Police were investigating a mugging when they were involved in a chase with a vehicle that was possibly involved. During the chase, occupants of the vehicle allegedly shot at the police. When the chase ended, the driver got out of the vehicle and was shot and killed.

Sgt. Scott Musgraves, Detective Robert Newman, Officer Jason Walden and Officer Richard Ribeiro shot Anthony Joseph Barton several times after a tip led police to a garage in which Barton was hiding.

Mohammed Shuaibi and Ahmad Shaban were killed when off-duty officer Jason Casper, 24, crashed into their car while DUI. Casper, whose BAC was reportedly more than twice the legal limit, was going about 80 mph when he ran a red light, striking the vehicle carrying Shuaibi and Shaban, killing the teens and injuring two other people. Casper was stripped of his badge, pleaded guilty to reckless homicide and aggravated drunken driving, and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

According to officials, Faustino Coronado shot himself following a police chase and convenience store robbery.

According to reports, officer Derrick Hayes and other officers responded to a report about a cell phone stolen at gunpoint in a McDonald's parking lot around 9:30 p.m. The officers saw a man who fit the description. When they approached him, the man ran and Hayes chased him for a quarter miles before Hayes caught up to him and brought him down in a backyard. The man shot Hayes twice in the leg and once in the abdomen. Hayes returned fire, killing the 20-year-old man.

Jesse Robertson was killed when a vehicle driven by a man allegedly fleeing police crashed into his Chevrolet Astro van in Gardena.

Timothy Lynn Galbraith reportedly led police on a high-speed chase through Ingham and Clinton counties before taking refuge inside K's Market in Laingsburg. Deputy Michael Lynch shot Galbraith inside the store. Galbraith had allegedly fired numerous times upon Lynch during the pursuit. According to police, Galbraith was a federal fugitive.

Beaver was the suspect of a pawn-shop break-in, caught leaving the scene in his white pickup around midnight. He was fatally shot during a traffic stop by two county officers. Both officers were later indicted by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the deputy for involuntary manslaughter, the captain for tampering with evidence, making false statements and writings, and violation of his oath of office. The captain had planted a knife.

Facing a hostage situation, Las Vegas SWAT officers enter a home at 955 East Twain Avenue to find Daniel Vincent Kloskowski, 33, with a knife to his mother's throat. An officer fires a single deadly shot.

Morrison, armed with a handgun, threatened himself to his wife at their house. She left and called for help. Responding officers found that Morrison had locked himself into the house. SWAT officers entered the house and found Morrison dead of a gunshot wound to the head.

Kenneth Lillard was pulled over by police for not having his seatbelt on, got out of his car and ran. He collapsed and died as he was being handcuffed.

Three officers responded at around 7:30 a.m. to a 911 call about a suicidal man. The officers said they spoke with Arman Zilic for roughly five minutes, during which Zilic held a sawed-off shotgun on his lap and snorted cocaine. Zilic allegedly aimed the gun toward officer Lincoln Schmeiser, who had his weapon drawn. Schmeiser fired two shots, fatally wounding Zilic.

Deputies James R. Cavitt, Gregory Young, Demonte Gehring and Daniel Thomas responded to a call requesting medical attention for Casey, schizophrenic. The deputies shot Casey repeatedly with stun guns. They then hogtied him and cocked back his head, breaking his neck. Casey died. His mother was awarded $3 million by a Harris County jury.

A 49-year-old man reportedly committed suicide during a brief standoff with police. Three officers responded to a report of a suicidal person at about 9:45 a.m. The officers went up a stairwell to the second floor at the rear of the building and found a man sitting on the floor beside an open door to an elevator. Police said the officers remained in the stairwell about 15 feet away and tried to talk to they man while they waited for a negotiator. After about two minutes, the man reportedly shot himself.

Border Patrol agents were tracking a cadre of undocumented immigrants. At the time, police said they believed Ramirez was running drugs.

Andrews was killed when his pickup truck was struck and knocked off the road by an alleged drunken driver being chased by police.

William Peterson was shot and killed when he lunged at police with a scalpel in a basement.

Three officers and a sergeant, all in plainclothes, pursued Smalls into the courtyard of a housing project. Initial reports did not explain why. They fired 10 rounds at him, one of which hit an artery in his leg. He bled to death. A gun was found near his body.

William Henkle was shot and killed by police after he ignored pepper spray and officers' commands and attacked a state trooper with a chainsaw, police said. At least 13 bullets struck him after state and local officers who had surrounded him opened fire. Trooper Michael Hartzel was treated for minor injuries at a hospital and released.

Dayton police officer Michael Blake shot and killed his wife Niema during a violent argument in their north Euclid home. Blake argued he acted in self-defense, and a grand jury refused to indict him.

Officer Joey Vidal tried to stop a 1993 Jeep Cherokee, suspecting that the driver was drunk. Schlentz, the driver, led Officer Vidal on a chase. Schlentz later lost control of the Jeep and crashed into a house. He died on impact and wounded his brother, Caleb. Alcohol was found in the Jeep.

Ronald Wade was killed in a shootout with police near the small community of Lenox. They were chasing him for allegedly robbing banks.

Shirley Andrews died after being tasered six times by police. Andrews was unarmed at the time. She passed away eight days after the shocks. The coroner said the death was natural and said, "There cannot be a delayed death due to Taser usage."

Lopez, a Mexican citizen, reportedly stole a white Chevrolet Suburban in North Brownsville. He drove to Brownsville and Matamoros International Bridge, nearly ramming U.S. Customs agents as they tried to prevent the Suburban from entering Mexico. Customs agents and BPD officers fatally shot Lopez. Law enforcement linked Lopez to a Gulf Cartel-related car theft ring. BPD Detective Sam Lico and Officer Rolando Trujillo, and Agents Rudolph Hernandez, Gustavo DeLeon and Jaime Vidal were no-billed.

A Buena Vista Sheriff's deputy was transporting Jerry Wayne Ruley to the Rockbridge County Jail. After reaching the jail, the deputy got out of his car with Ruley and was unlocking a door to the jail. Ruley, who was handcuffed, tried to grab the deputy's handgun and a fight began. Other deputies got involved in the struggle after someone saw the incident and ran for help. At one point, Ruley had the gun, and deputies were trying to wrestle it away from him. During the struggle, the gun discharged, killing Ruley.

John Clark Alexander reportedly shot and killed his estranged wife and her friend in Town and Country, then led police on a high-speed chase before he was killed in a crash at Highway 40 and Lindbergh Boulevard.

Moi was acting irrationally on a freeway median. The trooper first tried a Taser, but when it didn't work, shot and killed Moi. A jury found he acted unreasonably because he shot the unarmed Moi in the back of the head as he ran away.

Evans was shot by a Las Cruces police officer and a New Mexico State Police officer following an hour-long standoff after an attempted Santa Teresa bank robbery.

Sgt. Jeremy Newchurch was shot and killed when Sgt. Byron Parker's gun fired while Parker allegedly struggled with a narcotics suspect on Georgette Street.

Officers said Keith Rogers was trying to flee police when he crashed his truck into a car at an intersection, causing the car to flip several times, burst into flames, and hit a home that also caught fire. Both occupants of the car, Monzell Debrow and Clifton Davis, were killed.

David Levi Evans Jr. died after deputies tasered him while trying to arrest him during a drug raid.

According to police, several witnesses, including a state trooper involved in the accident, said the Honda Civic driven by Anthony Kloth was going between 50 and 65 mph when he lost control on the damp roadway, crossed into the southbound lanes and struck a GMC Yukon. The Civic then began to slide sideways, striking a 1998 Saturn SL1 before going airborne and hitting a 1996 Subaru Outback in the rear at around 8:40 p.m. The posted speed limit along all three thoroughfares was 40 mph. Killed in the crash were Kloth and Carol Davidson.

Deputies shot Rodolfo Inzunza when he allegedly refused to drop a handgun and a knife.

Cedric Djuan Reed and Kadeem Howell were both killed when riding in a stolen car being pursued by police. They ran at least two red lights and struck another car, which burst into flames; their vehicle struck a pole, a fire hydrant, and flipped several times. The 17-year-old driver was caught and charged with two counts of vehicular homicide among other counts.

Intercepted burglary suspect Towns was pepper-sprayed and then tasered three times in a struggle with local police. He admitted ingesting some cocaine earlier in the evening, developed breathing trouble, then died shortly afterward.

Trooper pulled over some people and one pulled a gun, police said. Uncertain whether that was the person who was killed.

According to HPD, Jefferson tried to rob an apartment, then shot a man who tried to prevent his escape. He then tried to steal a vehicle, shooting another man in the process. Officer G.P. Countie confronted him as he stole a second vehicle, taking a hostage into the vehicle with him. After Jefferson shot at his hostage, Officer Countie shot Jefferson fatally in the face. The hostage, shot in the ear, survived.

Mendoza crashed his vehicle into the jail and was shot after assaulting two officers.

Officers responded to a reported assault and break-in, which led to a three-hour standoff with Childress. Childress ended up shot dead although he was armed only with a pair of binoculars.

Priscilla Greenhouse was killed in a crash after a high speed chase that began when Greenhouse fled from deputies attempting to pull her over for reckless driving.

Garczynski, suicidal and distraught about his divorce proceedings, encountered police in the early morning hours in his SUV and appeared to challenge officers deliberately with a weapon. He was shot to death with about 30 rounds from five officers.

Deputy Jose "Tony" Curet was shot in the arm as he tried to serve warrants at the home of 19-year-old Hector Manuel Bello Jr. Curet entered the rowhouse and told Bello, who was coming down the stairs, that he wanted to talk with him. Bello went upstairs, returned with two handguns and opened fire on Curet. A bullet hit the deputy in the arm, and he went down. Curet retreated and pushed Bello's mother out of the way. When Bello kept firing, Curet shot and killed the man.

Bart Ross apparently killed a judge's husband and mother in Lefkow, Illinois, before shooting and killing himself when he was pulled over for malfunctioning brake lights.

An unidentified man reportedly killed himself after investigators from the police department and Humane Society arrived at his house to check on his dogs. Officers went to the man's house at about noon and he told them he had 15 dogs in the house. According to police, the man appeared calm and did not act distraught. Police said that shortly after 1 p.m., the man said he was going inside to check on his dogs, went upstairs, got a pistol and shot himself in the head. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.

With a history of mental health issues and misbehavior toward the police, Woolfolk reacted badly to deputies serving him a court order for psychiatric evaluation. The sheriff wasn't certain about the number of times they tasered him. After they wrestled him to the ground, he became unresponsive and stopped breathing.

Karnuth tried to kill himself with a knife. His parents called for help. Officers J. Rhinehart and J. Pagola followed a blood trail to a bedroom where Karnuth sat bleeding. The officers told Karnuth that EMTs had arrived. Karnuth told the officers that he would kill himself or make them do it for him. Karnuth, armed with a knife, approached the officers. The officer backed into a wall. Officer Pagola shot Karnuth three times, killing him.

Dwayne Novak allegedly confronted two Portland officers and a Multnomah County Sheriff's Deputy with a knife on March 12. The police were called to a motor home in Scappoose by a 14-year old who had witnessed Novak assaulting her grandmother, Norma Murff, 74. Novak apparently killed Murff and was ransacking the house when the three officers all shot him (Oregonian, March 14-15, and PPB).

On a Sunday evening Rada's father called police to a domestic dispute at his house that had grown violent. Repeatedly he warned police that Rada was mentally ill and off his medications. Police arrived and confronted the unarmed sometime-bodybuilder in the front yard who refused to back down. Rada's fatal shooting was one of a string of similar incidents with mentally ill victims for which the Miami-Dade Police were criticized.

Officer Randy Reyna pursued Serrato by vehicle. In one version of the story, Officer Reyna ran Serrato off a road to end the high-speed chase. Serrato crashed. In the other, Officer Reyna negligently rammed Serrato, knocking his vehicle over an embankment. Whatever the case, Serrato died nine days later.

Two officers shot and killed Douglas Hahn when he allegedly advanced toward officers while making stabbing motions with two knives.

Ralph Fletcher Sr. died after allegedly swallowing drugs before a deputy searched his car during a traffic stop. According to police, the deputy stopped Fletcher on Inge Avenue in Garden City after observing what he believed to be a drug transaction. Fletcher cooperated and allowed the search, which turned up nothing police said. The deputy led Fletcher go and he went to a nearby the apartment on St. John Street, where a resident said he appeared to have a seizure while inside the vehicle. Several individuals reportedly carried Fletcher inside and called police when he stopped breathing. Fletcher died at a hospital. Police said they believed Fletcher swallowed cocaine to avoid arrest.

Melendez reportedly robbed the smoke shop on Second Street east of downtown around 3 p.m. Wednesday and fled on foot through the neighborhood on tribal land, authorities said. In a written statement, the tribe said Melendez was shot after threatening the officer with a knife in the back yard of a nearby home.

Deputies and emergency medical technicians went to a woman's home shortly after 7 p.m. to investigate a complaint from a relative in Maryland who was concerned she might commit suicide, police said. The woman agreed to let them take her to a medical facility for help. The woman asked to use the bathroom. When she got into the bathroom, she produced a Ruger 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and pointed the gun at the officer, who shot her three times, killing her.

Three deputies approached a Lexus SUV with two males smoking marijuana. When the driver refused to obey police orders and attempted to drive away, officer pursued him through a mobile home park, boxed him in, and fatally shot him. The passenger also sustained gunshot wounds. Police refused to disclose the driver's name.

Police found Jeremy Scott Glenn dead in an upstairs bedroom, after officers fired tear gas canisters into the home, police said. Officers had been seeking Glenn for several weeks to serve him with six arrest warrants, including two for trafficking in a controlled substance while armed.

Randall Allen King abducted his 9-month-old son, Landon R. King, in Harlan County and then killed the infant and himself while fleeing police on U.S. 23 in Pike County, state police said.

After peeling out from a stoplight ahead of an El Paso County sheriff's detective and crashing into a median. Adam George Lee was thrown from the sport utility vehicle he was driving and was dead when the officer reached him. The sheriff's office was targeting drunken drivers on St. Patrick's Day.

Charles L. Smith, 56, died after police said he raised a shotgun in the direction of state community corrections officers and sheriff's deputies who went to his home north of Shelton to arrest him on a probation violation.

County police responded to McGilton's home, where he came at them with a heavy metal pipe. Refusing to surrender the weapon, he was shot to death.

Donna McKee was killed when a vehicle fleeing police hit her car.

Leonardo Vega Gomez, 18, reported by the LA Times, died after being shot in Bell Gardens, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

According to GPD, Garland threatened himself, then officers, with a pistol. Officers fatally shot him.

Estrella took his child hostage and was shot and killed by a police sniper.

Stank died of two blasts from a 12-gauge shotgun outside a senior high school. He'd gone inside hoping for a job, came out upset that they couldn't help him, confronted a local police officer, and refused to drop his weapon, an air pistol.

NOPD officers, Scott Rodrigue and Joseph Waguespack Jr. shot and killed Jenard "Nordy" Thomas in front of his father when Thomas allegedly pulled a gun while fleeing.

Robert Podolsky died after being arrested for disorderly conduct at a bar. He apparently threatened officers with a bar stool before he was restrained.

According to DPD, Gibson resisted arrest when officers tried to arrest him for smoking a marijuana cigar in public. During the struggle, Gibson drew a .38-caliber derringer. He shot and wounded an officer. Officer John Roberts shot at Gibson three times, hitting him twice. Gibson died at the scene.

Cheyenne Lee died shortly after he was arrested on drug charges. Lee reportedly had a seizure at the Forrest County Jail and was transported to the hospital, where he went into cardiac arrest.

An officer shot Bradley J. Spiker several times when he allegedly reached for a 9 mm pistol from his waistband. At around 11:45 p.m., Spiker was reportedly acting unruly in the parking lot outside the Caseyville Inn, a bar on North 89th Street. According to police, officers had tried to subdue Spiker with a Taser before one officer opened fire, but weren't successful. Spiker was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Jacquez fled on foot following a hit-and-run. A police officer ordered him to stop. Jacquez reportedly turned and pointed a gun at the officer, who fired one shot. Jacquez died at a hospital later.

Henry Reeves was shot and killed when police came to his house to check on a suicidal man. When police asked him to show his hands, he pointed a shotgun at them and was shot and killed.

Officer Peter Grignon was investigating a hit-and-run. When he was talking to two teenagers, Travis Ballard shot and killed him before shooting and killing himself.

Officers of the West Texas Narcotics Enforcement Task Force tried to arrest Crider on drug-related charges outside of the Seattle Slew Saloon. An officer tried to handcuff Crider. Crider tried to stab the officer with a knife. The officer fatally shot him. Ranger Jess Malone investigated.

Naked Bobby Sherrod was walking down the street with his naked children when he attempted to break one child's neck, threatened to cut another's throat with scissors, and was shot and killed by Officer Dave Monson.

Officer Michael Davis shot and killed Christopher Archaleta when he allegedly got out of his car with a hand behind his back.

Police say they responded to a fight between Grinder and his girlfriend, but he was gone. Officers returned when Grinder was back near the house sitting in his car. Officers took cover when they saw Grinder had a shotgun. He got out of the car with the gun and officers ordered him to drop it. Instead he pointed it at them and was shot and killed by Officer James Manzo.

Jesus Manuel Montano was shot while barricaded in a Bellflower apartment complex surrounded by deputies.

Deputy Sean Pratt shot and killed Douglas Michael Good when Good allegedly pointed a handgun toward the officer at a Motel 6.

Deputies were sent to the vicinity of 128th Street East and Canyon Road to investigate reports of a man with a gun. They arrived to find Carter holding a rifle under his chin and complaining of a family problem. He eventually walked the 14 blocks home, talking of suicide and asking the deputies to shoot him. Instead, they tried to coax him to surrender, police said. At his house, Carter paced in and out of the door, shouting angrily. Then, he walked to within 25 yards of several deputies and pointed the rifle at them. Three deputies fired one shot each, striking Carter in the head, chest and abdomen. He died at the scene.

Around 3 p.m. a GMC Yukon passed unmarked police vehicles on Edison Highway, police said. Pursuing police cars caught up to the Yukon, boxing the vehicle in. The driver of the car allegedly attempted to escape by striking a police cruiser and two non-police vehicles. At least one officer fired on the Yukon, killing an unidentified man.

Hashond M. Dugger, 22, fled from a Richmond officer investigating a possible narcotics violation at the Blue Ridge Estates apartments, police said. The 2005 Buick LeSabre driven by Dugger sped at least two miles before plowing into the side of a 1997 Chevrolet driven by 57-year-old Cynthia T. Booker, killing her. Dugger was sentenced by Circuit Judge Richard D. Taylor to 10 years with seven suspended for involuntary manslaughter, and another five years with four suspended for felony attempting to elude police.

Hammock, using cocaine, tried to enter a Waste Management facility. Officer C.P. Birley tried to stop him. Hammock ran away, then punched the officer. The officer and a backup officer shot Hammock at least 17 times with stun guns, killing him. Tarrant County Medical Examiner Nizam Peerwani said that Hammock had used so much cocaine that he would have died even without being stunned.

The actions of officers involved in Julio Ayala's death while restrained with a "wrap" device were determined to be reasonable as investigators claimed Ayala was hard to control because he was naked and sweaty, seemed to have "superhuman strength" and was under the influence of drugs.

Officer Edward Ruiz shot and killed Frank Carrillo, who, according to police, was engaged in unspecified "criminal activity" during which he tried to ram an officer with a pickup truck.

Jacob Faust was stopped for a traffic violation. The officer involved in the shooting fired three times at Faust, after the driver reportedly reached behind his car's front seat and displayed a prop gun.

Melody Carolyn Wooldridge and Eusebio Michael Flores were killed when their Saturn coupe was hit head-on by a driver fleeing police in Mission Viejo.

An unidentified man jumped to his death from the Discovery Bridge in St. Charles after leading police on a two-mile foot chase.

An unidentified man was killed during an exchange of gunfire inside a pawnshop during a shootout among armed robbers, an off-duty Brookside Village police officer and the store manager, police said. The man who was killed was allegedly one of the robbers.

Detective Tony Morales said the incident began when an officer spotted a car with stolen license plates and the driver sped off. It ended in the apartment parking lot after the suspect pulled into a parking space. Two officers got out but Morales said that's when the suspect accelerated toward their patrol car. Fearing his partner would be crushed, Morales said Sgt. James Gallagher fired, killing Leyva.

Brooks was shot by officers responding to a reported robbery. The victim ran and reportedly pointed a gun at the officers involved. His father was killed during a robbery of a nearby Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1994.

Madeleine Youmans died from injuries sustained when her vehicle was hit from behind in the traffic that was forced to suddenly stop for the high speed chase collision that also killed Eric Hereford.

Deputy Douglas Riniker passed a pickup truck with four people inside at around 3:20 a.m. and believed he smelled ether coming from the vehicle. Riniker followed the truck, which accelerated to 75-80 mph. Riniker activated his lights and siren, and a 95 mph chase ensued. The driver, identified as Merle A. Shank, tried to turn right at an intersection and the truck crashed into the ditch. Katrina Starr Nelson was pinned under the truck and died from her injuries. Shank was convicted of vehicular homicide by attempting to elude authorities, vehicular homicide by reckless driving and nonconsensual termination of a pregnancy.

Daniel L. Shipley was shot and killed when he refused to lower a handgun he pointed at police, police said. Police had been called to a complaint about shot fired inside a building.

Yurish had broken into his estranged wife's residence and was holding a knife to her throat, when he was fatally shot by state troopers.

Kenneth Lewis died when his speeding motorcycle crashed after being chased by a deputy. The deputy said Lewis sped off after the officer turned on his lights and "bumped his siren a couple of times." He said he called off the chase after reaching 50 mph and came upon the crash scene shortly afterward.

Stehr was suffering from muscular dystrophy and under the influence of alcohol and drugs and was found dead after a two-hour standoff with police, police said. Officers responded after receiving a call that Rodney Stehr, 37, had assaulted his mother and forced her out of the home.

Deputies followed Everson for about a mile from the scene of his armed robbery of a branch bank. Everson's Jeep went off the road and hit a utility pole. He and the deputy then traded gunfire. Everson was fatally shot. The deputy was awarded Officer of the Year in the state.

Ridge not only had twice the legal limit of alcohol in his bloodstream and some amount of methadone as well when he threatened officers with an 18-inch knife unsheathed from a walking stick during a traffic stop. He was fatally shot.

Pedestrian Artice Kilgore was killed at the end of a police chase. Police said they tried to pull over a SUV driven by Tonu K. Hurey, 33, because he was wanted for allegedly selling cocaine to an undercover informant. Hurey's SUV collided with a car and then struck Kilgore. Known as "the can man" for his habit of collecting of aluminum cans, Kilgore died a few hours later. In 2006, Hurey pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated DUI.

An unnamed man reportedly committed suicide after a nearly 36-hour stand-off with police in Forest Knolls.

An unnamed man died after a shootout following a police chase and crash.

Roberts was involved in a three-vehicle-accident as he attempted to evade police. Roberts ignored a red light crashing into Jason Hull, 27, and Edith Spears, 24. Spears was killed when Roberts' pickup truck plowed into the couple's car.

Two deputies shot and killed Lawrence Davis when he allegedly shot at deputies during a foot chase.

A 911 call was placed at about 4:30 p.m., stating that Daniel Scott was suicidal and had cut his wrists. Family members said Scott was unarmed, mentally ill, and had locked himself in the basement of his home. According to police, officer Martin Seibert went inside and told Scott to show his hands, but he refused. Scott allegedly said he had a gun, reached into his waistline and motioned as if he were going to fire a gun. Seibert shot and killed Scott.

A Columbus officer and a Gahanna officer shot Harry Brown after Brown pointed a gun at them. The officers had gone to his Gahanna home to tell Brown that his wife, Inge, had been shot and killed at Mount Carmel East hospital. Police think that Brown killed his wife, who had been ill, and wanted police to kill him.

Thomas Conroy killed his stepdaughter, and committed suicide when police arrived.

After a nearly five-hour standoff with police involving a distraught resident of Port Royal Village trailer park ended when the man apparently took his own life.

Police shot and killed Brian Manuel after he reportedly wounded an officer in a shootout.

Two officers shot Paul R. Frazier when he allegedly pointed a pistol at police during a standoff in a junkyard.

Witnesses contradicted police claims that Michelle McPherson was somehow partly responsible for the collision with a police cruiser that killed her and her daughter Leah. Witnesses also said the officer, going 87 MPH, had no lights or siren. Police were also unable to explain why the videotape in the cruiser's camera was blank.

Robert S. McFadin reportedly wrestled away officer Thomas Quartucci's gun, beat the officer with it and then shot himself inside a police station. At about noon, McFadin had turned himself in for a domestic dispute at a fast-food restaurant earlier that day. After a short interview, Quartucci placed McFadin under arrest. McFadin allegedly wrestled Quartucci's handgun from his holster and beat him repeatedly in the head. Quartucci escaped to a library next door while McFadin remained inside. A short time later, officers from surrounding counties entered the building and found McFadin dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Julia Kateri Silverhorn was pulled over by Anadarko police for a traffic violation, police said. During the stop, Silverhorn re-entered her car and drove south on State Highway 8. Police gave chase but lost sight of her. Silverhorn's car was discovered nine miles south of Anadarko. Police said she entered a curve at a high rate of speed, ran off the roadway and rolled five and half times, killing her.

Local police had stopped an SUV; the driver hopped out and fled on foot. The passenger took the wheel and gunned it through a stop sign and struck a vehicle carrying Kieber Jacome, Darwin Vivar, and Vivar's cousin Ever Vivar. The first two men died at the scene. Evar Vivar died a week later.

Local police had stopped an SUV; the driver hopped out and fled on foot. The passenger took the wheel and gunned it through a stop sign and struck a vehicle carrying Kieber Jacome, Darwin Vivar, and Vivar's cousin Ever Vivar. The first two men died at the scene. Evar Vivar died a week later.

At about 7 a.m., police responded to a domestic dispute between a woman and her on-again off-again boyfriend, Marvin Stamps. Once police arrived at the house, Stamps reportedly tried to escape, shooting Officer Jerry Shoulders as he ran. Shoulders was wearing a bulletproof vest and was uninjured. About two hours later, officers found Stamps hiding in a nearby shed. They say he began firing, and they returned fire. Stamps was killed, though it's not clear if the fatal shot was self-inflicted or if it came from an officer's gun.

Victor Johns, 39, was shot and killed by Milwaukee police Officer Brian Brosseau, 26, following a high-speed chase through the downtown area. He was wanted for possible armed robbery.

Barber abducted his 9-year-old son at gunpoint and holed up in his Alexandria home. After a 20-hour standoff, Lewis W. Barber, 48, walked out onto his front porch and waved his gun at police. They shot and killed him.

Acquaintances were shocked that mentally ill Nowlin's mood and behavior could switch so radically, from playing harmlessly with kids, to physically assaulting a family member less than an hour later. Nowlin was unarmed and 6'3" and 240 lbs, said by officers to be threatening as they interrupted the assault. They shot him dead. Witnesses told a different story.

Gonzalez was one of three young men in a Nissan Altima under surveillance as possible gang members. After a traffic stop Gonzalez quickly switched places with his wife, who had been driving, then drove the car toward officers. He was fatally shot. After the incident the other two men confessed to prior crimes including a home invasion, armed robbery, and a killing.

Two men fought in a front yard, for reasons unknown, and the 50ish homeowner fired a shotgun. He retreated inside. When local police arrived they engaged in a four-hour standoff. The man emerged once or twice with a handgun. At about 10 p.m. he brought out the shotgun, fired at the entrenched officers, and was fatally shot in return. Police didn't release his name.

Isaac Chapa reportedly shot himself following a pursuit.

Deshawn Smith was shot and killed during a struggle with Officer Perry Galvin. The circumstances precipitating the killing were withheld by police.

Larry Don Tripp was shot and killed at 4:28 p.m. Tripp rammed a Kern County sheriff's patrol car into a tree with his truck and disobeyed officer commands. Kern County Deputy Victor Garcia and CHP officers Vaughn Cain and Bryan Hefner all shot and killed Tripp.

Sgt. Travis Gribble and deputy Brent Denny went to Fred Bletz's house at about 11:40 p.m. to arrest his son for a misdemeanor. The deputies reportedly didn't turn on sirens, didn't flash bright lights and parked 35 feet away from the house. The deputies spoke to Bletz's son outside before he went inside to get his shoes. The officers followed him. Bletz, who'd been asleep, was awakened by his son's barking dog. Family members said Bletz approached the deputies in the dimly lit room while pointing a handgun at them, concerned they were intruders. The deputies reportedly told Bletz to put down the gun, but accounts differ as to whether they properly identified themselves as police. Gribble fired four shots at Bletz, killing him. Ionia County Sheriff Dwain Dennis said Bletz might have been legally protecting his home, but that didn't make the shooting unjustified. In June 2009, US District Court Judge Robert J. Jonker said Gribble and Denny illegally entered the home and shot Bletz without clearly identifying themselves. In 2012, Bletz's family reached a $3 million settlement with Ionia County.

Police shot an unnamed man who had allegedly arrived to collect $1,200 ransom for a woman he'd kidnapped as she was leaving work.

Police shot and killed an unnamed man who allegedly resisted arrest and tried to flee an undercover drug buy. At about 8:15 p.m., police said a detective was conducting the buy in a strip mall parking lot with officers from the Major Case Assistance Team nearby. According to police, the officer had completed the transaction and identified himself as an officer when the man resisted arrest and fled eastbound on 47th with the officer still inside the vehicle. The chase ended a few blocks away after police vehicles rammed the man's car. Police would not confirm whether the man was armed, who fired first, whether there were shots fired within the vehicle or who shot the officer in the hand.

Armed with a fake handgun, Tallas reportedly robbed Guaranty Bank and used a Frontier motorhome as a getaway vehicle. Trailing smoke from a crushed dye pack, Tallas led officers on a low-speed chase that ended in a neighborhood, where Tallas stopped the motor home and pulled down the curtains. Five to ten minutes later, Tallas exited the vehicle with the fake gun pointed at officers, who fatally shot her. She appears to have left a loaded .357 Magnum in the vehicle.

Pine Bluff police officer Michael Sweeney shot and killed Robert C. Larker, a burglary suspect, after he—flushed from a warehouse on the city's west side—tried to kill officer Travis Goforth with that officer's gun, police said.

Police shot and killed Clifton Rivera following an alleged robbery and car chase when he refused to show his hands.

Andrew Wayne Cornish allegedly threatened an officer with a knife as police were searching his home during a pre-dawn drug raid.

Bryant was shot twice in a botched drug arrest by a plainclothes member of Hartford's "Violent Crime Impact Team" working with a BATF special agent. The officers observed Bryant and companion Brandon Henry together in a car, and perceived a weapon and drug activity. Bryant was killed with two shots to the head; Henry wounded. The Hartford officer was criminally charged although acquitted. The DOJ opened a civil rights investigation and other national attention. And the city settled with Bryant's family in 2012 for $1.625M.

Four officers shot and killed Joel Farias Jr. when he allegedly fired at police near a jungle gym at John Muir Park.

Wilkinson, driving a stolen van and parked near a known drug house, attempted to evade two local officers. Stopped by a PIT maneuver but continuing to try to flee, Wilkinson's vehicle moved in such a way that one officer thought the other officer had been struck. Unarmed, he was killed with 11 shots. Appeals in the case reached the Ninth Circuit, which held for the police.

Around 11:10 p.m., Llano County Deputy Andy Taylor pulled over a 2001 Chevrolet pickup. The driver, Wolfe, a parolee, shot Deputy Taylor in the head and drove away. Someone saw Wolfe laying on the street and called 911. Peace officers closed in on Wolfe. Wolfe fatally shot himself. Deputy Taylor died the next day.

James Stillson allegedly threatened police with a knife during a traffic stop.

What began as a welfare check on a wheelchair-bound Russian immigrant Ehrenburg, whose wife was in Poland for a visit, ended with a standoff with a SWAT team and his shooting death when he refused to cooperate with police.

Riverside County District Attorney investigator David McGowan murdered his wife, Karen McGowan; three children, Chase, Paige and Rayne McGowan; and mother, Angela McGowan, before killing himself.

Riverside County District Attorney investigator David McGowan murdered his wife, Karen McGowan; three children, Chase, Paige and Rayne McGowan; and mother, Angela McGowan, before killing himself.

Angel Michael Galvan, 37, reported by the LA Times, died after being shot in Long Beach, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Spradling's girlfriend told authorities that he was going to a Wal-Mart. Ellis county deputies tried to arrest Spradling, wanted for burglary and theft, as he stepped out of a stolen Oldsmobile in the parking lot. Spradling ran into the Wal-Mart, where he was confronted by Lieutenant Steve Lafferty and Sergeant Collin Chenault. Spradling drew a pistol. Sergeant Chenault shot Spradling twice, killing him. Dallas County Sheriff's Office investigated.

Charles Griffin of the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector said the agent was standing outside his vehicle "when the driver of an illegal alien load attempted to assault him with his vehicle. The agent feared for his life, discharged his weapon and fatally wounded the driver." Cota was an undocumented immigrant.

Late in the morning police responded to a disturbance at a grocery store. They found Williams, unarmed, at first simply uncooperative then physically struggling with the officer, forcing him into the storefront window and grabbing at his gun hand. The officer managed to fire one shot into Williams' stomach before his gun jammed. His death attracted a large outraged crowd.

Police claimed Young's use of cocaine killed him, not the Taser that was used on him an hour before he died.

Essuf Yacoob was killed when Buster Ford, a suspected drunk driver, crashed into his hazardous materials truck at high speeds while fleeing from police.

Driver Gregory M. Stone, 26, and Randy D. Howard, 27, were killed when they led state police on a high-speed chase before crashing into a utility police.

Near midnight on a Saturday night an off-duty local officer was called to a report of shots fired at a nearby apartment complex. The officer encountered Monroe, gun in hand, just after Monroe had shot and wounded a longtime enemy. He was fatally shot in the head. The officer was later exonerated as defending himself.

According to the Texas Justice Initiative, a deputy transporting a prisoner saw Haffstien crash his vehicle. The deputy checked on Haffstien. Haffstien resisted the deputy. The deputy called for an ambulance. Haffstien was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Twenty-one county deputies and a police helicopter tracked a 19-year-old suspected car thief in a pickup truck for about 50 minutes. At the end of the incident the suspect ran a red light and collided with the car of Frantz Leandre, a former official of the Haitian government, and his sister Carole. The county maintained that such tactical pressure on the thief did not constitute a "chase." A jury disagreed, awarding a $2M settlement to the Leandres' family.

Police stopped Casey and his friend, Richard Collins, on Abercorn Street after the car was suspected of racing, according to police. The men were placed in separate patrol cars as officers searched their Trans Am. But Casey escaped and drove off in the marked patrol car. Police found the missing police cruiser and Casey the next day at the Magnolia Villas apartments. Officers chased Casey into the woods behind the AMF Savannah Lanes, a bowling alley on Tibet Avenue. Knight arrived to find Casey pointing a gun at Patrolman Robert Caulford. Casey had wrestled the gun away from Caulford, along with his baton. He had already pepper-sprayed the officer. Knight shot and killed Casey.

Police were called after Leopoldo Tijerina started harassing people in the parking lot of a grocery store. Officer tried to stop him with a Taser, but the device didn't work, and Tijerina yanked it from the officer's hand. The officer then pulled out his baton and hit Tijerina twice, but Tijerina took it from him and acted like he was going to hit the officer. The officer then took out his handgun and fired 14 times, killing him.

A complainant told dispatch that Cain, hallucinating and possibly high on cocaine, had attacked his common law wife and her daughter. A second complainant said that Cain had gotten into an argument. Officers Cordero and Carillo eventually found Cain speaking to a mailbox. They subdued Cain for EMS. Cain resisted until he lost consciousness.

Deputy Todd Trobaugh stopped a vehicle driven by Orlyn D. Ervin for speeding at about 5:30 a.m. According to police, Ervin became unresponsive, and Trobaugh summoned assistance. Trobaugh reportedly recognized that Ervin was in cardiac arrest and initiated CPR. Deputies Dave Benson and Kent Roepke arrived and assisted with performing the resuscitation, but Ervin was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Onaka was the driver of a car that was being pursued by police when it crashed and burned in Mililani. He was wanted by federal authorities for violating terms of his supervised release.

Erving Cobb, one of three men who took off in a car after spotting a police van, was killed when the car collided with a sport utility vehicle, police said. Police later learned the red Ford Focus had been stolen, and officers recovered an AK-47 and a handgun inside.

According to the Star Tribune, officers shot Peterson after a standoff when he walked out of a barn with a gun and fired at them.

Officers John Rowe and Jason Brannon went to Ball's residence to serve a warrant for unlawful possession of a firearm and parole violation. Officers found Ball standing in a closet with a rifle and told him to give it up. Ball, covered in blood, fell down. A meth lab was found in the residence. Texas Ranger Ronnie Griffith investigated.

Six hours of attempted negotiation, starting in the early evening and stretching to 3 a.m., proved unsuccessful when Diaz Duarte stormed out of his mother's house and started a firefight with local and county officers. He'd threatened his mother with a handgun; she'd escaped the house and called 911. Diaz Duarte wounded one officer in the ankle before being fatally shot.

An officer approached Allen, who was outside the Cabaret strip club wildly pacing the street, kicking trashcans, and waving a knife. The officer tried to calm Allen down, but Allen apparently grabbed the officer, putting him in a chokehold. The officer quickly broke free and two squad cars squealed onto the scene. As Allen lunged with the knife, three of the four officers fired six shots; all six bullets hit Allen.

A man running from police was killed when he came in contact with the electrified third rail at the airport MARTA station, police said.

Police said Honaker died because he ate a bunch of cocaine while he was being arrested.

Elderly Booker, with bad eyes and hearing, leveled a shotgun at officers in a late-night no-knock drug raid at his residence and was shot dead. His 41-year-old son was the target of the raid.

A woman told police her boyfriend, Willie Johnson, had a handgun and had threatened to kill her. Johnson was spotted on Woodbine Street. When an officer told Johnson to stop and show his hands, Johnson ran across a grassy lot and pointed a gun at the officer, who shot and killed him, police said.

After his pregnant wife called police after a domestic dispute, Rodriguez-Sobrino greeted responding deputies with a knife in each hand about 1 a.m. on a Saturday morning. He was tasered, with no result other than him advancing on the deputies again, then fatally shot.

Deputy Matthew Hunter shot and killed Brian Scott Lewis after Lewis allegedly took his baton and refused to submit to a pat down.

Officer Christopher Gray shot and killed Kevin Michael Fortney after Fortney allegedly threatened him with a knife in a field off West 16th Street.

Oswego police chief Dwight Baird and officer Rebecca Hayes shot Henry Rossbach after he allegedly came at them with a knife. At about 1 p.m., Rossbach walked from the Council Court Motel to a parked squad car on the Aurora-Oswego border. With a knife, Rossbach allegedly shattered the driver's side window. The officer called for assistance and stepped out of the car. Rossbach retreated to the motel, where at least 18 officers from several agencies confronted Rossbach outside. Rossbach reportedly became more aggressive and advanced on the officers. The officers shot him when he allegedly refused to drop the knife. Rossbach was pronounced dead at a hospital. This was reportedly the first such shooting in Oswego's history.

Lee Kimmel died after being tasered twice by police despite being unarmed at the time. He became unresponsive as he was handcuffed. His pulse was regained at the hospital, but he died about 12 hours later. He was subdued by police using a Taser gun and pepper spray after he climbed into a suburban Reading municipal building. He suffered heart failure and died a day later, police said. He was wearing only a black T-shirt and white socks, punched a window of the Spring Township building and began climbing in.

Eloy Lopez Jimenez and Efrain Ojeda Sanchez were killed when a SUV driven by off-duty officer Michael Zamora Jr., who was legally drunk, collided with their van. Zamora was also killed in the 5 a.m. crash.

A man facing eviction threatened to kill himself if anyone tried to force him from his Woodlawn apartment. He killed himself during the standoff with Baltimore County police, police said.

A nine-month rookie officer shot and killed the naked Coates after Coates had "charged" him from behind an electric utility box. The officer had responded to reports of an armed man under the influence of drugs who'd fired six shots in a townhouse, frightening his girlfriend and one-month-old son. In 2008, the family was awarded $90,000.

Reportedly King expressed a desire for the police to shoot him. Shortly after his release from a hospital rehab program, an officer responded to a call at King's apartment, had a discussion through the doorway, then King swung the door open and pointed a rifle at the officer. He was fatally shot.

Officers Jonathan Moore, Timothy Scott and Adam Feazel, collectively fired 15 shots into Bret Lane Bittinger in front of Bittinger's Altus home. Bittinger fired four times at his wife, Gabriel, before he was shot dead. He struck her twice, including once in the chest.

Police were investigating a mugging when Owens pulled a gun. He was shot and killed.

Angele Jackson was shot and killed by her husband, officer James Jackson, who reportedly shot her in her face and chest in the driveway when she returned from visiting a cousin in Tuscaloosa.

Police said they responded to the attempted abduction of a 31-year old man and pursued a Buick sedan with three men inside. According to police, the chase was called off for safety reasons. The Buick then hit a utility pole and caught fire. The officer who'd been pursuing used a fire extinguisher on the flames and pulled the men from the car. Toteka D. Robinson died that day. Charles Evans died from his injuries on June 5, 2005. The sole survivor, Dwayne Stevens, was charged with attempted kidnapping with a firearm, aggravated possession of a stolen vehicle and two counts of aggravated DUI.

Joshua Whitted, a passenger in a van involved in a police pursuit, was shot and killed when he allegedly got out of the van and raised a gun at officers.

A deputy tried to pull over a vehicle for a traffic violation. The vehicle sped away and crashed. Giesburg, a passenger in the vehicle, died. The vehicle had been stolen from the Houston Police Department.

Robbery suspect Richard Gooding ran from police trying to question him and opened fire at the pursuing officers on 126th Street, police said. At least 25 shots were exchanged, before Gooding was shot and killed. Police said five shots came from Gooding's .380 semiautomatic and 20 from the guns of five officers.

Vincent Napper was shot and killed when he fired on police after a vehicle chase and crash.

After a woman called 911 to report that her ex-boyfriend was breaking into her home Thursday, a San Jose police officer shot and killed him when he charged at the officer with a baton, authorities said. When the San Jose Police arrived Samuel Martinez came out of his van and approached the one police officer. The police officer used the Taser gun and tasered him twice then the officer shot Samuel several times. Samuel died at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center that morning.