 a.m., officers responded to a call of shots fired. According to police, detectives believed the man was involved in the death of James Sorensen. | chicagotribune.com | ||
21193 | Robert West | 38 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/06/2008 | Wayland | MI | 42.723064 | -85.6708272 | Allegan County Sheriff's Office | A deputy said he tried to stop Robert West's motorcycle just after midnight. As he approached, the deputy reportedly heard West tell his passenger he was going to take off. West clipped a vehicle at US-31. West and his passenger were thrown into a guardrail. West died from his injuries nearly a week later, on July 12. | google.com | ||
7284 | Jeffery Stephens Sr. | 42 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/05/2008 | Akron | OH | 41.0658513 | -81.5479505 | Akron Police Department | Stephens was killed when police were responding to a 911 call about a fight with "weapons involved" at a Celina Avenue home. The call was made by Stephens' wife, Seata. Police said they shot Stephens after he reached for a gun in the waistband of his shorts and refused repeated commands to hit the ground. | google.com | ||
7285 | Arthur James Bennett | 36 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/05/2008 | Brewton | AL | 31.2012245 | -87.0674787 | Brewton Police Department | Arthur James Bennett died in a south Alabama pond when he refused to get out of the water after police shocked him with a Taser. | dothaneagle.com | ||
7286 | Michael Dwayne Davis | 28 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/05/2008 | Kentwood | LA | 30.9159192 | -90.5424824 | Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office | Michael Dwayne Davis reportedly shot himself in the head with a shotgun while lying in the middle of the roadway as deputies Mike Hills and Laura Forman arrived in response to a disturbance. | hammondstar.com | ||
7287 | David Michael Przewlocki | 54 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/05/2008 | Oakton | VA | 38.871444 | -77.2996021 | Fairfax County Police Department | Officers responded to a report of an apparent suicidal man. Police found the man outside his apartment on the sidewalk. Officers told the man to put down the gun he was carrying. Police say the man refused and pointed his gun at the officers, who then fired shots. The man was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. | timesdispatch.com | ||
21192 | Sean Samuel Coats | 30 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/05/2008 | Auburn Hills | MI | 42.6280655 | -83.2491899 | Auburn Hills Police Department | Police responded to a report of an armed robbery at a Salvation Army store about 8:54 p.m. According to police, an officer confronted Sean Samuel Coats when he stepped out of a Buick Rendezvous outside the store. The officer shot Coats, killing him. A second man reportedly fled on foot and tried to carjack a vehicle parked by the Clinton River Trail before he was arrested in a nearby wooded area. | theoaklandpress.com | ||
21715 | Name withheld by police | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/05/2008 | Baltimore | MD | 39.276262 | -76.635533 | Baltimore Police Department | Two men were shot and killed, and a third was wounded as they fired shots in the air at an Independence Day party. They allegedly refused to give up their guns outside a union hall. | google.com | ||
21716 | Name withheld by police | 21 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/05/2008 | Baltimore | MD | 39.276262 | -76.635533 | Baltimore Police Department | Two men were shot and killed, and a third was wounded as they fired shots in the air at an Independence Day party. They allegedly refused to give up their guns outside a union hall. | google.com | ||
7282 | Gene Ketner | 38 | Male | European-American/White | 07/04/2008 | Fort Worth | TX | 32.8656109 | -97.2814647 | Fort Worth Police Department | Ketner, armed with a gun, was at the back door of a residence. Someone in the residence called 911. Officers responded. Ketner fatally shot himself. | google.com | ||
7283 | Othello Pierre | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/04/2008 | St. Martinville | LA | 30.182707 | -91.8683417 | St. Martin Parish Sheriff's Office | Othello Pierre died after a deputy used a Taser to subdue him following a foot pursuit. | uscourts.gov | ||
7279 | Brandon James LeBan | 27 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/03/2008 | Moreno Valley | CA | 33.9456143 | -117.2563733 | Rancho Cordova Police Department, Sacramento County Sheriff's Office | Cpl. Sean Vickers shot and killed Brandon James LeBan when he reached into his pocket for a toy gun. | sandiegouniontribune.com | ||
7280 | Tommye Ruth Freeman | 78 | Female | African-American/Black | 07/03/2008 | Chicago | IL | 41.7564334 | -87.6247208 | Chicago Police Department | Tommye Ruth Freeman was killed when a SUV fleeing police struck her car. Byron Brown, the SUV's driver, was apparently being pursued in connection with a nonviolent residential burglary. Brown was convicted of murder in Freeman's death in 2012, and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. In July 2015, a jury awarded Freeman's family $2.1 million in damages. | chicagotribune.com | ||
7281 | Ronald Evans Jr. | 5 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/03/2008 | Chicago | IL | 41.7768085 | -87.5712805 | Chicago Police Department | A relative of 5-year-old Ronald Evans Jr., who drowned after falling off a rock ledge at Jackson Park Harbor, sued police alleging that an officer prevented bystanders from trying to rescue the boy. The lawsuit contended that the officer threatened to arrest bystanders who were "suitably qualified" to attempt a rescue. | chicagotribune.com | ||
7278 | Jesse D. Hare | 25 | Male | European-American/White | 07/02/2008 | Loves Park | IL | 42.3360561 | -89.0192524 | Loves Park Police Department | Jesse D. Hare stopped breathing after Sgt. Curtis Wilson and officers Joshua Hecker, Terry Hayes and Jeffrey Petty maced and restrained him. Hare's mother called 911 stating her son was having trouble breathing. Hare refused medical treatment and ran from police. His family alleged officers had beaten him a few months earlier, so he was scared. According to police, Hare ran onto the road and that they had to grab him and use mace to restrain him. Hare stopped breathing and died at the hospital. Hare's family said he was beaten to death. "When we went to view him, his face was all battered," Hare's mother said. An autopsy report said Hare died from "adverse effects of cocaine." In 2012, Hare's family received a $175,000 settlement. | wrex.com | ||
19753 | Isaac Bass | 34 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/02/2008 | Louisville | KY | 38.1890175 | -85.6665035 | Louisville Metro Police Department | Police responded to break up a fight. Police say while trying to separate 34-year-old Isaac Bass and his brother, Bass attacked one of the officers with a flashlight. There was a struggle over an officer's firearm, and Bass was tasered and died. | wave3.com | ||
22665 | Randolph Neal Seamster Jr. | 22 | Male | European-American/White | 07/02/2008 | South Boston | VA | 36.687082 | -78.900365 | Halifax County Sheriff's Office | Police shot and killed Randolph Seamster when he didn't cooperate with them and tried to flee in his car. Their reasons for interacting with Seamster were not disclosed in news media, although apparently the police were investigating drug activity. | caswellmessenger.com | ||
23102 | Michael D. "Mike" Ward | 47 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/02/2008 | Greeneville | TN | 36.2670014 | -82.7494326 | Greeneville Police Department, Greene County Sheriff's Office | About 8 p.m. Tuesday, sheriff's deputies responded to a report of a burglary at a home. Michael Ward died about 9:20 a.m. when shots were fired as Greeneville-Greene County Special Response Team officers entered the house. Ward had been living for some time at the residence where he died. The deputies had been pinned down by gunfire from the house until they were rescued by SRT officers about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, police said. | greenevillesun.com | ||
7274 | Leondrick Akeen Hastings | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/01/2008 | Lubbock | TX | 33.6067417 | -101.8532059 | Lubbock County Sheriff's Office | Around 1:30 a.m., officers tried to stop Hastings, driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee, for not stopping when coming out of a driveway. Hastings took off, lost control and flipped the Cherokee, killing himself. | everythinglubbock.com | ||
7275 | Ruben Walton Ortega | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/01/2008 | Inglewood | CA | 33.9362895 | -118.3264342 | Inglewood Police Department | Officers say that they responded to a loitering call, Ortega ran and when he refused to raise his hands and keeping a hand at his waist, the officer(s) thought he was armed, and shot him to death. A different account says he was unarmed and shot in the back. | latimes.com | ||
7276 | Cory Caldwell | 18 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/01/2008 | West Palm Beach | FL | 26.7058548 | -80.0616642 | U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, West Palm Beach Police Department | Caldwell was one of four men caught in a drug sting arranged by the FBI and local police. Their main target was another man, Frank Jackson, and the sting involved misleading Jackson and his three "big goons with AK-47s" into a phony revenge-robbery of 10 kilograms of cocaine from a false Mexican dealer. All four men were wounded in the operation, Caldwell fatally. | sun-sentinel.com | ||
7277 | Thanh Minh Tran | 36 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 07/01/2008 | West Valley City | UT | 40.6958465 | -111.9390439 | West Valley City Police Department | Tran allegedly held up a jewelry store at gunpoint when the store owner's son called police. Tran tried to leave the store with a case of jewelry, but when police arrived he forced the owner to leave with him. She broke free and ran toward the parking lot. Tran turned toward the officers and fired one round. Officers fired back, hitting Tran in the torso. | sltrib.com | ||
21191 | Shelton Bell Jr. | 16 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/01/2008 | Detroit | MI | 42.3657914 | -83.1777163 | Detroit Police Department | Shelton Bell Jr. allegedly demanded the keys to off-duty officer Allen Williams' vehicle at around 1:30 a.m. outside a west side BP gas station. Williams shot Bell 10 times--five times in the chest, three in the back, once in the head behind his right ear, and once in his left arm--none of the shots were at close range. | voiceofdetroit.net | ||
7270 | Antonio J. Torres | 41 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/30/2008 | Genoa City | WI | 42.5238618 | -88.3550933 | Walworth County Sheriff's Office | Torres was shot and killed near Bloomfield Cemetery, Highway H, after a high-speed chase involving several local law enforcement agencies. Torres was being pursued by law enforcement after he reportedly abducted his 22-month old daughter. The abduction triggered an Amber Alert and Torres was shot after making "life-threatening gestures" toward the girl. | lakegenevanews.net | ||
7271 | David Clinton Vestal | 63 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/30/2008 | Clearlake | CA | 38.9425 | -122.632522 | Clearlake Police Department | Officer Michael Hansen shot David Clinton Vestal when he pointed a shotgun at officers and threatened to shoot them. | lakeconews.com | ||
7272 | William M. Ozment | 47 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/30/2008 | Raytown | MO | 38.9894 | -94.4573955 | Raytown Police Department | William M. Ozment reportedly shot himself during a standoff with police at his Raytown home. Police responded to the house at about 9:10 p.m. to investigate a domestic disturbance in which a man had struck three vehicles on his street. When police arrived, Ozment allegedly shot toward an officer and ran into the house. During the standoff, Ozment allegedly fired toward officers at least two more times. At about 1:20 a.m., police were still trying to contact with Ozment. They later sent a robot inside the house that found Ozment dead. | google.com | ||
7273 | Andrew James Hanlon | 20 | Male | European-American/White | 06/30/2008 | Silverton | OR | 45.0072582 | -122.7800218 | Silverton Police Department | Officer responding to a 911 call shot Hanlon, who was unarmed. | wweek.com | ||
7267 | Tiffany Cuinn O'Shell | 25 | Female | European-American/White | 06/29/2008 | Henderson | CO | 39.9060379 | -104.853426 | Lakewood Police Department | William "David" O'Shell was falsely accused of child abuse when he killed his wife and himself. | denverpost.com | ||
7268 | Randolph Scott Jr. | 23 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/29/2008 | St. Louis | MO | 38.6256744 | -90.1892739 | U.S. National Park Service | Ranger Joshua Updegraff shot Randolph Scott Jr. several times after Updegraff was allegedly dragged by Scott's car door near the Gateway Arch. Scott's family contended that Scott was watching the flooded Mississippi River with others at about 5:35 a.m. Updegraff claimed he was responding to yelling he heard while at the ranger station inside the parking garage. Updegraff said he fired his Taser when he feared Scott was trying to get a weapon from his car and continued using the Taser as Scott struggled. Updegraff claimed he tried unsuccessfully to handcuff Scott while Scott's friends jeered. Scott allegedly got to his car and told Updegraff he was going to run him over. Updegraff said he fired as many shots as he could, and alleged that Scott dragged him about 100 feet. Scott's family said Updegraff improperly used force, had a history of incidents involving force and was not properly trained or supervised. Updegraff was transferred to Yellowstone National Park effective July 13, 2008. In 2013, the federal government agreed to pay $520,000 to settle a lawsuit with Scott's relatives. | cbslocal.com | ||
7269 | Walter S. Lewis | 58 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/29/2008 | Kansas City | MO | 39.0621996 | -94.5393824 | Kansas City Police Department | Walter S. Lewis reportedly killed himself during a standoff with police. According to police, the man had abducted his former girlfriend at gunpoint from the Gates Bar-B-Q restaurant at around 11:10 p.m., and shot her in the leg. Witnesses to the abduction gave police a description of Lewis and his vehicle. Police went to the house and a wounded woman ran outside. Tactical officers later found Lewis dead inside the home. | google.com | ||
20324 | Norman Todd Fuller | 44 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/29/2008 | Milan | PA | 41.9175708 | -76.6767159 | Pennsylvania State Police | Wayne Dunkling and Matthew Knock shot and killed Norman Fuller, who shot at them as they attempted to check on his welfare. They may have been investigating the sexual abuse of a child as well. | google.com | ||
22713 | David Charles Gandy | 49 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/29/2008 | Fredericksburg | VA | 38.3543274 | -77.4381112 | Stafford County Sheriff's Office | Four officers responded to a call for assistance at David Gandy's residence, police said. Gandy, who had been drinking, was allegedly in the process of raising his handgun when he was shot and killed. Witnesses disputed the police description of the encounter. | fredericksburg.com | ||
23101 | Ignacio Arcos Pacheco | 23 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/29/2008 | Memphis | TN | 35.1908079 | -89.9528171 | Shelby County Sheriff's Office | Shelby County Sheriff's deputy Alvin Dortch, who was convicted last year of filing a false report, was acquitted by the trial court of a reckless homicide charge. In 2008, Dortch shot out the tire of a car being driven by fleeing DUI suspect Ignacio Arcos, whose car crashed moments later, killing him. Investigators didn't discover that Dortch had fired at the vehicle until they reviewed dashboard video more than 12 hours after the incident. | wbtv.com | ||
7266 | William David Curtis Jr. | 33 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/28/2008 | Houston | TX | 29.8098366 | -95.3170267 | Houston Police Department | Officers responded to a call by a woman who said that Curtis had threatened her with a gun. Curtis drove by as officers spoke to the woman. They followed him. He sped, trying to escape officers, but crashed in Hutcheson Park. He exited his vehicle with a pistol and pointed it at Officer Joseph D. Babineaux II. The officer fatally shot him. | houstontx.gov | ||
7262 | Bryan Moore | 26 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/26/2008 | Compton | CA | 33.896399 | -118.258234 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department | Officers allege they approached Moore and he ran, jumped over a fence holding his waist, and when officers ordered him to raise his hands, he looked at an officer who feared for his life, and the officers shot him to death. | latimes.com | ||
7263 | Dwight Antonio Nelson | 31 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/26/2008 | Orlando | FL | 28.5961753 | -81.4151199 | Orlando Police Department | Acting on a tip about a planned armed robbery, eight SWAT members took up positions around a marina and waiting until Nelson arrived. When he donned a mask and reached for his weapon, officers tried to apprehend him. Nelson started a firefight and was shot to death. | orlandosentinel.com | ||
7264 | Deveron Willis Schreiner | 38 | Male | European-American/White | 06/26/2008 | Pendleton | OR | 45.6723646 | -118.7872349 | Pendleton Police Department | Law enforcement from Schreiner's home county called Pendleton police to warn them that he was headed their way, armed, in a stolen car, with a prison record, and potentially suicidal. Officers intercepted him in front of a downtown spa storefront. After an extended standoff Schreiner pointed his weapon at officers, and he was shot dead. | keprtv.com | ||
7265 | Ruben Walter Martinez II | 21 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/26/2008 | Denville | NJ | 40.894281 | -74.487073 | Denville Police Department | Martinez was stopped after a brief chase and spinout for going 32 miles over the speed limit. Officer approached with gun drawn, Martinez tried to restart car, officer smelled alcohol, holstered gun and hit Martinez's head against the car door. Martinez floors the gas and officer is stuck. He draws his gun and shoots Martinez 5 times, the car reaching 89mph in 7.5 seconds before crashing through a fence into the side of a pool. | www.nj.com | ||
7261 | Ernest Deshannon Graves | 29 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/25/2008 | Rockford | IL | 42.253971 | -89.0642712 | Rockford Police Department | Ernest DeShannon Graves died after officer Brian Prine shocked him three times with a Taser. Graves girlfriend, who wasn't home at the time, called 911 saying he was vandalizing her apartment. Graves fled and Prine chased him. Police said Prine Tasered Graves multiple times when he allegedly continued to resist arrest. Graves then said he was having trouble breathing and died at a hospital. Winnebago County Coroner Sue Fiduccia said Graves was found to have a combination of alcohol, cocaine and marijuana in his system at the time of his death, and listed Graves' official cause of death as "adverse effects of cocaine." | mystateline.com | ||
19754 | Jack D. Berressem Jr. | 47 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/25/2008 | Milton | KY | 38.7244729 | -85.369152 | Kentucky State Police | Police responded to a domestic disturbance. Berressem shot at them and was shot and killed. | google.com | ||
7257 | Michael L. Rogers | 34 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/24/2008 | Dolton | IL | 41.6226001 | -87.5914637 | Dolton Police Department | Officers shot and killed Michael L. Rodgers when he allegedly pointed a gun at them. Police had responded to an alarm at Illinois Vehicle Insurance at around 2:20 p.m., where Rodgers reportedly confronted them with a handgun, said he had a hostage, and demanded $5,000 and a car. Police learned Rodgers had called a relative stating he'd tried to rob the store and killed Jeniel Morgan, 42, a salesperson. Rodgers came outside at around 4 p.m. and allegedly pointed his gun at SWAT officers, who shot him three times. Officers went inside and found Morgan's body. | chicagotribune.com | ||
7258 | Luis "Busy" Colon | 18 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/24/2008 | Chicago | IL | 41.9304431 | -87.7392052 | Chicago Police Department | Police shot and killed Luis "Busy" Colon when he allegedly pulled a gun on officers on a gang suppression mission across the street from a busy neighborhood park. The officers claimed that Colon threatened them with a .357-caliber Ruger handgun after they told him to stop. Witnesses said that Colon had a gun, but was attempting to surrender when he was shot. The city settled a wrongful death lawsuit with Colon's estate for $95,000. | abc7chicago.com | ||
7259 | Daniel Patrick Hendricks | 20 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/24/2008 | Orange City | FL | 28.9232016 | -81.299339 | Orange City Police Department | Hendricks first stole a truck from a university, acting strangely according to witnesses, then carjacked two other vehicles in a string of crimes that included multiple reckless collisions and the (brief) kidnapping of a 10-year-old boy. He was fatally shot as he rammed other cars and came close to running down a detective. | google.com | ||
7260 | Gordon Kenneth Wheeler Sr. | 60 | Male | European-American/White | 06/24/2008 | Little Falls | MN | 45.9757854 | -94.3597308 | Minnesota State Patrol, Morrison County Sheriff's Office | After years of disagreements about his now-closed adult entertainment businesses, Wheeler held about six people hostage at gunpoint during a Morrison County Board meeting in Little Falls. | twincities.com | ||
19139 | Marty Workman | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 06/24/2008 | Stillwell | OK | 35.81453 | -94.6285553 | Cherokee Nation Marshal Service | Marty Workman, 30, had failed to appear for a court hearing where he was supposed to enter a plea in a drug case, police said. After a standoff, he ran toward police with a gun. | google.com | ||
7253 | David Michael Abrams | 40 | Male | European-American/White | 06/23/2008 | Anaheim | CA | 33.8535031 | -117.9604441 | Anaheim Police Department | Police shot David Abrams on the 91 Freeway in Anaheim when he shot at them after a car chase. | abc7.com | ||
7254 | James Martin Imbriani | 50 | Male | European-American/White | 06/23/2008 | Jacksonville | FL | 30.2946517 | -81.6435567 | Jacksonville Sheriff's Office | Imbriani had robbed the Fifth Third Bank branch in a ski mask about 10 a.m., escaped to the north for about two miles on a major surface street before being stopped by spikes in the road. He emerged armed from his car, took a stand in the middle of the road with a BB gun, and was shot multiple times. | news4jax.com | ||
7255 | Artavious Edmond DeBose | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/23/2008 | Jacksonville | FL | 30.309297 | -81.72505 | Jacksonville Sheriff's Office | DeBose was involved in the armed robbery of a Game Stop, and fled police at speeds of up to 130 MPH. Crashing his car, he fled on foot into residential back yards and was said by police to be reaching for a gun when they fatally shot him. DeBose was unarmed. | jacksonville.com | ||
7256 | Kelly C. Wark | 34 | Female | European-American/White | 06/23/2008 | Lehi | UT | 40.3882746 | -111.8339251 | Lehi Police Department | Wark, who had a history of mental illness, had moved from Washington state to Provo to attend massage therapy school. Capt. Harold Terry stopped Wark's car because a witness said she might be driving under the influence. Police said Wark and Terry spoke briefly when some kind of struggle broke out between them. Terry was shot twice in the head; two other officers shot and killed Wark as she got out of the car. | sltrib.com | ||
19140 | Robert N. Brooke | 24 | Male | European-American/White | 06/23/2008 | Edmond | OK | 35.6758372 | -97.4760208 | Moore Police Department | After a high speed chase from Moore to Edmond, Robert Brooke flipped his truck and was killed. | google.com | ||
7247 | Scott Allen Montgomery | 37 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/22/2008 | Crystal Park | CO | 38.8305144 | -104.9307569 | El Paso County Sheriff's Office | El Paso County sheriff's deputies were checking the man's home after the children's mother told authorities she was worried he might hurt their children, police said. Deputies looked through a window to see two boys lying on the bed with a "significant of blood on or around them." The sight of so much blood in the bedroom forced deputies to act quickly. Deputies burst into the home and were confronted by the father, who was wielding a knife, so they shot and killed him. | kktv.com | ||
7248 | Mark Tabullo-Zuniga | 22 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/22/2008 | Denver | CO | 39.7520074 | -104.9950065 | Denver Police Department | There was a gunfight outside a nightclub. Tabullo fired at police and was shot and killed. | denverda.org | ||
7249 | Shapell "Pell" Terrell | 39 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/22/2008 | Chicago | IL | 41.7407992 | -87.5672914 | Chicago Police Department | Detectives shot Shapell "Pell" Turner 14 times in the back after he allegedly confronted them with a gun. According to police, the officers responded to a report of shots fired, but neighbors said all they heard were fireworks. According to witnesses, Terrell turned to go back inside his home at 1 a.m. Witness said the officers shined a spotlight on Terrell, told him to turn around and then opened fire when he didn't. | chicagotribune.com | ||
7250 | Darius Nicholson | 49 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/22/2008 | Chicago | IL | 41.7704123 | -87.6521336 | Chicago Police Department | Police shot and killed Darius Nicholson in his bedroom of his home. Nicholson's wife said that she called police at around 7:15 p.m. after he suddenly became violent with her and that the behavior was completely out of character for Nicholson. | chicagotribune.com | ||
7251 | Marcus T. Edwards | 27 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/22/2008 | Coralville | IA | 41.6818177 | -91.5918789 | Coralville Police Department | Marcus T. Edwards allegedly shoplifted lunch meat from a Hy-Vee grocery store in Lantern Park Plaza. He then fled and was arrested about a block away at around 8:30 p.m. Edwards reportedly became unresponsive soon after arriving at the police station and was pronounced dead at a hospital. Johnson County Medical Examiner Dr. Stephen Scheckel said Edwards died from erythrocyte sickling-related collapse associated with exertion-induced complication of sickle cell trait, and that his death was accidental. | google.com | ||
7252 | Stephen Bryant | 46 | Male | European-American/White | 06/22/2008 | Port St Lucie | FL | 27.262727 | -80.283605 | St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office | Having lost his job and an important relationship, broken his legs three times within a year and a half, and said to be off his medication, Bryant was suicidal. He confronted police with a knife outside his former girlfriend's mobile home. He took a .40 caliber bullet just below the right eye after asking officers to shoot him, and died after two weeks on life support. | tcpalm.com | ||
19064 | Travis Jonathan Meints | 21 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/22/2008 | Greer | SC | 34.8166316 | -82.1617499 | Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office | Police said Meints invaded an Air Park Drive home with a pistol, took cash and cellphones from the victims and drove off in the homeowner's car. Police found the car at 660 Dean Road, where the man and a 3-year-old boy were inside. Shortly after arriving at the mobile home, officers heard a gunshot, and the bullet went through an exterior wall. Police entered the home, found the unhurt 3-year-old and Meints' body in a separate bedroom. | goupstate.com | ||
7245 | Ivar A. Rupley | 70 | Male | European-American/White | 06/21/2008 | Miami | OK | 36.8703523 | -94.8744748 | Miami Police Department | Rupley was involved in a dispute with neighbors before authorities arrived, according to police. The reporting party told police Rupley struck his neighbors with a cane several times before officers arrived. After speaking with witnesses, officer Jeffery Frazier located Rupley who by then was armed with a knife. Rupley pulled the knife back in a threatening manner as to throw it at the officer, and he was shot and killed. | miamiok.com | ||
7246 | Sean A. Madigan | 23 | Male | European-American/White | 06/21/2008 | Lake Ariel | PA | 41.4547284 | -75.3991683 | Pennsylvania State Police | Madigan's fatal motorcycle crash during a pursuit was so violent that it split the bike in two. State troopers had chased him for speeding, and the chase reached speeds of 80 MPH on rural roads. | poconorecord.com | ||
7243 | Milton Lima | 39 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/20/2008 | Buckeye | AZ | 33.42668 | -112.5189495 | Buckeye Police Department | Lima reportedly broke into his ex-wife's home and fired multiple shots inside. Police said the woman and her new husband fled to separate houses and called police. Police established a perimeter and called out a SWAT team. Lima fled through the backyard to a neighbor's yard and onto the corner of 217th Lane and Hess Avenue, where he opened fire. He either dropped or placed his gun on the ground. He then picked it up and again pointed it at an officer. He was shot and killed. | azcentral.com | ||
7244 | Carmine Wisnieski | 26 | Male | European-American/White | 06/20/2008 | Brookhaven | NY | 40.763845 | -72.9149775 | Suffolk County Police Department | Wisnieski was one of about 40 suspects caught up in a county-wide narcotics sweep. When police closed in at his home, he opened fire with a 9mm handgun, and was fatally shot in return. | nydailynews.com | ||
7241 | Troy van Pool | 31 | Male | European-American/White | 06/19/2008 | Rockwall | TX | 32.8970395 | -96.4657295 | Garland Police Department | Van Pool screamed at a man in the parking lot of Lake Point Church. Officer Brandon Hernandez, working at Lake Point as a security guard in plain clothes, tried to de-escalate the confrontation. Van Pool drew a gun. Officer Hernandez fatally shot him. | blogspot.com | ||
7242 | Stephen Shaw | 25 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/19/2008 | Decatur | TN | 35.6372915 | -84.7772474 | Tennessee Valley Authority Police | A TVA officer investigating reports of a meth lab set up in a county/TVA recreational area flushed out Shaw and his cousin. Shaw left but returned with a rifle. He aimed the rifle at the 20-year veteran officer, and he was fatally shot. | knoxnews.com | ||
20323 | Douglas Higgins | 28 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/19/2008 | Somerset | PA | 40.008121 | -79.079624 | Somerset Borough Police Department | Douglas Higgins, 28, was killed by a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a police standoff at his Main Street home days before he was to be arraigned on rape charges. | google.com | ||
7239 | Kenneth Anthony Culver | 47 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/17/2008 | Sparta | GA | 33.2978769 | -82.9688613 | Hancock County Sheriff's Office | A Hancock County deputy was in a convenience store parking lot during a robbery and started chasing Culver. The chase ended just north of Sparta on Ga. 15 when Culver lost control of the van on a straight-away and veered into a line of trees. He was killed in the wreck. | google.com | ||
7240 | David Woodman | 22 | Male | European-American/White | 06/17/2008 | Boston | MA | 42.3427539 | -71.103232 | Boston Police Department | Boston police stopped Woodman for holding a beer outside Fenway Park and detained him. During the arrest Woodman was handcuffed and deprived of oxygen for about 5 minutes. Eyewitnesses say police made no attempt to revive him, and lied to responding paramedics. Woodman died 11 days later. In June 2010 the family settled with the city for $3M. | masslive.com | ||
21713 | Bryant Worrell | 21 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/17/2008 | Baltimore | MD | 39.2918792 | -76.5727572 | Baltimore Police Department | Bryant Worrell was apparently developmentally disabled. He was attacked in his home by several young men. Police wanted to take him away from the home, searched him and found a gun. Worrell allegedly refused to give up the gun and was shot and killed. | google.com | ||
7236 | Gary Guerra Jr. | 26 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/16/2008 | Manhattan | KS | 39.1690902 | -96.5951714 | Riley County Police Department | Fort Riley soldier Gary Guerra was killed after he crashed his vehicle during a police pursuit. Guerra was allegedly involved in a verbal confrontation at Zuckey Bowl and threatened an employee with a knife. Witnesses alerted police to Guerra's fleeing vehicle and officers gave chase. Guerra lost control of the car, which rolled over several times in a ditch, ejecting him. A passenger in Guerra's car sustained minor injuries. | ljworld.com | ||
7237 | Ervin Michael Johnston | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/16/2008 | Selma | AL | 32.3617 | -86.9881 | Alabama Department of Public Safety | Ervin Michael Johnston died due to heat exhaustion after participating in the Alabama Department of Public Safety's agility training. | wsfa.com | ||
7238 | Kenneth C. Montero | 28 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/16/2008 | Port Richey | FL | 28.2768285 | -82.7198133 | New Port Richey Police Department | Local police chased two motorcyclists about 2 a.m. for going 75 MPH in a 35 MPH zone. One struck a curb during the pursuit, left his bike, and received fairly minor injuries. The other, Montero, struck a semi-trailer and was killed. | tampabay.com | ||
7234 | Reginald Knight | 26 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/15/2008 | Chicago | IL | 41.6963571 | -87.630624 | Chicago Police Department | Officer Mark Brown shot Reginald Knight eight times in the back when he allegedly pointed a gun at officers chasing him. Witnesses said that Knight had both hands on a fence and was talking to an officer in front of him when Brown opened fire from behind him. Witnesses also said that the officers gave high-fives to each other as they stood over Knight's body. The mother of Knight's children was arrested when she arrived at the scene. She was released six hours later without being charged--it was only then that she learned Knight was dead. The city settled a wrongful death lawsuit for $100,000. | chronicleillinois.com | ||
7235 | Nicholas Cody | 27 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/15/2008 | Dothan | AL | 31.1771989 | -85.4017722 | Houston County Sheriff's Office | Nicholas Cody died about a week after being tasered multiple times within a short period of time. | dothaneagle.com | ||
21189 | Ernest Griglen Jr. | 59 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/15/2008 | Dearborn | MI | 42.3318581 | -83.2173642 | Allen Park Police Department, Dearborn Police Department | Ernest Griglen Jr., who was diabetic and disabled, was having a hypoglycemic episode when police mistook him for a drunken driver. Police stopped Griglen on the Southfield Freeway at around 4:30 p.m. after following him for several miles; APD officer T. Brown and DPD officers Richard Michalski, Edward Villemaire, Benjamin Harless and Lee Wilsmuth were involved in the incident. Police said Griglen was combative and resisted arrest, so the officers sprayed Griglen with a mixture of pepper spray and tear gas and wrestled him to the ground. While struggling with Griglen, officers mistook the insulin pump on Griglen;s waistband for a weapon. A breath test registered no alcohol in Griglen's system and he was taken to a hospital, where his blood sugar level was about 20 (normal levels are between about 70 and 110). Hospital records reportedly showed a fracture at the base of Griglen's skull. Part of Griglen's brain was removed because of a blood clot, and he slipped into a coma and never regained consciousness. He died on May 9, 2009. | thenewsherald.com | ||
21190 | John A. Watson IV | 26 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/15/2008 | Bay City | MI | 43.5834083 | -83.8953808 | Bay City Police Department | John A. Watson IV was riding his BMX bicycle along Water Street when officer Eric Williams hit him with his Chevrolet Impala patrol car. Police said Williams was responding to a call about an argument in progress when he struck Watson. According to police, the bicycle had moved into the roadway in front of the cruiser, which was traveling 11-20 mph over the speed limit in the rain. Watson suffered critical brain injuries and died on June 26, 2008. | mlive.com | ||
7228 | Sergio Casian Aguiar | 27 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/14/2008 | Turlock | CA | 37.4490754 | -120.9308716 | Modesto Police Department | A Modesto police officer, dropped onto the scene from a Stanislaus County Sheriff's Office helicopter, shot and killed Sergio Casian Aguiar, who had parked on a dark rural road and was beating his toddler son to death. | cbsnews.com | ||
7229 | Jake Thomas Taylor | 21 | Male | European-American/White | 06/14/2008 | Athens | TX | 32.2080311 | -95.84594249999999 | Henderson County Sheriff's Office | Deputy Jason Fisher pulled over a brown van for reckless driving. He recognized the driver, Taylor, as a habitual drug user and searched the vehicle, finding methamphetamine and what appeared to be Hydrocodone. Deputy Fisher handcuffed Taylor, who did not resist, and took him to Henderson County Jail. There, Taylor started to convulse. He died at East Texas Medical Center. A plastic bag was found in his stomach. Media reports don't state categorically whether he was booked, so this incident may be outside of FatalEncounters dataset, which does not include individuals after they've been booked into the jail or prison system. | google.com | ||
7230 | Jack Heaton | 52 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/14/2008 | Bedford | OH | 41.3928524 | -81.541353 | Bedford Police Department | Bedford police shot Heaton in the chest after they thought he threatened to shoot them with a rifle. The rifle turned out to be a cane. | cleveland.com | ||
7231 | Devon "D-Mack" Young | 26 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/14/2008 | Chicago | IL | 41.7891878 | -87.6239459 | Chicago Police Department | Police shot and killed Devon "D-Mack" Young. At about 2:40 a.m., officers responded to a report of shots fired on the South Side. Neighbors said that Young was shot in the back execution style, while kneeling with his hands in the air shouting "don't shoot, don't shoot--I ain't got nothing." Witnesses said that officers "slapped palms" after killing Young and told each other "Good job." | chicagotribune.com | ||
7232 | Gregorio "Goyo" Manriquez | 22 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/14/2008 | Homestead | FL | 25.515222 | -80.433807 | Miami-Dade Police Department | Manriquez had been drinking and had brought a pistol to the graveside service for a 17-year-old friend killed in a car accident. At some point he stepped away from the ceremony to fire shots at a green car as it passed by, said by some to contain "rivals." He did not obey police commands to drop the weapon, and he was fatally shot. | univision.com | ||
7233 | John R. Crosby | 43 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/14/2008 | Dedham | MA | 42.2493655 | -71.1456222 | Dedham Police Department | Crosby was found behaving erratically by officers responding to a 911 call. A 45-minute standoff unfolded while officers reportedly waited for a state police crisis situation negotiator to arrive. Crosby threatened the police with a knife, and was fatally shot. | metrowestdailynews.com | ||
20609 | Juan Manuel Avalos Cisneros | 27 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/14/2008 | Fitchburg | WI | 43.0227609 | -89.4194503 | Fitchburg Police Department | Fitchburg police received a report of a disturbance. The first Fitchburg police officer to arrive, Eric Disch, was confronted by an uncooperative and combative individual who was holding a length of coaxial cable. The officer told him to calm down and drew his Taser. The man knocked the Taser out of the officer's hand. He fought and tried to disarm the officer. The officer shot and killed him. | countyofdane.com | ||
22369 | Edward Rader | 23 | Male | European-American/White | 06/14/2008 | Indianapolis | IN | 39.7552796 | -86.1984176 | Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department | Police were dispatched on a report of a suicidal person. Edward Rader had taken a gun from his grandfather and gone into a nearby alleyway. Family said Rader wanted police to kill him because he couldn't do it himself. When police arrived, Rader's grandfather tried taking the gun away from his grandson, but Rader pulled away, and police said he pointed his gun at them. Officers Justin Reese, Douglas Simmons and James Gray opened fire. Rader's wife said Rader did not point the gun at officers, but rather pointed the gun in the air and fired a shot. A week before, Rader had attempted suicide by drug overdose. | google.com | ||
7226 | David Lee Stout | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 06/13/2008 | Laurie | MO | 38.1959684 | -92.8296188 | Laurie Police Department, Morgan County Sheriff's Office, Camden County Sheriff's Office | David Lee Stout reportedly shot himself in the chest and temple during a standoff in a Save-A-Lot parking lot. Police responded to the parking lot after a caller indicated Stout was armed and threatening to harm himself. According to police, Stout fired the shots as he sat inside his GMC pickup truck after a Morgan County SWAT unit tossed a flash bang grenade inside. | lakeexpo.com | ||
7227 | Gregory Theron Smith | 48 | Male | European-American/White | 06/13/2008 | El Paso | TX | 31.801861 | -106.511144 | El Paso Police Department | Dash cam video from a patrol unit shows Officer Matthew Jones trying to arrest Smith. Smith steps out of view. Officer Jones advances and reaches for a stun gun, then suddenly runs to the other side of the patrol unit. Smith walks into view, pointing a toy snub-nosed revolver at Officer Jones and convulsing as Officer Jones shoots him 11 times with a pistol. A grand jury that viewed the video no-billed Officer Jones. | youtube.com | ||
7224 | Mark Moody | 41 | Male | European-American/White | 06/12/2008 | Camino | CA | 38.7520108 | -120.7040915 | El Dorado County Sheriff's Office, California Highway Patrol | SWAT deputy Lance Bryant shot Mark Moody when he pointed his rifle in the direction of other SWAT team officers. | googleusercontent.com | ||
7225 | Vincent A. Hodgkiss | 46 | Male | European-American/White | 06/12/2008 | Pembroke Pines | FL | 26.0006702 | -80.2247017 | Pembroke Pines Police Department | Hodgkiss was fatally shot during an early-morning drug raid at his home of 14 years. Friends and family said that the police story of him defending the property with a shotgun was completely out of character, and the drug search netted a small amount of marijuana belonging to his son's girlfriend. | sun-sentinel.com | ||
7223 | Gary L. Bliss | 58 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/11/2008 | Millsboro | DE | 38.5951275 | -75.1802722 | Delaware State Police | Bliss, by accounts suicidal and drunk, holed up in a shed behind his own house with a replica pellet gun. Despite police attempts to get him to surrender, he fired at troopers. They responded with eight shots, killing him. | sussexcountian.com | ||
7220 | Jerrell Taylor | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/10/2008 | Phenix City | AL | 32.4929248 | -85.0119069 | Phenix City Police Department | Jerell Taylor was killed during a police chase when he lost control of his motorcycle and crashed into a brick mailbox. | armytimes.com | ||
7221 | Ilda Ebe Grasso | 52 | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 06/10/2008 | Monterey Park | CA | 34.0697701 | -118.1229847 | California Highway Patrol | Officers allege that they pulled Grasso over for speeding, and that she brandished a replica gun, and they shot her to death. | latimes.com | ||
7222 | Louis Avrin | 36 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/10/2008 | Caldwell | TX | 30.5237769 | -96.7145296 | Caldwell Police Department | Avrin reportedly committed two robberies, then led Officer Cougan Highnight and Chief Paul Lilly on a chase. He struck a tree. Officer Highnight rammed Avrin's vehicle. Avrin shot Officer Highnight in the arm, then tried to manipulate the slide and magazine of his pistol. Officer Highnight fired ten rounds at Avrin. Chief Lilly fired four rounds. Avrin died of a shot to the neck. He had accidentally released the magazine from his pistol. Avrin was not named in the Texas Custodial Deaths Report on Jan. 30, 2016. CPD released dash cam video to the public after it was shown to a grand jury. | youtube.com | ||
7213 | Jeffrey James Tinnion | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 06/09/2008 | Huntington Beach | CA | 33.7371943 | -118.0242574 | Huntington Beach Police Department | Jeffrey James Tinnion reportedly killed himself after police stopped his car following a short pursuit. | hbindependent.com | ||
7214 | Kelly Shawn Valdez | 31 | Male | Native American/Alaskan | 06/09/2008 | Temple | OK | 34.2688974 | -98.2439613 | Temple Police Department, Cotton County Sheriff's Office | While awaiting trial, and not wishing to go back to prison, Valdez apparently engineered a standoff. He fired a rifle at police and was shot and killed. | newsok.com | ||
7215 | Tony Curtis Bradway | 26 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/09/2008 | Southampton | NY | 40.8909338 | -72.4636982 | Southampton Town Police Department | Local officers tasered Bradway twice in an attempt to get him to stop swallowing a large amount of cocaine to conceal it. Eight hours later he was having fatal seizures in a hospital, his death attributed to overdose. His family quietly settled a wrongful-death suit with the city for an undisclosed amount. | 27east.com | ||
7216 | Don Steven Garrett | 39 | Male | European-American/White | 06/09/2008 | Frederick | MD | 39.3658568 | -77.4349827 | Frederick County Sheriff's Office | Police responding to a shots-fired call found Garrett, who'd been menacing the mother of his children at an apartment complex. Garrett stood off with the police for a couple of hours before suddenly appearing in a ground-level doorway, knife in hand. He was fatally shot. | fredericknewspost.com | ||
7217 | Marcial Cax-Puluc | 23 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/09/2008 | Stone Mountain | GA | 33.7742724 | -84.1603121 | DeKalb County Sheriff's Office | A sheriff's deputy was convicted of killing the man he'd hired as a part of a scheme to kill his wife. The killer tried to blame the killings of the worker and the wife on the worker, Cax-Puluc. | cnn.com | ||
7218 | Linda Yancey | 44 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/09/2008 | Stone Mountain | GA | 33.774353 | -84.160605 | DeKalb County Sheriff's Office | Yancey was shot by a sheriff's deputy who staged a murder-robbery of his wife and claimed to have killed the robber. Instead, the deputy was himself found guilty of murdering both his wife Yancey and the day laborer Cax-Puluc. | cnn.com | ||
7219 | Bernard M. Devine | 55 | Male | European-American/White | 06/09/2008 | Fort Lauderdale | FL | 26.0461123 | -80.210389 | Seminole Tribal Police Department | Devine's wife went to the police at 8 a.m. to report her husband was drunk, had beat her, and threatened to kill himself and burn their trailer down. Responding tribal officers saw Devine outside the trailer with a container of gasoline, the strong smell of gas in the air, and Devine with a cigarette lighter. They fatally shot him. | sun-sentinel.com | ||
19755 | Richard Lynn Henderson | 44 | Male | European-American/White | 06/09/2008 | Richmond | KY | 37.7565417 | -84.2961591 | Richmond Police Department | Richmond police were dispatched to an apartment in response to a reported stabbing. An officer was immediately confronted by a knife-wielding man, later identified as Richard L. Henderson, 44. Henderson would not respond to the officer's commands and continued to advance on the officer with the knife, and he was shot and killed. | kynews.org | ||
21933 | Russell T. Jackson | 22 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/09/2008 | Red Bank | NJ | 40.3443938 | -74.0819305 | Red Bank Police Department | Police received a 911 call reporting a suicidal individual. They arrived on the scene as Jackson shot and killed himself. | gmnews.com | ||
7210 | Shawn D. Evans | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 06/08/2008 | Windsor | MO | 38.5702272 | -93.4919098 | Johnson County Sheriff's Office | Deputy James Doty shot Shawn D. Evans after he allegedly pointed a handgun at him following a chase. Doty had pursued Evans, who was driving a van, into Pettis County because he believed Evans was a burglary suspect. After he fired the fatal shot, Doty fell into a culvert on the side of the highway while pursuing Evans on foot. Evans was found about 70 yards away and later pronounced dead. Earlier reports that Evans had fired at Doty turned out to be inaccurate, investigators said. | google.com | ||
7211 | Lawrence Anthony Trujillo | 45 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/08/2008 | Tijeras | NM | 35.085079 | -106.380959 | Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office | Deputies stopped Trujillo for erratic driving, just before he led them on a car chase in the East Mountains. Deputies said he was acting aggressively, ignoring commands to show his hands and approaching deputies in a "threatening manner" before he was shot and killed. No weapons were found on Trujillo, but deputies reported that he had one hand wrapped with a cloth that may have appeared to be a weapon. | abqjournal.com | ||
7212 | Name withheld by police | 25 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/08/2008 | Mesa | AZ | 33.440203 | -111.8399085 | Mesa Police Department | A man called 911 to report that his girlfriend was afraid of him. When police arrived on the scene, they found she had a head injury, reportedly from her boyfriend. He pointed a gun at police officers, who shot him after he refused to drop his weapon. | eastvalleytribune.com | ||
22368 | Quintrell T. Brannon | 25 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/08/2008 | Vincennes | IN | 38.6569248 | -87.5348456 | Knox County Sheriff's Office, Vincennes Police Department | Quintrell Brannon died after he was tasered by police. He was unarmed during the incident. He stopped breathing 40 minutes after the shock, and was pronounced dead at the hospital. | masscops.com | ||
7203 | Frank Kaskaske | 67 | Male | Native American/Alaskan | 06/07/2008 | McLoud | OK | 35.494519 | -97.082151 | Kickapoo Tribal Police Department, Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, Meeker Police Department | A caller told emergency dispatchers Kaskaske was drunk, disorderly and suicidal. Kaskaske fired multiple shots at the officers who arrived on the scene, police said. Officers returned fire, killing him. | newsok.com | ||
7204 | Leonel Maldonado Gonzalez | 33 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/07/2008 | Othello | WA | 46.8150637 | -119.1973136 | Adams County Sheriff's Office | Gonzalez died after being struck by vehicle driven by a deputy. The deputy was following two cars when one car swerved sharply to left into the lane of an oncoming vehicle. The deputy saw something dark in his lane but could not avoid hitting Gonzalez. | spokesman.com | ||
7205 | Jorge Orlando Bello Garcia | 54 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/07/2008 | Tampa | FL | 28.0403625 | -82.549788 | Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office | Questions remained about what exactly drove Bello Garcia to murder his estranged wife and two of her friends. After the murders police caught up with him about a half-mile south of the murder scene. He initially cooperated, then emerged from his vehicle shooting, apparently fearless, "like a crazed maniac," fired 15 shots and wounded two officers before being fatally shot. | tampabay.com | ||
7206 | Keith Henry Jr. | 31 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/07/2008 | Lawrenceville | GA | 33.8855582 | -84.0604722 | Gwinnett County Police Department | Apprehended for "unusual and erratic" misbehavior at a supermarket, Henry was combative with local officers and cuffed to the cage in the back of a police cruiser. On arrival at the jail police found Henry, unresponsive, and a pool of vomit. He died shortly afterward and an autopsy was inconclusive. | policeone.com | ||
7207 | Javon Dawson | 17 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/07/2008 | St. Petersburg | FL | 27.7644841 | -82.6755363 | St. Petersburg Police Department | Only about 50 guests were expected at an evening outdoor graduation party at a Masonic lodge, but the gathering drew several hundred people, including Dawson. An officer called to disperse the crowd heard and saw a nuzzle flash as Dawson fired his handgun at others, and fatally shot him as he was running away. | tampabay.com | ||
7208 | Donovan Tyrone Graham | 35 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/07/2008 | Meriden | CT | 41.535165 | -72.801202 | Meriden Police Department | Army veteran Graham was at home in a public housing complex when his neighbors complained about noise. Agitated by the visit of three (then four) officers, Donovan was uncooperative. One officer tasered Graham for 13 seconds, which appeared to have no effect. Another officer tasered him 10 more times within the next four minutes. As the victim was finally restrained, which required five sets of handcuffs, his breathing became shallow. Graham's subsequent death was attributed by the medical examiner to "natural causes". | investmentwatchblog.com | ||
7209 | Richard Redmond | 52 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/07/2008 | Milford | DE | 38.8890282 | -75.3770416 | Delaware State Police | On reports that Redmond was brandishing a gun and had threatened a neighbor, state troopers responded to the home of the terminally ill former California Highway Patrol officer. Redmond refused to give up his gun, threatened to barricade himself and his wife inside, and after a six-hour standoff finally pointed the weapon at troopers. He was fatally shot once. | wesm913.org | ||
22712 | Michael Ray Duncan Jr. | 36 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/07/2008 | Gum Spring | VA | 37.801578 | -77.927394 | Louisa County Sheriff's Office | Michael Ray Duncan Jr. crashed and died during a high-speed chase. It was not immediately reported why police were chasing him. | google.com | ||
7199 | Brian T. Williams | 17 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/06/2008 | Aurora | MO | 36.9709649 | -93.7231075 | Aurora Police Department | Teenagers Caleb M. Dunning and Brian T. Williams were killed when their car crashed during a police chase. According to investigators, Dunning was driving the 1997 Ford Mustang and attempting to elude police at around 2:20 a.m. when he lost control, ran off the road, and struck a utility pole and a tree. Police did not state what prompted the chase. | joplinglobe.com | ||
7200 | Caleb Matthew Dunning | 18 | Male | European-American/White | 06/06/2008 | Aurora | MO | 36.9709649 | -93.7231075 | Aurora Police Department | Teenagers Caleb M. Dunning and Brian T. Williams were killed when their car crashed during a police chase. According to investigators, Dunning was driving the 1997 Ford Mustang and attempting to elude police at around 2:20 a.m. when he lost control, ran off the road, and struck a utility pole and a tree. Police did not state what prompted the chase. | joplinglobe.com | ||
7201 | Edward "Tigger" Hayes | 31 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/06/2008 | Columbus | OH | 39.9715352 | -82.9769135 | Columbus Division of Police | Hayes was shot to death by a Columbus police officer. Hayes had been in a car with several other black men on the night of June 6th 2008 when police officers approached. Edward Hayes ran for it; a gun tucked in his waistband. | yahoo.com | ||
7202 | Dale Mitchell Lemoine | 53 | Male | European-American/White | 06/06/2008 | Dallas | TX | 32.7628398 | -96.8973885 | Dallas Police Department | According to DPD, Officer David Yzaguirre, off duty and working at a second job, approached Lemoine, suspected of shoplifting. Lemoine attacked and wounded the officer with a boxcutter. The officer shot Lemoine once. Lemoine was pronounced dead at Methodist Hospital. | dallaspolice.net | ||
22711 | Gregory Berryman | 47 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/06/2008 | Fredericksburg | VA | 38.3019585 | -77.4595426 | Fredericksburg Police Department | Fredericksburg Officer Todd Allen Bahr, 40, was killed while searching for an armed suspect, Gregory Berryman, who was accused of threatening his ex-girlfriend. Police shot Berryman several times, but the fatal shot came from his own gun, police said. | insidenova.com | ||
7196 | Andrew Ruiz | 23 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/05/2008 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.0494572 | -118.203596 | Los Angeles Police Department | Jose Ruiz reportedly committed suicide after shooting and wounding an officer during a narcotics raid. | typepad.com | ||
7197 | Willie Maye | 43 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/05/2008 | Birmingham | AL | 33.5407225 | -86.8738024 | Birmingham Police Department | WIllie Maye died after he was tasered, maced and arrested following a short car and foot chase. | blog.al.com | ||
7198 | Dominic Ian Nieto | 30 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/05/2008 | Las Vegas | NV | 36.0905418 | -115.2503686 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | Responding to reports of a shooting at the Penthouse nightclub near Interstate 15 and Russell Road, Las Vegas officer pursued a car driven by Dominic Ian Nieto, 30. After Nieto crashed his car in a desert area, he shot the officer in the leg. The officer shot and killed Nieto. | google.com | ||
23100 | Kermit Eugene Bryson | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 06/05/2008 | Monteagle | TN | 35.2451677 | -85.8017896 | Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Grundy County Sheriff's Office | Kermit Eugene Bryson allegedly shot and killed Grundy County sheriff's deputy Shane Tate, 28, and then killed himself after an all-day manhunt when he was cornered. | chattanoogan.com | ||
7192 | Eric Boyd Minshew Jr. | 49 | Male | European-American/White | 06/04/2008 | New Orleans | LA | 30.0187015 | -90.1087119 | New Orleans Police Department, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency | Police shot and killed Eric Minshew after a nearly 10-hour standoff that began when FEMA workers showed up to inspect his government-issue trailer. | usatoday.com | ||
7193 | Donnie Browning | 49 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/04/2008 | Greenville | SC | 34.8777903 | -82.36137 | South Carolina Highway Patrol | A state trooper attempted a traffic stop on a minivan for minor traffic violations and a burned-out headlight. The minivan refused to stop. It fled at speeds reported at 105 MPH. It ran a red light and struck the back of a tractor-trailer used to carry chickens. Driver David Edward Powell Jr. died instantly, passenger Donnie Browning died shortly after in the hospital. | liveleak.com | ||
7194 | David Edward Powell Jr. | 21 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/04/2008 | Greenville | SC | 34.8777903 | -82.36137 | South Carolina Highway Patrol | A state trooper attempted a traffic stop on a minivan for minor traffic violations and a burned-out headlight. The minivan refused to stop. It fled at speeds reported at 105 MPH. It ran a red light and struck the back of a tractor-trailer used to carry chickens. Driver David Edward Powell Jr. died instantly, passenger Donnie Browning died shortly after in the hospital. | liveleak.com | ||
7195 | Tarrance Alvin Brown | 30 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/04/2008 | Houston | TX | 29.6673378 | -95.2778018 | Houston Police Department | According to HPD, officers tried to arrest Brown for what appeared to be a drug deal. Brown fled on his bike to an apartment complex. An officer tried to shot Brown with a stun gun. Brown walked away, then reached for his pocket. Officer Shane Nash fatally shot him. No weapon was found. | houstontx.gov | ||
7191 | Jerry Lee Richardson Jr. | 28 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/03/2008 | Pittsburg | CA | 38.0137408 | -121.8965327 | Antioch Police Department, Pittsburg Police Department | An officer shot and killed Jerry Lee Richardson, Jr. after a high-speed chase during which Richardson rammed multiple patrol cars and drove across someone's front yard. | insidebayarea.com | ||
21187 | Antonius David Hall | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/02/2008 | Lansing | MI | 42.7600173 | -84.5673644 | Lansing Police Department | At least one person was killed in a police-chase-related accident. Appears in mlive.com chase database. Additional details were not available. | wilx.com | ||
21188 | Tommie Staples Jr. | 55 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/02/2008 | Detroit | MI | 42.4098211 | -83.1486316 | Detroit Police Department | According to police, officers Barron Townsend and Steven Kopp. saw Tommie Staples Jr. lingering in an alley at about 10:30 p.m. and walked over to him. Staples allegedly put his hands under his shirt, which made officers think he was armed. Staples allegedly attempted to threaten the officers with a gun, so they shot him in the back, killing him. The gun police said was found near Staples' body didn't have his fingerprints on it, and there were other inconsistencies between the police version and the evidence. The city settled a lawsuit with Staples estate in 2010 for $2.5. million. Townsend also shot and killed Dennis/Stephen Crawford in 2004. | finalcall.com | ||
7188 | Miguel Pablo | 21 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/01/2008 | Jensen Beach | FL | 27.243978 | -80.2718218 | Martin County Sheriff's Office | Pablo was shot and killed during a traffic stop in the parking lot of a shopping mall on an early Sunday evening. He'd been pulled over for erratic driving. Pablo and his brother attacked the deputy, kicking him, to the point of losing consciousness after the shooting. | tcpalm.com | ||
7189 | Carlos Rios | 47 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/01/2008 | Bronx | NY | 40.8706575 | -73.8835445 | City of New York Police Department | Rios followed a woman and her 3-year-old daughter out of their apartment house elevator and threatened them with a gun. In response the woman's husband, an NYPD officer in his boxer shorts, emerged from the apartment. As the officer chased Rios downstairs they exchanged gunfire, and Rios was found fatally wounded on the street shortly thereafter. | nytimes.com | ||
7190 | Fred D. Heilman Jr. | 63 | Male | European-American/White | 06/01/2008 | Wasilla | AK | 61.6102792 | -149.3983371 | Alaska State Troopers | Fred Heilman and Michael Zagars used to be friends.Taking fishing trips, sharing a beer and just being buddies had been common with the neighbors. But that friendly relationship unraveled over the past two years. The men became bitter enemies and their feud culminated Saturday when Heilman allegedly shot and killed Zagars, then took his own life following a nearly 24-hour standoff with Alaska State Troopers | frontiersman.com | ||
7185 | Alexander James Culley | 23 | Male | European-American/White | 05/31/2008 | San Diego | CA | 32.7179067 | -117.1403009 | San Diego Police Department | Officer Javier Carranza shot and killed James Culley after he pointed a BB gun at him. | sandiego.gov | ||
7186 | Robert Ingram | 27 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/31/2008 | Raceland | LA | 29.7242542 | -90.606266 | Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office | Robert Ingram died after a Deputy Beau Prejean used a Taser on him to end a foot pursuit. | houmatoday.com | ||
7187 | Name withheld by police | 52 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/31/2008 | Washington | DC | 38.9060703 | -76.9845286 | Washington Metropolitan Police Department | Officers responding to a domestic dispute call met briefly with the woman involved, then sought the man in the rear of the house. The man produced a knife, refused to drop it, and was fatally shot. The unnamed victim was one of seven homicides in the District within a 9-hour period. | mpdc.dc.gov | ||
7179 | Alexis Melendrez-Acosta | 18 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/30/2008 | Desert Hot Springs | CA | 33.9578213 | -116.505731 | California Highway Patrol | CHP officers shot Alexis Melendrez-Acosta when he shot at them during during a pursuit in Desert Hot Springs. | kesq.com | ||
7180 | Ricardo Pardo Ferrera | 29 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/30/2008 | Fort Worth | TX | 32.7485386 | -97.3071244 | Fort Worth Police Department | Ferrera drove down East Tucker Street, known for drugs and prostitution. An officer began to follow Ferrera. Ferrera drove away, stopped his vehicle and jumped off the Highway 287 overpass above I-30, killing himself. He was on bail after trying to kidnap a 14-year-old girl. | star-telegram.com | ||
7181 | Daniel Devette Ross Jr. | 42 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/30/2008 | Dallas | TX | 32.7058682 | -96.7625954 | Dallas Police Department | According to DPD, Ross was wanted in connection to a bank robbery in Amarillo when he barricaded himself into a residence in Dallas. SWAT officers responded. Ross threatened the officers, then exited the house and approached officers with a toy rifle. Officers Tim Houston, Chuck Deltufo and Mark Villareal shot at Ross five times, hitting him three times. Ross died at the scene. | dallaspolice.net | ||
7182 | Kathleen Marie Dukes | 20 | Female | European-American/White | 05/30/2008 | Marietta | GA | 33.9974656 | -84.5239495 | Georgia State Patrol | State troopers tried to stop a large group of motorcyclists on I-75 for speeding. One cyclist, Patrick Gunderson, along with his passenger Kathleen Marie Dukes, peeled off onto surface streets with troopers still in hot pursuit. He lost control, crashed into a strip mall, and both Gunderson and Dukes died. | wsbtv.com | ||
7183 | Patrick Gunderson | 22 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/30/2008 | Marietta | GA | 33.9974656 | -84.5239495 | Georgia State Patrol | State troopers tried to stop a large group of motorcyclists on I-75 for speeding. One cyclist, Patrick Gunderson, along with his passenger Kathleen Marie Dukes, peeled off onto surface streets with troopers still in hot pursuit. He lost control, crashed into a strip mall, and both Gunderson and Dukes died. | wsbtv.com | ||
7184 | Darren Spurlock | 39 | Male | European-American/White | 05/30/2008 | Huntsville | AL | 34.6473594 | -86.6730924 | Huntsville Police Department | NASA engineer Spurlock was killed in a 90 MPH vehicle crash with two female suspects being pursued by police for a drug deal. The incident caused several other injuries including a broken neck for the driver of the other car. Spurlock's family brought a $5M suit against the city and the "Madison-Morgan County Strategic Counterdrug Team." They countered with a claim of state immunity. | blog.al.com | ||
7177 | Claude I. "CC" Cox | 29 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/29/2008 | Springfield | OH | 39.930874 | -83.857717 | Springfield Police Department | Cox was a passenger in the vehicle Wright was driving, a car police said was stolen, according to police. Police spotted the vehicle and Troy Wright fled, starting a chase that reached speeds of up to 85 mph and ended when Wright lost control and crashed, killing Cox. | google.com | ||
7178 | Benjamin Brewton | 20 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/29/2008 | Toledo | OH | 41.640604 | -83.557269 | Toledo Police Department | Hoping to evade police, Brewton hopped from his bicycle and took off on foot toward a drainage canal called "Swan Creek." The water was cold, muddy, and 12 feet deep. Brewton called for help, but the officers present could not reach him, or swim to him, and he drowned. | toledoblade.com | ||
22710 | John Harvey Collins | 70 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/29/2008 | Fairlawn | VA | 37.145161 | -80.5801065 | Pulaski County Sheriff's Office | Sheriff's Deputy David Cressell encountered John Harvey Collins after responding to a call of a disturbance at a mobile home park. Collins had allegedly assaulted two people. Collins allegedly attacked Cressell with a knife and a blunt object and was shot and killed. | richmond.com | ||
7174 | Ricardo Manual Abrahams | 44 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/28/2008 | Woodland | CA | 38.6920805 | -121.7838306 | Woodland Police Department | Ricardo Manuel Abrahams died after police tasered him several times and four officers restrained him when he confronted them with a pencil during a welfare check. | davisvanguard.org | ||
7175 | Joshua Michael LeJeune | 21 | Male | European-American/White | 05/28/2008 | Ponchatoula | LA | 30.44934 | -90.4308604 | Ponchatoula Police Department | Joshua Michael LeJeune was killed after being thrown from his truck during a police chase. | hammondstar.com | ||
7176 | Darrell Workman Jr. | 31 | Male | European-American/White | 05/28/2008 | Cleveland | OH | 41.513135 | -81.6557 | Cleveland Police Department | Two officers shot and killed Darrell Workman Jr., 31, during a raid at a suspected drug house on East 47th Street. The officers said they shot Workman after he reached into his sweatshirt for a loaded .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun. One officer fired a shotgun three times; another officer fired a handgun. Undercover detectives said they had bought cocaine from Workman twice the previous week. They found cocaine and marijuana hidden in the house after the shooting. | cleveland.com | ||
7171 | Terry Galmore | 23 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/27/2008 | Waukegan | IL | 42.3395197 | -87.8512145 | Waukegan Police Department | Terry Galmore reportedly killed himself after exchanging gunfire with police during a nearly 19-hour standoff. According to police, Galmore was one of three men suspected in a home invasion. Galmore had barricaded himself in his apartment at around 3 a.m., and police tried to persuade him to surrender, but he allegedly threatened to shoot anyone who entered the home. Shots were reportedly heard several times during the standoff, and Galmore fired at an armored truck at one point. At about 6 p.m., police fired tear gas and flash grenades. At about 8:30 p.m., officers went inside and found Galmore on the floor with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. | chicagotribune.com | ||
7172 | Wilson M. Bering IV | 42 | Male | European-American/White | 05/27/2008 | East Peoria | IL | 40.732953 | -89.522521 | Tazewell County Sheriff's Office, Fondulac Park District Police Department | Wilson M. Bering IV reportedly committed suicide after being tasered twice while fleeing from officers on foot. An order of protection had been filed against Behring after he was arrested three days earlier for allegedly preventing his girlfriend from leaving for work. Bering was released from the Tazewell County Jail on May 28. Just before 7 p.m. on May 29, deputy Larry Steele arrived at Behring's apartment to serve the order of protection, but Bering refused to open the door. Bering jumped from a window and Steele shot Behring in the back with a Taser as he fell to the ground. Behring got up and tried to run away. A Fondulac Park District officer, arriving as back up, shocked Bering in the back with his Taser. According to police, Bering ran into a field behind the apartments, drew a handgun from his waistband, held it to his chest and pulled the trigger. | kirksvilledailyexpress.com | ||
7173 | Michael Addesa | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 05/27/2008 | Lynn | MA | 42.4564165 | -70.9583506 | Lynn Police Department | Lynn police attempted to detain Addesa after seeing him behave strangely on a Lynn streetcorner. An officer chased him on foot. Addesa allowed the officer to catch up, turned with a knife in his hand, and threatened him. He was shot once in the chest. | masscops.com | ||
22709 | Quentin Aaron Lewis | 17 | Male | European-American/White | 05/26/2008 | Keswick | VA | 38.0560324 | -78.30982 | Louisa County Sheriff's Office | A deputy spotted a Geo Metro without license plates speeding on Route 22. The deputy chased the car, which was driven by Quentin Aaron Lewis, for seven minutes at speeds in excess of 85 mph into Albemarle County, where it veered off the road and slammed into a tree and killed Lewis. | google.com | ||
7169 | Billy Corbett | 67 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/25/2008 | Lake Park | GA | 30.6964759 | -83.103768 | Echols County Sheriff's Office | A deputy from a neighboring county was first called out for a downed power line, then for loud music and shots fired nearby, and then walked into an armed confrontation among Corbett and two other men. Corbett shot both of them dead with a small-caliber handgun, and was then killed by the deputy. | valdostadailytimes.com | ||
7170 | Giovanni Thermidor | 18 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/25/2008 | North Miami Beach | FL | 25.926214 | -80.1711182 | Miami-Dade Police Department | Police interrupted a pair of teen burglars around lunchtime. Armed with a handgun and a steel crowbar, both suspects violently resisted officers, firing toward one and shooting a police dog. Thermindor was killed by return fire. His accomplice was ultimately charged with his murder. | heraldtribune.com | ||
7168 | Matthew James Zaiser | 26 | Male | European-American/White | 05/24/2008 | El Dorado Hills | CA | 38.7099244 | -121.0599094 | El Dorado County Sheriff's Office | Deputies Steve Schofield, Aaron Cuddeback and Sean Gillespie shot and killed Matthew James Zaiser after he pointed a pellet rifle at them. | sacbee.com | ||
7165 | James Throne | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 05/23/2008 | Bakersfield | CA | 35.3062159 | -118.9143841 | Kern County Sheriff's Office | Deputy James Throne was killed when his patrol car collided with another patrol car driven by deputy Doug Swanson as they were responding to a request for backup from officers involved in a foot chase. | turnto23.com | ||
7166 | Name withheld by police | 30 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/23/2008 | St. Simons Island | GA | 31.191371 | -81.3798801 | Glynn County Police Department | A Cordele man shot and killed himself inside the home of his former wife on St. Simons Island after barricading himself from police officers. Police did not identify the man, who was hiding behind a mattress when police entered the house. Police heard a gunshot and returned fire, shooting once at the mattress, but the bullet did not hit the man. The bullet that took his life was apparently self-inflicted. | google.com | ||
7167 | David Tucker | 43 | Male | European-American/White | 05/23/2008 | Plaquemine | LA | 30.2805729 | -91.2266882 | Iberville Parish Sheriff's Office | David Tucker was a bicyclist who died May 29, 2008 from injuries sustained when he was struck by an Iberville Parish sheriff deputy's cruiser on May 23. | google.com | ||
20322 | Nang The "Ricky" Nguyen | 47 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 05/23/2008 | Oakland | PA | 40.4381015 | -79.953927 | Pittsburgh Bureau of Police | Nang T. Nguyen threatened his landlord with a meat cleaver. He was shot and killed when he refused to drop the cleaver. | google.com | ||
7164 | Paul Sakalauskas | 31 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/22/2008 | Omaha | NE | 41.1995302 | -95.9608925 | Omaha Police Department, U.S. Marshals Service | Paul Sakalauskas, who'd reportedly been charged with receiving, distributing and possessing child pornography, missed a federal court appearance. The next morning, Metro Fugitive Task Force members tried to serve an arrest warrant issued through the US Marshal Service at Sakalauskas' home. The marshals knocked on the door and heard a gunshot from inside the house, police said. According to police, they secured the scene, knocked again and announced themselves. Someone let the officers inside and they found the Sakalauskas dead. | wowt.com | ||
22708 | Jamaal R. "Hipp" Tolliver | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/22/2008 | Richmond | VA | 37.5260051 | -77.436128 | Virginia State Police | Jamaal R. Tolliver was killed when he crashed into a utility pole. Police were chasing him because he was suspected of drunken driving, police said. | richmond.com | ||
7163 | Matthew Andrew O'Reilly | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 05/21/2008 | San Bruno | CA | 37.6328279 | -122.4191336 | Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety | Matthew Andrew O'Reilly, who police said was wanted in a double-slaying at a Sunnyvale strip club, apparently shot himself after a high-speed chase ended in a crash in San Bruno. | sfgate.com | ||
7160 | Judas Nick Lozano-Garza | 32 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/20/2008 | Fort Worth | TX | 32.648451 | -97.367812 | Fort Worth Police Department | Lozano stole meat from Sac-N-Save, then stepped into a vehicle driven by Juan Nunez. Nunez drove in the direction of Officer J. Campbell, who was working off-duty as a security guard. Officer Campbell shot into a passenger's side window, killing Lozano. | star-telegram.com | ||
7161 | Aaron Winchester | 21 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/20/2008 | North Charlotte | NC | 35.2424431 | -80.8296134 | Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department | At least one witness saw Winchester running away from police when he was shot four times in the back. Officers had responded to a domestic dispute and went to question Winchester, who tried to bolt and purportedly reached for something, perhaps a silver handgun, in his back pocket. | wsoctv.com | ||
7162 | Frank Filomeno Alejo | 28 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/20/2008 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.0323667 | -118.2018199 | Los Angeles Police Department | Officers say they responded to a call regarding shots fired, chased Alejo who turned to shoot at officers, and the officers shot him to death. | latimes.com | ||
7155 | Kennith Goble | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 05/18/2008 | Columbus | OH | 39.9397983 | -83.1443423 | Columbus Division of Police | Officers Kyle Kincade, 29, and Joshua Gearhart, 26, were sent to 5433 Floral Circle S. after a man told a dispatcher he had a gun and wouldn't be alive for long. He said he had kicked his girlfriend out of his apartment. When the officers arrived, they saw a man holding a handgun in a breezeway. The officers shot and killed Goble after he ignored their orders to drop the gun and, instead, pointed it at them, police said. | dispatch.com | ||
7156 | Antonio Dampier | 26 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/18/2008 | Chicago | IL | 41.842907 | -87.6278172 | Chicago Police Department | Antonio Dampier reportedly died from blunt force trauma to his head when he fell from a police wagon. Police responded to a domestic disturbance at around 2 a.m. and arrested Dampier. Police claimed that Dampier climbed out while handcuffed through an unsecured vent and fell while the van wasn't moving. Witnesses said that Dampier was taken away in a squad car, not a wagon. Relatives believed Dampier was beaten by officers. | abc7chicago.com | ||
7157 | Douglas Edward Cottrell | 57 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/18/2008 | Salt Lake City | UT | 40.711944 | -111.798056 | Summit County Sheriff's Office | Cottrell not only drove his car through Parley's Canyon recklessly to the point of seeming suicidal, he drove across the interstate median to navigate through it twice more, at high speeds and without regard to the police chasing him. His 30-minute ride ended when he fatally crashed into the back of a tanker truck carrying ethanol. | deseretnews.com | ||
7158 | Gerald Tierney | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 05/18/2008 | New Bedford | MA | 41.6127502 | -70.9128705 | New Bedford Police Department | Police responded to reports of a knife-wielding man threatening his neighbors. They found Tierney inside his duplex, armed with two knives. Tierney refused to drop the weapons or obey police commands. Officer felt sufficiently threatened by his behavior to fatally shoot him. | masscops.com | ||
7159 | Gonzalo Guizan | 33 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/18/2008 | Easton | CT | 41.2180427 | -73.2633992 | Monroe Police Department | A heavily armed special weapons and tactics team charged into a small ranch home in Easton--guns drawn and flash grenades exploding--and killed a Norwalk man who was quietly watching porn on TV in the den. Now five towns will pay $3.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the victim's family. Rumors said a First Selectman was pissed off at his neighbor so he sent the police. | ctpost.com | ||
7149 | Sergio Rosas Aguilar | Male | Race unspecified | 05/17/2008 | Malaga | CA | 36.674081 | -119.7553875 | Fresno County Sheriff's Office | Deputy Ernest Serrano shot Sergio Rosas Aguilar five times when he came at him with a knife in a vineyard west of Malagawas. | findacase.com | |||
7150 | Odiceo Lopez Valencia | 45 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/17/2008 | Denver | CO | 39.7964879 | -104.821167 | Denver Police Department | El Paso County sheriff's deputies were checking the man's home after the children's mother told authorities she was worried he might hurt their children, police said. Deputies looked through a window to see two boys laying on the bed with a "significant of blood on or around them." The sight of so much blood in the bedroom forced deputies to act quickly. Deputies burst into the home and were confronted by the father, who was wielding a knife, so they shot and killed him. | denverda.org | ||
7151 | Roketi Mosesue | 46 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 05/17/2008 | Long Beach | CA | 33.8765492 | -118.1519582 | Long Beach Police Department | Circumstances are disputed: Officers allege they shot a man who was acting erratically who fought with officers. Witnesses allege the police shot the man while he was lying on his stomach. A jury ruled against a wrongful death suit. | latimes.com | ||
7152 | Carlos Rivera | 17 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/17/2008 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.0028919 | -118.2750711 | Los Angeles Police Department | Officers say they responded to a call regarding a man with a gun, and when they arrived at the scene, Rivera pointed a gun at them, and the officers shot him to death. | latimes.com | ||
7153 | Christopher John Tuttle | 31 | Male | European-American/White | 05/17/2008 | Las Vegas | NV | 36.1826847 | -115.2289789 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | Christopher John Tuttle, 31, who shot at his brother, is fatally shot by Las Vegas officers after he pointed the weapon at them near Washington Avenue and Jones Boulevard. | google.com | ||
7154 | Kenneth Crosby | 28 | Male | European-American/White | 05/17/2008 | Electra | TX | 34.0287416 | -98.9226525 | Electra Police Department | Crosby attacked an officer responding to a domestic disturbance in which Joshua Lance was stabbed and wounded. The officer fatally shot Crosby. The Texas Ranger Division investigated. This incident was the first officer-involved shooting in Electra since November 2001. Crosby was not named in the Texas Custodial Deaths Report on Jan. 30, 2016. | timesrecordnews.com | ||
7148 | Eric Stuart Allen Jones | 27 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/16/2008 | Crescent City | CA | 41.8062247 | -124.0817447 | Del Norte County Sheriff's Office | After Jones failed to stop, Del Norte Sheriff's deputies pursued and pulled Jones over with their guns drawn. Jones and two dogs got out of the car. One of the deputies shot one of the dogs. Jones charged this deputy, and the deputy shot Jones twice, killing him. Later, it was revealed that Jones had bipolar disorder. | triplicate.com | ||
7146 | Derrick Jerome Jordan | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/15/2008 | Dayton | OH | 39.7320459 | -84.206902 | Dayton Police Department | Jordan was the passenger in a car stopped by police in a narcotics sting. Attempting to escape, the driver maneuvered the car and struck one of the officers. The officer fired into the car and struck unarmed Jordan in the head. He died two weeks later. A $2.5M wrongful death suit brought by the family was unsuccessful. | google.com | ||
7147 | Derek J. Coady | 43 | Male | European-American/White | 05/15/2008 | Portland | OR | 45.4890029 | -122.533677 | Portland Police Bureau | Shot himself as Portland and federal officers raided his house. | oregonlive.com | ||
7142 | James "Bam Bam" Stewart | 36 | Male | European-American/White | 05/13/2008 | Denver | CO | 39.7442425 | -104.9761631 | Colorado Department of Corrections | A parole officer went check on a residence occupied by several parolees. When he arrived, he saw Stewart, who was wanted for several crimes. Stewart did not cooperate and eventually pulled a gun and was shot and killed. | denverda.org | ||
7143 | Samuel Om | 21 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 05/13/2008 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.0597779 | -118.2891026 | California Highway Patrol | Officers allege that they stopped Om for suspected drunk driving, then he got out of the car pointing a gun at them, and they shot him to death. | latimes.com | ||
7144 | Glenn Rose | 25 | Male | European-American/White | 05/13/2008 | Covina | CA | 34.0833241 | -117.8855229 | California Highway Patrol | Officers allege that Rose and his girlfriend had stolen a car and were fleeing in the vehicle, then found a truck and stole it, then drove it toward officers hiding behind another vehicle, who shot him to death. | latimes.com | ||
7145 | Jason Spoor | 27 | Male | European-American/White | 05/13/2008 | Portland | OR | 45.5261649 | -122.5697106 | Portland Police Bureau | Police were investigating a homicide. As they arrived, Spoor began to leave then went back inside and got a gun. Officers told him to drop it, but he continued toward them. | katu.com | ||
22707 | Name withheld by police | 47 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/13/2008 | Lexington | VA | 37.7669221 | -79.4543448 | Rockbridge County Sheriff's Office, Virginia State Police | A deputy noticed a vehicle stopped about 8:30 a.m. in the northbound lane of U.S. 11. The car, a 1994 Nissan, occupied by a lone man, switched into the southbound lane when the deputy approached. The driver of the Nissan ignored the patrol car's police lights and fled at speeds approaching 75 mph. Deputies near the U.S. 60 interchange used "stop sticks" to blow out the tires on the Nissan. Once the Nissan was disabled, police said, the driver pulled the car onto the emergency shoulder on the Maury River bridge. He got out, ran to the railing and jumped over the side. He fell approximately 54 feet, landed on his back and was killed. | google.com | ||
7134 | Suavae R. Rouser | 12 | Female | Race unspecified | 05/12/2008 | Kansas City | MO | 39.0845295 | -94.5509867 | Kansas City Police Department | Randy A. Ralstin was fleeing police when he killed Suavae R. Rouser and Tiffany A. Berry. He killed Willie J. Hill in 1999, also while fleeing police in a vehicle. | google.com | ||
7135 | Tiffany A. Berry | 33 | Female | Race unspecified | 05/12/2008 | Kansas City | MO | 39.0845295 | -94.5509867 | Kansas City Police Department | Randy A. Ralstin was fleeing police when he killed Suavae R. Rouser and Tiffany A. Berry. He killed Willie J. Hill in 1999, also while fleeing police in a vehicle. | google.com | ||
7136 | Gabriela Dawson | 20 | Female | African-American/Black | 05/12/2008 | Villa Park | IL | 41.8996795 | -87.9934614 | Villa Park Police Department | Gabriela Dawson was killed after crashing her 2008 Dodge Magnum into a tree during a police pursuit. Police said they were directed to a possible drunk driver leaving the White Hen at Sunset Drive and Addison Road. When the officer tried to pull Dawson over, she allegedly sped away. Police followed the car before Dawson lost control of the car at about 11:20 p.m. | chicagotribune.com | ||
7137 | Chris D. Burdon | 39 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/12/2008 | Tucson | AZ | 32.2503394 | -110.9779477 | Tucson Police Department | Burdon was apparently having some kind of crisis, either physical or emotional, and he fired a gun. He did not follow police orders. Police shot and killed him. | tucsoncitizen.com | ||
7138 | K.C. Battle | 67 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/12/2008 | Jackson | MS | 32.3414295 | -90.2148263 | Hinds County Sheriff's Office | Curtney Gayten was holding his 3-week old daughter under water in a pond when authorities arrived. Witnesses said a deputy ordered Gayten to release the child, but Gayten pointed a gun at the deputy, who opened fire. Gayten died at the scene. The baby was taken to the hospital in critical condition; she died in November 2008 from injuries sustained in the incident. | msnewsnow.com | ||
7139 | Douglas P. Kelley | 40 | Male | European-American/White | 05/12/2008 | Indian Township | ME | 45.2402753 | -67.5775024 | Passamaquoddy/Indian Township Tribal Police Department, Passamaquoddy Tribal Warden Service | Drunk, angry and suicidal, Kelley went to his ex-girlfriend's house, and pulled a gun on her. He left but parked nearby and fired the weapon. Police responded, Kelley pointed his gun at officers and they shot and killed him. | maine.gov | ||
7140 | Joseph Arres | 36 | Male | Native American/Alaskan | 05/12/2008 | Hemet | CA | 33.7808325 | -116.9009488 | Riverside County Sheriff's Department | Tamara Angela Hurtado and Joseph Arres, members of the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians, Soboba Reservation, California, were killed in a shootout with police. The two were killed during a gun battle that began when deputies responded to reports that they were firing at a checkpoint at the reservations main entrance. | latimes.com | ||
7141 | Tamara Angela Hurtado | 30 | Female | Native American/Alaskan | 05/12/2008 | Hemet | CA | 33.7808325 | -116.9009488 | Riverside County Sheriff's Department | Tamara Angela Hurtado and Joseph Arres, members of the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians, Soboba Reservation, California, were killed in a shootout with police. The two were killed during a gun battle that began when deputies responded to reports that they were firing at a checkpoint at the reservations main entrance. | latimes.com | ||
7130 | Noe Ortiz | 20 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/11/2008 | Columbus | OH | 39.9693803 | -83.1116479 | Franklin County Sheriff's Office | Possibly undocumented immigrants Noe and Oranelio Ortiz were killed when they crashed during a police chase. | google.com | ||
7131 | Oranelio Ortiz | 21 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/11/2008 | Columbus | OH | 39.9693803 | -83.1116479 | Franklin County Sheriff's Office | Possibly undocumented immigrants Noe and Oranelio Ortiz were killed when they crashed during a police chase. | google.com | ||
7132 | LeRoy Goodwin | 21 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/11/2008 | Omaha | NE | 41.2995563 | -95.9565549 | Omaha Police Department | Police said uniformed officers Jarvis Duncan and Randy Szemplenski were working off duty at a north Omaha BP gas station, where 50-60 people gathered in the parking after an argument broke out between Leroy Goodwin and another man at about 2:30 a.m. The officers reportedly used mace to break up the crowd. Goodwin allegedly pulled a gun and fired at the other man, prompting Duncan to shoot Goodwin. Goodwin died at a hospital. | fox42kptm.com | ||
7133 | Michael Byoune | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/11/2008 | Inglewood | CA | 33.9600339 | -118.3256504 | Inglewood Police Department | Officers allege that they heard gunshots and Byoune getting into a car that then drove toward them, when officers shot the deceased who was unarmed. No weapons were found. | latimes.com | ||
23146 | Rashuwn Jerell Harless aka Rashawn Harless | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/11/2008 | Huntington | WV | 38.4185025 | -82.432432 | Marshall University Police Department, Huntington Police Department | According to police, Marshall University and city officers followed Rashuwn Jerelle Harless from a gas station at 6th Avenue and Hal Greer Boulevard after customers reported he was carrying a handgun at 4:43 p.m. Police said the officers chased Harless south on 15th Street toward the railroad tracks, where Harless hid behind a dumpster at the dead end. Harless allegedly shot at police, and Marshall University officers Aaron Nida and Greg Slone shot and killed him. | herald-dispatch.com | ||
19756 | Austin Cromer | 19 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/10/2008 | East Bernstadt | KY | 37.2218923 | -84.1716188 | Kentucky State Police | Austin Cromer died after falling over a cliff while allegedly running away from police. | thetimestribune.com | ||
7129 | Rodney A. Jones | 44 | Male | European-American/White | 05/09/2008 | Kansas City | MO | 39.045451 | -94.459054 | Kansas City Police Department | Police went to Jones' house on a report of an intoxicated man causing a disturbance. Jones opened the door and pointed a gun at the police officer. The officer fired. | kansascity.com | ||
21932 | James Isaac Rittenburg | 36 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/09/2008 | Willingboro | NJ | 40.0532245 | -74.8921047 | Willingboro Township Police Department | James Isaac Rittenburg met his ex-girlfriend at Ruby Tuesday in Willingboro about 10:30 p.m. The woman agreed to leave the restaurant with Rittenburg and got into his car, but then Rittenburg allegedly pulled out a gun and drove away with the woman in the car against her will. She eventually convinced Rittenburg to return, got out of the car and called police. Police found Rittenburg behind the restaurant and as police approached, he shot and killed himself. | www.nj.com | ||
22367 | Richard J. Scott | 36 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/09/2008 | Fort Wayne | IN | 41.1045482 | -85.1015632 | Fort Wayne Police Department | Richard J. Scott's wife was found partially bound, and Scott led police on a car chase before fatally shooting himself in the head with a 9mm semiautomatic pistol, police said. | google.com | ||
7127 | Terry Davis | 26 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/08/2008 | Kansas City | MO | 39.0782994 | -94.5340018 | Kansas City Police Department | Davis was the passenger in a stolen car when police officers approached the vehicle. The driver drove off and Davis jumped out the car to make a flee-attempt on foot. A police officer caught up with him in a field near East 26th Street and Jackson Avenue. The officer testified that Terry pointed a gun at him, and he had no choice but to shoot and kill him. | kmbc.com | ||
7128 | Eli Morillo | 26 | Male | Native American/Alaskan | 05/08/2008 | Banning | CA | 33.8546794 | -116.8504456 | Riverside County Sheriff's Department | Soboba tribal member Eli Morillo was killed early on the morning of May 8, 2008, after he allegedly refused to put down an AR-15 assault rifle he was brandishing at the deputies. | myvalleynews.com | ||
22706 | Christopher W. Bacome | 29 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/08/2008 | Portsmouth | VA | 36.8744636 | -76.3956354 | Portsmouth Police Department | Police were called by a family member who feared Bacome was going to kill himself. When officers arrived at an apartment at the Westwind Apartments, someone told them Bacome was locked inside a bathroom, and there was a lot of blood on the floor, police said. When police tried to get inside the bathroom, Bacome came out with a knife. He allegedly lunged at an officer with the knife and was shot and killed. | hamptonroads.com | ||
7125 | Glen Powell | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 05/07/2008 | St. Petersburg | FL | 27.7722897 | -82.6410063 | Pinellas County Sheriff's Office | A heavily armed respondent in a divorce proceeding, as well as reportedly involved in an anti-government/militia organization, Powell attempted to shoot his way past the security checkpoint of a courthouse. Two county deputies working as bailiffs quickly fired at him 11 times, fatally striking him with six bullets. Powell managed to fire twice without result. | googleusercontent.com | ||
7126 | Rachel Hoffman | 23 | Female | European-American/White | 05/07/2008 | Tallahassee | FL | 30.5608918 | -84.2196357 | Tallahassee Police Department | Hoffman was pressed into service as a police "informant" (actually as an undercover agent) to avoid prosecution for drug charges. Without training or experience Hoffman was armed with a handgun and instructed to make a $13K drug buy. In the best case she would have been in mortal danger during the buy-bust operation. In fact she was murdered by the targets. The state legislature passed a law forbidding future such operations; her family filed a wrongful death suit and were awarded $2.4M. | wikipedia.org | ||
20321 | Tony Bromley | 40 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/07/2008 | Corry | PA | 41.924392 | -79.638244 | Corry Police Department | Corry police surrounded the house after Michelle Bromley called 911 and said Tony Bromley had forced his way in and held a knife to her neck. Michelle Bromley fled the house. Tony Bromley refused to exit when Corry police and members of the Erie SWAT team arrived, and after police fired tear gas into the house. Bromley's body was found in a bedroom, with a shotgun beside him, police said. | google.com | ||
7121 | James S. Wilson | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/06/2008 | West Alton | MO | 38.8617908 | -90.2225634 | St. Charles County Sheriff's Office | James S. Wilson died after a deputy used a Taser to subdue him. The deputy had responded to the Piasa Pantry and reportedly saw Wilson hitting his sister outside the store when he arrived at about 9:15 p.m. The deputy told Wilson to stop and lie down, but he allegedly verbally threatened and lunged at the deputy. The deputy Tasered Wilson, who lost consciousness and died a short time later. Wilson's family disagreed with the sheriff department's version of what happened, and that the deputy shot Wilson a second time with the Taser after he was already on the ground. In 2014, the county agreed to pay $91,000 to settle a lawsuit with Wilson's mother. | stltoday.com | ||
7122 | Aaren Gwinn | 21 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/06/2008 | North Chicago | IL | 42.3323246 | -87.8448515 | North Chicago Police Department | An officer shot and killed Aaren Gwinn when he allegedly drove a car at police. Two unmarked police cars stopped a 2008 Pontiac Grand Prix at about 1:55 p.m. after police got a tip that the car contained drugs. Gwinn, a passenger, allegedly got into the driver's seat and began driving off after the officers ordered the driver out. Witnesses said police shot Gwinn seven or eight times. The city later paid $1 million to Gwinn's estate. | chicagotribune.com | ||
7123 | Lary Labensky | 44 | Male | European-American/White | 05/06/2008 | Dayton | OH | 39.8083244 | -84.2488536 | Dayton Police Department, Montgomery County Sheriff's Office | Labensky is said to have threatened officers by putting his car into reverse after fleeing from a traffic stop. A brief chase ended in a residential back yard. He was otherwise unarmed. Police initially named him as a robbery suspect but found and charged someone else for those crimes. | whio.com | ||
7124 | Quinton Brasco Watkins | 29 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/06/2008 | Decatur | AL | 34.60675 | -86.9802831 | Decatur Police Department | Quinton Brasco Watkins was killed when he crashed during a police chase. | blog.al.com | ||
20320 | Justin James Jackson | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/06/2008 | Pittsburgh | PA | 40.4185165 | -79.9882065 | Pittsburgh Bureau of Police | Pittsburgh police officers Christian Sciulli and Justin Simoni fatally shot Justin Jackson along Arlington Avenue in Mount Oliver. Police said Jackson had a gun in his hands and that Officer Sciulli released his dog, Ulf, to subdue him. Jackson shot the dog dead, and Sciulli shot and killed him. | post-gazette.com | ||
22366 | Paul J. Swider | 29 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/06/2008 | Hammond | IN | 41.5792179 | -87.48054 | Hammond Police Department | Police were called to a Skyway Shell Station because Paul Swider was harassing and attacking customers and employees. Swider appeared "extremely intoxicated." The officers fought with Swider, but he did not comply with officers' orders. An officer shocked Swider. The coroner's report found that Swider died of pneumonia, a blood infection, blood clotting, internal bleeding and organ failure. | nwitimes.com | ||
7120 | Steve G. Hembreiker | 24 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/05/2008 | Blackfoot | ID | 43.1985428 | -112.3486256 | Blackfoot Police Department | Hembreiker jumped from his moving pickup and led police on a short foot chase before he was shot and killed during a struggle with an officer over the handgun he was carrying. He was under surveillance for drug activity. | google.com | ||
7115 | Donald Hamilton | 31 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/04/2008 | Buckhead | GA | 33.8539269 | -84.3581276 | Atlanta Police Department | Police were called to Peachtree Road, where officers confirmed reports of a man walking down the street waving a gun, according to police. When officers ordered the man to drop the weapon, he instead turned and pointed the handgun at them, shot they shot and killed him. | google.com | ||
7116 | Michael William Mattingly | 17 | Male | European-American/White | 05/04/2008 | San Antonio | TX | 29.416997 | -98.478713 | San Antonio Police Department | Mattingly lost control of his vehicle and crashed as he evaded arrest in relation to traffic violations. | google.com | ||
7117 | Walter Earl Inzer | 81 | Male | European-American/White | 05/04/2008 | Reno | NV | 39.5248915 | -119.8089984 | Reno Police Department | According to police report, an intoxicated Walter Inzer was being transported to Washoe County Jail. Upon arrival, he was found dead in the paddy wagon. | google.com | ||
7118 | Harold Lee Austin Jr. | 30 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/04/2008 | Greenville | TX | 33.1327113 | -96.0290153 | Texas Department of Public Safety | Trooper Carl "Bubba" Goodwin pulled over an 18-wheeler driven by Clifton Austin. Harold Austin Jr., named in multiple warrants, left the sleeper area and approached Trooper Goodwin with a knife. Trooper Goodwin fatally shot him. The Texas Ranger Division investigated. | heraldbanner.com | ||
7119 | Joseph Dean Kubat | 21 | Male | European-American/White | 05/04/2008 | St. Paul | MN | 44.9891398 | -93.0847872 | St. Paul Police Department | According to the Star Tribune, responding to a complaint of harassment at a YMCA, officers tried to arrest Smith, who was mentally ill, disabled and acting out. Smith asphyxiated after officers tased, handcuffed and restrained him. The city's $3 million settlement with the family was the largest of its kind. | jonesreport.com | ||
7112 | William C. "Curt" Gibb | 46 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/03/2008 | Gering | NE | 41.822103 | -103.651611 | Scotts Bluff County Sheriff's Office | Deputy Troy Brown and a second deputy went to the Circle S Lodge at about 2:30 p.m. to arrest William C. "Curt" Gibb for criminal mischief and violating a protection order. They also had a search warrant, police said, and entered the room. Shots were reportedly fired, and Brown was struck in the arm. The deputies retreated and called other agencies to assist. When additional officers arrived, they went into the room and found Gibb with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Gibb died at a hospital a day later. Gibb's girlfriend, who was in the room, was arrested for obstruction of justice and harboring a fugitive, though the charges were later dropped. | starherald.com | ||
7113 | Howard Cain | 33 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/03/2008 | Philadelphia | PA | 40.0221088 | -75.116096 | Philadelphia Police Department | Cain was one of three suspects, described as cold career criminals, sought in the armed robbery of a branch bank. As police closed in, ringleader Cain murdered one of them with an assault rifle. The three switched vehicles and were quickly re-discovered. Cain's weapon jammed and he was shot to death. The other two were caught before the policeman's funeral. | 6abc.com | ||
7114 | Albert Kittrell | 48 | Male | European-American/White | 05/03/2008 | Portland | ME | 43.6543371 | -70.2798214 | Portland Police Department | After a traffic stop, Kittrell drove off with officers in and hanging off the car. One shot and killed him. | maine.gov | ||
19059 | Derrick R. Buras | 20 | Male | European-American/White | 05/03/2008 | Holly Hill | SC | 33.3025249 | -80.4080268 | Orangeburg County Sheriff's Office | Orangeburg County Deputy William Howell Jr. was shot and killed while investigating a domestic disturbance. As Buras fled, his wife, Tiffany Buras, ran him over and killed him. She was not prosecuted. | thetandd.com | ||
21186 | Name withheld by police | 47 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/03/2008 | Detroit | MI | 42.4152909 | -83.2319969 | Detroit Police Department | Police responded to a report of a woman being beaten in a car at 12:45 a.m. near Seven Mile and Outer Drive. When officers approached the car, a woman got out and the driver sped off, police said. Officers chased the man until he hit a curb, was ejected from the car and died. | google.com | ||
7110 | Marco Gomez | 31 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/02/2008 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.019401 | -118.2512307 | Los Angeles Police Department | Officers responded to a call regarding gun shots. They say that Gomez confronted them with a gun when they came inside his house without his permission, and shot him to death. They couldn't confirm whether he had shot his weapon. | latimes.com | ||
7111 | Refugio Cruz-Fuentes | 28 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/02/2008 | Bend | OR | 44.0677039 | -121.2631048 | Bend Police Department | Cruz-Fuentes pulled up in the driveway of a house under narcotics surveillance around midnight. As local officers approached the car to apprehend the three, Cruz-Fuentes was fatally shot. The shooter described him as apparently reaching for a weapon, although no weapon was found. The officer had fired eleven shots. | bendbulletin.com | ||
7107 | Brandon Wayne Robertson | 37 | Male | European-American/White | 05/01/2008 | Linden | TX | 33.0268031 | -94.4246228 | Texas Department of Public Safety | Robertson, a meth-dealer, was released on bond from Cherokee County Jail for drug possession and being a felon in possession of a concealed weapon. Trooper James Burns conducted a traffic stop on Robertson's vehicle. Robertson fatally shot Trooper Burns, then drove away. As law enforcement closed in, Robertson fatally shot himself in rural Cass County. He was a former peace officer. | usatoday.com | ||
7108 | Frederick Dean Wright | 51 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/01/2008 | Knoxville | IA | 41.3182715 | -93.1040366 | Knoxville Police Department, Marion County Sheriff's Office | Knoxville police Lt. Darrell Brown tried to stop a Dodge Dynasty driven by Frederick Dean Wright at about 2:30 p.m. for having a registration sticker on the wrong license plate. The ensuing pursuit ended about 3 miles later when the Dodge got a flat tire. Brown told Wright to exit the car. Wright allegedly pointed a revolver at Brown, who fired his own gun as Wright got out and and ran off. Other officers joined in the foot chase, which ended when Knoxville Lt. Randy Emal and Marion County deputy Brian Bigaouette confronted Wright in a yard. According to police, Wright refused to drop his gun, and the officers opened fire. Wright was pronounced dead at a hospital. Police said they later found an explosive device in the car and that bomb technicians from the state fire marshal's office defused it. | globegazette.com | ||
7109 | Terry Adam Boone | 20 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/01/2008 | Gastonia | NC | 35.2375989 | -81.192638 | Gastonia Police Department | Local officials deemed the fatal shooting of Boone justified even though his gunshot wound was in the back of the head. The family's wrongful death suit brought out troubling inconsistencies in police versions of events; also the shooter was fired from the force for felonious misconduct. | journalnow.com | ||
7106 | Paul Vang | 47 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 04/30/2008 | Hickory | NC | 35.702616 | -81.291871 | Hickory Police Department | Local police found Vang in a shopping center parking lot in a 10 p.m. confrontation with his wife and her male friend. Vang had been married for 22 years and had five children. Vang shot the friend in the head and stood threateningly over his wife as police approached. He was shot to death. The friend emerged in serious condition; Vang's wife had leg wounds only. | wsoctv.com | ||
20319 | Bobby Lee Moser | 47 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/30/2008 | Centre | PA | 40.4426086 | -76.050286 | Pennsylvania State Police | Police had come to arrest officer Bobby Lee Moser for repeatedly raping a girl over 10 years when he shot and killed himself. | google.com | ||
7104 | Stanley T. Musial | 59 | Male | European-American/White | 04/29/2008 | Yucca Valley | CA | 34.2632692 | -116.44341 | San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office | SWAT officer Timothy Nichols shot Stan Musial, who held two guns and shot at officers during a three-hour standoff in Landers. | hidesertstar.com | ||
7105 | Roland Vincent Carnaby | 52 | Male | Middle Eastern | 04/29/2008 | Houston | TX | 29.7650166 | -95.4576243 | Houston Police Department | Carnaby, who claimed to be a CIA agent, fled officers after a traffic stop. When he ran out of gas, Officer Cicil Foster broke his windshield with a baton. Carnaby got out of the vehicle, bending over to grab his cell phone. Foster shot him fatally in the back. Carnaby, once a CIA informant, lied about or imagined so many of his later exploits that the actual nature of his life is unclear. | houstonpress.com | ||
7102 | Richard Salcido | 71 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/28/2008 | Taft | CA | 35.132721 | -119.4689434 | Taft Police Department, Kern County Sheriff's Office | A Taft police officer shot Richard Salcido when he fired at officers. | bakersfield.com | ||
7103 | Robert Gerald Eaton | 40 | Male | European-American/White | 04/28/2008 | Merced | CA | 37.3079831 | -120.4822815 | Merced County Sheriff's Office | Deputies shot and killed Robert Gerald Eaton after he entered a courtroom and charged at Judge Brian McCabe with two butcher knives. | google.com | ||
23099 | Jermaine Ward | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/28/2008 | Milan | TN | 35.9202372 | -88.7582846 | Milan Police Department | Angalena Choat, 29, and Jermaine Ward, 28, were traveling when Milan police stopped them. Ward was charged with simple marijuana possession, resisting arrest and tampering with evidence. Ward was allegedly chewing something that looked like marijuana. Choat was also arrested for marijuana and cited for having a broken tail light. Ward died after being tasered. Choat said he was tasered repeatedly while handcuffed. | google.com | ||
7099 | Maria de Jesus Medina Sanchez | 21 | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 04/27/2008 | Calexico | CA | 32.6790197 | -115.6714373 | U.S. Border Patrol | Maria de Jesus Medina Sanchez was killed when the Suburban she was riding in crashed while being followed by a US Border Patrol vehicle. | ivpressonline.com | ||
7100 | Joseph S. Lumpkin | 32 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/27/2008 | Miami | FL | 25.559858 | -80.380622 | Miami-Dade Police Department | Shoplifting suspect Lumpkin was chased away from a major shopping mall and into a residential neighborhood. The officer and Lumpkin reportedly struggled for the officer's weapon, and Lumpkin was fatally shot. His death remained an open investigation for over three years because the lead detective retired before he finished the relevant paperwork. | wctv.tv | ||
7101 | Luis Sanchez Santos | 27 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/27/2008 | Greenville | SC | 34.8477687 | -82.4021951 | U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation | Honduran immigrant Sanchez Santos was one of two men who robbed three people at gunpoint in front of the Peace Center in Greenville. One of those three victims was an FBI agent, who discharged her weapon at the fleeing robbers. Nine days later the body of Sanchez Santos was discovered in woods with a gunshot wound. A second suspect was found and confirmed that they'd committed the robbery together, Sanchez Santos had been mortally wounded, and he'd hidden the body of his accomplice. | wspa.com | ||
7095 | Name withheld by police | Male | Race unspecified | 04/26/2008 | Thrift | GA | 32.6998987 | -82.0555962 | Jenkins County Sheriff's Office | Deputies were dispatched to a home in the Thrift community where an accidental shooting had been reported, police said. When the deputies arrived, the man assaulted the officer, who then shot and killed him. | google.com | |||
7096 | Antoine Covington | 18 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/26/2008 | Chicago | IL | 41.5988281 | -87.6922069 | Markham Police Department | Police shot and killed Antoine Covington and wounded another person. At about 10:30 p.m., officers responded to a 911 call about two men with guns inside a Dollar Tree in Canterbury Shopping Center. When officers arrived, two men were running out of the store, and one allegedly opened fire, so the officers fired back. | chicagotribune.com | ||
7097 | Rigoberto Lopez | 24 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/26/2008 | Chicago | IL | 41.7212407 | -87.535288 | Chicago Police Department | Police shot and killed Rigoberto Lopez after he allegedly shot at them during a hostage standoff at an auto shop on the Southeast Side. Police said they got a call at about 7:50 p.m. regarding a possible robbery. Lopez reportedly refused to come out of the store and took three people hostage. At about 9:30 p.m, Lopez allegedly fired several shots at officers, who fired back. Lopez died at the scene. The hostages were physically unharmed. | chicagotribune.com | ||
7098 | Andrew Gonzalez | 21 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/26/2008 | Oakland | CA | 37.7745187 | -122.233691 | Oakland Police Department | Officers shot Andrew Marcus Gonzalez, 21, after he crashed his carjacked car into a police cruiser, then tried to flee. | sfgate.com | ||
7093 | Brett D. Holloway | 37 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/25/2008 | St. Louis | MO | 38.6236763 | -90.2886279 | St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department | An off-duty officer working security shot and killed Brett D. Holloway when he allegedly pointed a gun at him inside a Denny's. According to police, Holloway attempted to rob the restaurant at around 1 a.m. and was confronted by the officer. The officer reportedly drew his service weapon and fired several times, striking Holloway, who police said fell behind the counter still armed. The officer told Holloway to drop his gun, and fired several more shots when he allegedly refused. | stltoday.com | ||
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