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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6302 | John C. Galloway | 33 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/03/2007 | Sedalia | MO | 38.7044609 | -93.2282613 | Pettis County Sheriff's Office | Galloway apparently shot his wife and left her on the side of the road. Police eventually caught up with him at a motel where he shot and killed himself. | google.com | ||
6303 | James Hart | 65 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/03/2007 | Quincy | MA | 42.2643952 | -71.0197194 | Quincy Police Department | Police were called to assist a suicidal Hart, finding him with self-inflicted knife wounds on his arms. They flushed him out of a shed with chemical spray. He emerged angry and wielding a 12-inch knife. Officers felt threatened enough by the 65-year-old to shoot at him three times. He was struck twice. | boston.com | ||
21618 | Lewis William "Bill" Pfeltz Jr. | 45 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/03/2007 | Hagerstown | MD | 39.593667 | -77.656214 | Maryland State Police | Lewis W. Pfeltz Jr. was wanted on warrants when he led a trooper on a chase and crashed and died. | herald-mail.com | ||
6295 | John Evra Dunn | 42 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/02/2007 | Westfir | OR | 43.7542833 | -122.5258682 | Oakridge Police Department | Local police stopped a GMC Jimmy near midnight for speeding and for having a tail light out. The driver, Dunn, was an ex-con with weapons in the car. The officer attempted to arrest him and a struggle ensued where Dunn apparently tried to reach for one of his guns. The officer fired about 10 times. One of those bullets fatally struck Dunn in the head. | google.com | ||
6296 | Megan Dylan Causey | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 07/02/2007 | Las Cruces | NM | 32.3877158 | -106.7811685 | Dona Ana County Sheriff's Office | Causey was shot by a Dona Ana sheriff's deputy - responding to a report Causey attacked his parents - after Causey allegedly threatened the deputy with his van. The family was paid $575,000 for a wrongful death suit. | lcsun-news.com | ||
6297 | William Vasquez | 43 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/02/2007 | Redondo Beach | CA | 33.8639567 | -118.3556587 | Torrance Police Department | Police shot Vasquez to death after they allege he was threatening to kill himself and had cut his own stomach. | latimes.com | ||
6298 | Kyone Johnson | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/02/2007 | North Las Vegas | NV | 36.21648 | -115.1923685 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | A Las Vegas SWAT officer accidentally killed the brother of an armed drug suspect whose residence at 3895 E. Cheyenne Ave. was being raided. Kyone Johnson, 18, was shot in the chest with a rifle by an officer whose intended target is the armed suspect. Johnson's brother, Kyone Wilkerson, was also shot and wounded in the incident. | google.com | ||
6292 | David Eugene Morgan Jr. | 59 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/30/2007 | Sedalia | MO | 38.7171203 | -93.2245366 | Sedalia Police Department | Officer John Cook shot David Eugene Morgan Jr. when he allegedly threatened him with a knife. Cook and officer John Comfort had responded to a domestic disturbance at a residence shortly after 2 p.m. and found Morgan on the porch. Morgan stumbled over one chair and fell into a second one. According to Cook, this and his prior dealings with Morgan led him to believe he was intoxicated. A woman told Cook that Morgan had a knife, which Cook said he saw Morgan trying to conceal in his hand. Cook said he drew his pistol and pointed it at Morgan, who said, "Go ahead and shoot me. I want to die anyways, I'm gonna die anyways." Cook shot Morgan when he allegedly took an "aggressive stance" and refused to drop the knife. | findacase.com | ||
6293 | Tony Dill | 57 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/30/2007 | Shreveport | LA | 32.4546919 | -93.753266 | Shreveport Police Department | Officer Sarah Dewitt shot and killed Tony Dill after he allegedly came at Dewitt with a pocket knife. | ktbs.com | ||
6294 | Logan Brizzee | 19 | Male | European-American/White | 06/30/2007 | Twin Falls | ID | 42.5896899 | -114.4601333 | Twin Falls Police Department | Brizzee was being held by private security for alleged shoplifting of $50 of groceries. When Twin Falls police came to arrest him, he pulled a gun, and they shot and killed him. | magicvalley.com | ||
20487 | Gordon Velyov | 44 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/30/2007 | West Allis | WI | 43.003082 | -88.0158746 | West Allis Police Department | Velyov called 911 and reported a "crazy" person with a gun. When officers arrived, they heard what they thought were gunshots in Velyov's home and blocked off the area. Velyov came out, pointed a handgun at his head and challenged officers to shoot him. When officers told him to drop the gun, he pointed it at them. One officer shot and killed Velyov. A suicide note was found. | madison.com | ||
6288 | Jason Richard Bissonnette | 38 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/29/2007 | Costa Mesa | CA | 33.6292243 | -117.9120279 | Huntington Beach Police Department | Police shot and killed Jason Richard Bissonnette when he backed his Mercedes into a patrol car at the end of a chase, police said. | latimes.com | ||
6289 | Name withheld by police | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 06/29/2007 | National City | CA | 32.6768697 | -117.0870443 | National City Police Department | A woman was killed when she crashed into the side of a gasoline tanker during a police chase. | utsandiego.com | |||
6290 | Edward Truesdale France | 36 | Male | European-American/White | 06/29/2007 | Des Moines | WA | 47.3979601 | -122.32378 | Des Moines Police Department | France had just robbed a Bank of America, his fourth bank robery in five days. Officers responded, attempted to subdue him with a Taser and ultimately fired at him, killing him. | seattletimes.com | ||
6291 | Alan D. Whitaker | 54 | Male | European-American/White | 06/29/2007 | Dayton | OH | 39.7549283 | -84.1353319 | Dayton Police Department | Media reports say Whitaker fired a rifle at two police officers who returned fire, hitting and killing him. | mydaytondailynews.com | ||
21900 | Omar Perry | 31 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/29/2007 | Maplewood | NJ | 40.731596 | -74.247075 | Maplewood Police Department | Omar Perry suffered from schizophrenia, had recently been hospitalized. Sister saw him cutting himself and called 911 to have him transported to hospital. He was brandishing a knife was fatally shot by police who said he charged at them. | blog.nj.com | ||
21901 | Elton Doryen | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/29/2007 | Perth Amboy | NJ | 40.5314786 | -74.2852887 | Perth Amboy Police Department | Elton Doryen drowned after being pepper-sprayed by a Perth Amboy officer and running into a nearby pond to wash it off, according to police. The incident happened after an officer responded to calls that an agitated and naked Doryen was locked out of his home. | google.com | ||
6287 | Hubert Burgs | 29 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/28/2007 | Chicago | IL | 41.6870194 | -87.63254769999999 | Chicago Police Department | Police saw two men drinking in a minivan and approached. One man took of running, exchanging gunfire with an officer who shot and killed him. | nwitimes.com | ||
6283 | Miguel Castro Falcon | 46 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/27/2007 | Los Angeles | CA | 33.9454975 | -118.2916036 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department | Miguel Castro Falcon was killed when a car pursued by deputies hit his pickup truck in South Los Angeles. | latimes.com | ||
6284 | Lorena Gutierrez Zamudio | 17 | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 06/27/2007 | Ocotillo Wells | CA | 33.1425617 | -116.1214794 | U.S. Customs and Border Protection | Passengers and undocumented immigrants Lorena Gutierrez Zamudio and Amado Cabrera Lopez were killed after the driver fled the Border Patrol and swerved into oncoming traffic on a winding, rural road near Ocotillo Wells. | sandiegouniontribune.com | ||
6285 | Amado Cabrera Lopez | 33 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/27/2007 | Ocotillo Wells | CA | 33.1425617 | -116.1214794 | U.S. Customs and Border Protection | Passengers and undocumented immigrants Lorena Gutierrez Zamudio and Amado Cabrera Lopez were killed after the driver fled the Border Patrol and swerved into oncoming traffic on a winding, rural road near Ocotillo Wells. | sandiegouniontribune.com | ||
6286 | Joshua Kyle Black | 19 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/27/2007 | Natchitoches | LA | 31.725004 | -93.1075826 | Natchitoches Parish Sheriff's Office, Natchitoches Police Department, Louisiana State Police | The charred remains of Joshua Kyle Black were recovered following a chase through two parishes that ended with a fiery wreck and a hail of bullets. | ksla.com | ||
6281 | Kevin Spitznogle | 29 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/26/2007 | Santa Ana | CA | 33.7770607 | -117.8846918 | Santa Ana Police Department | Police shot and killed Kevin Spitznogle when he got out of his vehicle with a rifle during a traffic stop, police said. | latimes.com | ||
6282 | Aaron Borden | 26 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/26/2007 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.010277 | -118.307478 | Los Angeles Police Department | Officers responded to a call about a man with a gun harassing people. When they arrived, they allege Borden was in a house and came out with a gun pointed at them before they shot him to death. | latimes.com | ||
6279 | Ricardo Rahshawn Jackson | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/24/2007 | San Bernardino | CA | 34.1173339 | -117.2986553 | San Bernardino Police Department | An officer shot and killed Ricardo Rahshawn Jackson when he attacked two other officers and tried to grab their guns, police said. | highbeam.com | ||
6280 | Cesar Wilfredo Lopez | 22 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/24/2007 | Athens | GA | 33.9976852 | -83.4128462 | Athens-Clarke County Police Department | Lopez was shot after pointing a gun at officers. Lopez and four other people in a group were suspects in a pair of shootings that occurred earlier that night. | augusta.com | ||
6278 | Raymond Lawson | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/23/2007 | Pompano Beach | FL | 26.2415266 | -80.125116 | Broward County Sheriff's Office | Three county officers in a "known drug dealing area" approached Lawson on the street in a old grey Crown Victoria. Lawson put up armed resistance, shooting one of the officers in the shoulder, before he was fatally shot. | sun-sentinel.com | ||
6274 | Mary E.L. Provo | 2 | Female | European-American/White | 06/22/2007 | Three Mile Bay | NY | 44.076167 | -76.16051 | Jefferson County Sheriff's Office | Lisa M. Parker had no memory of the crash afterward, but a female suspect was stopped by a deputy for swerving into his lane. He discovered her suspended license. She took off, tires spinning, into a three-mile 85 MPH chase which ended with a high-speed impact into a utility pole. Her three children in the car died: Tyler J. Parker, Nathaniel J. Parker, and Mary E.L. Provo. | watertowndailytimes.com | ||
6275 | Nathaniel J. Parker | 6 | Male | European-American/White | 06/22/2007 | Three Mile Bay | NY | 44.076167 | -76.16051 | Jefferson County Sheriff's Office | Lisa M. Parker had no memory of the crash afterward, but a female suspect was stopped by a deputy for swerving into his lane. He discovered her suspended license. She took off, tires spinning, into a three-mile 85 MPH chase which ended with a high-speed impact into a utility pole. Her three children in the car died: Tyler J. Parker, Nathaniel J. Parker, and Mary E.L. Provo. | watertowndailytimes.com | ||
6276 | Tyler J. Parker | 10 | Male | European-American/White | 06/22/2007 | Three Mile Bay | NY | 44.076167 | -76.16051 | Jefferson County Sheriff's Office | Lisa M. Parker had no memory of the crash afterward, but a female suspect was stopped by a deputy for swerving into his lane. He discovered her suspended license. She took off, tires spinning, into a three-mile 85 MPH chase which ended with a high-speed impact into a utility pole. Her three children in the car died: Tyler J. Parker, Nathaniel J. Parker, and Mary E.L. Provo. | watertowndailytimes.com | ||
6277 | DeAunta Terrell Farrow | 12 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/22/2007 | West Memphis | AR | 35.1541167 | -90.1527111 | West Memphis Police Department | Farrow and his 14-year-old cousin happened across a police stakeout in an apartment complex as Farrow carried a toy pistol. According to the cousin, officers did not identify themselves as they shouted for Farrow to drop the apparent weapon. He was shot at least two times. The case drew sharp regional attention and a five-month internal investigation which exonerated the police. | wmcactionnews5.com | ||
22664 | Jelani Adom Green | 21 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/22/2007 | Chesapeake | VA | 38.155839 | -83.6121217 | Virginia State Police | A trooper attempted to stop Jelani Adom Green, who was traveling 75 mph in a 55-mph zone on Interstate 64 at 3:22 a.m. Green did not stop and instead sped up the 2000 Ford Excursion, which had three passengers. The trooper began pursuing. Green exceeded 100 mph. Green passed a construction area, and a trooper stationed there joined the pursuit, so did a third trooper. About 3 miles into the pursuit, Green tried to maneuver the SUV out of a rolling police road block by driving through the median. The vehicle overturned, crossed into the westbound lanes and overturned again and landed in a wooded area, killing Green. | richmond.com | ||
6272 | Abel Curiel Gonzalez | 44 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/21/2007 | Hanford | CA | 36.2838179 | -119.690426 | Hanford Police Department, Kings County Sheriff's Office | Hanford police officers and Kings County sheriff's deputies shot and killed Abel Curiel Gonzalez when he allegedly shot at them after they found him hiding in a walnut orchard. | hanfordsentinel.com | ||
6273 | Stephen Rowland | 52 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/21/2007 | Kapolei | HI | 21.3319124 | -158.0618206 | Honolulu Police Department | Rowland's wife called police from outside the home to say her husband was distraught, and that she feared he might harm himself. When District 8 patrol officers arrived at the home, the man refused to come out and phoned his wife to say he wanted police to leave, police said. After a 12-hour standoff, he shot and killed himself. | honoluluadvertiser.com | ||
6270 | Lotu Elika | 24 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/20/2007 | Hayward | CA | 37.6662907 | -122.1045822 | San Leandro Police Department | Off-duty rookie officer Ali Khan shot and killed Lotu Elika when he allegedly attacked him and refused to release Khan's baby at the the officer's parents' house in Hayward. | insidebayarea.com | ||
6271 | Joseph Picciano | 21 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/20/2007 | Bedford | OH | 41.3922419 | -81.5281715 | Bedford Police Department | Picciano was shot and killed after a two-hour police standoff. His mother called police because he was suicidal. | cleveland.com | ||
19766 | Brandon S. Ryan | 31 | Male | European-American/White | 06/20/2007 | Glasgow | KY | 36.993793 | -85.9025207 | Glasgow Police Department | Officers responded to a call of shots fired on McKenna Street. Nathan Bybee, 47, of Glasgow, was discovered fatally wounded upon arrival. GPD officer J.D. Walden exchanged gunfire with the alleged shooter, Brandon S. Ryan, 31, of Glasgow when checking the victim. Following the firefight, the suspect barricaded himself in his home. Walden was struck by a bullet in the back. He was treated for minor injuries and released. Ryan eventually shot and killed himself. | glasgowdailytimes.com | ||
6267 | Anthony Morgan | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/19/2007 | Chicago | IL | 42.005698 | -87.663797 | Chicago Police Department | When spotted by an officer on patrol, the subject changed direction and grabbed his waistband. Morgan fired three shots at one officer who chased him on foot before the officer fired back and killed him. | chicagotribune.com | ||
6268 | James Harris | 42 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/19/2007 | Bronx | NY | 40.849407 | -73.905404 | City of New York Police Department | During a police attempt to serve an arrest warrant for trademark counterfeiting, Harris attempted to escape out the window of his fourth-story Grand Concourse apartment building. He fell to his death. | nytimes.com | ||
6269 | Juan Flores Lopez | 47 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/19/2007 | San Angelo | TX | 31.4637723 | -100.4370375 | San Angelo Police Department | Officers restrained Lopez, who was mentally ill, in connection to an argument with his wife. They did not handcuff him. Lopez poured gasoline on himself and tried to light himself on fire with a lighter. An officer shot him with a stun gun. He burst into flames and died. It is unclear whether the stun gun or the lighter caused the flames. The Texas Ranger Division investigated. Lopez is listed in the Texas Custodial Deaths report as of Jan. 23, 2016. | kcbd.com | ||
22296 | Tyler Dumstorf | 15 | Male | European-American/White | 06/19/2007 | Georgetown | IN | 38.277525 | -85.932712 | Floyd County Sheriff's Office | Tyler Dumstorf shot and killed Deputy Frank Denzinger and seriously wounded Deputy Joel White when they responded to an argument between the boy and his mother, Gail Dumstorf. He then shot and killed himself with the same .30-caliber M1 Garand rifle. | mydeathspace.com | ||
6262 | Darren Alan Howell | 43 | Male | European-American/White | 06/18/2007 | Lawton | OK | 34.6361441 | -98.3777244 | Comanche County Sheriff's Office, Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Control | Agents with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and two local drug task forces tried to serve an arrest warrant on Howell. According to police, Howell had long been suspected for years of being a large player in the local meth trade. According to police, agents announced their presence at Howell's apartment. When Howell failed to open the door, agents tried to knock the door down, and gunfire erupted from inside the apartment. Agents shot and killed Howell, but not before two agents were wounded. | kswo.com | ||
6263 | Levi Baca | 41 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/18/2007 | Espanola | NM | 35.9991542 | -106.0495978 | Rio Arriba County Sheriff's Office | Baca was killed when he was struck by Rio Arriba County sheriff's officers responding to an overdose report, according to Espanola police. | google.com | ||
6264 | Demarco M. Suggs | 32 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/18/2007 | East St. Louis | IL | 38.597981 | -90.0841241 | East St. Louis Police Department | Police shot and killed a Demarco M. Suggs when he allegedly pulled a gun on them. The officers arrived at about 5 p.m., after getting a call from neighbors. The officers tried to question Suggs, but he reportedly broke away and tried to run into his house. According to police, a struggle ensued, and the officers tried to Taser Suggs before they shot him, but missed. | highbeam.com | ||
6265 | Luke Lewis Seal | 24 | Male | European-American/White | 06/18/2007 | Clackamas | OR | 45.4060663 | -122.5672959 | Clackamas County Sheriff's Office | A county officer responding to a call about "a weirdo here" saw Seal hiding himself in the bushes near an exterior pay phone in a strip mall, with the phone dangling off the hook. The officer discovered that Seal had a knife, then apparently two knives. He would not comply with police orders and so he was fatally shot. | oregonlive.com | ||
6266 | Steven McUmber | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 06/18/2007 | Potsdam | NY | 44.6856511 | -74.9865679 | New York State Police | A state trooper responding to a domestic dispute encountered and was shot in the shoulder by ex-con McUmber at the threshold of his house. Wounded, the trooper returned fire and fatally shot McUmber. | wktv.com | ||
23079 | Jimmy Wayne Lively | 50 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/18/2007 | Coalfield | TN | 36.0339623 | -84.4223506 | Morgan County Sheriff's Office | Jimmy Lively allegedly set fire to his vehicle, then shot at firefighters and deputies who arrived. He then shot himself to death during a standoff with police. | google.com | ||
6260 | Connie Hamm | 52 | Female | European-American/White | 06/17/2007 | Nashua | IA | 42.9574843 | -92.5336833 | Nashua Police Department | Police arrested Dennis Hamm, 52, at around 7:10 p.m. after a brief stand-off at his home and charged him with domestic abuse assault. According to police, the victim, Connie Hamm was taken from the home to Floyd County Memorial Hospital in Charles City before being airlifted to Allen Hospital in Waterloo, where she died of an apparent heart attack hours later. | radioiowa.com | ||
6261 | Steven C. Lane | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 06/17/2007 | Centerville | UT | 40.9215101 | -111.8687825 | Centerville Police Department | Lt. Paul Child and another officer went to Lane's Centerville home to investigate a reported assault. Lane wouldn't come outside, so his girlfriend invited officers into their bedroom, where Lane allegedly pointed a rifle at Child. The girlfriend and her daughter corroborated Child's account. | sltrib.com | ||
21156 | Shawnley Rocc Weltch | 38 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/17/2007 | Hartland | MI | 42.6624436 | -83.7392476 | Livingston County Sheriff's Office | According to police, a deputy was passed on US-23 at 1:23 a.m. by a speeding cafe-style motorcycle driven by Shawnley Rocc Weltch. Weltch reportedly didn't stop when the deputy tried to pull him over. Weltch exited the highway at Center Road and continued east at a high rate of speed to Denton Hill Road, police said, passing another deputy in the process. Weltch's motorcycle turned west onto Hibner Road, failed to negotiate a curve, left the roadway and crashed into several trees, killing him. | google.com | ||
6257 | Sean Thomas Makarowsky | 24 | Male | European-American/White | 06/16/2007 | Vancouver | WA | 45.6444504 | -122.5067361 | Vancouver Police Department | Police serving a search warrant on Makarowsky's home went to the window, saw the victim holding a gun. One officer called out "gun!" and officers fired at the window, killing the man instantly. | portlandcopwatch.org | ||
6258 | Lawrence Michael Floyd | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/16/2007 | Palatka | FL | 29.6536144 | -81.6517299 | Palatka Police Department | Floyd was shot to death after a three-hour "crime spree" and armed standoff with police. He'd taken his girlfriend and two children hostage in an apartment complex, and during the incident wounded the woman, a 10-year-old child, and one of the officers. | jacksonville.com | ||
6246 | Fred Dunlap | 56 | Male | European-American/White | 06/14/2007 | Rusk | TX | 32.1549534 | -94.8005301 | Rusk County Sheriff's Office | Lieutenant Dunlap entered a uniform closet at the Sheriff's Office and fatally shot himself. The Texas Ranger Division investigated. Peace officers in Rusk County and neighboring Cherokee County were being investigated for abuse of civilians and drug dealing. | kltv.com | ||
6247 | Brian V. McGee | 50 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/14/2007 | Farmington | MO | 37.7960248 | -90.4402639 | Farmington Police Department | Police came to serve warrants. McGee barricaded himself in a bedroom, shooting and killing himself several hours later. | google.com | ||
6248 | Jessie Marie Davis | 26 | Female | European-American/White | 06/14/2007 | North Canton | OH | 40.9123214 | -81.4026715 | Canton Police Department | Pregnant Davis was killed by her boyfriend, Bobby Cutts Jr., a Canton Police Department officer. | wikipedia.org | ||
6249 | Victor R. Vasquez | 54 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/14/2007 | Joliet | IL | 41.5277297 | -88.0769651 | Joliet Police Department | Officer Richard Trafton shot Victor R. Vasquez when he reportedly charged with a knife after stabbing officer Michael Sheridan. According to police, Sheridan was approached by someone saying they were attacked by a man with a knife at about 10 a.m. Officers found Vasquez and told him to show his hands, but he reportedly lunged at Sheridan, stabbing him in the left side and chest. Trafton fired one round at Vasquez, who allegedly charged again. Trafton fired one more round and killed Vasquez. | tripod.com | ||
6250 | Terry Witte | 40 | Male | European-American/White | 06/14/2007 | Fort Dodge | IA | 42.5173115 | -94.1980772 | Fort Dodge Police Department | Police said a motorcycle operated by Terry Witte was attempting to elude officers when Witte lost control and crashed into a steep ravine. Both Witte and his passenger were thrown from the bike and were airlifted to a hospital. Witte died on June 18. | radioiowa.com | ||
6251 | Clinton Morgan | 28 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/14/2007 | Chicago | IL | 41.812069 | -87.670258 | Chicago Police Department | Morgan charged at two local cops with a meat cleaver in one hand and a lead pipe. Previously in the day he'd doused himself with lighter fluid and threatened to burn himself to death. He was fatally shot. | chicagotribune.com | ||
6252 | Martin Martinez | 35 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/14/2007 | Oxford | NC | 36.3275145 | -78.5937562 | Oxford Police Department, Granville County Sheriff's Office | In a Thursday early evening domestic dispute Martinez ran over a woman with his Jeep, and would have done so again except for a police chief's intervention. Martinez rammed another vehicle while under fire from the chief then took off. A deputy pursued the Jeep until it ran into a utility pole, killing Martinez. | wral.com | ||
6253 | Lyle Doering | 42 | Male | European-American/White | 06/14/2007 | Bridgewater | SD | 43.4876893 | -97.3124111 | Hanson County Sheriff's Office, South Dakota Highway Patrol | Lyle Doering, the father of Deanna Mogck and Trevor Doering, had taken them, at knifepoint, away from their grandmother's house along with a third 17-year-old sibling. He tied up the grandmother and took her vehicle. With multiple jurisdictions in hot pursuit, the vehicle hit stop-strips in the road, went out of control, and crashed into roadside trees. The father and the two younger children died. The 17-year-old was sent to a hospital via helicopter. | foxnews.com | ||
6254 | Trevor Doering | 9 | Male | European-American/White | 06/14/2007 | Bridgewater | SD | 43.4876893 | -97.3124111 | Hanson County Sheriff's Office, South Dakota Highway Patrol | The father of Deanna Mogck and Trevor Doering had taken them, at knifepoint, away from their grandmother's house along with a third 17-year-old sibling. He tied up the grandmother and took her vehicle. With multiple jurisdictions in hot pursuit, the vehicle hit stop-strips in the road, went out of control, and crashed into roadside trees. The father and the two younger children died. The 17-year-old was sent to a hospital via helicopter. | foxnews.com | ||
6255 | Deanna Mogck | 13 | Female | European-American/White | 06/14/2007 | Bridgewater | SD | 43.4876893 | -97.3124111 | Hanson County Sheriff's Office, South Dakota Highway Patrol | The father of Deanna Mogck and Trevor Doering had taken them, at knifepoint, away from their grandmother's house along with a third 17-year-old sibling. He tied up the grandmother and took her vehicle. With multiple jurisdictions in hot pursuit, the vehicle hit stop-strips in the road, went out of control, and crashed into roadside trees. The father and the two younger children died. The 17-year-old was sent to a hospital via helicopter. | foxnews.com | ||
6256 | Michael Lee Taylor | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/14/2007 | Fort Lauderdale | FL | 26.1438507 | -80.1518964 | Broward County Sheriff's Office | Taylor was wanted for questioning in a murder case. Police found his car at his grandmother's house and approached carefully, only to hear gunshots behind them. It was Taylor arriving and firing on officers. He was killed with a single shot from an AR-15. After the shooting a crowd of his relatives converged on the police who had to defend themselves with pepper spray and batons in a small "war, like for 30 minutes" according to a witness. | sun-sentinel.com | ||
6243 | Frank Timothy Benavides III | 34 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/13/2007 | Victoria | TX | 28.849527 | -96.980546 | Victoria Police Department | Officers responding to a disturbance found Benavides alone in his apartment, agitated, injured and surrounded by empty beer bottles. Officers handcuffed Benavides and called paramedics. | google.com | ||
6244 | Kerry Tucker | 62 | Male | European-American/White | 06/13/2007 | Des Moines | IA | 41.6058374 | -93.7037594 | Des Moines Police Department | At about 9 p.m., an officer questioned Kerry Tucker after a caller complained he was suspicious. The officer determined that Tucker was just taking a walk and returned to her squad car. The officer said she then heard a thud, turned and saw Tucker flung high into the air. Tucker landed in the street and died from his injuries. The officer said a damaged car had sped away from the scene. Another officer saw the car nearby with extensive windshield damage. The driver was charged with drunken driving. | google.com | ||
6245 | Detrick Ford | 20 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/13/2007 | Los Angeles | CA | 33.9237193 | -118.2730151 | Los Angeles Police Department | Officers responded to a domestic dispute call, allege Ford charged them with a knife, and shot him to death. | latimes.com | ||
6259 | Michael Anthony Young | 35 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/13/2007 | Jacksonville | FL | 30.2700707 | -81.6109676 | Jacksonville Sheriff's Office | Young and a female accomplice robbed "Ying's Chinee-Takee-Outee" at gunpoint only to be met at the back door by the police. He tried to escape from the front door, and police fatally shot him. He may not have discharged his weapon. The accomplice was charged with both armed robbery and with felony murder. | jacksonville.com | ||
6238 | Rebecca Lynn Stebbins | 31 | Female | European-American/White | 06/12/2007 | Gridley | CA | 39.3734058 | -121.6990327 | Gridley Police Department | Officers Scott Smallwood and Brandon Wilson shot and killed Rebecca Lynn Stebbins when she raised a .357 magnum handgun toward Smallwood, police said. | orovillemr.com | ||
6239 | Christopher Blake | 49 | Male | European-American/White | 06/12/2007 | El Centro | CA | 32.786776 | -115.5654938 | El Centro Police Department | An officer shot Christopher Blake twice as he wielded a skillet in a threatening manner, police said. | sandiegouniontribune.com | ||
6240 | William E. Rickey | 47 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/12/2007 | Hannibal | MO | 39.69125 | -91.3865231 | Hannibal Police Department | William E. Rickey reportedly killed himself during a two-hour standoff with police. At around 4:25 p.m. police received a call from Rickey, who threatened to harm himself. | google.com | ||
6241 | Denise Nicole Glasco | 24 | Female | African-American/Black | 06/12/2007 | Las Vegas | NV | 36.196212 | -115.1604299 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | Las Vegas officers shot and killed a woman under the influence of PCP who lunged at them with a knife at a busy intersection in West Las Vegas. Earlier attempts to subdue Denise Nicole Glasco, 24, with less-than-lethal force were unsuccessful. Police encountered Glasco after receiving a call that she was causing a disturbance at a fast food restaurant and had a young child with her. | google.com | ||
6242 | Steven Joseph Wusstig | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 06/12/2007 | Lake Havasu City | AZ | 34.5071891 | -114.3311825 | Mohave County Sheriff's Office | Sgt. Doug Schuster was searching along a utility easement when Wusstig opened fire on him from behind some bushes, police said. Wusstig escaped from the Kingman jail annex a few days earlier. Schuster shot and killed him. | trivalleycentral.com | ||
6237 | Mark Cliver | 50 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/11/2007 | Topeka | KS | 38.9905082 | -95.687229 | Topeka Police Department | Mark Cliver, who was celebrating his 50th birthday, reportedly stabbed his neighbor, and then died in a fiery crash during a police pursuit involving Lt. Darin Scott and officers Derrick Frisby, Adam Arensdorf and Patrick Salmon. | cjonline.com | ||
6232 | Israel Guerrero | 29 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/10/2007 | San Juan Bautista | CA | 36.8414695 | -121.4905041 | San Benito County Sheriff's Office | Israel Guerrero died Sgt. Mike Rodrigues shot him in the stomach during an altercation with deputies in which he was also tasered twice, struck with a baton and pepper-sprayed him. | sanbenitocountytoday.com | ||
6233 | Shawn Lamond Watson | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/10/2007 | San Bernardino | CA | 34.1159703 | -117.2555127 | San Bernardino Police Department | Officer Jonathan Plummer shot Shawn Lamond Watson when he threatened him with a handgun, police said. | sbsun.com | ||
6234 | Richard Joseph Verrett | 50 | Male | European-American/White | 06/10/2007 | San Antonio | TX | 29.558185 | -98.3677819 | San Antonio Police Department | Officers Mario Baker and A. Ramirez arrested Verrett for family violence. Verrett went peacefully. Later, he became unresponsive in the patrol vehicle. Officers called paramedics. Verrett was pronounced dead at a hospital. | google.com | ||
6235 | Denise Gerzen | 35 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/10/2007 | Hometown | IL | 41.7345813 | -87.7293361 | Chicago Police Department | Denise Gerzen died in a crash after a Harley Davidson driven by off-duty officer Eugene Bikulcius, who was DUI, hit a Dodge Charger, whose driver was also DUI. Gerzen was on the back of the motorcycle after she and Bikulcius left a neighborhood bar at about 1:50 a.m. The Harley struck the Dodge as its driver, Carol Miller, made an illegal left turn. Miller, 49, was arrested for misdemeanor DUI. Bikukcius' BAC was reportedly 0.24, but it wasn't until November 2008 that he was charged with misdemeanor drunk driving. Prosecutors said they believed police did not properly investigate the crash. | abc7chicago.com | ||
6236 | Milton Rey | 18 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/10/2007 | Marrero | LA | 29.8788323 | -90.0984676 | New Orleans Police Department | Off-duty officer Corey Clark shot and killed Milton Rey when Rey allegedly attempted to carjack Clark's personal vehicle outside a Marrero Walgreens. | nola.com | ||
6229 | Johnell Patrick | 35 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/09/2007 | Houston | TX | 29.846454 | -95.2759839 | Houston Police Department | Patrick, drunk and high on cocaine, resisted arrest after a complaint that he displayed erratic behavior. Officers arrested and hogtied him. According to an autopsy, Patrick died in jail due to cocaine toxicity. The autopsy also noted blunt force injuries and broken ribs. HPD Internal Affairs Division and Harris County District Attorney's Office investigated. The death was not referred to a grand jury. HPD does not permit hogtying. | houstontx.gov | ||
6230 | Donald Ray Skinner | 49 | Male | European-American/White | 06/09/2007 | Atlanta | GA | 33.6407763 | -84.444326 | Atlanta State Farmers Market Police Department | Skinner was shot and killed by | inquisitr.com | ||
6231 | Shannon W. Kraft | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 06/09/2007 | Chicago | IL | 41.9711482 | -87.8386103 | Chicago Police Department | Officers responding to a domestic disturbance call arrived at Kraft's apartment. They found a woman outside, Kraft's girlfriend, who said he was inside, and he might harm himself. He held both a machete and a serrated knife. He wouldn't give them up, so he was shot to death. | chicagotribune.com | ||
6224 | Shannon Miller | 33 | Male | European-American/White | 06/08/2007 | Corona | CA | 33.8606853 | -117.6009355 | Corona Police Department | Police shot and killed Shannon Miller during a standoff on a cul-de-sac. | google.com | ||
6225 | Javier Valdivia-Valdivia | 23 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/08/2007 | Buford | GA | 34.1089126 | -84.0023189 | Gwinnett County Police Department | Valdivia waved a knife in a convenience store stole a police car and crashed it into a pickup truck before being shot and killed by a Gwinnett County police officer. | google.com | ||
6226 | Noel Tomlin | 53 | Male | European-American/White | 06/08/2007 | Newton | KS | 38.0500372 | -97.3599823 | Newton Police Department | Tomlin pointed gun at officer conducting a welfare check. Tomlin was then shot and killed. | dropbox.com | ||
6227 | Aaron F. Zylstra | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 06/08/2007 | Palm Bay | FL | 28.0371527 | -80.5846634 | Palm Bay Police Department | Zylstra met up with a old childhood friend, socialized with him at a bar until 2 a.m., then drove to Palm Bay to buy crack. The two pulled onto a side street to smoke it. Two police vehicles--a marked cruiser and an unmarked van--intercepted Zylstra's car after observing it drive without headlights. An attempted traffic stop ended with Zylstra shot to death while trying to escape. A case questioning the legality of the shooting reached the Eleventh Circuit. | leagle.com | ||
6228 | Jose Ramos Alvarez | 30 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/08/2007 | Yakima | WA | 46.589703 | -120.5107627 | Yakima Police Department | Alvarez was shot during fight with police during which Alvarez produced a pistol. Police were attempting to arrest Alvarez as the prime suspect of a recent murder. | seattletimes.com | ||
21155 | Steven Roger Vilk | 35 | Male | European-American/White | 06/08/2007 | Detroit | MI | 42.4473188 | -82.9990459 | Warren Police Department | A chase reportedly started after an officer tried to pull over Steven Roger Vilk's motorcycle for speeding on Eight Mile in Warren. The pursuit lasted for about a mile until Vilk crashed on Detroit's northeast side. Vilk flew off his motorcycle and struck some shrubs and the ground. He died from his injuries. | macombdaily.com | ||
22663 | Stacy Adam Panter | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 06/08/2007 | Bedford | VA | 37.4215266 | -79.4926538 | Bedford County Sheriff's Office | Panter was riding his motorcycle when he illegally passed an unmarked police car at a high rate of speed, according to police. The deputy attempted a traffic stop, and Panter sped up. Panter then lost control of the motorcycle and crashed and died two weeks later. | roanoke.com | ||
6220 | James R. Waller | 18 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/07/2007 | Fenton | MI | 42.7930284 | -83.7052323 | Fenton Police Department | Adam J. Powell and James R. Waller were two of three young men chased out of a Taco Bell in the early morning hours, apparently drunk, causing minor trouble. A responding local officer saw their Blazer and gave chase. After a brief pursuit the driver lost control and crashed into another restaurant, killing both. | mlive.com | ||
6221 | Adam J. Powell | 18 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/07/2007 | Fenton | MI | 42.792893 | -83.7047303 | Fenton Police Department | Adam J. Powell and James R. Waller were two of three young men chased out of a Taco Bell in the early morning hours, apparently drunk, causing minor trouble. A responding local officer saw their Blazer and gave chase. After a brief pursuit the driver lost control and crashed into another restaurant, killing both. | mlive.com | ||
6222 | Eric Harold Lockwood | 40 | Male | European-American/White | 06/07/2007 | Osceola | IA | 41.0332219 | -93.767764 | Osceola Police Department | Police approached Lockwood, on the edge of the town square in the afternoon, because he was holding a .357 handgun and had fired a shot through an apartment window. Lockwood opened fire on the police, the police returned fire, and fatally shot him. | radioiowa.com | ||
6223 | Miguel Angel Martinez | 32 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/07/2007 | Corpus Christi | TX | 28.4715243 | -98.1199793 | Nueces County Sheriff's Office | Ramirez, wielding and 18-inch machete, stopped traffic on Interstate 37. Deputy Burl Smith responded, telling Ramirez to drop the weapon. Ramirez approached him. Deputy Smith fired once. Ramirez continued to advance 25 feet as Deputy Smith fired another 12 rounds, striking Ramirez 10 times and killing him. Ramirez's family filed a lawsuit. | valleymorningstar.com | ||
6219 | Ronald Neal Joseph Jr. | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/06/2007 | Las Vegas | NV | 36.1145521 | -115.2160832 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | A suspect in the robbing of a man at gunpoint at a convenience store on West Flamingo Road, Ronald Neal Joseph Jr., 24, ran in the direction of Las Vegas officers and was shot and killed. Questions are raised at an inquest as to whether Joseph was running toward or from officers. | google.com | ||
6211 | Edward "Eddie" Mies | 35 | Male | European-American/White | 06/05/2007 | Shingle Springs | CA | 38.6494814 | -120.9421287 | El Dorado County Sheriff's Office | Deputies Todd Carver, Melissa Meekma, Jon Yaws and Greg Murphy shot Eddie Mies, who reportedly wounded Meekma, Yaws and Murphy during a shootout that began after Mies killed his father. | tahoedailytribune.com | ||
6212 | William Robert Hardies | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 06/05/2007 | Castle Rock | WA | 46.2729069 | -122.905547 | Castle Rock Police Department | Police serving a search warrant located Hardies inside a garage he rented but refused to come out and said he had a pistol. SWAT team fired chemicals inside and he rushed out holding a club. Officers fired and killed him. | tdn.com | ||
6213 | Nathon James Morgan | 22 | Male | European-American/White | 06/05/2007 | Harrisburg | IL | 37.738783 | -88.634151 | Saline County Sheriff's Office | Nathon James Morgan was killed after his 2004 Honda sport motorcycle crashed while he was being pursued by deputies. According to police, the chase began after deputies responded to a report of about a dozen motorcyclists doing "wheelies" and "burn-outs" on Old State Route 13. Morgan crashed at the end of the road, a few hundred yards into Williamson County, police said. | kfvs12.com | ||
6214 | Donna Lynn Rouse | 39 | Female | Race unspecified | 06/05/2007 | Jonesboro | AR | 35.8511237 | -90.6864126 | Jonesboro Police Department | James Rouse shot and killed his estranged wife, Donna Rouse, then fatally shot himself, police said, ending a hostage standoff with police of more than 12 hours. | google.com | ||
6215 | James Robert Rouse | 43 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/05/2007 | Jonesboro | AR | 35.8511237 | -90.6864126 | Jonesboro Police Department | James Rouse shot and killed his estranged wife, Donna Rouse, then fatally shot himself, police said, ending a hostage standoff with police of more than 12 hours. | google.com | ||
6216 | Wilford Asher | 52 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/05/2007 | Waveland | MS | 30.3033281 | -89.3736424 | Waveland Police Department | For some unknown reason, Wilford Asher got into a nearly four hour gunfight and standoff with Waveland Police. During the exchange of gunfire, Officer Charlie Lipps shot himself in the foot. At around 2 a.m., when police stormed into Asher's home, they reportedly found him lying in a pool of blood. "The victim took his own life," Waveland Police Chief Jimmy Varnell said. "What I think it was, I think it was Katrina syndrome. He lost everything he had like everybody else. And he just couldn't cope with it," Asher's brother said. | blogspot.com | ||
6217 | Jay Martin Murphy | 42 | Male | European-American/White | 06/05/2007 | Albuquerque | NM | 35.0559128 | -106.6301291 | Albuquerque Police Department | Jay Martin Murphy, 42, was killed after barricading himself inside an Albuquerque home with his teenage daughter, authorities said. He was armed with a knife and at one point threw bottles at officers, police said. | abqtrib.com | ||
6218 | Lynn Davis Smith | 43 | Female | Race unspecified | 06/05/2007 | Whitehouse | TX | 32.221933 | -95.227807 | Whitehouse Police Department | Smith's parents arrived home and interrupted her as she prepared crack cocaine over a stove. She attacked them and her husband with a knife. Officer Trent Richardson responded. He told Smith to drop the knife. She tried to stab him. Officer Richardson shot Smith once in the chest, killing her. The Texas Ranger Division investigated. Smith, who was bipolar, had been released from a mental institution a day before. The shooting was not listed in the Texas Custodial Deaths Report as of Jan. 23, 2016. | ksla.com | ||
21902 | Sixto L. Martinez | 21 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/05/2007 | New Brunswick | NJ | 40.4922584 | -74.4401367 | New Brunswick Police Department | Officer Patrick Evans responded to a domestic violence call. He was shot and wounded and Sixto Martinez was shot and killed in the gunfight. | google.com | ||
6208 | Peter Eugene Stewart | 26 | Male | Native American/Alaskan | 06/04/2007 | Hoopa | CA | 41.2021879 | -123.9449307 | Humboldt County Sheriff's Office | Peter Stewart died from smoke inhalation after deputy Jamie Barney threw chemical grenades inside a rural home, which then burned down during a more than 24-hour standoff on the Hoopa Tribal Reservation. | times-standard.com | ||
6209 | Hector Montoya | 22 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/04/2007 | Stockton | CA | 37.916866 | -121.23612 | Stockton Police Department | Police shot and killed Hector Montoya when he leveled a sawed-off shotgun in officers' direction, police said. | sandiegouniontribune.com | ||
6210 | Melvin Edgardo Bonilla | 31 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/04/2007 | Sylmar | CA | 34.3212559 | -118.4959382 | California Highway Patrol, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department | Melvin Edgardo Bonilla reportedly began pacing on the Santa Clarita interchange as if he was going to jump. At around 11 a.m. CHP officers arrived, and were later joined by LASD crisis negotiators. The officers tried to convince Bonilla not to jump, but he eventually did after 3 hours of discussion. Bonilla landed about 200 feet below the freeway overpass and died at about 2 p.m. "This one really affected me," said David Pokorny, a CHP investigator and the second officer to arrive at the scene. "We established a rapport. He trusted me." | dailynews.com | ||
22662 | Kiernan Edward Nolan | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 06/04/2007 | Winchester | VA | 39.201723 | -78.337321 | Frederick County Sheriff's Office | Kiernan E. Nolan was killed in a struggle with Deputy Richard F. "Ricky" Brill. Brill alleged Nolan attacked him with his baton. | nvdaily.com | ||
6206 | Christopher Michael Miller | 26 | Male | European-American/White | 06/03/2007 | Bedias | TX | 30.708698 | -95.8967041 | Grimes County Sheriff's Office | Sheriff Jason Smith responded to reports that Christopher Miller of College Station was walking down the road unclothed. Smith told Miller, 26, to lie on the ground. Miller initially complied, but later officials say he jumped up and started yelling. Miller quickly advanced toward Smith and when Miller refused to back down, Smith fired three shots hitting Miller twice in the chest. | kbtx.com | ||
6207 | Kevin Alexander Brown | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/03/2007 | Austin | TX | 30.2754194 | -97.7011577 | Austin Police Department | Sergeant Michael Olsen and Officer Ivan Ramos responded to a complaint about a man with a gun at Chester's Nightclub, a new establishment that had been the subject of constant complaints since it opened. When they confronted Brown in the parking lot of the nightclub, Brown ran. Sergeant Olsen shot Brown twice in the back, killing him. A gun was found at the scene. Chief Art Acevedo fired Sergeant Olsen. | austinchronicle.com | ||
23078 | Jeremy Kyle | 27 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/03/2007 | Cordova | TN | 35.1581559 | -89.8273417 | Memphis Police Department | Off-duty police officer Jeremy Kyle kicked in the door of his ex-girlfriend's house, police said. Officer Teresita Watson, 27, told detectives that Kyle walked into her bedroom and pointed a gun at her and another man that was with her. Justin Davis, 22, shot and killed Kyle. | wmcactionnews5.com | ||
6197 | Jerry Guildwin Choate | 54 | Male | European-American/White | 06/02/2007 | Kountze | TX | 30.4212051 | -94.4007508 | Hardin County Sheriff's Office | Deputy John S. Williams served a warrant on Choate at his residence. Choate became unresponsive in the patrol vehicle. Deputy Williams requested that paramedics meet him at the sally port of Hardin County Detention Center. Choate died of a pulmonary embolism. | google.com | ||
6198 | Robert Grzywaczewski | 42 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/02/2007 | Parma | OH | 41.4074404 | -81.7549723 | Cleveland Clinic Police Department | Cleveland Clinic police officer Robert Grzywaczewski shot and killed his girlfriend, Mary C. Lyons, before turning the gun on himself, Parma police said. | cleveland19.com | ||
6199 | Mary C. Lyons | 27 | Female | Race unspecified | 06/02/2007 | Parma | OH | 41.4074404 | -81.7549723 | Cleveland Clinic Police Department | Cleveland Clinic police officer Robert Grzywaczewski shot and killed his girlfriend, Mary C. Lyons, before turning the gun on himself, Parma police said. | cleveland19.com | ||
6200 | Aaron Roe | 23 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/02/2007 | Ironton | OH | 38.501591 | -82.6458547 | Ironton Police Department | Roe drowned when he jumped in the river to escape police. | irontontribune.com | ||
6201 | Randy Allen Maraccini | 39 | Male | European-American/White | 06/02/2007 | Atlantic | IA | 41.4093412 | -95.0174307 | Atlantic Police Department, Cass County Sheriff's Office | APD officers and CCSD deputies arrived at around 6:30 p.m. to serve a search warrant for drugs at Randy Allen Maraccini's house. Maraccini answered the door and allegedly lunged at an officer with a knife, cutting him on the wrist. Maraccini then ran through the house and jumped out a window. Police chased Maraccini on foot for about half a mile until Maraccini walked down an embankment into a gully filled with shallow water. According to police, the officers were talking to Maraccini when he stabbed himself in the chest, pulled the knife out and dropped it. He died at a hospital. | wowt.com | ||
6202 | Name withheld by police | Male | Race unspecified | 06/02/2007 | Abbeville | AL | 31.5713179 | -85.2479295 | Abbeville Police Department | An unnamed man was killed when a car crashed while fleeing police in Abbevillle. | wsfa.com | |||
6203 | Leslie Cox | 22 | Male | European-American/White | 06/02/2007 | Evarts | KY | 36.8629065 | -83.1957118 | Harlan County Sheriff's Office | A special deputy fired his gun while trying to break up a lakeside crowd, fatally shot Cox in the head, and maintained that he'd been justified. Many witnesses disputed his story and there were suggestions of a personal grudge. The shooter was charged with manslaughter, one of the rare cases with an officer indicted for a line-of-duty killing. After much legal maneuvering the shooter was acquitted in 2010. | wkyt.com | ||
6204 | Christopher Michael Simpson | 41 | Male | European-American/White | 06/02/2007 | Panama City Beach | FL | 30.2992224 | -85.852961 | Bay County Sheriff's Office | Simpson and a 28-year-old female accomplice started in Louisiana with a week-long string of burglaries. They fled to Florida, stealing then abandoning a total of three different cars, breaking into a house, and stealing weapons. Simpson going solo was tracked on foot to a wildlife management area, where he shot at a deputy closing in. The deputy returned fire and fatally wounded him with three shots to the chest. | wjhg.com | ||
6205 | Darrell Gragert | 42 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/02/2007 | Houston | TX | 29.7012005 | -95.6525442 | Harris County Sheriff's Office | According to HCSO, Deputy A. Waybright, who had served for five years, approached Gragert's grey El Camino. Gragert exited the vehicle and said that he was having car trouble. Deputy Waybright asked for identification. Gragert said he would get it, stepped into his vehicle, started the engine and reached behind his seat. Deputy Waybright drew his pistol and told Gragert to show his hands. Gragert, steering, said he could not. Deputy Waybright fatally shot Gragert. | chron.com | ||
6193 | Tabari L. Barnes | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/01/2007 | Highland | CA | 34.1062118 | -117.2086486 | San Bernardino Police Department | Officers David Green, Adam Affrunti and Von Verbanic shot and killed Tabari Barnes and Isaiah Henderson, who held guns after a high-speed chase, police said. | mercurynews.com | ||
6194 | Isaiah Henderson | 21 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/01/2007 | Highland | CA | 34.1062118 | -117.2086486 | San Bernardino Police Department | Officers David Green, Adam Affrunti and Von Verbanic shot and killed Tabari Barnes and Isaiah Henderson, who held guns after a high-speed chase, police said. | mercurynews.com | ||
6195 | Mario Cabrera Linares | 40 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/01/2007 | La Paloma | TX | 26.0509431 | -97.6779252 | Cameron County Sheriff's Office | A SWAT team arrested David Sepulveda at his trailer on drug-related warrants. The team went to the neighboring trailer. Sepulveda's bodyguard, Linares, emerged from the neighboring trailer with an AK-47 style rifle and shot Deputy Angel Perez in the mouth, wounding him. SWAT deputies fatally shot Linares. | brownsvilleherald.com | ||
6196 | Arthur Moss | 27 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/01/2007 | Montgomery | AL | 32.3494939 | -86.417462 | Alabama Department of Public Safety | Officials said that a state trooper attempted to pull over a car and a chase began. Moss crashed his vehicle on Old Selma Road in Montgomery, and two other cars crashed as a result. Moss's car caught fire and he died in the crash. Two other people were also taken to the hospital with minor injuries. | wsfa.com | ||
6191 | William Louis Florez | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 05/31/2007 | Ogden | UT | 41.214676 | -111.9713938 | Layton Police Department, Ogden Police Department | The Strike Force, Layton Sgt. Travis Homer, Ogden officer Jacob Sube, was serving a no-knock warrant at Florez's home after undercover officers bought meth and a gun from him. Homer was at the living room window when Florez appeared in the doorway and pointed a gun at Homer. Homer fired and missed; Sube fired twice and killed Florez. The gun was a BB gun replica of a semi-automatic handgun. | sltrib.com | ||
6192 | Benito A. Gonzalez | 40 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/31/2007 | Escondido | CA | 33.2190985 | -117.110593 | U.S. Border Patrol | Gonzalez is said to have approached a lone US Border Patrol agent in a park-and-ride lot after the interception of a van-full of undocumented workers. According to the agent, Gonzalez provided a fictitious name, started a physical struggle, then went for the agent's gun. The agent was compelled to shoot him to death. Gonzalez had no criminal record, was unarmed, was unconnected with the intercepted van, and was mis-labelled an illegal in the first incident reports. His reported appearance and behavior here remains a mystery. | utsandiego.com | ||
23077 | Daniel E. Pfeffer | 18 | Male | European-American/White | 05/31/2007 | Maryville | TN | 35.737017 | -83.991593 | Maryville Police Department | Officers Ronnie Pryor and Dwight Porter shot and killed Daniel Pfeffer at a CVS pharmacy when he allegedly tried to rob the store and rushed police with a knife and hatchet. | google.com | ||
6186 | Juan Sanchez Jr. | 21 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/30/2007 | Huntington Park | CA | 33.9709793 | -118.2106494 | Huntington Park Police Department | Officer Miguel Navia shot Juan Sanchez Jr. in the head in Huntington Park. | latimes.com | ||
6187 | Anthony Smashum | 41 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/30/2007 | Savannah | GA | 32.0509849 | -81.0843285 | Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department | Smashum was shot while climbing fence to escape from police. Officers approached Smashum attempting to arrest him on a warrant. Smashum fought with officers before fleeing. The officer was initially charged with murder, he plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter and finally pulled three months in jail. | savannahnow.com | ||
6188 | Andres Avita | 21 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/30/2007 | Henderson | NV | 36.0216104 | -114.970511 | Henderson Police Department | A woman called police saying her daughter's estranged husband, identified as Andres Avita, was possibly in her daughter's bedroom, and he wasn't supposed to be there. Shots were also heard coming from the room. Police arrived and evacuated the house, aside from the daughter's bedroom. An officer tried to kick in the bedroom door, but his foot became stuck. Avita fired multiple times, hitting the officer once in the foot. Several officers returned fire. A robot operated by the SWAT team entered the room to find Avita dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His estranged wife, Naira Villarreal-Gonzalez, 21, was found dead from gunshot and stab wounds that investigators determined came from Avita. | reviewjournal.com | ||
6189 | Sidney Clanton | 50 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/30/2007 | Capitol Heights | MD | 38.8690141 | -76.8528602 | Prince George's County Sheriff's Office | Kevin McCarter and Sidney Clanton were the two fatalities among other injuries suffered by innocent motorists as a result of a county officer's 120-MPH vehicle chase of a motorcyclist ending in an eight-car pileup. Fifteen others were wounded. The cyclist's only crime was speeding. The officer was indicted but acquitted. | washingtonpost.com | ||
6190 | Kevin McCarter | 49 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/30/2007 | Capitol Heights | MD | 38.8690141 | -76.8528602 | Prince George's County Sheriff's Office | Kevin McCarter and Sidney Clanton were the two fatalities among other injuries suffered by innocent motorists as a result of a county officer's 120-MPH vehicle chase of a motorcyclist ending in an eight-car pileup. Fifteen others were wounded. The cyclist's only crime was speeding. The officer was indicted but acquitted. | washingtonpost.com | ||
20126 | Daviay Legrand | 4 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/30/2007 | Allentown | PA | 40.6012875 | -75.4943018 | Allentown Police Department | Officers Brett Guth and John Buckwalter's cruisers collided at the intersection of Chew and Seventh streets while responding to a call. One of their vehicles rebounded from the crash and struck Jason Marcelle as he tried to move Daviay Legrand. Marcelle was injured, and Legrand died instantly. | lehighvalleylive.com | ||
6183 | Ramel Lemeul Henderson | 51 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/29/2007 | San Diego | CA | 32.698264 | -117.110998 | San Diego Police Department | Ramel Henderson reportedly lost consciousness as police attempted to hogtie him during a struggle involving officers Maruisz Csas, Steve Bourasa, Randy Burgess, Robert Clark, Mike Hall, Dave Hustad, Robert Leffler, Eric Miller, Victor Rodriquez and Akaan Thomas. | sandiego.gov | ||
6184 | Delbert Jennings Sr. | 42 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/29/2007 | Earlimart | CA | 35.8909101 | -119.2742713 | Tulare County Sheriff's Office | Delbert Jennings Jr. was found dead inside a trailer after three-hour standoff, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. | recorderonline.com | ||
6185 | Guadalupe Perez | 24 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/29/2007 | El Paso | TX | 31.7748442 | -106.3793053 | El Paso Police Department | Perez drove a van through a parking lot, dragging a sergeant along with him. The sergeant fatally shot Perez. | google.com | ||
23076 | Dexter Rashad Brown | 17 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/29/2007 | Arlington | TN | 35.2756068 | -89.6966852 | Shelby County Sheriff's Office, Bartlett Police Department | Dexter Brown opened fire at a Kawasaki dealership in Bartlett, killing one employee and wounding another. Soon after, he was killed when his vehicle overturned as he tried to flee Shelby County authorities. | thehuddle.com | ||
6182 | Jamar Witherspoon | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/28/2007 | Los Angeles | CA | 33.9555652 | -118.2738925 | Los Angeles Police Department | Officers responded to two shootings, and they allege that Witherspoon ran when he saw officers, rushed them, and had a gun in his belt, so the officers shot him to death. | latimes.com | ||
20488 | Val Joe Strong | 41 | Male | European-American/White | 05/28/2007 | Ruby | WI | 45.2463369 | -91.003219 | Rusk County Sheriff's Office | Val Joe Strong was suspected of bank robbery. He was shot and killed after a chase when he refused to show his hands. He was unarmed. | riverfallsjournal.com | ||
21619 | Marcus D. Skinner | 22 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/28/2007 | Seat Pleasant | MD | 38.9003848 | -76.9039678 | Fairmount Heights Police Department, Prince George's County Police Department | Marcus Skinner died after being tasered for two minutes by police. He was unarmed during the incident. | masscops.com | ||
6174 | Name withheld by police | Race unspecified | 05/27/2007 | Colorado Springs | CO | 38.770965 | -104.7588635 | El Paso County Sheriff's Office | A vehicle crashed after a high speed chase, ejecting two people, one of whom died. | google.com | ||||
6175 | Qayyim N. Moore | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/27/2007 | Cincinnati | OH | 39.1260644 | -84.56091 | Cincinnati Police Department | Moore stole some ice cream and fired on police. There was a running gun battle going several blocks east of the store before he was shot and killed. | google.com | ||
6176 | Christian Alexander Lackey | 12 | Male | European-American/White | 05/27/2007 | Knob Noster | MO | 38.7903135 | -93.5501624 | Knob Noster Police Department | About 5 in the morning on a Sunday Walter R. Rivers refused to stop for a local officer, and drew her into a five-mile pursuit on a country highway. At speeds of 80 to 100 MPH Rivers ultimately lost control of his stolen pickup and drove into a tree, which killed him and young passengers Stephen K. Hayes and Christian Lackey. | semissourian.com | ||
6177 | Stephen K. Hayes | 13 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/27/2007 | Knob Noster | MO | 38.7903135 | -93.5501624 | Knob Noster Police Department | About 5 in the morning on a Sunday Walter R. Rivers refused to stop for a local officer, and drew her into a five-mile pursuit on a country highway. At speeds of 80 to 100 MPH Rivers ultimately lost control of his stolen pickup and drove into a tree, which killed him and young passengers Stephen K. Hayes and Christian Lackey. | semissourian.com | ||
6178 | Walter R. Rivers | 31 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/27/2007 | Knob Noster | MO | 38.7903135 | -93.5501624 | Knob Noster Police Department | About 5 in the morning on a Sunday Walter R. Rivers refused to stop for a local officer, and drew her into a five-mile pursuit on a country highway. At speeds of 80 to 100 MPH Rivers ultimately lost control of his stolen pickup and drove into a tree, which killed him and young passengers Stephen K. Hayes and Christian Lackey. | semissourian.com | ||
6179 | Walid Chahine | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 05/27/2007 | Somerville | MA | 42.3969299 | -71.1122696 | Massachusetts State Police | Taxicab driver Walid Chahine and his fare Paul Farris were both fatally injured in a vehicle collision with a speeding black Mercury Mountaineer with a state trooper in pursuit. Farris died immediately, Chahine about a week later, and another female passenger was critically injured. The Mercury was being pursued for erratic driving. | middlesexda.com | ||
6180 | Paul Farris | 23 | Male | European-American/White | 05/27/2007 | Somerville | MA | 42.3969299 | -71.1122696 | Massachusetts State Police | Taxicab driver Walid Chahine and his fare Paul Farris were both fatally injured in a vehicle collision with a speeding black Mercury Mountaineer with a state trooper in pursuit. Farris died immediately, Chahine about a week later, and another female passenger was critically injured. The Mercury was being pursued for erratic driving. | middlesexda.com | ||
6181 | Brian William Skold | 28 | Male | European-American/White | 05/27/2007 | Osakis Township | MN | 45.8337642 | -95.1554449 | Alexandria Police Department | According to the Star Tribune, responding to a call about an intoxicated man with a weapon, a deputy located Skold's vehicle and tried to negotiate with him. Police said Skold fired his shotgun and police returned fire. | twincities.com | ||
6172 | Robert Kirk | 25 | Male | European-American/White | 05/26/2007 | Akron | OH | 41.0416408 | -81.5718665 | Akron Police Department | Kirk was killed in a car crash after fleeing Akron police who tried to pull him over for a minor traffic violation. Kirk had a felony warrant from the Summit County sheriff on a parole violation in a racketeering case. | google.com | ||
6173 | Cheryl L. Creason | 57 | Female | European-American/White | 05/26/2007 | Kansas City | MO | 39.2401127 | -94.605342 | Kansas City Police Department | Creason threatened neighbors and her roommate. When police responded she left her house with a shotgun. Police fired beanbag rounds, but they had no effect. Police then shot and killed her. Her shotgun proved to be unloaded. | komu.com | ||
21903 | Edwin Cordero Jr. | 27 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/26/2007 | Perth Amboy | NJ | 40.5304274 | -74.2716723 | Perth Amboy Police Department | Edwin Cordero shot and killed Fabia Aguilar by shooting into an occupied vehicle. He shot and killed himself when police arrived. | google.com | ||
6169 | Steve Salinas | 47 | Male | Native American/Alaskan | 05/25/2007 | San Jose | CA | 37.3631525 | -121.9101457 | San Jose Police Department | Steve Salinas, who was unarmed and naked, died after officers beat, kicked and tasered him in room 119 at the Vagabond Inn. | mercurynews.com | ||
6170 | Tommy Ralph Gabriel | 52 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/25/2007 | Aromas | CA | 36.8812138 | -121.6326749 | San Benito County Sheriff's Office | Tommy Ralph Gabriel reportedly died of asphyxiation after he'd set his room on fire and pointed a gun at deputies, one of whom shot at him during a standoff. | sanbenitocountytoday.com | ||
6171 | Walter Canez | 48 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/25/2007 | Tucson | AZ | 32.1941072 | -110.9448216 | Tucson Police Department | A convenience store clerk flagged down an officer to tell him that a citizen had reported seeing a man waving a gun, police said. Officers Jeffrey Stover and Zachary Currier found a man matching the suspect's description and saw he had two guns inside his waistband. The man, later identified as Walter Canez, refused to show the officers his hands and he was shot and killed as he reached toward his waistband. | tucsonnewsnow.com | ||
6167 | Brian Pitzer | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 05/24/2007 | Creve Coeur | IL | 40.634177 | -89.615187 | Peoria County Sheriff's Office, East Peoria Police Department | Officer Chad LaCost shot Brian Pitzer twice in the back when he allegedly pointed a gun at police during a five-hour standoff. According to his mother, Pitzer was suicidal and depressed. Negotiators from the Central Illinois Emergency Response Team (CIERT) tried unsuccessfully to coax Pitzer to surrender. Pitzer left his house three times to speak with officers. The third time, Pitzer walked down the street while CIERT members snuck into his home. When Pitzer tried to re-enter his house, officers tasered Pitzer, but police said it was ineffective. An officer began to reload the Taser and CIERT members closed in on Pitzer. LaCost shot Pitzer when he allegedly raised his shotgun into a firing position. However, two witnesses said Pitzer had dropped the shotgun after being Tased. A Peoria County Coroner's jury decided that Pitzer's death was a suicide. | pjstar.com | ||
6168 | John R. Grover | 57 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/24/2007 | Montgomery | AL | 32.3660628 | -86.2107936 | Montgomery Police Department | John R. Grover apparently committed suicide in a Montgomery hotel as officers responded to an unrelated domestic violence call. | blogspot.com | ||
19767 | Darrell Schagene Sr. | 50 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/24/2007 | Raywick | KY | 37.5485618 | -85.4496138 | Kentucky State Police | Darrell Schagene, 50, was suspected of killing Kelly Sue Gaddie, 49, whose body was found at her Marion County home, police said. Police began a search for Schagene and received a report that he had returned to the house where the shooting took place. They surrounded it and tried to make contact with Schagene, but got no response. They later found Schagene dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. | google.com | ||
6163 | Gary Williams Sr. | 47 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/23/2007 | Proctor | AR | 35.1724262 | -90.1934568 | West Memphis Police Department | Despite a case of mistaken identity, Williams refused to stop for police, fled and eventually jumped off an I-55 overpass, killing himself. | kait8.com | ||
6164 | Joseph L. Ettleman | 39 | Male | European-American/White | 05/23/2007 | Omaha | NE | 41.2272218 | -95.9719052 | Omaha Police Department | Joseph L. Ettleman was killed when he allegedly refused to drop a 12-inch serrated knife and got within 8 feet of two officers who had responded to a domestic disturbance at his apartment. | wowt.com | ||
6165 | Typhoon Dodge | .58 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/23/2007 | Cut Off | LA | 29.4530865 | -90.3101028 | Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office | Albert Dwain Dodge and his infant son, Typhoon, were killed in a shootout with deputies. | dailycomet.com | ||
6166 | Albert Dwain Dodge | 29 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/23/2007 | Cut Off | LA | 29.4530865 | -90.3101028 | Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office | Albert Dwain Dodge and his infant son, Typhoon, were killed in a shootout with deputies. | dailycomet.com | ||
22660 | Randall Leroy Rollins | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/23/2007 | Alexandria | VA | 38.7773239 | -77.0792457 | Fairfax County Police Department | Randall Leroy Rollins "failed to comply with verbal commands and produced a handgun. He was shot several times by one officer, killing him. The police were at the motel on a drug-related criminal investigation. | google.com | ||
22661 | John A. Lee | 45 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/23/2007 | Stuarts Draft | VA | 38.0539654 | -79.0028293 | Augusta County Sheriff's Office | John Lee committed suicide when police came to question him about an alleged attempted rape. | dailyprogress.com | ||
6160 | Stephen Ryan Gibson | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/22/2007 | Raleigh | NC | 35.7554331 | -78.600145 | Wake County Sheriff's Office, North Carolina State Highway Patrol | Gibson's father had sought help on worries that his mentally disturbed son would hurt himself or somebody else. After Gibson stole a rental car, robbed a convenience store at gunpoint, and drew police on a 70-mile high-speed car chase across multiple counties, officers observed Gibson still holding his handgun and shot him to death. | wral.com | ||
6161 | Steven Richard Bolen | 43 | Male | European-American/White | 05/22/2007 | Portland | OR | 45.6005626 | -122.6608515 | Portland Police Bureau | Bolen was making suicidal threats. Confronted police with a shotgun. | oregonlive.com | ||
6162 | Tonnie Sylvester | 49 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/22/2007 | Gainesville | FL | 29.6602379 | -82.3113786 | Gainesville Police Department | Police were called, mid-morning, by a woman who'd locked herself in her own bathroom, with Sylvester roaming around and burglarizing her house. He'd had a long string of previous convictions for 13 similar crimes. Police arrived and confronted him in the kitchen of the house. After a physical struggle he was fatally shot once in the chest. | gainesville.com | ||
20489 | Steve Bucholtz | 54 | Male | European-American/White | 05/22/2007 | Milwaukee | WI | 43.006384 | -87.9070162 | Milwaukee Police Department | Police said they responded to a call for an attempted armed robbery and shots fired. A Milwaukee police officer approached Steve Bucholtz who pulled out a gun. He was shot and killed. | blogspot.com | ||
22049 | Kevin Dwayne Hill | 39 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/22/2007 | Knoxville | TN | 35.9870397 | -83.8938144 | Knoxville Police Department | Kevin Hill died after being tasered three times by police. He was unarmed during the incident. He allegedly fought with police and was tasered during the fight. Police said he died of "cocaine-induced excited delirium." | knoxnews.com | ||
6157 | Francisco Jimenez | 24 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/21/2007 | Chicago | IL | 41.7138417 | -87.5376924 | Chicago Police Department | Luis Nunez and Francisco Jimenez died when their Volkswagen Passat was struck by a fleeing Crown Victoria driven by Dwayne Becton, who also died. According to police, officers stopped an unmarked Ford Crown Victoria with municipal plates near 95th and Avenue N at around midnight. The officers were reportedly suspicious because of the car's tinted windows and because they saw a woman in the passenger seat. Becton allegedly sped away and crashed into the Volkswagen. The woman was treated for minor injuries and released. Police later determined that the plates were stolen from a vehicle assigned to Calumet Area detective headquarters. | chicagotribune.com | ||
6158 | Luis Nunez | 20 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/21/2007 | Chicago | IL | 41.7138417 | -87.5376924 | Chicago Police Department | Luis Nunez and Francisco Jimenez died when their Volkswagen Passat was struck by a fleeing Crown Victoria driven by Dwayne Becton, who also died. According to police, officers stopped an unmarked Ford Crown Victoria with municipal plates near 95th and Avenue N at around midnight. The officers were reportedly suspicious because of the car's tinted windows and because they saw a woman in the passenger seat. Becton allegedly sped away and crashed into the Volkswagen. The woman was treated for minor injuries and released. Police later determined that the plates were stolen from a vehicle assigned to Calumet Area detective headquarters. | chicagotribune.com | ||
6159 | Dwayne Becton | 31 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/21/2007 | Chicago | IL | 41.7138417 | -87.5376924 | Chicago Police Department | Luis Nunez and Francisco Jimenez died when their Volkswagen Passat was struck by a fleeing Crown Victoria driven by Dwayne Becton, who also died. According to police, officers stopped an unmarked Ford Crown Victoria with municipal plates near 95th and Avenue N at around midnight. The officers were reportedly suspicious because of the car's tinted windows and because they saw a woman in the passenger seat. Becton allegedly sped away and crashed into the Volkswagen. The woman was treated for minor injuries and released. Police later determined that the plates were stolen from a vehicle assigned to Calumet Area detective headquarters. | chicagotribune.com | ||
20490 | Timothy D. Lampton Jr. | 36 | Male | European-American/White | 05/21/2007 | Elkhorn | WI | 42.676617 | -88.491879 | Walworth County Sheriff's Office | Timothy D. Lampton was wanted by the Racine County Sheriff's Department for a hit-and-run crash. After a five-hour standoff, he was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head when police entered the home. | google.com | ||
6156 | Kristin Saragusa | 38 | Female | European-American/White | 05/20/2007 | Kansas City | KS | 39.0874408 | -94.6631895 | Kansas Highway Patrol | Kristin Saragusa died from injuries suffered in a head-on collision with a car fleeing the KHP. A trooper had reportedly clocked Charles A. Barker traveling 85-90 mph on I-635. Barker and a passenger allegedly threw two guns from the car windows. At about 3:40 p.m., Barker exited the interstate and drove into the westbound lanes of Kansas Avenue when he found the eastbound lanes blocked by traffic, and hit Saragusa's boyfriend's 2000 Subaru. Prosecutors charged the Barker, 23, with first-degree murder in the crash. | kristinsaragusa.com | ||
6153 | Nathan Ellry Noel | 37 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/19/2007 | La Mirada | CA | 33.882401 | -118.027276 | U.S. Marshals Service | Two federal marshals shot Nathan Ellry Noel when he fired at them in a La Mirada restaurant, police said. | fogcityjournal.com | ||
6154 | Ronald Ball | 60 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/19/2007 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.0209224 | -118.2736885 | Los Angeles Police Department | Police allege Ball ran from police, hid under a car, and when pulled out by an officer, pulled out a gun, and was shot to death. | latimes.com | ||
6155 | Jeremiah Dye | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/19/2007 | Oakland | CA | 37.7642896 | -122.1715768 | Oakland Police Department | Jeremiah Dye was killed in a crawlspace under an East Oakland house. Dye had run from police after his cousin shot and wounded an OPD officer during a traffic stop. | orovillemr.com | ||
9450 | Ernest Barber | 26 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/19/2007 | Philadelphia | PA | 39.924882 | -75.1577754 | Philadelphia Police Department | Police spotted Ernest Barber riding a bike with a "large bulge in his back." When they tried to stop the suspect, he fled, ditched the bike and ran into a residence on the 700 block of Hoffman. When officers attempted to gain entry to the home via the front door, the suspect hit the male cop in the right eye with the barrel of his gun, then tore out of the doorway, pushing past the officers. As police pursued the man east on Hoffman, he allegedly raised his weapon, at which point both officers shot and killed him. | southphillyreview.com | ||
19079 | Milisha Thompson | 35 | Female | African-American/Black | 05/19/2007 | Oklahoma City | OK | 35.4648218 | -97.5265037 | Oklahoma City Police Department | Milisha Thompson, 35, died after police used a Taser to subdue her outside the City Rescue Mission. | newsok.com | ||
6152 | Fermin Arzu | 41 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/18/2007 | Bronx | NY | 40.8186044 | -73.9000565 | City of New York Police Department | Honduran immigrant and musician Arzu, drunk, sideswiped several cars in the late evening in the neighborhood of an off-duty officer. The officer emerged from his residence, in plainclothes but carrying pistol and badge. For unexplained reasons the officer fired five times and fatally wounded the driver. The officer was convicted of manslaughter, a ruling later overturned. | nytimes.com | ||
6150 | Barbara T. Robbins | 63 | Female | Race unspecified | 05/17/2007 | Kennesaw | GA | 34.052303 | -84.556316 | Cobb County Police Department | Police were chasing a vehicle after an apparent burglary. it crossed the grassy median on I-575 and drove into the southbound lanes, police said. The station wagon hit a Buick, causing it to roll over. The wreck killed the Buick's driver, Barbara T. Robbins, and injured two of her passengers. | google.com | ||
6151 | Oliver Williams | 44 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/17/2007 | Flora | MS | 32.55997 | -90.245693 | Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol | Oliver Williams died after a chase in Madison County. Williams was a former Holmes County deputy and police chief of Goodman. Authorities say Williams may have been drinking and that's why he avoided a road block on Interstate 55. A chase ensued and Williams was killed when he crashed on Highway 51. | msnewsnow.com | ||
6146 | Bryant Todd Stokes | 34 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/16/2007 | Stone Mountain | GA | 33.8204266 | -84.1787818 | DeKalb County Police Department | Stokes was carrying a Bible and armed with a butcher knife, was threatening to kill people when officers responded. Officers asked him to drop the knife, then used pepper spray and their batons to subdue him, police said. When Stokes charged at one of the officers with the butcher knife, the officer fired. Stokes did not drop the knife and the officer fired again, killing Stokes. | google.com | ||
6147 | Tommy Glenn Smith | 39 | Male | European-American/White | 05/16/2007 | Dallas | TX | 32.7908287 | -96.7491436 | Dallas Police Department | According to DPD, Mesquite officers chased Smith into Dallas after he robbed a store, took a hostage and tried to escape in the hostage's vehicle. He made a stand on R.L. Thornton Freeway. Dallas officers responded. Officers Gerald Melgoza, Michael Fontenot, Mark Edwards and Artie Christian shot at Smith a total of 22 times. Smith died at the scene. | google.com | ||
6148 | Carlos Ornelas | 42 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/16/2007 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.272177 | -118.34509 | Los Angeles Police Department | Ornelas was shot by a police officers. Police said Ornelas was wielding a sword. A day earlier, he had attacked and cut another man with it. Police tracked him down to the wash, where a confrontation occurred.The officers shot him multiple times. Suspected church arsonist is fatally shot by police | latimes.com | ||
6149 | Songseumsack Tanovan | 53 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 05/16/2007 | Hillsboro | OR | 45.5135062 | -122.9127269 | Washington County Sheriff's Office | Tanovan's son called for medical help because his father showed symptoms of stroke: trouble speaking, disoriented, one side of his body numb, and he had drunk "every bottle of alcohol in the house that day". When the police arrived Tanovan went for his hunting guns and had a standoff with police, firing as many as 20 rounds. A sniper fatally shot him. | oregonlive.com | ||
6144 | Raymundo Guerrero Garcia | 33 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/15/2007 | Simi Valley | CA | 34.2545846 | -118.7346993 | Simi Valley Police Department | Raymundo Guerrero Garcia died nearly a week after senior officer Brian Murray tasered him 11 times during a struggle with Murray and senior officers Butch Hale and Rich Lamb, Sgt. James Buckley, and officers Chris Johnson, Matt Brill, Carl LeBlanc, Frank Mika, Brian Young. | vcstar.com | ||
6145 | Chance Shrum | 20 | Male | European-American/White | 05/15/2007 | Iola | KS | 37.9276194 | -95.3998469 | Iola Police Department | Unarmed, naked young man tasered to death. | iolaregister.com | ||
6143 | Brandon M. Halbach | 22 | Male | European-American/White | 05/14/2007 | Fort Dodge | IA | 42.4974694 | -94.1680158 | Iowa State Patrol | A state trooper reportedly clocked Brandon M. Halbach's motorcycle traveling 96 mph and gave chase. According to police, the trooper lost sight of the motorcycle after Halbach turned north onto a Webster County road. The motorcycle went off the road, down an embankment, hit a tree and then rolled several times. Halbach died at the scene. | radioiowa.com | ||
21620 | Terrell Heath | 31 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/14/2007 | Baltimore | MD | 39.3191455 | -76.5967274 | Baltimore Police Department | Terrell Heath died after being tasered by police. He was unarmed during the incident. He suffered a heart attack immediately after the incident. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead 100 minutes later. | baltimoresun.com | ||
6140 | Nickolas James Parrilli | 17 | Male | European-American/White | 05/13/2007 | Elizabeth | CO | 39.3850406 | -104.6068476 | Elbert County Sheriff's Office | Parrilli, 17, of Littleton died after the stolen Ford Expedition he was driving struck spikes that police had set out and rolled about eight times, police said. His girlfriend was severely injured. | denverpost.com | ||
6141 | Patrick D. Hagans | 42 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/13/2007 | Columbus | OH | 39.9648124 | -83.071686 | Franklin County Sheriff's Office | Deputy Jason V. Ratcliff used a Taser in an attempt to subdue Hagans, who reportedly fought with Ratcliff and officers from the Valleyview and Franklin Township police departments when they tried to arrest him for disorderly conduct. He died three days later. | dispatch.com | ||
6142 | Ricardo Benitez | 47 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/13/2007 | Meridian | ID | 43.6312363 | -116.4540579 | Meridian Police Department | Police were called by estranged wife because Benitez was at the house despite a restraining order. He came at officers with a knife. | google.com | ||
6136 | Jeffry Young | 54 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/12/2007 | Tacoma | WA | 47.2359725 | -122.3989773 | Puyallup Tribal Police Department | Young died after three tribal officers tried to subdue him at the tribe's Takopid Health Center. Tribal officials say Young was trying to sneak in by posing as a doctor. He was not a tribal member. | seattletimes.com | ||
6137 | John Paul "Bo" Young | 41 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/12/2007 | Bartholomew Township | AR | 33.4360031 | -91.5269147 | Arkansas State Police | Young killed Two children and a 23-year-old woman, and Young later killed himself during a standoff with Arkansas State Police. | google.com | ||
6138 | Alex Edil Rivera aka Alex Macario Rivera aka Hegnor Irias | 22 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/12/2007 | Houston | TX | 29.6670112 | -95.3156571 | Houston Police Department | According to HPD, Rivera pointed a pistol at an officer and refused to drop it. The officer fatally shot him. | google.com | ||
6139 | Ventura Saenz | 19 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/12/2007 | Compton | CA | 33.9016218 | -118.201994 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department | Officers say that they shot Saenz to death in a gun battle after a traffic stop for an illegal u-turn and a chase. | latimes.com | ||
19080 | Name withheld by police | Male | Race unspecified | 05/12/2007 | Shawnee | OK | 35.3617706 | -96.9829775 | Absentee Shawnee Tribal Police Department | A man was killed when he struck a metal gate following a brief high-speed chase with an Absentee Shawnee tribal police officer. | google.com | |||
6129 | Trajuan F. Johnson | 20 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/10/2007 | Columbus | OH | 39.9262899 | -82.886799 | Columbus Division of Police | Two men invaded an apartment to rob it. A woman escaped as police arrived. One man inside the apartment was killed. | dispatch.com | ||
6130 | Quinton Quinell Monroe | 23 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/10/2007 | Baltimore | MD | 39.23842 | -76.6098396 | Baltimore Police Department | Monroe, at 1:45 a.m. outside the Club Mate and Lounge, retrieved a loaded handgun from his car. He threatened one local officer working off-duty as security, and a second off-duty officer shot him to death. | baltimoresun.com | ||
6131 | Alejo Castaneda Gonzalez | 77 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/10/2007 | Houston | TX | 29.7295191 | -95.2829943 | Houston Police Department | According to HPD, Gonzalez pointed a pistol at officers during a narcotics investigation. They shot him. He died Feb. 3, 2008. | google.com | ||
6132 | Juan Velasco | 30 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/10/2007 | East Los Angeles | CA | 34.0131812 | -118.1443467 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department | Velasco tried to rob an off-duty deputy and beat the officer, who shot him to death even though he announced he was an officer. | latimes.com | ||
6133 | Andrew MacEarchern | 52 | Male | European-American/White | 05/10/2007 | El Segundo | CA | 33.9065282 | -118.3949134 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department | The officer was responding to a call about a man holding a knife, The officer said MacEarchern advanced toward him with the knife out and wouldn't drop it, and was shot to death. | latimes.com | ||
6134 | Guyatree Harpati aka Guiatree Harpati | 22 | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 05/10/2007 | Queens | NY | 40.6854239 | -73.8587406 | City of New York Police Department | Harpati was shot to death by her boyfriend, a serving NYPD transit cop, after an attempted reconciliation at a restaurant. The officer first tried to claim she was accidentally shot during an abortive street robbery. He was given 25 to life for manslaughter. | gothamist.com | ||
6135 | Wilfred James Hines | 46 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/10/2007 | West St. Paul | MN | 44.8952367 | -93.0812183 | West St. Paul Police Department | According to the Star Tribune, after robbing a credit union, Hines pointed a gun at officers and was shot. | bulletin-news.com | ||
6126 | John J. Rankin | 45 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/09/2007 | Cleveland | OH | 41.5053733 | -81.6153087 | Cleveland Police Department | The Dodge Caravan that Lawrence Ray was driving at a high rate of speed to elude police hit a Jeep Cherokee, killing its driver, 45-year-old John J. Rankin of Cleveland. | google.com | ||
6127 | Jacolbi Simpson | 21 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/09/2007 | Chicago | IL | 41.6926071 | -87.6210414 | Chicago Police Department | An off-duty officer had a gun stuck in his back by an armed robber. He surrendered $11, was asked if that was all he had, so he also gave over a book of stamps. The officer was able to distract the robber Simpson, draw his weapon, and fatally shoot him. | chicagotribune.com | ||
6128 | Richard Tyson | 20 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/09/2007 | Inglewood | CA | 33.9734964 | -118.36803 | Inglewood Police Department | Officers tried to stop Tyson on a bicycle for a municipal code violation, he ran, hid, the officer claims Tyson advanced toward him and reached for his belt, and the officer shot him several times. | latimes.com | ||
22659 | Michael Anthony Mullins | 42 | Male | European-American/White | 05/09/2007 | Fredericksburg | VA | 38.369831 | -77.465719 | Stafford County Sheriff's Office | Michael Anthony Mullins led Stafford deputies on a brief chase. Sgt. Alex Smith and Deputy George Hernandez pursued him about three miles north on the interstate before getting him to pull onto the right shoulder at the 136 mile marker. Before the deputies could get out of their vehicles, he pulled out a handgun and fatally shot himself in the head. | google.com | ||
6125 | Aaron Steele | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/08/2007 | Cleveland | OH | 41.4633618 | -81.7414105 | Cleveland Police Department | Officers shot to death Aaron Steele, 23, after they stopped his car for playing loud music and expired license plates. The officers said they shot Steele after he grabbed a loaded gun and pointed it at them. The officers involved were Patrolman Robert Miles, Detective Todd Staimpel, Detective William Van Verth. The shooting was ruled to be justified. | cleveland.com | ||
6120 | James Christopher Allen | Male | Race unspecified | 05/07/2007 | Alma | GA | 31.5393701 | -82.4623557 | Bacon County Sheriff's Office, Alma Police Department | James Christopher Allen died after being tasered as many as 18 times by police. He was unarmed during the incident. An officer went to Allen's home in response to a 911 call placed by Allen himself. Allen had told the operator that "demons were trying to get him." When the officer arrived on the scene Allen dove into the patrol car and grabbed the officer's shirt, saying that the officer "was a demon who needed to be killed." The officer forced Allen out of the car and ordered him to lie face down on the ground. Allen complied. A second officer arrived and began trying to handcuff Allen. But when Allen refused to put his hands behind his back, the two officers tasered him repeatedly in an attempt to make him comply. They eventually gave up, physically forced Allen into the handcuffs and placed him in the back seat of a patrol car. When the officers arrived at the police station, they discovered that Allen was unconscious in the back seat and that he had no pulse. Allen was pronounced dead at Bacon County Hospital. (Hoyt v. Cooks, 672 F.3d 972 (11th Cir. 2012) | amazonaws.com | |||
6121 | Roy Hamner | 59 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/07/2007 | Pearl | MS | 32.2829503 | -90.1124503 | Pearl Police Department | At around 4:20 p.m., an officer approached Roy Hamner on reports he was beating a woman in the CVS parking lot. Hamner allegedly refused to reply to the officer's commands to show I.D. After being hit with a taser, Hamner hit his head on the ground, was hospitalized, and died. | msnewsnow.com | ||
6122 | Robert A. Keske | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 05/07/2007 | Indian Rocks Beach | FL | 27.8831837 | -82.8451665 | Pinellas County Sheriff's Office | A county officer observed Keske behind the wheel of his pickup parked under a causeway bridge, reportedly flailing his arms and speaking nonsense. He answered an attempted contact by backing the pickup into the officer's car, then forward over a fence, then launched into a low-speed chase, all while deputies shot at his vehicle. Untouched by the bullets he stopped with flattened tires. Officers tasered him, he became unresponsive, and died in hospital shortly afterward. One of two local Taser deaths within two days. | tbo.com | ||
6123 | Anselme Biziyaremye | 33 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/07/2007 | Jacksonville | FL | 30.308006 | -81.5057735 | Jacksonville Sheriff's Office | Biziyaremye had killed his former wife in Orlando the previous day, and had come to wreak havoc on her friends and family in Jacksonville. Police, forewarned, were able to protect the family. Biziyaremye was still able to set a house fire and exchange gunshots with police before being fatally wounded. | orlandosentinel.com | ||
6124 | Michael Olveda | 28 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/07/2007 | San Antonio | TX | 29.373483 | -98.476505 | San Antonio Police Department | Olveda, unarmed, stood screaming outside of his brother's apartment. An officer asked Olveda for identification. Olveda became angry at the officer. Four officers, empty-handed, wrestled Olveda to the ground and handcuffed him. Olveda stopped breathing and died. The Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office found that Olveda, who had only nonfatal injuries from the struggle, died of excited delirium caused by cocaine intoxication. | infopop.net | ||
23090 | Thomas Earl Jones | 40 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/07/2007 | Birchwood | TN | 35.2501364 | -85.0318995 | Hamilton County Sheriff's Office | Hamilton County Sheriff's deputies Eston Pyle, Nathan Sampley and Denise Short simultaneously shot and killed car-theft suspect Thomas Earl Jones on a driveway in rural Hamilton County, piercing him with seven bullets as he allegedly lunged at Deputy Short with a knife. | timesfreepress.com | ||
6115 | Armando Robledo Jr. | 20 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/06/2007 | Corpus Christi | TX | 27.7132755 | -97.4058163 | Corpus Christi Police Department | Robledo and another man went into a Cadillac at an apartment parking complex. Officer Hernandez told them to step out of the Cadillac, believing they had caused a disturbance at a party. Robledo, the driver, rammed Officer Hernandez with the Cadillac. Officer Hernandez, who was knocked onto the hood, drew his sidearm and shot Robledo in the chest and neck. Officer Hernandez attempted CPR and called paramedics. Robledo died at Christus Spohn Medical Center. | caller.com | ||
6116 | Dougressa Elaine Crawford | 27 | Female | African-American/Black | 05/06/2007 | Corpus Christi | TX | 27.7256467 | -97.409102 | Corpus Christi Police Department | A complainant told dispatch that a woman attacked her and was beating on her office door. Responding officers found Crawford, foaming at the mouth, banging on a door and demanding money. Crawford ignored the officers. They assumed she was high and tried to take her to their patrol vehicle. Crawford kicked and spat at the officers until paramedics took her to Spohn Memorial Hospital, where she died the next day. | google.com | ||
6117 | Marnell Robertson Villarreal | 42 | Female | African-American/Black | 05/06/2007 | Houston | TX | 29.7558447 | -95.3674493 | Houston Police Department | Villarreal set off an alarm at HPD headquarters as she ran past a metal detector with a raised knife, begging to be killed. She advanced on Officer A.B. Clay, standing in the lobby. Officer E.D. Smith, at his desk, shot her with a stun gun. Villarreal continued to advance on Officer Clay, who stepped back and fatally shot her. | chron.com | ||
6118 | Bobby Walker | 15 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/06/2007 | Dallas | TX | 32.6863018 | -96.7899466 | Dallas Area Rapid Transit Police Department | Around 3:20 a.m, Walker jumped from behind the bushes near a DART station, grabbing Officer Stephanie Branch from behind and possibly reaching for her gun. Officer Branch shook Walker off. Officer Branch and her partner, Officer Nikesha Owens, drew their handguns and told Walker to back away. He did not. Officer Owens shot him fatally in the neck. Walker, diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), had run away from home that Tuesday. Both officers had served for two years. | squarespace.com | ||
6119 | Eduardo Alverado | Male | Race unspecified | 05/06/2007 | Scottsdale | AZ | 33.7588102 | -111.6798304 | Maricopa County Sheriff's Office | Deputies responded to a report of a man firing a pistol at the Needle Rock campground, between Rio Verde and Bartlett Lake, said police. When deputies arrived, there was a confrontation and one deputy shot and killed Dominguez-Rivera. | tucson.com | |||
6112 | Gerardo Diaz | 46 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/05/2007 | Dallas | TX | 32.729003 | -96.8915073 | U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation | Suspect Diaz was shot and killed by FBI agents in the parking lot of a WalMart, as officers busted a group of kidnappers as they tried to exchange their hostage for thousands of dollars and a large quantity of meth. | justice.gov | ||
6113 | Daniel Bradley Young | 33 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/05/2007 | Seminole | FL | 27.8438169 | -82.8058481 | Pinellas County Sheriff's Office | Young was reported acting strangely at 2 a.m.: stripping, walking back and forth across a major street, speaking incoherently, playing with garbage cans. Responding police found him uncooperative and tasered him three times. The medical examiner attributed his death to excited delirium syndrome. | tbnweekly.com | ||
6114 | Javier Escamilla | 53 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/05/2007 | Las Vegas | NV | 36.1663579 | -115.223758 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | A Las Vegas police officer fatally shot a man who violated a restraining order. The suspect, Javier Escamilla, 53, led officers on a chase but crashed his car at Jones Boulevard and Alta Drive, and when an officer approached the vehicle, Escamilla pointed a gun at him. The officer fired twice, killing Escamilla. | google.com | ||
6107 | Luis Felipe Sanchez | 27 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/04/2007 | Rohnert Park | CA | 38.3442999 | -122.7218151 | Sonoma County Sheriff's Office | Deputies Mike Frank, Greg Myers and Joe Dulworth fired 21 shots, five of which struck Luis Felipe Sanchez after he shot Frank at the Rancho Feliz mobile home park, police said. | abc7news.com | ||
6108 | James R. Cofield | 39 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/04/2007 | Malta | IL | 41.9300964 | -88.9049464 | DeKalb County Sheriff's Office | Deputies received a 911 call from a woman in rural Shabbona who said she was locked in an upstairs bedroom while at least two men rifled through her house. Two men later identified as Cofield and Thomas Bagely, 39, also of Rockford, fled the scene in a stolen vehicle as officers arrived. Scott said the two rammed into a DeKalb County sheriff's squad car during the ensuing chase. The stolen car was stopped west of Malta after it went over stop sticks that punctured its passenger-side tires, according to Scott. Bagely surrendered to police after the car was stopped, but Cofield refused to step out, leading to about an hour and a half of negotiations with officers. Police said Cofield was armed with a rifle, and when he pointed the weapon at deputies, they shot and killed him. | mywebtimes.com | ||
6109 | Erin L. Jones | 31 | Female | European-American/White | 05/04/2007 | Dodge City | KS | 37.77922 | -100.031162 | Dodge City Police Department | Dodge City police officer Chris Tahah reportedly killed Erin L. Jones, his ex-girlfriend. During a taped interview, Tahah told investigators that he was upset after seeing Jones dancing with another man at Central Station, a bar in Dodge City. Talah later went to his apartment, changed into dark clothing, loaded three cartridges into his .270 Winchester short mag rifle, then drove and parked a short walk from Jones' residence. Talah waited in the alley behind Jones' house. After she'd come home, Tahah went into Jones' backyard, where he said he pointed the rifle at a window, then thought better of it and had begun to lower the gun when a round went off. Tahah got in his car and drove home. During his trial, Talah testified that he'd confessed to a crime he didn't commit. Talah was found guilty of Jones' murder in 2008, but the Kansas Supreme Court reversed the conviction in 2011 and ordered a new trial. In September 2011, a jury found Tahah guilty of first-degree murder and criminal discharge of a weapon at an occupied dwelling. | dodgeglobe.com | ||
6110 | Albert Salazar | 36 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/04/2007 | TX | 31.9685988 | -99.9018131 | Bexar County Sheriff's Office | Salazar stabbed himself and his girlfriend with a knife. Officers took Salazar to University Hospital. His family took him off of life support the next day. | google.com | |||
6111 | Roosevelt "Bo" Wilson | 79 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/04/2007 | Pickens | MS | 32.8846543 | -89.9748538 | Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol, Madison County Sheriff's Office, Ridgeland Police Department, Madison Police Department, Canton Police Department, Mississippi Bureau of Investigation | Wilson was shot and killed after a 5-hour standoff involving multiple agencies. The standoff began when Wilson reportedly shot and killed his neighbor, Billy McMullen, and then barricaded himself inside his house. Wilson shot and wounded three deputies before he was shot and killed by other officers. | onlinemadison.com | ||
6106 | Michael Gabriel Robles | 30 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/03/2007 | Phoenix | AZ | 33.4483771 | -112.0740373 | Phoenix Police Department | According to police, Officer Dan Flanders and other officers were responding to a call of a man smoking drugs and playing with a knife south of downtown Phoenix. Robles ran when officers tried to talk to him. At one point, he turned and lunged with the knife. Flanders shot and killed Robles. | eastvalleytribune.com | ||
20125 | Anthony Jerome Scott | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/03/2007 | Pittsburgh | PA | 40.4639946 | -79.9007021 | Allegheny County Police Department | Plainclothes officers from the Violent Crime Firearms Task Force--McClellan and city officers Eric Harpster and Philip Mercurio--saw a suspected drug deal near Lincoln Avenue and Deary Street. The officers detained two suspects. Scott, who has convictions for gun offenses, receiving stolen property and marijuana possession, ran away. Police said Scott pulled a gun and began firing at McClellan over his shoulder. About 90 minutes after the initial gunfire, the team battered down the door of 1028 Lincoln Ave. As they approached the second floor, members heard a shot from the third floor. They found Scott mortally wounded. | post-gazette.com | ||
19768 | Ryan A. Smith | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/02/2007 | Louisville | KY | 38.219414 | -85.793667 | Louisville Metro Police Department | Ryan A. Smith, 25, was shot by Officer Eric Culver after Smith robbed Freddie's Liquor Outlet. Police said Smith fired several shots at both Culver and Officer Brian Peters. | lmpd.com | ||
6104 | Scott Esposito | 38 | Male | European-American/White | 05/01/2007 | Mayfield Heights | OH | 41.508729 | -81.439668 | Mayfield Heights Police Department | Esposito killed his ex-girlfriend and her father before fleeing. He killed himself as police approached. | google.com | ||
6105 | Trent Yohe | 37 | Male | European-American/White | 05/01/2007 | Spokane Valley | WA | 47.6526445 | -117.3129044 | Spokane County Sheriff's Office | Sheriff Deputies Michael Wall, Scott Bonney, Griffen Criswell and K-9 officer John Cook responded to a 911 call for suspected drug activity or a fire and entered the trailer in which Yohe was sleeping. The officers state that he appeared to have a seizure (Yohe's acquaintances state that he was epileptic) and that when they touched him, he "became combative". After they tasered, handcuffed and hogtied him, they kicked him numerous times according to witness Cecile Jones. They then noticed he was not breathing and performed CPR. Yohe died in a hospital two weeks later. It was ruled that the officers did not use excessive force. In 2010 the Spokane County Commission gave a $50,000 Excessive Force settlement to Yohe's daughter. | google.com | ||
20124 | Quinzell "Q" Elam | 34 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/01/2007 | Philadelphia | PA | 39.9364786 | -75.1752658 | Philadelphia Police Department | Elam was shot and killed when he allegedly pointed a shotgun at police. | google.com | ||
6100 | Juan Vicente Torres | 17 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/30/2007 | San Antonio | TX | 29.4241219 | -98.4936282 | Alamo Heights Police Department | An officer tried to stop Torres for a traffic violation. Torres drove away, lost control of the vehicle, struck a house and died. | google.com | ||
6101 | Evan James Harlow | 16 | Male | European-American/White | 04/30/2007 | Louisville | KY | 38.1689435 | -85.6052683 | Louisville Metro Police Department | Harlow was one of two youths spotted burglarizing a house in the evening. The other fled; an officer chased Harlow into the woods where--according to the police account--Harlow produced a handgun and the officer was forced to shoot him to death. | wave3.com | ||
6102 | Hay Nhat Duong | 25 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 04/30/2007 | Hamilton | NJ | 39.4631531 | -74.6672803 | Hamilton Township Police Department | Duong was shot to death by an officer when he moved toward an officer and didn't obey calls to drop to the ground. The officer contended that he thought Duong was a robbery suspect and that seemed like he was reaching for a gun, but Duong was unarmed. | www.nj.com | ||
6103 | Guadalupe Ricardo Tenorio | 41 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/30/2007 | Laredo | TX | 27.5153454 | -99.5132255 | Laredo Police Department | Tenorio shot at officers responding to a gunfire complaint. He struck two officers with bullets and three with shrapnel. Officers shot back at Tenorio. It is unclear whether the officers killed Tenorio or he died by his own hand. LPD listed Tenorio in the Texas Custodial Deaths Report. | myplainview.com | ||
6094 | Christopher Michael Garcia | 23 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/29/2007 | Ontario | CA | 34.07785 | -117.6700916 | Ontario Police Department | An officer shot and killed Christopher Michael Garcia after he brandished a handgun during a foot chase and aimed it toward the officer, police said. | latimes.com | ||
6095 | Scott Sheets Jr. | 23 | Male | European-American/White | 04/29/2007 | Lacon | IL | 41.0244123 | -89.4082867 | Marshall County Sheriff's Office | Deputy Wayne Strawn shot and killed Scott Sheets Jr. when he allegedly came at him with a knife. Sheets' family had called police for help because they said he was suicidal and had not taken his medication. Police found Sheets in a field off Route 26 outside Lacon and armed with a knife. As police tried to apprehend him, Sheets allegedly refused to put down the knife and continued toward Strawn, who shot Sheets. | sj-r.com | ||
6096 | David Michael Stehl | 35 | Male | European-American/White | 04/29/2007 | Des Moines | IA | 41.588469 | -93.65361 | Des Moines Police Department | Officer Ben Ihde and another officer responded at about 1:15 a.m. after a caller reported that David Michael Stehl had forced his way into a house, smashed some windows and fought with a one of the residents. According to police, the officers found Stehl standing near the front door holding a shard of glass. Ihde pepper sprayed Stehl after police said he refused to drop the shard, but it had no effect. Stehl allegedly continued walking toward Ihde, who fired two shots at Stehl, killing him. | radioiowa.com | ||
6097 | Name withheld by police | Male | European-American/White | 04/29/2007 | Lafayette | LA | 30.2248461 | -92.0130489 | Lafayette Police Department | A police patrol unit en route to a burglary call killed a pedestrian crossing the Evangeline Thruway. | klfy.com | |||
6098 | Rene Javier Perez | 42 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/29/2007 | Mt. Kisco | NY | 41.1899136 | -73.7320784 | Mount Kisco Village Police Department | A suburban police officer was accused of targeting Perez, a homeless Guatemalan immigrant and day-laborer, taking him to a remote lake road, and beating him to death. The officer was acquitted. | nytimes.com | ||
6099 | David W. Logsdon | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 04/29/2007 | Kansas City | MO | 38.9705105 | -94.6073047 | Kansas City Police Department | Logsdon killed a neighbor and stole her car. Police confronted him at a gas station, where Logsdon and police exchanged gunfire. Logsdon fled to a mall where he killed two shoppers before police caught up with him and shot and killed him. | usatoday.com | ||
6092 | Jeremy Scott Beasley | 31 | Male | European-American/White | 04/28/2007 | Pauls Valley | OK | 34.73692 | -97.2195251 | Pauls Valley Police Department | Police were called by Beasley's sister-in-law, who was frightened when she saw Beasley dragging his wife out of the front door of their home. When police arrived, Beasley ran into the kitchen to grab a knife. He then charged at one of the officers, police said, and an officer responded by firing several shots. Police say Beasley pinned a police officer to the ground while still holding the knife, and he was shot and killed. | newsok.com | ||
6093 | Jesse Cochran | 26 | Male | European-American/White | 04/28/2007 | Midvale | UT | 40.6132743 | -111.872192 | Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake | Officers said they tried to pull Cochran over on suspicion of drunken driving, but he fled, crashing into another car nearby. Cochran then led police on a foot chase and allegedly stole a Cadillac at knife-point. Police say he struck one officer with the car, causing minor injuries, and slammed into a cruiser when officers fired on him. | sltrib.com | ||
21153 | Name withheld by police | .16 | Race unspecified | 04/28/2007 | Detroit | MI | 42.3738884 | -83.0110812 | Detroit Police Department | A 2-month-old child died when a Dodge pickup truck whose driver had twice eluded police crashed into a minivan. Two other children riding in the minivan were critically injured. According to police, officers said they broke off the chase 15 minutes before the crash. Officers had chased the truck after it drove past them at a high rate of speed, police said. The driver of the truck fled the scene. | google.com | |||
21154 | Name withheld by police | Male | Race unspecified | 04/28/2007 | Highland Park | MI | 42.4142118 | -83.099356 | Detroit Police Department | According to police, officers chased a man who'd been driving erratically. The chase led to a home in the area of Ferris and John R streets. The man allegedly got out and began firing a weapon. An officer reportedly broke his leg when he tried to get out of the way of the gunfire. | google.com | |||
21621 | Name withheld by police | Male | Race unspecified | 04/28/2007 | Baltimore | MD | 39.3096477 | -76.6526944 | Baltimore Police Department | A Baltimore officer shot and killed a suspected gang member in West Baltimore after he ran away from police and drew a small-caliber revolver, according to police. | baltimoresun.com | |||
6090 | Joshua Beasley | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/27/2007 | Boynton Beach | FL | 26.5542155 | -80.1500006 | Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office | Beasley and his younger brother Brandon were linked to a string of 10 bank robberies, as well as other charges, when they robbed a Washington Mutual branch in West Boynton. After a car chase and foot chase, Beasley struggled with an officer for control of his gun until other officers arrived and shot him dead. His brother was taken into custody. | sun-sentinel.com | ||
6091 | Michael S. McCarter Ulery | 28 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/27/2007 | KS | 39.011902 | -98.4842465 | Michael McCarter died after being thrown from his motorcycle when it crashed into the back of a car. It wasn't specified why he was being chased. | google.com | ||||
6086 | Dawn Nicole McLemore | 22 | Female | European-American/White | 04/26/2007 | Round Rock | TX | 30.5082551 | -97.678896 | Round Rock Police Department | An officer conducted a traffic stop on McLemore. She swallowed a bag of drugs to hide it from the officer. The officer arrested her. McLemore passed out in the officer's patrol vehicle due to a drug overdose. She was taken off of life support at Round Rock Medical Center on May 3. | kwtx.com | ||
6087 | James M. Lee | 26 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/26/2007 | Peoria | IL | 40.666785 | -89.628229 | Peoria Police Department | Officers John Peterson and Robert McMillen shot James M. Lee, who allegedly had a handgun and refused to lower it. The officers had responded to a domestic disturbance call at around midnight. Each officer reportedly fired one shot, hitting Lee and also hitting his girlfriend, who'd placed the 911 call. Lee was pronounced dead at a hospital a short time later. According to Lee's girlfriend, the officers shot through a closed door. | pjstar.com | ||
6088 | Gerardo Mulato | 30 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/26/2007 | Cincinnati | OH | 39.2820922 | -84.5559288 | U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation | A little after 4 a.m. agents were installing a tracking device on Mulato's Mercedes when he spotted them on a closed-circuit security camera. He emerged, angry, holding a 9mm to confront the plainclothes agents. They gut-shot him immediately before identifying themselves, struck an artery, and Mulato bled to death in the parking lot. | cincinnati.com | ||
6089 | Pedro Renteria | 21 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/26/2007 | Torrance | CA | 33.8222413 | -118.3015031 | Los Angeles Police Department | Police alleged Renteria was a gang member who pointed a gun at them, and they shot him to death. | latimes.com | ||
23075 | Willie Norwood | 35 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/26/2007 | Memphis | TN | 35.1406651 | -90.0326249 | University of Tennessee at Memphis Police | According to police, Willie Norwood was suspected of being the man who had brandished a gun during a robbery at a university cafeteria. When the campus officer approached Norwood and ordered him to drop the gun and get on the ground, Norwood refused and pointed what appeared to be a chrome handgun at officers, who shot and killed him. It was a toy gun. | google.com | ||
6083 | Michael Anthony Lightning | 43 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/25/2007 | Houston | TX | 29.638875 | -95.5312469 | Houston Police Department | Sergeant S.G. Copeland ambushed Lightning at a townhouse to serve a warrant for failure to register as a sex offender. Lightning pointed a revolver at Sergeant Copeland. Sergeant Copeland took cover and drew his weapon. Other officers responded. Lightning put the revolver to his head and entered the townhouse. Sergeant Copeland called a number associated with the townhouse, but failed to contact Lightning. SWAT responded. Lightning fatally shot himself. | google.com | ||
6084 | Travis Trim | 23 | Male | European-American/White | 04/25/2007 | Margaretville | NY | 42.16057 | -74.626773 | New York State Police | More than 80 shots were fired as fugitive Travis Trim was cornered in an unoccupied upstate farmhouse by a number of state troopers. Trooper David Brinkerhoff fired the shots that killed Trim, then Brinkerhoff was immediately fatally shot in the back of the head by a fellow officer. One newspaper described the subsequent investigation as "shrouded in secrecy". | syracuse.com | ||
6085 | David Brinkerhoff | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 04/25/2007 | Margaretville | NY | 42.16057 | -74.626773 | New York State Police | More than 80 shots were fired as fugitive Travis Trim was cornered in an unoccupied upstate farmhouse by a number of state troopers. Trooper David Brinkerhoff fired the shots that killed Trim, then Brinkerhoff was immediately fatally shot in the back of the head by a fellow officer. One newspaper described the subsequent investigation as "shrouded in secrecy". | syracuse.com | ||
21622 | Luke T. Hoffman | 24 | Male | European-American/White | 04/25/2007 | Silver Spring | MD | 39.0952916 | -77.0750798 | Montgomery County Police Department | Ruel F. Dempster fled a drunken driving stop. He got out of the car and ran and Luke Hoffman chased after him on foot before being run down by fellow officer Stephen J. Wofsey. A county jury found Dempster guilty of several misdemeanors--including failure to stop after an accident, driving without a license and possession of marijuana--but was unable to reach a verdict on the manslaughter charge. | google.com | ||
6082 | Louis Jermaine Broomfield | 35 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/24/2007 | North Charleston | SC | 32.8395925 | -79.9616746 | North Charleston Police Department | In the wake of a botched drug deal with two others, Broomfield fled and caught up with a local police cruiser. He hopped in and said "Get me out of here." He'd been shot. The situation gradually dawned on the officer. Broomfield became combative, was cuffed and Tasered, had some kind of medical emergency, and died. | postandcourier.com | ||
21623 | Uywanda Peterson | 43 | Female | African-American/Black | 04/24/2007 | Baltimore | MD | 39.3221154 | -76.5738154 | Baltimore Police Department | Uywanda Peterson died after being tasered by police, who she attacked as they were conducting a drug investigation. She was unarmed during the incident. She collapsed shortly after officers shocked her in the chest, and she went into cardiac arrest. Peterson was pronounced dead 45 minutes later. | google.com | ||
22295 | Scott Alan Barnaby | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 04/24/2007 | South Bend | IN | 41.658555 | -86.2228135 | South Bend Police Department | Officers were responding to reports of gunshots at 1:37 a.m. when they Scott Alan Barnaby at the Wooden Indian Motel. Corporal Nick Polizzotto was killed. Patrolman Michael Norby was wounded. Barnaby was shot and killed. At least one person with charged with illegally selling a gun or guns to Barnaby. | wthr.com | ||
6078 | Antonio Santiago Rodriguez | 28 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/23/2007 | Houston | TX | 29.7141868 | -95.5191987 | Houston Police Department | Officers E.A. Lopez and M.A. Matus responded to a call by an ambulance crew that had difficulty restraining Rodriguez, who was intoxicated and flailing around on the ground. Officers Matus tasered Rodriguez four times between officers' and paramedics' three attempts to restrain him. Rodriguez had no vital signs by the time he was strapped to a gurney and put in the ambulance. | google.com | ||
6079 | Sampson England | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/23/2007 | Kansas City | KS | 39.1293377 | -94.6620493 | Kansas City (KS) Police Department | Officers made contact with vehicle containing victim. While being dragged by the vehicle, an officer shot and killed the driver. | dropbox.com | ||
6080 | Lewis Henderson Jr. | 66 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/23/2007 | Rockford | IL | 42.2669158 | -89.0776339 | Rockford Police Department | Local police reported that Henderson was the prime suspect in a domestic-dispute stabbing at a residence. The suspect returned there, purportedly threatened an officer with his vehicle then immediately fled, and was later in the evening involved in a three-car collision. Police shot him to death at that scene, finding a "long barrel inside a sock" in lieu of a weapon, and a suicide note. | mystateline.com | ||
6081 | Chad Stephen Sanchez | 20 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/23/2007 | Midland | TX | 32.0061212 | -102.0702214 | Midland Police Department | Detective Matt Fraley and Sergeant Michael Hedrick confronted Sanchez in relation to two killings and other reported crimes. Sanchez resisted arrest. During a chase, Sanchez was struck with a patrol vehicle and shot in the back of the head. Though the officers said they believed otherwise, Sanchez was unarmed. A lawsuit was settled for $72,000. | oaoa.com | ||
20123 | Domingo Reyes | 37 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/23/2007 | Reading | PA | 40.3472853 | -75.9158381 | Reading Police Department | Officer Darrin Dougherty and a mental health worker went to Reyes' home, police said on a report of an unstable person in the home. As the two entered the house, Reyes walked up from the basement and approached Dougherty with a knife. Followed by Reyes, Dougherty walked out the front door and about halfway down the block. When Reyes came within a few feet of him, Dougherty fired one shot that struck Reyes in the chest and killed him. | readingeagle.com | ||
6074 | Walter L. Heller | 55 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/22/2007 | Petaluma | CA | 38.2637496 | -122.6564828 | Petaluma Police Department | Walter L. Heller died from head injuries sustained in a fall after officers Jason Lechleiter and Dustin Rodrigues tasered him. | sfgate.com | ||
6075 | Joni Lynn Park | 48 | Female | European-American/White | 04/22/2007 | Laguna Beach | CA | 33.5149637 | -117.7571612 | Laguna Beach Police Department | Police shot and killed Joni Park and Kevin Park, who traded off pointing a handgun at officers in an oceanfront bungalow at the Montage Resort & Spa in Laguna Beach, police said. | ocregister.com | ||
6076 | Kevin Christie Park | 49 | Male | European-American/White | 04/22/2007 | Laguna Beach | CA | 33.5149637 | -117.7571612 | Laguna Beach Police Department | Police shot and killed Joni Park and Kevin Park, who traded off pointing a handgun at officers in an oceanfront bungalow at the Montage Resort & Spa in Laguna Beach, police said. | ocregister.com | ||
6077 | David Mills | 26 | Male | European-American/White | 04/22/2007 | New Haven | CT | 41.3480281 | -72.938418 | Hamden Police Department | Mills was in an early-morning fight with a friend when police arrived to separate them. Mills, with PCP in his system, became violently uncooperative. Police tasered him four or more times as he kicked, punched and bit officers. Within an hour Mills was dead. The city settled with the victim's mother for $125,000 in October 2012 against a claim of unreasonable force and improper training. | nhregister.com | ||
20491 | Dane Austin Wourms | 16 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/22/2007 | Evansville | WI | 42.7792614 | -89.274497 | Rock County Sheriff's Office | Dane A. Wourms fled a traffic stop and was killed when his car crashed. | nbc15.com | ||
6072 | Alice Faye DeFlanders Clausell | 69 | Female | African-American/Black | 04/21/2007 | Jackson | MS | 32.2995856 | -90.1829052 | Raymond Police Department, Jackson Police Department | Clausell died in a crash with a vehicle fleeing police when the fleeing vehicle ran a red light. The pursuit began with a reckless driving report in Raymond and continued into Jackson. | judicial.mc.edu | ||
6073 | Mark Andrew Keeley | 13 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/21/2007 | Fort Benton | MT | 34.272905 | -110.747859 | Montana Highway Patrol, Chouteau County Sheriff's Office | Because he'd driven away without paying for $8 of gas, deputies and state troopers pursued 13-year-old Keeley in his 1985 Accord. He refused a traffic stop, fired a shotgun, continued to drive after stop sticks had flattened his tires, and lost a final confrontation on the roadside. Both officers fired about 17 times, killing the teen. His family pursued a $2M wrongful death suit which failed. | helenair.com | ||
20492 | Benjamin James Sonnenberg | 25 | Male | European-American/White | 04/21/2007 | Green Bay | WI | 44.5143584 | -88.0063252 | Green Bay Police Department | Police said Benjamin James Sonnenberg had started to run toward a local nightclub and appeared to be drawing a weapon when he was shot and killed by four officers who had pulled over a car he was driving. He was unarmed. | lacrossetribune.com | ||
6071 | Mohammad Khaled Alwadi | 21 | Male | Middle Eastern | 04/20/2007 | St. Louis | MO | 38.6263788 | -90.1869301 | St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department | Police shot Mohammad Khaled Alwadi after he allegedly fired at officers in downtown St. Louis. At about 10 p.m. police said Alwadi rammed his Dodge Intrepid into a marked police car parked on Pine Street at Memorial Drive. An officer inside the car was injured and radioed for help. Alwadi reportedly fired several shots, hitting the car, and the officer returned fire. A second officer arrived and Alwadi allegedly fired at him, then ran north on Memorial and fired three or four times at a third officer in a patrol car. Alwadi kept running north on Memorial and encountered several more officers, who shot and killed him. According to police, Alwadi's family told them he'd spoken of committing suicide. | google.com | ||
21151 | Amber Iverson | 23 | Female | European-American/White | 04/20/2007 | Dearborn Heights | MI | 42.2683234 | -83.2925294 | Dearborn Heights Police Department | At about 9:20 p.m. a patrol car traveling east on Van Born Road struck a 1996 Pontiac Grand Am turning into the parking lot at Hazel's Party Store. Two women and two children were in the car, which was hit on the passenger side. The impact caused the Grand Am to flip onto its side, killing the passenger, Amber Iverson. | mydeathspace.com | ||
21152 | Jo Ann Burgett | 46 | Female | European-American/White | 04/20/2007 | Flint | MI | 43.0566592 | -83.659028 | Flint Police Department | Officers Miguel Vasquez and Kyle Brandon responded to a trouble call at about 7 p.m. at the Shady Acres mobile home park. Police said they found Jo Ann Burgett standing in the middle of the street with an open knife in her hand and a broken beer bottle at her feet. The officers shot Burgett several times, killing her, after she allegedly refused to drop the knife and advanced toward them, daring them to shoot. One bullet reportedly hit an occupied trailer 200 feet away. The shooting outraged Burgett's neighbors in the park, as well as Flint City Councilwoman Carolyn Sims, who called it a "senseless murder." | mlive.com | ||
22658 | John Harvey Bridges | 43 | Male | European-American/White | 04/19/2007 | Roanoke | VA | 37.2794629 | -80.0128659 | Roanoke Police Department | John Bridges was shot while brandishing a sword and advancing on officers, police said. His roommate, who was present, said that Bridges had been standing still and had not fully unsheathed the 21-inch blade. | roanoke.com | ||
6068 | Maurice Antoine White | 29 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/18/2007 | San Diego | CA | 32.7501097 | -117.1442834 | San Diego Police Department | Officers Scott Spillane and Adam Sharki shot and killed Maurice Antoine White when he shot at them, police said. | sandiego.gov | ||
6069 | Edgar Garcia Torres | 22 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/18/2007 | San Francisco | CA | 37.7312414 | -122.3877562 | San Francisco Police Department | Edgar Garcia Torres was killed when his car was hit by a vehicle fleeing police. | sfgate.com | ||
6070 | Jerrell L. Chism | 27 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/18/2007 | Decatur | IL | 39.8388891 | -88.9466431 | Decatur Police Department | According to police, Jerrell L. Chism, his father and another man walked into the Soy Capital Bank at about 8:50 a.m., demanded cash, fired shots, and then drove away. Their vehicle was stopped by police and the men ran from the car. Chism allegedly pointed a gun at the officers, who shot him. He died later at a hospital. The other two men were arrested and charged with murder in Chism's death. | pantagraph.com | ||
18965 | Garvin Lanier Huggins III | 31 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/17/2007 | Galivants Ferry | SC | 33.9298085 | -79.2316072 | Horry County Police Department | Garvin Huggins killed himself after he shot the mother of his 18-month-old son with a shotgun and barricaded himself in his residence with the boy. Huggins was found dead after police entered his residence, after failing to get a response from the suspect, but hearing the child continuously crying. Officers forced their way into the home, found the child and Huggins' body a short distance away. The boy was not harmed. | google.com | ||
6066 | John Avery | 57 | Male | European-American/White | 04/16/2007 | San Francisco | CA | 37.7508987 | -122.4273827 | San Francisco Police Department | John Avery was killed when a vehicle being followed by police crashed into his pickup truck. | noevalleyvoice.com | ||
6067 | Leonard Croskey | 38 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/16/2007 | Phoenix | AZ | 33.5567405 | -112.1169697 | Phoenix Police Department | Croskey showed up at the home of his ex-girlfriend and held her at gunpoint, threatening to kill her and himself. She was able to talk him into leaving. Phoenix police caught up with him as he was attempting to drive away from his home. During a two-hour standoff, police negotiated with him as he held a gun to his head and threatened suicide. Croskey eventually got out of his car and fired on police. Two officers fired back and Croskey was shot and killed. | blogspot.com | ||
20122 | Gilbert Bradley | 54 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/16/2007 | Philadelphia | PA | 39.9588857 | -75.2035654 | University of Pennsylvania Police Department | After stealing a van, Gilbert Bradley fled police before crashing. He fought with an officer over the officer's gun and was shot and killed. | google.com | ||
30211 | Victor Sandoval | 41 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/16/2007 | La Puente | CA | 34.0227386 | -117.9522194 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department | Deputies were called to a disturbance. They arrived to find Victor Sandoval agitated and non-compliant. He was pepper sprayed and handcuffed. A hobble restraint was placed on his legs, but was not secured to his handcuffs. Sandoval, who was on his side, became short of breath. Paramedics were called and upon their arrival found Sandoval dead. Sandoval was overweight with a history of diabetes and schizophrenia. | latimes.com | ||
6063 | Steven Anthony Aveles | 20 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/15/2007 | Redlands | CA | 34.041570 | -117.155344 | San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office | Steven Aveles was killed when his car was struck by a vehicle fleeing police on I-10. | dailybulletin.com | ||
6064 | Mark Anthony Holliness | 32 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/15/2007 | Mesquite | TX | 32.7787255 | -96.6150816 | Mesquite Police Department | Holliness ran away from a traffic stop. An officer pursued and pepper-sprayed him. Holliness took the officer's pepper spray. The officer struck Holliness with a baton. Holliness took the baton, took the fight to the ground and grabbed at the officer's service weapon. The officer drew his service weapon and shot Holliness once, fatally, in the belly. Holliness was in possession of 141.1 grams of crack cocaine. | google.com | ||
6065 | Ron Pettaway | 27 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/15/2007 | College Park | GA | 33.6224106 | -84.4770669 | Fulton County Police Department | Shot outside a bar. Police were responding to report of a fight. | blogspot.com | ||
21708 | Scott Lee Perry | 49 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/15/2007 | Elkton | MD | 39.6833213 | -75.9192893 | Maryland State Police | Scott Lee Perry was shot in the head and torso by Maryland State Police Trooper 1st Class Robert Nitz following a high-speed chase after Perry allegedly hit Nitz with his vehicle, police said. | google.com | ||
22294 | Rose Marie Hurley | 44 | Female | Race unspecified | 04/15/2007 | Chesterton | IN | 41.6248531 | -87.0475511 | Burns Harbor Police Department | Rose Marie Hurley had been the subject of an "attempt to locate" report in Lynwood, Ill., where she reportedly pulled a hotel fire alarm and left behind her medicine, police said. Hurley surfaced at the Pilot truck stop in Burns Harbor about 6 a.m., and employees told police she walked in without shoes and with a sheet wrapped around her lower body. Employees said she was babbling and they thought she was impaired. A Burns Harbor officer walked in to get some food, and employees told him about the woman. The officer tried to talk to the woman, but she ran to her car and took off. A chase ensued and Hurley was killed a few miles down the interstate when she swerved to try to avoid a set of tire-flattening devices police placed on the road, crashed and was ejected, police said. | nwitimes.com | ||
22657 | Paris Wynn | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/15/2007 | Norfolk | VA | 36.917609 | -76.2712643 | Norfolk Police Department | Off-duty officer Chris Scallon interrupted a convenience store robbery. He shot and killed Paris Wynn after he was allegedly shot at. | pilotonline.com | ||
6056 | Jerriel Da'Shawn Allen | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/14/2007 | San Bernardino | CA | 34.1229717 | -117.3323522 | San Bernardino Police Department | Officers Adam Affrunti and Chris Gray shot and killed unarmed Jerriel Da'Shawn Allen because they couldn't see his hands after he exited a SUV that got stuck on a backyard fence following a police chase. | sbsun.com | ||
6057 | David Jerome King | 56 | Male | European-American/White | 04/14/2007 | Charles City | IA | 43.0667417 | -92.654164 | Charles City Police Department | Lt. Brandon Franke responded to a report of a suicidal person at about 8:30 p.m., and learned David Jerome King was in a running car inside the closed garage. The garage door remote reportedly didn't work, but Franke was told there was an interior door to the garage and went inside. According to Franke, King entered the kitchen and asked "What are you doing in my house?" Franke drew his Taser and King reportedly said he had a gun. Police said Franke unsuccessfully fired his Taser. King then allegedly pointed his revolver at Franke, who shot King twice. King was pronounced dead at a hospital. | globegazette.com | ||
6058 | Kody Eldon Krager | 20 | Male | European-American/White | 04/14/2007 | Ida Grove | IA | 42.35019 | -95.4674947 | Ida County Sheriff's Office, Iowa State Patrol | Kody Eldon Krager was reportedly one of three motorcyclists pursued by state troopers for reckless driving. Krager's motorcycle collided head-on with a squad car driven by ICSD deputy Randal Petersen. Krager was killed in the crash. According to police, Petersen had slowed down because the sun was in his eyes, and his lights and sirens were on. | qconline.com | ||
6059 | Billy Ray Greene | 51 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/14/2007 | Greenville | NC | 35.6220057 | -77.3734969 | Greenville Police Department | Greene's pickup truck was struck by a local police vehicle on a Saturday afternoon. The officer driving was also killed. | wral.com | ||
6060 | Vernon Jones | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/14/2007 | West Palm Beach | FL | 26.7079262 | -80.1517517 | West Palm Beach Police Department | By reports Jones was going door to door, barefoot, begging for food and a place to stay. Responding police got into a fight with Jones, who used a bottle as a weapon. Unable to otherwise subdue him, officers shot him to death. The Jones family settled a wrongful death suit with the city for $500K. | blueridgenow.com | ||
6061 | Javier Chavez | 30 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/14/2007 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.0276311 | -118.3332052 | Los Angeles Police Department | Reported by the LA Times, Javier Orantez Chavez, 30, was shot by police during a gun battle in near pitch darkness and died at the scene. | latimes.com | ||
6062 | Dale Nelson Crismon | 50 | Male | European-American/White | 04/14/2007 | Mesa | AZ | 33.3933978 | -111.6675478 | Mesa Police Department | Crismon had warrants for his arrest when he was pulled over for a broken taillight. Police say he fired, although witnesses disputed this. The officer shot and killed him. | eastvalleytribune.com | ||
6054 | Jesse Lee Johnson | 27 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/13/2007 | Klamath Falls | OR | 42.2288577 | -121.7725937 | Klamath Falls Police Department | Johnson was shot and killed in a police standoff as he held an infant hostage and threatened to kill him with a knife. After about 30 minutes of negotiation, he actually walked outside with a knife to the baby's throat, and a sniper shot him once in the head. | heraldandnews.com | ||
6055 | Dale Archie | 25 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/13/2007 | Jackson | MS | 32.3010569 | -90.1853735 | Jackson Police Department | Dale Archie was shot by an off-duty JPD officer who was working security at the Marriot Hotel parking lot and suspected Archie of casing cars. The officer confronted Archie, who reportedly then ran across the street to the Robert E. Lee Building where he was shot in the head when the officer thought he was making a threatening gesture. Archie was unarmed. | msnewsnow.com | ||
22656 | Jacob Matthew Hooper | 18 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/13/2007 | Elliston | VA | 37.2048 | -80.235 | Montgomery County Sheriff's Office | Jacob Matthew Hooper shot and killed himself after being approached while walking on a road. | google.com | ||
6053 | Jimmy Dwayne Farris | 38 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/12/2007 | Rolla | MO | 37.9277455 | -91.779364 | Phelps County Sheriff's Office | Jimmy Dwayne Farris died after he'd been pulled over by deputies Aaron Pinson, Michael Manley and Mark Wynn. A military police officer, Thomas M. Buchness, was also riding along with deputies when they stopped Farris's pickup truck for allegedly running a red light. Farris pulled into a Taco Bell parking lot where, according to a lawsuit filed by his family, the deputies and Buchness repeatedly sprayed Mace into his' face; threw him onto the tailgate, then onto the parking lot; handcuffed him; ignored his' requests to let him breathe; made nerve strikes to his' limbs, and placed their combined weight on him in a dangerous position. According to Dr. Jane Turner of the St. Louis County Medical Examiner's Office, Farris died from "hypertensive heart disease exacerbated by methamphetamine during exertion in physical altercation." | leagle.com | ||
6047 | Roberto Perez | 25 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/11/2007 | Indio | CA | 33.7205771 | -116.2155619 | Indio Police Department | Two officers shot Roberto Perez after they responded to a family dispute in Indio. | google.com | ||
6048 | Jeffrey Frazier | 24 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/11/2007 | Pratt | KS | 37.6463359 | -98.5747038 | Kansas Highway Patrol | Lili Stephens, who a trooper was attempting to stop, died in a head-on crash that also killed the other second driver, Jeffery Frazier/ The KHP had received a report from a motorist of a 2000 Saturn being driven erratically on US 54 at around 7:30 a.m. The trooper attempted to stop Stephens by first activating his vehicle's emergency lights, then his siren, but she allegedly kept driving and the trooper followed her. Less than four minutes into the pursuit, the Saturn crossed the centerline and struck Frazier's 1985 Toyota Camry head-on. | google.com | ||
6049 | Lili Stephens | 19 | Female | Race unspecified | 04/11/2007 | Pratt | KS | 37.6463359 | -98.5747038 | Kansas Highway Patrol | Lili Stephens, who a trooper was attempting to stop, died in a head-on crash that also killed the other second driver, Jeffery Frazier. The KHP had received a report from a motorist of a 2000 Saturn being driven erratically on US 54 at around 7:30 a.m.. The trooper attempted to stop Stephens by first activating his vehicle's emergency lights, then his siren, but she allegedly kept driving and the trooper followed her. Less than four minutes into the pursuit, the Saturn crossed the centerline and struck Frazier's 1985 Toyota Camry head-on. | google.com | ||
6050 | Eric Jermaine McArthur | 29 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/11/2007 | Sheffield | AL | 34.7484219 | -87.6967062 | Tescumbia Police Department, Sheffield Police Department | Eric Jermaine McArthur died from injuries he sustained in a wreck that occurred after a police chase. | timesdaily.com | ||
6051 | Mario Fernando Torres Gomez | 34 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/11/2007 | Tulsa | OK | 36.1192419 | -95.8612556 | Tulsa Police Department | Gomez was unarmed and fleeing from police when he was shot.The officer who shot Gomez was cleared in the shooting, but in 2010 the city paid $85,000 to settle a lawsuit by Gomez's family. Gomez was an undocumented immigrant and the officer suspected him of being involved in an armed robbery, and alleged that Gomez reached for his waistband before the officer shot. | ssrok.com | ||
6052 | Luis Salinas | 23 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/11/2007 | North Hills | CA | 34.2353618 | -118.469655 | Los Angeles Police Department | Reported by the LA Times, Luis Salinas, 23, was shot multiple times by a police officer in the San Fernando Valley. | latimes.com | ||
22293 | Cheyenne Lee Miller | 27 | Male | European-American/White | 04/11/2007 | Anderson | IN | 40.0809318 | -85.6863777 | Anderson Police Department | Police were trying to arrest Miller on a warrant at an Anderson home when Miller struggled with them and led them on a foot chase along 34th Street and into the garage of a different home, police said. He pulled a knife that looked like a gun--as opposed to a knife being mistaken for a gun--and was shot and killed by Anderson police Officer Lincoln Brooks. | theindychannel.com | ||
6045 | Name withheld by police | 41 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/10/2007 | Richmond | KS | 38.4027955 | -95.2538631 | Franklin County Sheriff's Office, Anderson County Sheriff's Office | An unidentified man reportedly killed himself while talking with police after a chase. At about 11:20 a.m., officers were asked to help locate a 41-year-old man believed to be depressed. Later that afternoon, a deputy saw the man's truck in Richmond but the driver didn't stop. Officers pursued the truck for about a half hour, at speeds of up to 90 mph in drizzling rain on US 59 before the chase was called off. Officers found the truck at a Richmond residence, where they reportedly talked to the man for about 10 minutes before he shot himself. | google.com | ||
6046 | Christopher James Donnan | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 04/10/2007 | San Antonio | TX | 29.4277661 | -98.4537914 | San Antonio Police Department | According to a lawsuit, Donnan pointed a rifle at bank security guard Ray Rogers. Rodgers grabbed the barrel of the rifle and fought Donnan for it. A woman drew Rogers's holstered pistol and pointed it at him. The two left the scene in a van. That night, Patrol Officer Garza went to Donnan's house to serve a warrant. Donnan drew Rogers's gun. Officer Garza fatally shot him. | leagle.com | ||
22292 | Marilyn B. Stephens | 74 | Female | Race unspecified | 04/10/2007 | Valparaiso | IN | 41.4798885 | -87.0498453 | Valparaiso Police Department | Officer Daniel Koepke tried to shoot an armed man, Timothy Stephens, 55, who they believed might open fire on his ex-wife and officers, but shot and killed the ex-wife, Marilyn Stephens, instead. | google.com | ||
6042 | Richard DeSantis | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 04/09/2007 | Santa Rosa | CA | 38.4237619 | -122.7262266 | Santa Rosa Police Department | Family members called 911 for Richard DeSantis who was in a psychiatric crisis. He reportedly was mentally unable to process police instructions. He was shot with rubber bullets, and when he didn't respond fast enough, Sgt. Richard Celli and officers Travis Menke and Patricia Mann shot and killed the unarmed man. In 2012, the family won a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city. | pressdemocrat.com | ||
6043 | Eugene Donjuall Gilliam | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/09/2007 | Prattville | AL | 32.468483 | -86.457436 | Prattville Police Department | Eugene Gilliam died about seven hours after he was tasered and arrested during a traffic stop. | findlaw.com | ||
6044 | John E. Goudeaux | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 04/09/2007 | Van Nuys | CA | 34.2059596 | -118.5163676 | Los Angeles Police Department | Goudeaux was shot and killed by police. He died about two hours after a confrontation with police. The officer was responding to a report of a kidnapping, police said.The said Goudeaux was wielding a metal rod and was naked when he confronted the officer. | latimes.com | ||
21904 | Michael L. Williams | 42 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/09/2007 | Camden | NJ | 39.9330236 | -75.1094009 | Camden Police Department | Michael L. Williams fled a police stop in a stolen van and crashed and died. | google.com | ||
6041 | Selvin M. Garrido Morales | 27 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/08/2007 | Central Falls | RI | 41.8855509 | -71.3933254 | Central Falls Police Department | Two officers responded to a 911 call for help. On entering the apartment of Garrido Morales, they found him holding a knife over his own head. He refused to obey commands to drop the knife. Fearing for their own safety, officers shot him to death. | riaclu.org | ||
6037 | Daniel Dawson | 36 | Male | European-American/White | 04/07/2007 | Bakersfield | CA | 35.2937701 | -119.0295961 | Bakersfield Police Department | Daniel Dawson was killed when his Lexus was struck by a Mitsubishi Galant driven by Brian Marling, who was fleeing police. | turnto23.com | ||
6038 | Mario Alberto Garay | 26 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/07/2007 | Temecula | CA | 33.4990739 | -117.1507895 | California Highway Patrol | Mario Alberto Garay became unresponsive while being detained on the side of the 15 freeway by the CHP. | sandiegouniontribune.com | ||
6039 | Jason Paul Yule | 27 | Male | European-American/White | 04/07/2007 | Roseville | CA | 38.7492175 | -121.2824054 | Roseville Police Department | An officer shot Jason Paul Yule when he charged at him with a pipe and slashed the air with a broken beer bottle in downtown Roseville, police said. | placerherald.com | ||
6040 | Timothy L. Jones | 41 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/07/2007 | Syracuse | MO | 38.6631347 | -92.9167526 | Morgan County Sheriff's Office | Timothy L Jones was found dead outside his home after allegedly exchanging shots with deputies following a police chase and subsequent standoff. At about 4 a.m., Boonville police asked the Sheriff's Office to contact Jones in reference to an arson and vandalism investigation. Deputies located Jones driving near his residence and tried to pull him over. Jones allegedly tried to ram the deputies' vehicle before taking off toward his home. According to deputies, Jones went in and out of his residence several times, waving a gun and making death threats. Jones allegedly fired at the deputies, and one of them returned fire. Deputies believed Jones had gone back into the residence. Officers eventually found Jones lying outside in an obscured area by an attached deck. Family members said Jones did not shoot at the deputies. | google.com | ||
23089 | Frazier Lewis Ellison | 34 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/07/2007 | Jackson | TN | 35.5742152 | -88.815061 | Jackson Police Department | Officer Maria Christina Hasz shot and killed Frazier Ellison when he allegedly grabbed her gun during a traffic stop. A passenger in Ellison's car said he was placing his keys and cell phone on the car when he was killed. | google.com | ||
6034 | James M. Cummings | 46 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/06/2007 | St. Louis | MO | 38.7669364 | -90.2015996 | St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department | James M. Cummings was killed when an Ford F-150 fleeing police struck his Saturn. The 25-mile chase began in downtown St. Louis, when officer Robert Lang, who was in an unmarked police car, thought the truck fit the description of one connected to recent burglaries. Several other officers joined the pursuit as it continued onto I-70 and through residential north St. Louis. According to police, a supervisor called off the chase before it crossed into Illinois, though it was disputed whether officers obeyed. The Ford's driver, Sean Like, said police stayed close behind the entire time as he circled back to Missouri on I-270, exited at Riverview Drive and re-entered I-270. Like was driving west in the eastbound lanes when he hit Cummings' car at 3 a.m. Like, 23, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, leaving the scene of a fatal accident, tampering with a motor vehicle and resisting arrest. The SLMPD paid $550,000 and the city paid $150,000 to settle a wrongful death suit--the highest settlement the department paid in 2010. No formal admission of wrongdoing--six officers were given a refresher course on pursuit policy; one sergeant was verbally reprimanded, and two lieutenants were suspended for one day. Three of the officers involved had since left the department (as of Feb. 2011), including one who testified that he had been involved in a number of chases that resulted in crashes. | stltoday.com | ||
6035 | Anthony McCullough | 30 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/06/2007 | St. Joseph | MO | 39.7849404 | -94.7442103 | Buchanan County Sheriff's Office | McCullough died in a police chase, although why he was being chased wasn't reported. | google.com | ||
6036 | Edmund Wong | 40 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/06/2007 | Downey | CA | 33.9482778 | -118.0974236 | Downey Police Department | Wong was shot several times by officers with the Downey Police Department who were responding to reports of an armed man getting into a truck on the 9000 block Pico Vista Street. Officers arrived at the scene and tried to stop the fleeing suspect. After crashing his silver Toyota into a patrol car and exiting the vehicle with what appeared to be a gun, the Downey patrol officers opened fire, striking Wong repeatedly. He was pronounced dead at 4:03 p.m. After his death, it was learned that Mr. Wong himself was the party who contacted the police; giving them a detailed description of his vehicle, his own physical description and a description of his weapons. | latimes.com | ||
22655 | Aries "Balley" Owens | 27 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/06/2007 | Norfolk | VA | 36.8501599 | -76.282308 | Chesapeake Police Department | Aries Owens was killed after firing on officers following a pizza store robbery. | pilotonline.com | ||
6030 | Robert Neil Woods | 33 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/05/2007 | Dallas | TX | 32.7238442 | -96.7036686 | Dallas Police Department | Officers Gregory Epley and David Poe tried to pull Woods over. Woods did not stop for several blocks. When he did, officers said that he appeared to put something up to his head. Officers handcuffed Woods and called for cover. Senior Corporal Patty Carter and Officer Carl Freeman responded. Woods began to seizure. He died on April 12 of cocaine intoxication. | google.com | ||
6031 | Forrest "Jambo" Dent | 79 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/05/2007 | Baton Rouge | LA | 30.4270749 | -91.1745049 | Baton Rouge Police Department | Forrest "Jambo" Dent allegedly shot and killed himself during a standoff that began when he shot and killed his tenant and friend, Junius "Juicy" Smart, 68. | wafb.com | ||
6032 | Phillipe E. McIver | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/05/2007 | Wilmington | NC | 34.2436202 | -77.8985596 | Wilmington Police Department | Several hundred people gathered in the neighborhood, some of whom threw rocks and bottles, to protest the fatal police shooting of McIver. Officials were not forthcoming with all details of the incident. The chief cited "other circumstances here in play that we can't get into." Reportedly McIver was in the street and clad only in a T-shirt when officers arrived, and he went for an officer's gun. | starnewsonline.com | ||
6033 | Barry Lee Bush | 52 | Male | European-American/White | 04/05/2007 | Somerville | NJ | 40.6117579 | -74.7227181 | U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation | Working for the FBI's Newark office as a special agent, Bush was killed by friendly gunfire during the attempted arrest of three bank robbery suspects. Agents fired at the three while they switched getaway vehicles. In the "dynamic arrest situation" Bush was killed, the suspects did not fire weapons, and one of the three temporarily escaped. | cnn.com | ||
20121 | Patrick J. Reilly | 47 | Male | European-American/White | 04/05/2007 | Perryopolis | PA | 40.0501413 | -79.7761872 | Perryopolis Police Department | Patrick Reilly allegedly shot and killed himself during a chase with Perryopolis police. Reilly was apparently wanted for burglary and related charges out of Huntingdon County. | google.com | ||
21624 | Gregory Eaton Jr. | 29 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/05/2007 | Baltimore | MD | 39.2169614 | -76.5880364 | Baltimore Police Department | Andrew W. Gotwols Jr. and Martin Runk had just worked the 4-midnight shift at Club Fantasies, when two men tried to rob the strip club. They shot and killed Gregory Eaton and wounded Alex Reiff, 24. Gotwols had previously shot and killed Antonio Garnett Shields on July 12, 2006. | google.com | ||
6025 | Charles David Williams | 40 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/03/2007 | Roseville | CA | 38.7388809 | -121.2596042 | Sacramento County Sheriff's Office | An off-duty Sacramento County Sheriff's deputy shot and killed Charles David Williams when he broke into her home in Roseville and sexually assaulted her, police said. | thepresstribune.com | ||
6026 | Cole Curtis Coulson | 37 | Male | European-American/White | 04/03/2007 | Oakwood | OK | 35.9317106 | -98.7050864 | Dewey County Sheriff's Office | Coulson led three police cars during the chase into a field north of Oakwood. One police vehicle was stuck in the mud just as the chase left the road and went into the wheat field, police said. The other police unit and Coulson's vehicle were stuck in the mud about a quarter-mile into the field. Coulson fled on foot, and Officer Clay Sander gave chase in his vehicle for about a quarter-mile. Coulson turned and charged the officer as Sander was opening his door and shot Sander before he was shot and killed by a deputy. | google.com | ||
6027 | Daiman Connors | 29 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/03/2007 | St. Louis | MO | 38.6276316 | -90.1883524 | St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department | Two officers shot Damien Conner after he allegedly opened fire on them. According to police, the officers tried to stop Conner at about 7 p.m. as he was walking near Broadway and Locust Street because he was clutching his waistband. Conner allegedly fired a shot at the officers when they told him to stop, ran and then came back and shot some more. Both officers opened fire, killing Conner. | stlamerican.com | ||
6028 | Kashiwa Kwan Pineset | 34 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/03/2007 | Shreveport | LA | 32.4347516 | -93.7630849 | Shreveport Police Department | Police shot and killed Kashiwa Pineset after he allegedly began shooting at them with an assault rifle. | ktbs.com | ||
6029 | Milton Wilcox | 33 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/03/2007 | Savannah | GA | 32.070474 | -81.1066735 | Dougherty County Police Department | Died from injuries sustained during motor vehicle accident. Wilcox was the passenger in a vehicle struck by a police cruiser just after the officer "looked down to adjust his computer and C-D player." | thealbanyjournal.com | ||
6021 | Cesar Mendez | 20 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/02/2007 | Ukiah | CA | 39.1249315 | -123.2081133 | Ukiah Police Department | Sgt. Greg Heitkamp, Sgt. Justin Wyatt, Detective Glenn Stark and Cpl. Eric Baarts shot Cesar Mendez after he allegedly fired at them during a multi-agency gang and probation sweep. | pressdemocrat.com | ||
6022 | Nolan Hunter | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/02/2007 | Dayton | OH | 39.7895111 | -84.2083552 | Dayton Police Department | According to media reports, Hunter was shot to death by an officer after he allegedly fired a gun at someone. | mydaytondailynews.com | ||
6023 | Theodore "Ted" Arthur Hansen | 31 | Male | European-American/White | 04/02/2007 | Boise | ID | 43.5679411 | -116.187463 | Boise Police Department | Hansen attempted to pay for a purchase at Fred Meyer with a counterfeit check. Store personnel contacted dispatch. The officers placed him under arrest verbally. As they began to take him into custody, Hansen violently resisted. He brandished a knife. The officers fired their handguns, striking Hansen three times. He died from his injuries. | google.com | ||
6024 | Jaime Flores | 29 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/02/2007 | Lennox | CA | 33.9384338 | -118.3615891 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department | As reported by the Los Angeles Times: Flores stepped out from behind a parked car as deputies pulled up. He was holding what looked like a silver pistol. Deputies got out and ordered him to drop it, but instead he pointed it at them, they said. One deputy fired, fatally wounding him. | latimes.com | ||
20120 | Andrew John Lukasiak | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 04/02/2007 | Oil City | PA | 41.423276 | -79.719136 | Oil City Police Department | Andrew Lukasiak, 32, was in his house with a rifle and threatening suicide. Oil City Police went to Lukasiak's house and tried to contact him, but were unable to do so. Members of the Pennsylvania State Police Special Response Team fired tear gas into the house. Police entered the house and found Lukasiak dead. | google.com | ||
23074 | William "Bill" Wright | 27 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/02/2007 | Memphis | TN | 35.0406253 | -90.0240993 | Memphis Police Department | Officers were called to a home just before 8:30 p.m., where a man was being combative and had possibly overdosed on cocaine. After a fight and arrest, William "Bill" Wright died a short time later in police custody. | wmcactionnews5.com | ||
6018 | Stanley Ray Hart | 49 | Male | European-American/White | 04/01/2007 | Pattonville | TX | 33.5763503 | -95.3927756 | Texas Department of Public Safety | Trooper Ray, Constable Randy Boren and Lamar County Sheriff's Deputy Donald Parks served a warrant on Hart. Hart pointed a gun at his head. Constable Boren grabbed him. Hart shot himself fatally in the head. | google.com | ||
6019 | Oscar Robert Lewis | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 04/01/2007 | Dayton | OH | 39.6708591 | -84.1788513 | Springfield Police Division | According to media reports, Lewis allegedly fled from a hit-skip scene and attacked officers with a garden tool. | mydaytondailynews.com | ||
6020 | Todd Rory Murray | 21 | Male | Native American/Alaskan | 04/01/2007 | Vernal | UT | 40.5008379 | -109.854003 | Utah Highway Patrol | After a high speed chase, the car Murray was riding in crashed. Trooper Dave Swenson told investigators Murray shot at him, he returned fire, then Murray shot himself. The state Medical Examiner's Office ruled the death a suicide. | ksl.com | ||
6016 | George R. Hay | 32 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/30/2007 | Baton Rouge | LA | 30.406659 | -91.0996694 | Louisiana State Police | George R. Hay, a passenger in a 2004 BMW, was killed when the driver crashed after a 16-minute high-speed chase on I-10 and Baton Rouge city streets at speeds as high as 120 mph. | acurazine.com | ||
6017 | John "James" M. Peters | 42 | Male | European-American/White | 03/30/2007 | Auburn | ME | 44.0805494 | -70.3064326 | Maine State Police | After apparently shooting his elderly mother in the drive, Peters withdrew to the house. Police fired tear gas in, Peters returned gunfire. Later, two troopers saw him near a window and shot him. | maine.gov | ||
6013 | Ramiro Gamez Acosta | 20 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/29/2007 | Calexico | CA | 32.6662468 | -115.4986244 | U.S. Customs and Border Protection | A Border Patrol agent shot and killed an undocumented immigrant who threatened him with a softball-size rock at the border, police said. | xicanopwr.com | ||
6014 | Robert Harvest Turman Jr. | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/29/2007 | Jonesboro | GA | 33.5786183 | -84.374007 | Clayton County Police Department | Turman fled a prostitution sting, and he hit an officer before he was shot and killed. He had 31 bags of crack cocaine, seven bags of powdered cocaine, six bags of marijuana, one "cookie" of crack cocaine, and 16 ecstasy pills in the vehicle. | news-daily.com | ||
6015 | Donald Perry | 49 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/29/2007 | Fort Lauderdale | FL | 26.1292025 | -80.1579449 | Fort Lauderdale Police Department | Perry was struck by a speeding unmarked local police cruiser, lost a leg in a gory accident scene, and subsequently lost enough blood to kill him. Although Perry was in dark clothing, drunk, and seven feet into the street, his family sought a settlement from the city and received $65K. | sun-sentinel.com | ||
6010 | Clarence Leroy Johnson | 38 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/28/2007 | Severna Park | MD | 39.078044 | -76.548962 | Anne Arundel County Sheriff's Office | Johnson robbed a bank about 9 a.m. Deputies caught up to him walking along a highway not long afterward. Although he hadn't shown a weapon in the bank, he fired on the officers, wounding one in the leg. After a foot chase into a residential area, he was fatally shot. | washingtonexaminer.com | ||
6011 | Jodi Fleisher | 39 | Female | Race unspecified | 03/28/2007 | South Daytona | FL | 29.1587466 | -80.9953693 | Daytona Beach Police Department, South Daytona Police Department | During a traffic stop a tan 2001 Chevy Blazer driven by David Munn attempted to back over two motorcycle police, triggering a high-speed chase involving four jurisdictions in hot pursuit and covered by news helicopters. The chase ended when Munn veered into oncoming traffic and slammed into another vehicle at 70 MPH. He died at the scene, one of his passengers, Jodi Fleisher, died the next day, and several others were wounded. | orlandosentinel.com | ||
6012 | David Munn | 34 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/28/2007 | South Daytona | FL | 29.1587466 | -80.9953693 | Daytona Beach Police Department, South Daytona Police Department | During a traffic stop a tan 2001 Chevy Blazer driven by David Munn attempted to back over two motorcycle police, triggering a high-speed chase involving four jurisdictions in hot pursuit and covered by news helicopters. The chase ended when Munn veered into oncoming traffic and slammed into another vehicle at 70 MPH. He died at the scene, one of his passengers, Jodi Fleisher, died the next day, and several others were wounded. | orlandosentinel.com | ||
20493 | Jason Alan Hicks | 22 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/28/2007 | Madison | WI | 43.0766302 | -89.5368602 | Madison Police Department | Jason A. Hicks was killed in a crash as he fled a police stop for speeding. | google.com | ||
6009 | Gerardo Valentinez | 30 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/27/2007 | San Diego | CA | 32.5448068 | -117.0300991 | U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security | Gerardo Valentinez died after being taken into custody by U.S. Customs agents at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. | 10news.com | ||
6005 | Paul Rodriguez | 35 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/25/2007 | Dallas | TX | 32.7437847 | -96.8230936 | Dallas Police Department | Senior Corporals Willhoite and Blaine Hultquist, and Officer Antonius Charles responded to a robbery in progress. Rodriguez, standing in an empty convenience store, shouted that the people in the store were going to kill him. Senior Corporal Hultquist and Officer Charles took Rodriguez to Parkland Memorial Hospital for a mental evaluation. He died in the emergency room. | google.com | ||
6006 | Kyle Foreman | 15 | Male | European-American/White | 03/25/2007 | Lafayette | LA | 30.1637348 | -92.0411381 | Lafayette Police Department | Kody Southichack and Kyle Foreman died when the stolen car Southichack was driving crashed into a sign post during a police chase that began when an officer attempted to alert Southichack that the headlights weren't on. | iberianet.com | ||
6007 | Kody Southichack | 15 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 03/25/2007 | Lafayette | LA | 30.1637348 | -92.0411381 | Lafayette Police Department | Kody Southichack and Kyle Foreman died when the stolen car Southichack was driving crashed into a sign post during a police chase that began when an officer attempted to alert Southichack that the headlights weren't on. | iberianet.com | ||
6008 | Steven Paul Salguero | 29 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/25/2007 | El Paso | TX | 31.7882308 | -106.4162512 | El Paso Police Department | After drinking and injuring himself, Salguero, schizophrenic, asked neighbors to call paramedics. When paramedics arrived, Salguero told them to leave and said that he had a gun. Officers arrived as Salguero smeared blood on a sliding glass door at an apartment. Officers forced entry. Salguero attacked Officer Jorge Garcia with bleach. Officer Garcia shot Salguero in the face and arm with a shotgun. Officer Garcia was at least temporarily blinded. Salguero was unarmed. | newspapertree.com | ||
18966 | Gary Douglas | 51 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/25/2007 | Moncks Corner | SC | 33.1958159 | -80.0132141 | Berkeley County Sheriff's Office | Gary Douglas had shot two Moncks Corner police officers. Off-duty Berkeley County Sheriff's Corporal Clifford C. McElvogue bumped Douglas off the road near Berkeley Alternative School. He drew his personal Glock 27 pistol and saw Douglas starting to lift the shotgun. The deputy fired several times, killing Douglas. | postandcourier.com | ||
6004 | Jerome Alford | 33 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/24/2007 | Spokane | WA | 47.6550635 | -117.4082112 | Spokane Police Department | Sergeant Daniel Torok stopped Alford for suspected drug activity on the street. "A fight ensued", Torok pepper sprayed Alford, and Alford allegedly punched him in the face then ran. Torok chased Alford and another "fight" ensued, at which time Torok shot Alford. Witnesses allegedly backed Torok's incident statement. The Spokane County Prosecutor ruled the death justifiable homicide. | google.com | ||
20494 | Myron West | 25 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/24/2007 | Milwaukee | WI | 43.0897502 | -87.9409107 | Milwaukee Police Department | Milwaukee police shot and killed a knife-wielding man, Myron West, who they said had stabbed his brother-in-law before being confronted by officers. He allegedly lunged at them with a knife. | google.com | ||
5998 | Mario Rojas Rodriguez | 27 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/23/2007 | Chicago | IL | 41.9026915 | -87.72507519999999 | Chicago Police Department | An officer tried to pull Rodriguez from his car after a brief chase, but Rodriguez allegedly stepped on the gas pedal and ran over the officer's foot, pinning him to a pole. The officer shot Rodriguez through the windshield, killing him. | chicagotribune.com | ||
5999 | Franklin Dewey Drennan Jr. | 37 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/23/2007 | Little Rock | AR | 34.7116281 | -92.2552128 | Pulaski County Sheriff's Office | Drennan shot and killed himself in a vehicle that a Pulaski County sheriff's deputy stopped for a traffic violation. He had skipped a court date after losing an appeal of an attempted murder conviction, according to police. | google.com | ||
6000 | Richard Englebright | 26 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/23/2007 | Spiro | OK | 35.2410688 | -94.6199438 | Oklahoma Highway Patrol | Officer Daniel C. Martinez was shot while assisting Donna Stevens, 22, retrieve her child and some belongings from a residence. Stevens had broken up with her boyfriend. Martinez and Stevens went to the front door of the house, and Stevens' ex-boyfriend's brother Richard Englebright, 26, answered. Englebright told Stevens to "wait a minute" and shut the door. Englebright returned with a 9 mm handgun and shot Martinez in the head. When an Oklahoma state trooper pulled up behind him and turned on his lights, Englebright shot and killed himself. | google.com | ||
6001 | Angelo Miller | 17 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/23/2007 | Cleveland | OH | 41.5108786 | -81.63414 | Cleveland Police Department | An off-duty officer working as a security guard at the Lexington Village apartment complex on East 79th Street, shot and killed Angelo Miller, 17, who was suspected of breaking into cars on the property. John Lundy stopped the teen's car in the parking lot, and fired at least five shots into Miller's car. One bullet struck the teen in the back, killing him. Investigators said Miller accelerated toward Lundy, and the officer fired in self-defense. | cleveland.com | ||
6002 | Sergio Galvan | 35 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/23/2007 | San Antonio | TX | 29.3711113 | -98.5226554 | San Antonio Police Department | A woman complained that she needed help with her husband, Galvan, who became suddenly paranoid. Officers responded. Galvan resisted arrest. They pepper-sprayed Galvan and shot him twice with stun guns. He became unresponsive. Officers performed CPR on Galvan until medical assistance arrived. Galvan died of excited delirium. He was high on cocaine at the time of his arrest. | uscourts.gov | ||
6003 | Deon Johnson | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/23/2007 | San Antonio | TX | 29.578068 | -98.3713538 | San Antonio Police Department | Around 11:51 p.m., Johnson and three other men left a Blockbuster Video, the scene of a reported robbery. Officers Christopher Garrison and Spence Jones pursued them. Johnson pointed a handgun at the officers. The officers fatally shot him. Officer Garrison had served for five years. Officer Jones had served for 2 1/2 years. | masscops.com | ||
19769 | Ronnie Reese | 36 | Male | European-American/White | 03/23/2007 | Bowling Green | KY | 36.981944 | -86.4655606 | Bowling Green Police Department | Ronnie Reese tried to rob a Burger King, and when police caught up with him outside, he pointed a gun and was shot and killed. | google.com | ||
5993 | Jennifer Kois | 19 | Female | European-American/White | 03/22/2007 | Clifton | CO | 39.1022267 | -108.4519984 | Colorado State Patrol | Jacob Brock and Jennifer Kois were killed when a drunk driver, Patrick Strawmatt, rear-ended them while fleeing California Highway Patrol. | denverpost.com | ||
5994 | Jacob Brock | 19 | Male | European-American/White | 03/22/2007 | Clifton | CO | 39.1022267 | -108.4519984 | Colorado State Patrol | Jacob Brock and Jennifer Kois were killed when a drunk driver, Patrick Strawmatt, rear-ended them while fleeing California Highway Patrol. | denverpost.com | ||
5995 | Jose Roberto Vallejo | 22 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/22/2007 | Bastrop | TX | 30.1417197 | -97.2507755 | Travis County Sheriff's Office | Vallejo drove by the Precinct 4 substation while firing a gun. Deputies responded. Vallejo struck Deputy Demetrio Medina with the vehicle and drove away at speeds of up to 100 mph. Deputies David Carroll and Juan Arispe pursued. In Bastrop, Vallejo stopped the vehicle, stepped out and shot at the deputies. Deputies fatally shot him. The Texas Ranger Division investigated. It was the first fatal TCSO shooting since that of Lennon Johnson in 2003. | austinchronicle.com | ||
5996 | Brandon Lee Washington | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/22/2007 | Dallas | TX | 32.7347171 | -96.7006311 | Dallas Police Department | According to DPD, Washington approached Officer Martin Rivera, his hands in his pockets, after he was repeatedly ordered to take his hands out of his pockets. Officer Rivera shot at him four times, striking him twice. Washington was pronounced dead at Parkland hospital. He was unarmed. | dallaspolice.net | ||
5997 | Michael Terry Smith | 42 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/22/2007 | Spauldings | MD | 38.8296657 | -76.8784792 | U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation | Around 6 a.m. FBI agents arrived at Smith's apartment to serve a warrant related to an armed robbery. Smith fired and officers and began a lengthy 9-hour standoff. Agents attempted to flush out Smith, using 10 tear gas canisters, with no effect. Ultimately they stormed the residence and shot Smith dead. | wtop.com | ||
5989 | Anthony Joseph Bosworth II | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 03/21/2007 | Nampa | ID | 43.6310864 | -116.6097304 | Nampa Police Department | Anthony Bosworth II was killed by law enforcement in Nampa a few hours after he murderd bail bondsman Joshua Schmidt. Three oficers and police dog chased Bosworth he turned and began firing at them. Oficers returned fire, the Nampa oficer shot Bosworth in the head killing him. | mountainhomenews.com | ||
5990 | Anthony Bernard King | 24 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/21/2007 | Acworth | GA | 34.0763562 | -84.6535366 | Acworth Police Department | King fled a traffic stop on foot, shooting at police and wounding one before he was shot and killed. | google.com | ||
5991 | Matthew L. Wyant | 21 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/21/2007 | Waynesville | MO | 37.7864455 | -92.2582408 | Pulaski County Sheriff's Office | Deputy Donald Sapp struck and killed Matthew L. Wyant as he walked across a highway. At around 10:30 p.m., Wyant and his brother were headed to a gas station when Sapp hit Wyant. According to the Highway Patrol's investigation, the main contributing factor to the accident was Wyant's failure to observe Sapp's vehicle, and attempting to cross the roadway directly in the car's path. Wyant's family didn't comment on the specifics of the findings other than to say they disagreed and planned to press on with a civil lawsuit. | dps.mo.gov | ||
5992 | Benjamin "Ben" Brown | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 03/21/2007 | Chicago | IL | 41.9975215 | -87.7020808 | Chicago Police Department | Officers Jeffrey Everett and Jose Pelayo shot Benjamin "Ben" Brown after he allegedly pulled a gun outside a liquor store on the Far North Side. The officers were on patrol at about 5:30 p.m. when they saw Brown pull his shirt down outside the store, so they thought he had a weapon. The officers followed Brown into the store to question him and he resisted. The officers took Brown outside, where he allegedly drew a .45 caliber Glock from his waistband. The officers then shot Brown. Everett and Pelayo's version is disputed. Another account said the officers shot Brown after he started to run away, then shot him several more times after he was on the ground. The city later settled with Brown's estate for $100,000. | chicagotribune.com | ||
5988 | Daniel Simas | Male | Race unspecified | 03/20/2007 | Escalon | CA | 37.75020850000001 | -120.9408758 | San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office | Daniel Simas killed himself in an almond orchard after he shot and wounded deputy Brad Cook, police said. | google.com | |||
20119 | Rahman Jenkins | 30 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/20/2007 | Philadelphia | PA | 39.9932766 | -75.1249316 | Philadelphia Police Department | After a traffic stop and a fight with police, Rahman Jenkins allegedly pulled a gun and was shot and killed. | google.com | ||
20495 | Name withheld by police | 64 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/20/2007 | Poplar | WI | 46.5838289 | -91.7990772 | Douglas County Sheriff's Office | A man shot his estranged wife before he shot and killed himself when stopped by a deputy. | google.com | ||
21150 | Mathias "Mat" John Ringle | 23 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/20/2007 | Caro | MI | 43.4527146 | -83.387265 | Michigan State Police, Caro Police Department | Trooper James Horn stopped Mathias Ringle's vehicle at around 11:45 p.m. on M-24 near Bevens Road in Indianfields Township. As Horn approached, Ringle allegedly opened fire, and Horn fired a number of shots at Ringle. Police said Ringle drove off southbound on M-24, and Horn tried to again to stop his vehicle. According to police, the vehicles collided, causing Ringle's vehicle to be pushed into the ditch. Horn and a Caro police officer reportedly found Ringle dead in the front seat. An official autopsy determined Ringle died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and that none of Horn's shots hit him. | michigansthumb.com | ||
5985 | Juan Rosas Martinez | 68 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/19/2007 | Dinuba | CA | 36.560198 | -119.388359 | Dinuba Police Department | Juan Rosas Martinez was a pedestrian killed when he was struck by a Dinuba police car. | google.com | ||
5986 | Jorge Alberto Martinez | 64 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/19/2007 | Thermal | CA | 33.5912841 | -116.1124272 | Riverside County Sheriff's Department | Jorge Alberto Martinez was killed in a head-on collision with RCSD deputy Manuel Viegas, who was also killed in the crash. | latimes.com | ||
5987 | Christopher Fagan | 27 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/19/2007 | Houston | TX | 29.9466217 | -95.5718927 | Harris County Sheriff's Office | Around 11 p.m., a deputy responding to a suicide in progress followed Fagan as he walked away from his house. A second deputy arrived, telling the first that Fagan had a knife. The first deputy told Fagan, still facing away, to show his hands or be shot with a stun gun. Fagan ignored him. The deputy stunned Fagan once. Fagan either stabbed himself or fell on his knife when struck by stun gun probes. He died at Memorial Hermann Medical Center at 2:40 a.m. | chron.com | ||
5982 | Gene Baraka Franklin | 34 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/18/2007 | San Antonio | TX | 29.4250575 | -98.4680027 | San Antonio Police Department | Officer R. Hensley pulled Franklin over for driving without headlights and without a front license plate. During the stop, Officer Hensley found what was later confirmed to be cocaine, arrested Franklin and offered him medical attention in case he had swallowed any drugs. Franklin denied having done so. He started to convulse when Officer Hensley took him to a police station. | google.com | ||
5983 | Jorge Quiroz Salgado aka Jorge Sargado aka Raul Valencia | 22 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/18/2007 | Huntsville | AL | 34.7730871 | -86.5683959 | Madison County Sheriff's Office | A deputy shot Jorge Quiroz Salgado after he allegedly struck the deputy with a 4x4 post outside a lumber yard. | decaturdaily.com | ||
5984 | Dellos Edward Taylor | 41 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/18/2007 | Billings | MT | 45.8236928 | -108.4613611 | Billings Police Department | Taylor fired at officers and SWAT members more than 25 times during a six-hour standoff. This had followed his own call to 911, shortly before midnight, saying he was armed and suicial. He died from a single shot to the head. | helenair.com | ||
21625 | Kenneth Tomlin | 17 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/18/2007 | Baltimore | MD | 39.319629 | -76.650568 | Baltimore Police Department | Kenneth Tomlin tried to flee police in a stolen vehicle and was killed when he crashed into a tow truck, police said. | google.com | ||
5977 | David Mendoza | 42 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/17/2007 | West Covina | CA | 34.0632472 | -117.9446757 | West Covina Police Department | David Mendoza died of asphyxiation after being shocked 14 times with a Taser by officer Enrique Macias, and pinned to the floor by Macias and three other officers in an emergency room. | sgvtribune.com | ||
5978 | Demetrus R. Vinson | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/17/2007 | Akron | OH | 41.0925882 | -81.494729 | Akron Police Department | Officers approached a vehicle; one officer observed the driver of the vehicle reaching beneath his seat and produced a gun. The officer immediately alerted his partner. The suspect pointed his gun at one of the officers, his partner fired upon notice, striking and killing the suspect. It was later determined that the killing wound was self-inflicted. | 19actionnews.com | ||
5979 | David M. Brown | 47 | Male | European-American/White | 03/17/2007 | Park Forest | IL | 41.4778422 | -87.6954484 | Park Forest Police Department | David Brown died following a struggle with police. Police said they responded to Brown's home at about 8:20 p.m. because Brown had beaten his father and brother. Police said they were told Brown had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Brown allegedly charged at an officer, leading to a struggle. According to police, an officer "unsuccessfully deployed his department-issued Taser in attempts to control Brown." Brown began having "cardiac difficulties" in an ambulance, police said. | chicagotribune.com | ||
5980 | Marlon St. Mark German | 34 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/17/2007 | Kennewick | WA | 46.209198 | -119.131399 | Kennewick Police Department | German was shot after threatening to kill his estranged girlfriend and striking her with a knife. Police were responding to report of domestic violence. | keprtv.com | ||
5981 | William Nielsen Krawchuk | 27 | Male | European-American/White | 03/17/2007 | Big Lake | MN | 45.3653955 | -93.819116 | Minnesota State Patrol | According to the Star Tribune, a state trooper shot Krawchuk after pulling him over for suspected drunken driving. The trooper said he was dragged by Krawchuk's sport utility vehicle. | startribune.com | ||
21905 | James A. Cohen Jr. | 26 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/17/2007 | Camden | NJ | 39.9293077 | -75.1019375 | Camden Police Department | Police responded to reports of gunshots near Whitman Park. Two officers spotted James Cohen with a gun, and Officer Kevin Parry shot and killed him when Cohen pointed the gun at them. | google.com | ||
5976 | Eduardo Agustin Reyes | 18 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/16/2007 | Atherton | CA | 37.46892280000001 | -122.1924707 | San Mateo County Sheriff's Office | Eduardo Agustin Reyes was a passenger killed when a driver fleeing from police crashed into a tree in Atherton. | insidebayarea.com | ||
21626 | Ryan Lee Meyers | 40 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/16/2007 | Middle River | MD | 39.3342592 | -76.3899302 | Baltimore County Police Department | Ryan Meyers died after being tasered 10 times by police. Ryan Meyers was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when he was 15 years old and lived with his parents for his entire life. Prior to his death, the Meyers family contacted law enforcement on five different occasions to have Ryan detained during a psychotic episode. On the night of Ryan's death, Ryan's brother Billy came home to find Ryan involved in a confrontation with their mother, Mrs. Meyers. Billy punched Ryan, a fight ensued and Mrs. Meyers called the police. Officer Romeo arrived at the scene and found Mr. Meyers and Billy standing in the front yard. Mr. Meyers was nursing a swollen and lacerated nose. Officer Romeo investigated and saw Ryan walking through the house, carrying a baseball bat. Officer Gaedke arrived at the scene, and she and Officer Romeo tried to convince Ryan to surrender. He responded by stating, "No, you're going to have to kill me." Officer Romeo requested the assistance of an officer trained to use a taser and Officer Mee responded. The officers entered the home and Officer Mee ordered Ryan to drop the baseball bat. Ryan did not immediately comply. Officer Mee fired the probes of his taser into Ryan and shocked him three times before Ryan dropped the baseball bat and fell to the ground. While three officers sat on Ryan's back, Officer Mee shocked Ryan a fourth time in probe mode and then six times in drive stun mode. According to some of the officers, Ryan was actively resisting and fighting with the officers when these additional shocks were administered. Officer Gaedke testified that Ryan was not fighting with the officers, but was "keeping his body rigid and keeping his hands underneath his body." Billy Meyers testified that Ryan merely tried to move his legs while the officers were sitting on his back. After Ryan had been shocked for the tenth time, the officers noticed that he was unconscious. Paramedics arrived and found Ryan in a state of cardiac arrest. They were unable to revive him. | google.com | ||
5973 | Randy Buckey | 42 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/15/2007 | Marion | OH | 40.574344 | -83.146024 | Marion County Sheriff's Office | Buckey died after he was stunned by a Taser used by a Marion County deputy sheriff who was trying to take the man to a psychiatric evaluation. | 19actionnews.com | ||
5974 | Felton Frankley | 48 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/15/2007 | Bedford Park | IL | 41.760671 | -87.74285 | Bedford Park Police Department | Felton Frankley reportedly died of a heart attack after being arrested. Police had responded at about 4 p.m. to a report of a deceptive practice in progress in a LaSalle Bank branch. Officers saw a woman run to a vehicle and get in. The officers stopped the vehicle, but the woman fled. Frankley, the driver, was taken into custody, and shortly thereafter began complaining of difficulty breathing, police said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. | nwitimes.com | ||
5975 | Jason Kopp | 20 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/15/2007 | Philadelphia | PA | 39.9867611 | -75.1083778 | U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation | Kopp and two other suspects were beating an undercover operative during a narcotics sting gone south. Agents intervened and tried to apprehend all three. Only Kopp resisted, by refusing to freeze and show his hands, and only Kopp was fatally shot. A gun found some 40 feet away justified the killing. | philly.com | ||
18967 | Name withheld by police | 20 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/15/2007 | Belton | SC | 34.473186 | -82.482308 | Anderson County Sheriff's Office | Police responded to a domestic disturbance. The person who was allegedly making threats was shot and killed by a Anderson County Sheriff's deputy outside the home. | google.com | ||
30210 | Antonio Escareal | 51 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 03/15/2007 | Carson | CA | 33.8195874 | -118.2699752 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department | Antonio Escareal allegedly charged at a sheriff's deputy with a knife, and the deputy shot him. Escareal was hospitalized until he died on May 1, 2007. | google.com | ||
5971 | Luis Mandajano Garcia | 36 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/14/2007 | West Valley City | UT | 40.6965802 | -112.0057375 | West Valley City Police Department | Undercover officers arranged a drug sale with Garcia, a suspected dealer, and planned to arrest him. They said when they closed in on his car, Garcia pointed a gun at one officer's head. Officer Andy Attridge fired seven times, killing Garcia. Garcia fired one round through the floor of the car. | sltrib.com | ||
5972 | David Garvin | 42 | Male | European-American/White | 03/14/2007 | New York City | NY | 40.7281171 | -74.0018373 | City of New York Police Department | Frustrated filmmaker and former Marine Garvin set out with multiple weapons and disguises into Greenwich Village to settle scores. He shot a bartender and two unarmed auxiliary officers to death before NYPD cornered him and killed him with a total of 56 shots. | nytimes.com | ||
5964 | Michael Eugene Sullivan | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/13/2007 | Bakersfield | CA | 35.3381784 | -119.0343967 | Bakersfield Police Department | K-9 officer Eric South shot and killed Michael Eugene Sullivan when he stabbed the officer, police said. | bakersfield.com | ||
5965 | Andrew Constable | 27 | Male | European-American/White | 03/13/2007 | Lakewood | CO | 39.6614786 | -105.1631911 | Lakewood Police Department | Police answered a domestic-violence, police said. At least one bullet fired by the two Lakewood officers, whose names have not been released, struck Constable after he ignored orders to put down his weapon. The coroner's report says no other bullet wounds on Constable's body would have proved fatal besides the one he fired himself. | google.com | ||
5966 | Kendrick Webb | 25 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/13/2007 | Little Rock | AR | 34.7396967 | -92.3427089 | Little Rock Police Department | Webb shot and killed another man with a shotgun before being killed by a Little Rock police officer. He was serving out his federal prison sentence at a local halfway house, which is where the killings took place. | google.com | ||
5967 | Michael L. Robertson | 38 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/13/2007 | Warrior | AL | 33.8091469 | -86.8103685 | Warrior Police Department | Police shot and killed Michael L. Robertson after he allegedly tried to run over an officer responding to a robbery at the Warrior Dollar General store. | decaturdaily.com | ||
5968 | Muszack Nazzaire | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/13/2007 | Naples | FL | 26.1694819 | -81.717724 | Collier County Sheriff's Office | Nazzaire was caught driving without a license. He fled the traffic stop on foot and was standing in a canal when tasered. Observers described his instant, sickening collapse and suggested that the water might have somehow contributed to his death. | naplesnews.com | ||
5969 | David Weisman | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 03/13/2007 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.162256 | -118.361163 | Los Angeles Police Department | As reported by the Los Angeles Times: Officers responded to a domestic-violence, assault-with-deadly-weapon call. No one answered their knock, so they got an apartment manager to give them a key. Inside, police said, Weisman confronted the officers with a knife. He was shot and killed. | lapdonline.org | ||
5970 | Corey Mickins | 25 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/13/2007 | New York City | NY | 40.815517 | -73.943143 | City of New York Police Department | A detective tracking Mickins as a suspect called for three other officers as backup, resulting in a physical struggle in front of a Harlem cafe. Mickins somehow drew his gun and shot one of them twice, seriously wounding him. He was then fatally shot four times. | nytimes.com | ||
5961 | Michael Lawrence Steggall | 35 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/12/2007 | Eastland | TX | 32.4033188 | -98.8280517 | Texas Department of Public Safety | Trooper Reuben Mankin pulled Steggall over for a traffic violation. A Cisco PD drug-sniffing dog found methamphetamine in the vehicle. Steggall left the vehicle on foot. Trooper Mankin and a Cisco officer pursued him. Steggall tried to take the officer's gun off of his duty belt. Trooper Mankin fatally shot Steggall. | myplainview.com | ||
5962 | Cory Christopher Lucero | 43 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/12/2007 | Channing | TX | 35.7051387 | -102.3989367 | Hartley County Sheriff's Office | During a traffic stop, Lucero ingested a fatal dose of what deputies believed was methamphetamine. | google.com | ||
5963 | Jeremiah Chass | 16 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/12/2007 | Sebastopol | CA | 38.4174788 | -122.8283638 | Sonoma County Sheriff's Office | Chass was shot to death by deputies after he'd allegedly held his 6-year-old brother hostage with a pocketknife. He released the 6 yr old, was pepper sprayed by deputies, then started kicking one in the face and waving the knife. Deputies shot him seven times. The family received a $1.75 million settlement in 2009 for their allegations of civil rights violations, wrongful death, and excessive use of force. | pressdemocrat.com | ||
5959 | Kristen McKenzie | 21 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/10/2007 | Brooklyn | NY | 40.655553 | -73.8894817 | City of New York Police Department | McKenzie shot his handgun at an off-duty officer during a fight on the floor of a packed dance club at 3:30 a.m., and pinned those wounded officer to the ground. Another off-duty officer shot at McKenzie eight times, fatally striking him with four of those shots. | nydailynews.com | ||
5960 | Roger A. Krause | 58 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/10/2007 | Tucson | AZ | 32.2363052 | -110.9098106 | Tucson Police Department | The collision that killed Roger Krause, 58, occurred at 6:10 a.m. while police were pursuing Samora's speeding Toyota Paseo eastbound on Speedway, police said. Samora ran the red light at Speedway and Alvernon and smashed into the side of Krause's SUV, which was travelling north on Alvernon through the intersection. Krause's Nissan Xterra was hurled into the air and landed upside down beside a westbound car stopped at the red light. | tucsoncitizen.com | ||
21906 | Harry Risley Jackson | 81 | Male | European-American/White | 03/10/2007 | Mays Landing | NJ | 39.501722 | -74.6826833 | Hamilton Township Police Department | Harry R. Jackson was killed when a northbound patrol car driven by Officer Ronald A. Gorneau Jr. on Route 50 broadsided Jackson's car, which was turning left onto the same roadway. Police said Gorneau was responding to a call for assistance from Egg Harbor City police without his lights or sirens on. | google.com | ||
5958 | Matthew J. Hutchinson | 23 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/09/2007 | Sharonville | OH | 39.2982606 | -84.4102142 | West Chester Police Department | Hutchinson was a passenger in a car that fled from police and then fired upon police when it crashed. | google.com | ||
18968 | Christopher Burnham Jr. | 53 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/09/2007 | Harleyville | SC | 33.2323735 | -80.4449215 | Dorchester County Sheriff's Office | Sheriff's Cpl. Mike Deese, 38, was killed on patrol when an eastbound pickup truck crossed the median of I-26 and slammed into his cruiser, police said. Deese and the driver of the pickup, 53-year-old Christopher Burnham Jr. of Summerville, were both killed. Deese's patrol dog, Sonja, also died. | starnewsonline.com | ||
18969 | Paul Gorby | 41 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/09/2007 | Liberty | SC | 34.7539235 | -82.671261 | Pickens County Sheriff's Office | A Pickens County Sheriff's deputy tried to arrest Paul Gorby for manufacturing and distribution of methamphetamine. Gorby, in an attempt to flee, fired multiple shots that missed officers. He was shot and killed. Gorby was a passenger in a Chevrolet pickup truck driven by Randy Brooks, 32, police said. | google.com | ||
23073 | Ceasear Cooper aka Caesar R. Cooper | 39 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/09/2007 | Ripley | TN | 35.7345025 | -89.5165263 | Ripley Police Department | RPD officers Andrew Criner and Joseph Bennett shot and killed Ceasear Cooper when he fled a police blockade that was checking for seat belt compliance. He allegedly drove at officers. | stategazette.com | ||
5957 | Dennis Osceola | 46 | Male | Native American/Alaskan | 03/08/2007 | Hollywood | FL | 26.039322 | -80.2148446 | Seminole Tribal Police Department | Tribal police investigating reports of a break-in found Osceola sitting on his own porch at 2 a.m. with an AR-15 in his lap. He is said to have threatened officers with a knife. Tasered three times, he continued to advance, and was fatally shot. | sun-sentinel.com | ||
5954 | Rene Alexander Robinson | 45 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/07/2007 | San Francisco | CA | 37.771814 | -122.4016728 | San Francisco Police Department | Officers Joseph Salazar and Monica Macdonald shot and killed Rene Alexander Robinson when he charged at them with two large kitchen knives after trying to stab two occupants of a Jeep Cherokee through an open sunroof, police said. | sfgate.com | ||
5955 | Cassy Ann Walton | 29 | Female | European-American/White | 03/07/2007 | Houston | TX | 29.760535 | -95.3627462 | Houston Police Department | Army combat veteran Sergeant Aron Andersson committed suicide with a pistol that he hid from his superiors after his PTSD diagnosis. Loved ones who knew that his wife, Walton, was bipolar, sent officers to her residence. HPD and Army officers consoled Walton. After they left, she bought a handgun and told her husband's brother, John, that she wanted to die. He called authorities. HPD tried to reason with Walton. She fatally shot herself. Walton and Andersson were married for less than 24 hours. | chron.com | ||
5956 | Gary James Vierow | 43 | Male | European-American/White | 03/07/2007 | Jensen Beach | FL | 27.2415521 | -80.2225973 | Martin County Sheriff's Office | A deputy pulled Vierow over for speeding on a cul-de-sac street in a mobile home park. Vierow, bipolar, violently resisted the deputy, physically struggled with him, and at one point had him pinned down. The deputy tried unsuccessfully to Taser Vierow to get him under control, then resorted to shooting him dead. | ufl.edu | ||
23072 | Malcolm J. Carruthers | 46 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/07/2007 | Millington | TN | 35.3592243 | -89.8936081 | Millington Police Department | Malcolm J. Carruthers was killed during a fight with four Millington officers, police said. | google.com | ||
5952 | Duncan Edward Kaulbach | 35 | Male | European-American/White | 03/06/2007 | Lawrenceville | GA | 34.000618 | -84.0669964 | Gwinnett County Police Department | Gwinnett County police officers were sent to investigate reports of a domestic disturbance. A Lawrenceville woman told police her ex-boyfriend was after her and had threatened to kill himself. She also said he may have a gun. Kaulbach of Bethlehem confronted the woman at her residence, police said. After the encounter, officers found Kaulbach in a grocery store's parking lot. Officers kept Kaulbach in the parking lot, but his combativeness prompted police to call out the SWAT team, police said. During the standoff, Kaulbach continuously threatened to hurt himself and repeatedly placed the handgun to his head. A SWAT officer shot and killed Kaulbach after he pointed his gun at police. | onlineathens.com | ||
5953 | Blaine Daigle | 28 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/06/2007 | Carencro | LA | 30.317144 | -92.0490096 | Church Point Police Department, Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office | Blaine Daigle allegedly used an assistant police chief's gun to commit suicide as he sat alone in the back of an unmarked police car. | crowleypostsignal.com | ||
20118 | Curtis M. Dixon | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/05/2007 | Philadelphia | PA | 39.9800954 | -75.1447295 | Philadelphia Police Department | Police said Curtis Dixon pointed a gun at them after a traffic stop and was shot and killed. | google.com | ||
5948 | Billy Shaw Whitmore | 33 | Male | European-American/White | 03/04/2007 | Lawton | OK | 34.5853819 | -98.4221553 | Lawton Police Department | Whitmore fled a stolen vehicle stop, dragging an officer, and was shot and killed. | kswo.com | ||
5949 | Larry Burl Deatherage | 47 | Male | European-American/White | 03/04/2007 | Fort Worth | TX | 32.6747967 | -97.3812686 | Fort Worth Police Department | Deatherage fatally shot Susan Bucks at a Poncho's Mexican Buffet. Officers tried to pull over his pickup truck. Deatherage fatally shot himself in front of the officers. | google.com | ||
5950 | Junior Patricio DeSa | 31 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/04/2007 | Pompano Beach | FL | 26.2840004 | -80.1357707 | Broward County Sheriff's Office | A professional painter known to his neighbors for his drunken fights with knives and bottles, DeSa seemed to be on the verge of killing his roommate when police discovered them. DeSa held the other man in a chokehold, knife in hand and "ready to strike." Officers opened fire killing DeSa and wounding the roommate. | sun-sentinel.com | ||
5951 | Antonio Leontra Bland | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/04/2007 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.0184726 | -118.3138654 | Los Angeles Police Department | As reported by the Los Angeles Times: LAPD Southwest Division officers responded to a robbery call at a mini-market. They identified Bland from a description given by a passerby and tried to arrest him. Officers pursued the fleeing Bland who turned, pulled a handgun from his waistband and aimed it at the officers, who then shot him and killed him. Bland is the suspect in two other robberies the same day. | lapdonline.org | ||
5947 | Richard Lee Whitmill | 35 | Male | European-American/White | 03/03/2007 | Kempner | TX | 31.1395959 | -97.95992 | Lampasas County Sheriff's Office | Deputies responded to a domestic disturbance involving Whitmill. Whitmill pointed a gun at Deputies Brister and Enochs, who shot at him four times, striking him fatally in the chest and right arm. | google.com | ||
20300 | Benjamin Noonan | 19 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/02/2007 | Chambersburg | PA | 39.918952 | -77.585267 | Pennsylvania State Police | Benjamin Noonan, 19 was killed after he wrecked the stolen van he was driving at the southbound Interstate 81 off-ramp. Police said the chase had begun in Cumberland County that day. | google.com | ||
5946 | Scott H. Coffelt | 44 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/01/2007 | Springdale | AR | 36.1682257 | -94.0800623 | Washington County Sheriff's Office | A deputy patrolling U.S. 412 saw two motorcycles racing east about 100 mph, police said. The cyclists split up, and the deputy chased one north on Boulder Drive until he lost sight. A passer-by found Coffelt's body the next day at the edge of a wooded area. | google.com | ||
5944 | Raul Barriera | 20 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/28/2007 | Chicago | IL | 41.9101437 | -87.7326083 | Chicago Police Department | Schizophrenic Barriera was killed when his family called the police for help. Normally gentle, he was off his medications and out of control. When police responded, he refused to drop a knife he was holding and was fatally shot. | chicagotribune.com | ||
5945 | Charles Jamie Walden | 18 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/28/2007 | Nashville | TN | 36.2185525 | -86.7622503 | Metropolitan Nashville Police Department | During a gas station robbery in 2007, an officer confronted as he was running out of the convenience store. According to the police report, the officer fired when Walden pointed a gun at him and refused to drop it. | 209.157.64.200 | ||
18970 | Terry Lee Brooks | 48 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/27/2007 | Wellford | SC | 34.9401042 | -82.0764475 | Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office | Terry Lee Brooks was driving a stolen van when he was pulled over by Spartanburg County sheriff's deputies for a traffic violation. He fled on foot and a struggle with deputies ensued. The suspect shot Spartanburg County sheriff's deputy Kevin Carper, who died at the scene, and he was shot and killed by another deputy. | google.com | ||
22654 | Bryan O'Neil Bright | 23 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/27/2007 | Lawrenceville | VA | 36.6456196 | -77.8498559 | Brunswick County Sheriff's Office | Bryan Bright died during a high-speed chase. Police were trying stop him for allegedly drunken driving. | southhillenterprise.com | ||
5940 | Jose Limon | 35 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/26/2007 | Brownsville | TX | 25.9264802 | -97.5043514 | Brownsville Police Department | Limon and Cecilio Mendoza, wearing ski masks, broke into a house and tried to rob the family of six that lived there. Officers entered the house through the sliding glass back door. Mendoza and Limon shot at the officers. The officers shot back. Officer Rolando Trujillo, who had served BPD for 12 years, killed Limon. Officer Trujillo, who was not wearing a ballistic vest, survived four gunshot wounds. District Attorney Armando Villalobos did not present the shooting to a grand jury. | brownsvilleherald.com | ||
5941 | Maria Adriana Rocha-Mena aka Sally Huerta | 42 | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 02/26/2007 | Wichita | KS | 37.7004821 | -97.3176167 | Wichita Police Department | Adriana Rocha-Mena was killed after she crashed her car during a police chase. According to police, an officer stopped Rocha-Mena for rolling through a stop sign. Rocha-Mena told the officer that her license was suspended, and the officer said to turn off the car and get out. Instead, Rocha-Mena drove her car over a railroad embankment. Other officers picked up the chase, but said they pulled back after Rocha-Mena's badly smoking car limited their visibility. Police said Rocha-Mena saw the stop spikes laid down by police and tried to avoid them, but lost control of the car, hitting a utility pole and then a tree. She died at the scene. | google.com | ||
5942 | Joshua Ougel | 21 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/26/2007 | Amite City | LA | 30.7265747 | -90.5089815 | Amite City Police Department | Ougel and another man stole a black 1998 Porsche convertible. They were chased from MS into LA by a large number of state, county and local authorities all going around 100 MPH. Ougel's family says he was fully stopped, compliant, in a strawberry field, when a local officer gratuitously killed him with a single shot from six inches away. The city settled a suit in 2010. | nola.com | ||
5943 | Justin Brimmer | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/26/2007 | Las Vegas | NV | 36.1355539 | -115.2736972 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | Justin Brimmer, 28, was killed in a gunfight with Las Vegas police officers who sought to question him about a fight outside a nearby restaurant. Brimmer wounded an officer with several shots. Officers returned fire, killing Brimmer. Later, it is revealed that he was uninvolved in the earlier incident. It is unclear why he shot at police. | google.com | ||
5936 | Frank Elfgen | 50 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/25/2007 | Davenport | IA | 41.525428 | -90.598803 | Davenport Police Department | Officer Jason Ellerbach responded after Frank Elfgen's roommate said Elfgen was threatening suicide at around 9 p.m. The power was reportedly out when Ellerbach arrived and found Elfgen on the bedroom floor with a knife. Ellerbach called for backup and six officers arrived. According to police, officer Jonathan Tatum unsuccessfully tried to Taser Elfgen before he allegedly swiped at officer William Hurt with the knife, then charged at Ellerbach. Ellerbach and Hurt each shot Elfgen twice. | qctimes.com | ||
5937 | David Demetrius Austin | 17 | Male | European-American/White | 02/25/2007 | Jonesboro | GA | 33.5595976 | -84.3750819 | Clayton County Sheriff's Office | Obi Bailey's Honda Accord, carrying two friends-of-friends Larry Smith Jr. and David Demetrius Austin, was pulled over by a county deputy for burned-out headlights. Bailey bolted from the traffic stop and fled at speeds up to 80 MPH. The eight-minute police chase ended with the Accord crashed into a tree and the three teens dead. Legal battles addressed whether or not Smith and Austin were "fleeing suspects." | verdictsearch.com | ||
5938 | Obi Terrell Zachery Bailey | 18 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/25/2007 | Jonesboro | GA | 33.5595976 | -84.3750819 | Clayton County Sheriff's Office | Obi Bailey's Honda Accord, carrying two friends-of-friends Larry Smith Jr. and David Demetrius Austin, was pulled over by a county deputy for burned-out headlights. Bailey bolted from the traffic stop and fled at speeds up to 80 MPH. The eight-minute police chase ended with the Accord crashed into a tree and the three teens dead. Legal battles addressed whether or not Smith and Austin were "fleeing suspects." | verdictsearch.com | ||
5939 | Larry Smith Jr. | 18 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/25/2007 | Jonesboro | GA | 33.5595976 | -84.3750819 | Clayton County Sheriff's Office | Obi Bailey's Honda Accord, carrying two friends-of-friends Larry Smith Jr. and David Demetrius Austin, was pulled over by a county deputy for burned-out headlights. Bailey bolted from the traffic stop and fled at speeds up to 80 MPH. The eight-minute police chase ended with the Accord crashed into a tree and the three teens dead. Legal battles addressed whether or not Smith and Austin were "fleeing suspects." | findlaw.com | ||
21907 | Vernon Autrand | 62 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/25/2007 | Verona | NJ | 40.825752 | -74.2412839 | Verona Police Department, New Jersey State Police | Vernon Autrand was suffering from cancer when he barricaded himself in his basement and kept police at bay for nearly 12 hours before fatally shooting himself, police said. | google.com | ||
5933 | Nathan Rideout | 25 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/24/2007 | North Little Rock | AR | 34.7559793 | -92.2628716 | North Little Rock Police Department | Rideout threatened police with a knife and a metal pole when he was shot and kiled. His | google.com | ||
5934 | Steven Harrison Brown | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 02/24/2007 | Ocala | FL | 29.2135148 | -82.1992619 | Marion County Sheriff's Office | Witnesses saw Brown and a female companion pull into a Walgreens early evening on a Saturday obviously drunk, acting erratically. The companion shoplifted a number of items. Police were called and found both of them uncooperative. After being tasered Brown drew a gun, and was fatally shot in response. | ocala.com | ||
5935 | Marcellus Wright | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/24/2007 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.0160412 | -118.2743047 | Los Angeles Police Department | As reported by the Los Angeles Times: Officers from LAPD's Newton Division pulled over a car with three occupants for a traffic stop. They said Wright ran from the car. He pulled a gun, and one or more officers shot him and killed him. | lapdonline.org | ||
5932 | Haki Thurston | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/23/2007 | Santa Rosa | CA | 38.4633277 | -122.7276021 | Santa Rosa Police Department | Thurston was sought by authorities for the murder of his cousin. Trapped by police in a Comfort Inn, he took off on foot, unarmed, to try to escape. Officers shot at him 27 and hit him 13 times, which was "consistent with statements of the officers and (did) not show an excessive use of force," according to a police spokesman. | heraldtribune.com | ||
21149 | Karl L. Shaw | 27 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/23/2007 | Mattawan | MI | 42.223054 | -85.7857461 | Mattawan Police Department | According to police, Karl L. Shaw and Latora Thornton left the Speedway station in Mattawan shortly before 1 a.m. after they were involved in a disturbance there, and clerks told them they'd called police. Thornton drove toward the on-ramp to westbound I-94, which an officer was blocking because of a tractor trailer fire on the freeway. The officer, who police said had his patrol car's emergency lights on, yelled and signaled to stop, but Thornton reportedly drove around him and off the roadway before continuing onto the interstate, police said. Thornton's 2007 Chevrolet coupe went a short distance before crashing into the back of a Freightliner semi truck. Shaw died at the scene. | google.com | ||
5925 | Matthew E. Lopez | 23 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/22/2007 | Avon | CO | 39.6278265 | -106.4977322 | Colorado State Patrol | Calvin crashed her Honda Accord at a roundabout at U.S. Highway 6 and William J. Post Boulevard. Her passenger Matthew E. Lopez, 23, a Wheatridge man who had been living in Eagle County, died in the crash. Troopers tried to stop the vehicle when they saw it speeding and weaving while headed west on Interstate 70 near Dowd Junction, the Colorado State Patrol said. | vaildaily.com | ||
5926 | Mijoi Tilyn Evans | 21 | Female | Race unspecified | 02/22/2007 | Cartersville | GA | 34.272905 | -84.810944 | Georgia State Patrol | When four cars of Georgia state troopers followed a Mitsubishi Galant that sped away from a traffic stop, they couldn't help but notice the grass and crack cocaine jettisoned out the windows. Collected, it was enough for a felony charge. A PIT maneuver caused the Galant to lose control, hit the guardrail and flip. Dunstan Dejuan "Duck" Bailey and Mijoi Tilyn Evans died at the scene. Reginald Allen died six days later. | northwestgeorgianews.com | ||
5927 | Dunstan Dejuan "Duck" Bailey | 23 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/22/2007 | Cartersville | GA | 34.272905 | -84.810944 | Georgia State Patrol | When four cars of Georgia state troopers followed a Mitsubishi Galant that sped away from a traffic stop, they couldn't help but notice the grass and crack cocaine jettisoned out the windows. Collected, it was enough for a felony charge. A PIT maneuver caused the Galant to lose control, hit the guardrail and flip. Dunstan Dejuan "Duck" Bailey and Mijoi Tilyn Evans died at the scene. Reginald Allen died six days later. | northwestgeorgianews.com | ||
5928 | Reginald Allen | 40 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/22/2007 | Cartersville | GA | 34.272905 | -84.810944 | Georgia State Patrol | When four cars of Georgia state troopers followed a Mitsubishi Galant that sped away from a traffic stop, they couldn't help but notice the grass and crack cocaine jettisoned out the windows. Collected, it was enough for a felony charge. A PIT maneuver caused the Galant to lose control, hit the guardrail and flip. Dunstan Dejuan "Duck" Bailey and Mijoi Tilyn Evans died at the scene. Reginald Allen died six days later. | northwestgeorgianews.com | ||
5929 | Cherise Daniel Johnson | 37 | Female | European-American/White | 02/22/2007 | Carson City | NV | 39.1760672 | -119.7556996 | Carson City Sheriff's Office | Deputies were called to the house to check on a suicidal female. She pointed a handgun at them. A deputy fired a single shot from a shotgun. | google.com | ||
5930 | Catherine Winstead | 70 | Female | Race unspecified | 02/22/2007 | Melbourne | FL | 28.2045725 | -80.6623681 | Brevard County Sheriff's Office | According to the investigating state trooper, the local officer checking his onboard computer while making an illegal U-turn at 40 MPH was solely to blame for the car crash that fatally wounded Winstead. She died one month later. The county officer had been dispatched to catch a careless driver. He was given a traffic citation. | orlandosentinel.com | ||
5931 | Armondo Jerome Sanchez | 41 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/22/2007 | Ogden | UT | 41.2135122 | -111.9720716 | Ogden Police Department | Police saw Sanchez running from one of two businesses that had reported robberies, and chased him behind some houses. Police said Sanchez was holding a gun and dropped it when ordered. But when ordered to lay on the ground, Sanchez allegedly picked up the gun and pointed it at Officer Jeremy Nelson. Nelson shot Sanchez once in the torso; Sanchez died the next day. | sltrib.com | ||
5920 | Name withheld by police | Male | Race unspecified | 02/21/2007 | Compton | CA | 33.893057 | -118.2285436 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department | An unnamed Compton man died after being restrained by deputies. | wordpress.com | |||
5921 | Niqa Deshan Gant | 34 | Female | African-American/Black | 02/21/2007 | Austin | TX | 30.2740101 | -97.745623 | Travis County Sheriff's Office | Gant had not yet completed the booking process for assault and drug possession when she started to behave oddly at around 2:20 a.m. She was sent first to the Medical Section of Central Booking Facility, then Breckenridge Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 3:44 a.m. It was the first TCSO death in custody in 2007. | tcsheriff.org | ||
5922 | Brittney Sitzes | 16 | Female | European-American/White | 02/21/2007 | West Memphis | AR | 35.1583803 | -90.2022658 | West Memphis Police Department | West Memphis Officer James Wright sustained chest and leg injuries, but was using his lights and siren as he sped to help another officer when he fatally struck Brittney Sitzes, 16, who had pulled into his path. | kait8.com | ||
5923 | John Albert Sanders | 32 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/21/2007 | Beaumont | TX | 30.0559277 | -94.0898134 | Port Arthur Police Department | Officers responded to a call about a shooting in which Special Rubin and Lawrence Batiste, Jr. died. A vehicle fled the scene. Officers pursued the suspect into Beaumont, followed by Beaumont and Jefferson county deputies. The suspect left the vehicle, drew a pistol and fled on foot. Officer Johnathan Stafford, who had served for seven years, shot him once and killed him. | google.com | ||
5924 | Matthew Scott Carey | 24 | Male | European-American/White | 02/21/2007 | Amarillo | TX | 35.1710882 | -101.8639905 | Amarillo Police Department | Carey, driving a reportedly stolen white 2004 BMW, tried and failed to fill a prescription at a Wal-Mart pharmacy drive-through window and at the counter inside the store. He returned to the BMW. Using a toy HK pistol, he tried to rob a bystander. The bystander fled. Carey dropped the toy pistol. Officer Victor Del Fierro arrived and told him not to pick it up. Carey picked it up. Officer Del Fierro shot Carey in the head and belly, and kicked the toy pistol away. Carey died. An autopsy found drugs in his system. | amarillo.com | ||
21148 | Name withheld by police | Race unspecified | 02/21/2007 | Detroit | MI | 42.3244359 | -83.1154838 | One person was killed in a police-chase-related accident. Appears in mlive.com chase database. Traffic crash report (#260054) says that the crash occurred around 11 a.m. and involved two people (ages 34 and 51) and two vehicles, including a commercial truck. Additional details were unavailable. | mlive.com | |||||
22291 | Kyle J. Collins | 18 | Male | European-American/White | 02/21/2007 | Indianapolis | IN | 39.6359335 | -86.1179621 | Greenwood Police Department | Kyle Collins was a passenger in a vehicle pulled over for speeding. Police say he pulled a gun and a shoot-out ensued, ending in Collins being shot and killed. Officers Eric McElhaney and Jay Arnold were shot and wounded. | wthr.com | ||
5918 | Joel Perales | 22 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/20/2007 | Fresno | CA | 36.7868092 | -119.7769613 | Fresno Police Department | Police shot and killed Joel Perales after he shot and wounded three officers and a bystander in the midst of Mardi Gras celebrations in the Tower District, police said. | foxnews.com | ||
5919 | Marcos Antino Sariento | 25 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/20/2007 | Conroe | TX | 30.331276 | -95.455844 | Conroe Police Department | Officers D. Dickinson and T. Raleigh responded to a traffic accident. Sariento, wounded, claimed that he was on fire and pulled off his coveralls. Officers told Sariento to sit down. Sariento tried to walk into traffic. Officers subdued him. Detectives J. Sauceda and G. Hall helped to keep Sariento down for paramedics. Sariento later died. CPD asked Texas Ranger Kevin Pullen to investigate. According to an autopsy, Sariento was high on cocaine and his death was an accident. | google.com | ||
5917 | Brett Howie | 36 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/19/2007 | Pine Bluff | AR | 34.167392 | -92.060973 | Jefferson County Sheriff's Office | Brett Howie, 36, fled a domestic violence investigation. Deputy Randy Dolphin shocked him with a Taser, and Howie drowned in a pond. Dolphin said the Taser failed, but witnesses disputed that. Howie was wanted on two felony warrants accusing him of missing court dates in 2005 on charges of possession, delivery and manufacturing of a controlled substance. | justia.com | ||
23138 | Dorsey Cox | 37 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/19/2007 | Ranson | WV | 39.304343 | -77.866275 | Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, Ranson Police Department, Charles Town Police Department | Police said a chase began in Kentucky around 3 a.m. after state troopers stopped Thomas R. May during a road check. May reportedly drove off as several officers were standing beside the car. According to police, the officers were dragged by the vehicle but were not injured. Mingo County sheriff's deputies and Williamson police took over the pursuit after Mays' vehicle crossed into West Virginia. Several miles in, police shot out the tires. A deputy shot and killed May after he allegedly attempted to hit several officers with his car. | herald-mail.com | ||
5914 | Martin Mendoza | 43 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/18/2007 | Vista | CA | 33.1894937 | -117.278999 | San Diego County Sheriff's Office | Martin Mendoza fell into a coma and died after he was tasered during a struggle with three deputies, police said. | utsandiego.com | ||
5915 | Robert Lamont Harper | 38 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/18/2007 | Newport News | VA | 36.9786272 | -76.4294252 | Newport News Police Department | Bail bondsmen came to arrest Harper on a bond revocation at his second-floor apartment. He'd had a long string of traffic-related violations. Harper became uncooperative and word came to the bondsmen that he had a box-cutter knife. Police were summoned. After some 30 minutes of negotiation Harper, who was unarmed, was shot to death. | nncwa.com | ||
5916 | Felix Beltran | 32 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/18/2007 | Naples | FL | 26.0823702 | -81.7255269 | Collier County Sheriff's Office | In the early morning hours Beltran executed a left-hand turn and was T-boned by a county deputy traveling about 100 MPH without lights or siren. The officer was exonerated, and was the same officer who killed Andrew Rakes in a similar accident. | naplesnews.com | ||
21627 | Keith Joseph Showalter | 25 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/18/2007 | Parkville | MD | 39.4048212 | -76.5423048 | Baltimore County Police Department | Officer Feelemyer, a five-year veteran of the force working out of the Towson Precinct, and Officer Wingert, a three-year veteran from the White Marsh precinct, shot Keith Joseph Showalter outside his Carney apartment building. Police said Showalter shot at officers responding to domestic disturbance. | google.com | ||
5911 | Brian Scott Croissant | 36 | Male | European-American/White | 02/17/2007 | Greeley | CO | 40.425345 | -104.689893 | Greeley Police Department | Officers respond to a motel to help a suicidal man. Croissant had a knife and was shot and killed. | weld.co.us | ||
5912 | Anthony Hugh Williams | 38 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/17/2007 | Fort Worth | TX | 32.6335307 | -97.3235392 | Fort Worth Police Department | An officer tried to pull Williams over for speeding. Williams drove away, evading officers for about 10 minutes and pulling into the parking lot of T and A Cabaret. He entered the building, grabbed a dancer and put a BB gun to her head. Sergeant D.A. Marshall told Williams to surrender. Williams ignored him. Sergeant Marshall, who had served FWPD for 21 years, shot Williams fatally in the face. | officer.com | ||
5913 | Corey Evan Carwile | 33 | Male | European-American/White | 02/17/2007 | Muscle Shoals | AL | 34.7298995 | -87.6439703 | Florence Police Department, Muscle Shoals Police Department | Cory Carwile allegedly shot himself after a multi-agency police pursuit, | timesdaily.com | ||
5909 | Michael Corleone Villareal | 33 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/16/2007 | Laredo | TX | 27.5447005 | -99.5042791 | Laredo Police Department | Officers approached Villareal because he was sleeping in a parked vehicle with the engine on. They noticed a scale loaded with white powder and told Villareal to step out of the vehicle. Villareal stepped out of the vehicle, swallowed something and became ill shortly after his arrest. He was pronounced dead at Laredo Medical Center. | google.com | ||
5910 | Stephanie Lindboe | 65 | Female | Race unspecified | 02/16/2007 | Staten Island | NY | 40.556422 | -74.1384284 | City of New York Police Department | A clearly disturbed Lindboe had stabbed her neighbor eight times, leaving her in serious condition, and dramatically attacked responding NYPD officers upon their arrival. Wielding a 12-inch knife above her head, she was shot twice at point blank range. | nytimes.com | ||
22653 | Geoffrey Aaron Stephenson | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 02/16/2007 | Roanoke | VA | 37.284689 | -79.904945 | Roanoke Police Department | Police went to a to serve an emergency custody order on Geoffrey Aaron Stephenson. His mother, Judy Stephenson, said that the order was issued in part because Stephenson was suffering from depression. Stephenson walked out a back door of the house carrying a gun and wearing a tactical belt and backpack. The avid collector of antique swords wore another gun in a holster and was equipped with several boxes of ammunition, a canteen and a compass. Officer Andrew H. Pulley Jr. ordered him to drop his weapon and get on the ground. Stephenson dropped one gun and bent toward the ground, then uttered an obscenity and reached for what police later determined was a sword, and he was shot and killed. | google.com | ||
5908 | Billy Campbell | 33 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/15/2007 | Southaven | MS | 34.9624469 | -89.936773 | Southaven Police Department, Olive Branch Police Department, Memphis Police Department | A high speed chase that began in Memphis ended in a three-car collision in Southaven, leaving Billy Campbell, an armed robbery suspect dead and two other people injured. | desototimes.com | ||
5907 | James Anthony Peracchi | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 02/14/2007 | Tracy | CA | 37.7504195 | -121.398266 | Tracy Police Department | Officers Daniel Woods and Richard Graham shot James Anthony Peracchi, who said he had a gun and would not stop reaching for a fake handgun in his pants, police said. | insidebayarea.com | ||
5905 | Mark Banks | 28 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/13/2007 | San Francisco | CA | 37.7690371 | -122.4108418 | San Francisco Police Department | Banks died after he fled from police, lost control of his sport utility vehicle, crashed into a UPS big rig and became pinned under the truck, police said. | sfgate.com | ||
5906 | Daniel Reyes Castillo Jr. | 17 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/13/2007 | Wharton | TX | 29.3235269 | -96.1011988 | Wharton Police Department | According to the Castillo family, police entered their residence unannounced early in the morning. Ashley Castillo screamed for help. Her brother, Daniel, responded. Sergeant Don Falks shot Daniel fatally in the face. According to Sergeant Falks, Daniel, a suspected drug dealer, ambushed him with a knife during the surprise raid. Daniel Castillo, who had recently enlisted in the army, had no criminal record. Sergeant Falks had served WPD for six years. | november.org | ||
5898 | Trent Lemmon | 36 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/12/2007 | Rancho Cucamonga | CA | 34.1505355 | -117.593282 | San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office | Deputy Joseph Parker shot and killed Trent Lemmon when he allegedly ignored commands and made a sudden movement. | google.com | ||
5899 | Mahal Babi | 43 | Male | European-American/White | 02/12/2007 | Elgin | IL | 42.03555660000001 | -88.28934679999999 | Elgin Police Department | Mahal Babi reportedly killed himself at the end of a 28-hour standoff with police. According to police, Babi had barricaded himself in an attic after officers responded to a domestic altercation. | chicagotribune.com | ||
5900 | Carlton Dwayne Mims | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/12/2007 | Dallas | TX | 33.0050233 | -96.8475018 | Dallas Police Department | According to DPD, officers executed a search warrant on a "drug house" containing multiple armed men. There, Mims pointed a 7.63mm pistol at Officer Barry Ragsdale. Officer Ragsdale shot Mims with a rifle. Mims was pronounced dead at Baylor Hospital. A 12 gauge shotgun and a .38-caliber revolver were also recovered at the scene of the shooting. | dallaspolice.net | ||
5901 | Berry Mckay Millsap | 38 | Male | Native American/Alaskan | 02/12/2007 | Tacoma | WA | 47.255363 | -122.5038008 | Tacoma Police Department | Millsap was shot after pointing a cordless drill at police. Police were responding to report of a domestic disturbance. Millsap had met officers on porch of home and had threatened to shoot them if they went inside the house. Millsap ran into the house and hid behind couch, then stood up pointing a drill at officers. | seattletimes.com | ||
5902 | Sulejman Talovic | 18 | Male | European-American/White | 02/12/2007 | Salt Lake City | UT | 40.7566749 | -111.8724696 | Weber County Sheriff's Office, Salt Lake City Police Department | Talovic was the sole perpetrator of the Trolley Square mall shooting. Without a known motive, he shot and killed five people seemingly at random, and wounded four more, before being shot by an off-duty Ogden officer and members of the Salt Lake City SWAT. | wikipedia.org | ||
5903 | Linda Joyce Friday | 55 | Female | African-American/Black | 02/12/2007 | Kansas City | MO | 38.94111 | -94.495022 | Kansas City Police Department | Police responded to a 911 hang up. Friday's son let police in. Friday asked police to leave. They turned off the music she was listening to, she responded by pointing a gun at the police. Both officers fired, killing him. | kansascity.com | ||
5904 | Mitchell Moua | 25 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/12/2007 | St. Paul | MN | 44.9619142 | -93.0658885 | St. Paul Police Department | Mitchell Moua was involved in a high speed chase on St. Paul's East Side after police learned he would be in the area. Moua had warrants for aggravated assault, false imprisonment and a weapons violation. When police confronted Moua, he pulled out a gun and pointed it at his own head. At that time, the car sped away. Moua fired several shots at police. As he approached Arcade St. a van and semi-trailer were attempting to pull over, to allow squads to pass. As they pulled over, Moua tried to drive between the semi and the van, hitting the semi and the van and another parked vehicle. As officers approached Moua's stopped car, they were fired at. Two officers shot and killed Moua. | asiantown.net | ||
20117 | Vincent J. Dortch | 44 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/12/2007 | Philadelphia | PA | 39.8932586 | -75.1745188 | Philadelphia Police Department | Vincent Dortch, 44, called a board meeting and tied four associates to chairs before shooting them, police said. One man survived. After the initial shooting, Dortch went back into the building and shot the victims a second time to make sure they were dead. He later shot himself in the head after exchanging fire with police. | reuters.com | ||
21147 | Artrell Dickerson | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/12/2007 | Detroit | MI | 42.3749309 | -82.9872101 | Detroit Police Department | Officers Kata-Ante Taylor, Brett Letwin and Aubrey Wade responded to an altercation at Cantrell Funeral Home around 3 p.m. According to police, as the officers pulled up they saw a man pass a gun to Artrell Dickerson before taking off running. The officers gave chase on foot. Taylor shot Dickerson three times, including twice in the back. One witness said they "heard the officer say, 'Stop' but then immediately start shooting." The witness said that after Taylor shot Dickerson, he "walked over to him and shot him again." Another witness said they watched as "one officer stood over him and executed him." | yahoo.com | ||
21628 | Danny Hammonds | 52 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/12/2007 | Dundalk | MD | 39.2894742 | -76.5265006 | Baltimore County Police Department | Tactical officer Bossi shot Danny Hammonds, 52, while looking for a suspect in a homicide. Police said Hammonds had reached for a gun and refused officers' demands to stop. Hammonds was the father of 16-year-old Jason Hammonds, who was charged with first-degree murder in connection to the Feb.10 death of Joseph Francis Hoffman, 51, found dead at his home in the 200 block of South Woodwell Road. | google.com | ||
5894 | Monica Lucky | 41 | Female | African-American/Black | 02/11/2007 | Oakland | CA | 37.8271372 | -122.2690854 | Oakland Police Department | Monica Lucky was killed when her Honda was struck by a Lincoln Continental driven by Kevin Jackson, 21, who was fleeing police. | berkeleydailyplanet.com | ||
5895 | Jose Millan | 27 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 02/11/2007 | El Monte | CA | 34.069792 | -118.0480562 | Los Angeles Police Department | As reported by the Los Angeles Times: Jose Millan, a 27-year-old Latino man, was shot at 10218 Brockway St. in El Monte and died at 1:50 a.m. Feb. 11. | latimes.com | ||
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