As reported by the Los Angeles Times: Police said the officers were called to a group home for people with mental disabilities; there, the young man attacked one officer with a sharp object, ripping the officer's sleeve. One of the officers then shot him, police said.

Robert E. Daniels, 52, was holding a shotgun while standing next to a car parked on the side of Barron Drive when Owensboro Police Sgt. Gordon Black stopped to advise him to put the gun on the ground. A few moments later, Daniels fatally shot himself in the head.

Police were investigating a series of robberies of pizza delivery drivers. They set up a sting with a detective posing as a pizza delivery guy. After discovering there was nobody home at the intended address, the detective was approached by three teens, one of whom pulled out a gun. The detective shot and killed him.

Rojas was shot while having a replica handgun. He attempted to evade officers in his vehicle, and they feared he'd run them over.

Police responded to a call about Ivan Alonzo, 29, a Las Vegas police academy recruit, who was throwing Molotov cocktails and firing a gun into the air near Mandalay Bay. Alonzo shot at them, prompting them to return fire. Alonzo ultimately shot himself in the head. Unanimously ruled a suicide.

Police said they were outside the B-52 Market on N. Hollywood investigating a series of robberies. They said Caples approached them and wouldn't leave. They alleged that Caples fired a gun, and they shot and killed him.

Two unnamed passengers were killed in a car crash while fleeing police.

Off-duty Detroit police officer, Brian Vieau reportedly shot and killed his estranged wife, Tracy Lyn Vieau, with his department-issued handgun before taking his own life. The couple's two children were in the home at the time, police said. According to a colleague, Brian Vieau was stressed over job pressures and his impending divorce.

Barnes allegedly stabbed his girlfriend. Police caught up with Barnes the next morning barricaded at the RV Barn, and the subsequent standoff ended in Barnes' suicide.

Police called to scene found Ventry lunging with a knife at a woman. Vetnry continued fighting after being shot by Officer Jerry Kassen and tasered by another officer.

A deputy traveling 120 MPH to a domestic disturbance call, without lights or siren, struck another vehicle at full speed, killing 2-year-old Frye and injuring three members of her family. The deputy ended up pleading nolo contendre to misdemeanor charges.

David Long Vu was reportedly found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside an apartment after an 11-hour standoff with police.

Officer Johnnie W. Torres Jr's car struck a vehicle driven by Mark A. Kline at around 1 a.m. Kline was killed in the crash. According to police, Kline was traveling southbound on I-475 and had exited the freeway and ran a stop sign at the end of the ramp. Police said both Torres and Kline had been drinking. In June 2007, Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton charged Torres with Operating While Intoxicated, a misdemeanor. In July 2007, Torres was fired. In September 2007, Torres pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four days in jail. Torres was also to pay $1,075 in fines and court costs, spend 12 months on probation and take part in a series of rehabilitation programs.

Mauricio Cornejo died in custody after police chased, fought with and restrained him outside the Ramona Gardens housing project in Boyle Heights.

Addiel had been firing a gun on an East Oakland street. He was shot dead by a police officer who responded.

Reportedly a crowd of 200 people shouted and screamed at officers after the fatal shooting of Weston and the wounding of another suspect. Police had been called out by reports of a gunfight. When they arrived Weston pointed his weapon at them and was killed.

Police shot and killed Douglas Merjil when he got out of his car and confronted officers with a shotgun after a high-speed chase, police said.

Pittsburgh police shot and killed Michael Lee Ghafoor, 22, who tried to run away after officers said they saw him trying to sell drugs in the parking lot of an Exxon gas station. He was armed with a .357-caliber Magnum, which he drew but did not fire at police, police said.

An off-duty police officer came home and found the subject and other suspects burglarizing his home. Confronting the subject, the teen reached into his pocket and the officer opened fire, fearing he was reaching for a weapon. Police found a knife in the boy's possession.

Lionel Sands and Daniel Brown prepared an invasion of the home of the local sheriff, down to disguises, bleach and latex gloves. They found the sheriff's wife, a civilian employee of the department, at home. She had time to alert her husband before being shot and killed. As responding officers advanced on the house another county deputy was shot and killed. The two suspects were then killed by gunfire. Their motive was unclear.

Enraged that their divorce settlement consumed all but $7 of his monthly police pension, Kane's retired NYPD sergeant ex-husband drove up from Florida and shot her to death at a park-and-ride as she waited for their daughter. He got life in prison for murder and a $32.4M civil judgment.

Officer John Doogan shot Lawrence Albert "Larry" Wirth, who was reportedly stabbing a man. Police responded to a 911 call at around 2:40 a.m. at a home where Wirth had allegedly grabbed a kitchen knife and began stabbing a man with whom he'd recently broken off their relationship. According to police, the officers had to force entry into the room. Doogan fired one shot at Wirth hitting him in the head or neck.

Lauda had threatened to shoot his father, and his father called police from his job as a schoolbus driver, on an extended conversation. When Lauda arrived at home police were already there, prepared for him. After a brief auto chase, carjacking, and crash, Lauda was fatally shot by the police.

Portsmouth Police received information that Charles Arnold Savage Jr. would be in the parking lot of a Golden Skillet restaurant with a large quantity of drugs, police said. When police arrived shortly after 8 p.m., they located Savage and identified themselves as police officers with their badges out. As they approached Savage's car, he started his car, sped toward some of the officers and hit one of their unmarked cars. Auxiliary officer Michael Morse fired two shots at Savage's car after Savage drove his car at him. One of those bullets struck Savage in the chest, killing him. He drove about a mile before he succumbed.

Around 7:30 p.m., Sonnier shot at her boyfriend. A complaint was made. Officers responded. Sonnier stood at the front door of a house. Officers approached her. Sonnier entered the house and went into a bedroom. Officers tried to talk to her. There was a noise. Responding officers evacuated other residents of the house and called for a SWAT unit, which cleared the room hours later. Sonnier had shot herself fatally in the head.

A deputy tried to stop Otto Bishop near Long Pine for erratic driving, but Bishop allegedly sped up and continued into Rock County on US-20. According to police, the deputy said that he'd backed off from a pursuit and was a half mile back when Bishop's pickup truck crossed the center line and crashed into a Chevrolet Trailblazer. Bishop was killed. The SUV's driver wasn't physically injured.

Security personnel in a Target store recognized Banks's car from a previous shoplifting incident. When two local officers approached the car, Banks threw it into reverse. One of the officers was caught with the open drivers-side door and thrown backwards into a shopping cart rack. The driver was shot to death, and his passenger was charged with further shoplifting offenses.

Gary McCarty reportedly robbed Passport Pizza at around midnight, then led officers David Gatz, Bryan Gilbert, Nicholas Dykas, Michael Friese, and Jeff St. Germaine, and deputy Philip Abdoo on a high-speed chase through Clinton Township and into Mount Clemens. McCarty pulled his PT Cruiser into the Mt. Clemens Farmers Market parking lot and got out. Five officers shot McCarty 18 times when he allegedly aimed a WinGun CO 2 BB gun at them. Some witnesses disputed the police account and said they saw no aggressive movements on McCarty's part and that the officers shot him several times after he'd fallen to the ground.

Police say Samuel Stephon Curry had been in the process of robbing a man when an off-duty King County Sheriff's deputy pulled his weapon. Curry swung toward the officer. The officer opened fire, killing Curry at the scene.

According to witnesses, a police car pursuing a Jeep Grand Cherokee led to a crash that killed cab driver Wahab Meer and seriously injured two others. At 1 a.m. the Jeep was going south on Cardinal when it struck Meer's cab in the intersection as he drove eastbound on Olive. The collision pushed Meer's cab south on Cardinal and into three parked cars. Meer was pronounced dead at a hospital. A passenger in the Jeep was critically injured.

Lieutenant Carlos Thompson shot and killed Anthony Howard Gilmore after Gilmore reportedly shot Thompson following a car chase.

Officer Brent Jones shot 33-year-old James M. White after a pursuit that led to a trailer home on Clark Run Road, where police said White grabbed a knife and began chasing Jones before the officer fatally shot him.

A woman went to the home of John Chicosky, 36. Police said the woman told them Chicosky had poured gasoline on his father after an argument. She was able to leave and call 911. When troopers arrived, they began negotiating with Chicosky for his father's release. After 10 hours, Chicosky let the man go. Chicosky was killed by Pennsylvania State Police when he pointed a long gun out a window.

Clark was one of two unarmed furniture delivery men shot in suspicious circumstances in the home of Cpl. Keith Washington, who was serving as both a police officer and a Homeland Security official in notorious Prince George's county. The three men had fallen into some kind of argument; the second victim survived. A controversial figure before and since, Washington was sentenced to 45 years in prison for this shooting.

Robert Orrin Ham III, 25, accompanied a deputy with the Greene County Sheriff's Office after receiving a report that Allen Cochran had abducted his girlfriend. Authorities pulled Cochran over on U.S. 33 near the Woodridge subdivision, and Ham approached the vehicle to try and remove the girl. Cochran accelerated the car, striking Ham and throwing him into the air, and the game warden got up and fired into the vehicle, killing Cochran.

Four deputies shot Keith Silas Watkins when he allegedly drove toward them and hit a patrol car after a pursuit. At around 11:30 p.m., a deputy began chasing a Jaguar he saw drive on a raised curb, then ignore a stop sign and stoplight.

Former Mobile police officer Fredrick Renfroe reportedly shot and killed himself as federal agents surrounded his house to arrest him.

Police were called to a domestic dispute between John Tribble and his mother. Tribble fired on officers and was shot and killed during an exchange of gunfire.

Bryan J. Abbott reportedly struck Ricky Salas Jr. as Salas was walking on Farrand Road around 3:30 a.m. Abbott's friend, officer Mitchel D. Manwell, was in another car and saw Salas seconds before he was hit, Manwell told Abbott to leave the scene, witnesses said. Manwell, 23, was reportedly a probationary FPD officer. He was fired after Salas' death. Abbott was sentenced to 5 years' probation, a year in jail and 6 months on electronic tether for his plea to leaving the scene of a crash resulting in death. Manwell was initially charged with two felonies--failure to stop at the scene of an accident causing death and accessory after the fact. In a plea agreement, the first charge was amended to a misdemeanor and the second charge was dropped. As part of Manwell's plea agreement, he also gave up state certification as a police officer and agreed not to seek employment as an officer.

Jersey City Police Officer Kevin Freibott, 42, was driving drunk when he crashed into and killed Ruth Zelaya and her son, Jose Carlos Zelaya.

Clark threatened his wife with a pistol. She escaped. A friend of Clark's disarmed him. He retrieved a 1911 pistol. Officer Christopher Law met Clark's wife at the scene. He told her to leave. She did. Clark exited his residence and shot at officers. Officer Law shot Clark fatally in the neck with an M16.

Brandon Louis Harper was on his way to get a Jumbo Jack at 10 p.m., when Miguel Angel Garibay, who was being pursued by deputies Michael McNeil, Paul Lie and Jeffrey Roberts, crashed into his pickup truck at 87 mph.

Tyler Nainoa Duarte was sentenced to two years in prison and five years' probation for leaving the scene of a fatal crash and two counts of first-degree negligent homicide. Michelle A. Benevedes, 39, and her cousin Racquel L. Akau, 38, both of Waimanalo, died when their sedan was hit broadside by Duarte's SUV. A police sergeant who observed the SUV driving recklessly did turn on his car's lights and sirens, but police said he was not engaged in a high-speed chase wreck occurred.

Police describe Woods as trying to rob an undercover officer at gunpoint in the parking lot of an apartment building on a Saturday evening. Woods reportedly fired at the officer, the officer returned fire, and fatally shot him.

Police received several calls about a man firing shots inside a home. Plainclothes officers with the department's gang unit were the first on the scene and saw Adam Quinonez in the street with a gun. They identified themselves as police and ordered him to drop the weapon. He ran, turned and began firing at police, and he was shot and killed.

Patrick C. Ekeroth reportedly killed himself during a police chase. Ekeroth allegedly entered a U.S. Bank branch just before noon, showed a handgun to tellers, demanded money, and then fled with the cash to the parking lot, where he stole a Lexus at gunpoint. According to police, an officer pursued Ekeroth to the Aldeen Golf Course. The officer approached with his gun drawn and ordered Ekeroth out of the car. Ekeroth reportedly shot himself in the head.

Timberlake was killed in a botched undercover narcotics sting at a Park and Ride lot. He sat in a van, armed, with a 16-year-old seller and the undercover detective buyer. An argument broke out about the quality of the PCP--it smelled like nail polish and perfume--and Timberlake was fatally shot after he drew his weapon.

Herbert Tyrone Watt died while being detained by two officers during a traffic stop initiated because Watt only had paper license plates (he apparently had bought the car very recently). Officers searched him and found a bag of crack cocaine, which they put in the patrol car, police said. Watt then began to struggle with the officers, grabbed the bag, put it in his mouth, and choked on it.

Miguel Angel Castillo was reportedly found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound hours after shooting three people and firing on police during a standoff.

Graciela Moreno was walking in the Back of the Yards neighborhood with her granddaughters, Anais Ramirez and Daniela Fuentes, at around 2 p.m. when a 1988 BMW ran a stop sign, hit a 1994 Buick Century and then struck Moreno and the two girls. Moreno and Ramirez were killed and Fuentes, 6, was critically injured. The BMW's driver, Michael Young, 41, was caught and arrested shortly after the crash. Some witnesses said a grey unmarked police vehicle was pursuing the BMW, and that both cars ran a red light shortly before the accident. Francisco Moreno said he saw a plainclothes officer get out of one of the cars and arrest a man. Police said there was no pursuit. "A tactical unit was already in the area and responded to the call," said spokeswoman Monique Bond.

Gilbert police were investigating a robbery in which Andrew Athetis allegedly hit a woman in the chest and took her keys, according to police. Police found Athetis, who had a recent history of heroin and amphetamine use, in a fountain. He started walking toward another officer but wouldn't follow orders to stop. Officer Jeff Rhees fired the Taser, striking Athetis who landed with his arms under him. The officer shocked Athetis four times within 33 seconds when Athetis wouldn't stay down. He died a short time later.

A police chase ended with a crash that killed teenage driver Dominic R. Griffin and injured three other people. At about 8 p.m., an officer was pursuing Griffin's 1992 Honda Accord south on Highway 367 after he reportedly didn't stop for a traffic violation. Griffin ran a red light at St. Cyr Road and hit a 2002 Jeep Cherokee and a 2003 Pontiac Grand Am. A 19-year-old and an infant in Griffin's car, as well as one of the other drivers, were injured in the crash.

Jason McCamey, 29, arrived at the Key home and burst in. He took Katie Key, 17, hostage and held up in her bedroom until the police arrived. After four hours of negotiation, shots were heard, and the officers entered the house to find Katie and Jason both dead. He'd murdered her using his shotgun and then turned the weapon on himself.

James Allen Vollnogel reportedly killed himself after exchanging shots with police during a high-speed chase through three counties. According to police, two Hutchinson PD detectives went to Vollnogel's home to discuss recent robberies. Vollnogel fled and the officers followed. The chase crossed into McPherson and Rice counties, with the KHP joining in. Vollnogel stopped near Lyons and allegedly shot at the officers before shooting himself. He died at the scene. The district attorney decided that the shots fired by officers were necessary and justified.

Charles Kelley broke into City Hall, scrawled some religious messages, and was shot and killed by police when he charged them. Police said they tried to stun him with two Taser shocks, but were unable to subdue him.

In Perry County, state trooper shot James D. Dum, 52, of Harrisburg, in the arm, but he died when he fatally stabbed himself.

Three deputies shot Paul E. Lewis nine times after he allegedly refused to drop a handgun. The deputies had responded to a call about a despondent man threatening to kill himself and others. When deputies arrived, they reportedly heard what sounded like two gunshots from inside the house. Lewis then allegedly came outside holding a gun and raised it. The deputies opened fire, killing Lewis.

Police attempted to question David Boone, who allegedly fought with them before he was shot and killed.

Best was shot and killed after a chase ended in a crash, and he got out with a shotgun.

Joe Lewis Berry was shot and killed when he allegedly came at deputies with at least one knife.

Pedro Carlos Madrid stopped breathing after police tasered him a number of times and used various other types of force when he became combative on the 99 Freeway, police said.

Three deputies entered Lowman's backwoods residence with an involuntary commitment order based on Lowman's mental health issues. Lowman posed armed resistance, reportedly with multiple weapons at hand. He was shot three times, fatally.

Motorcyclist Polanco was spotted by a county deputy without his lights on. The deputy pulled him over in front of a middle school, then Polanco took off again at high speed, ran a red light, and almost immediately struck another vehicle turning into the school. He was fatally injured.

William L. Baker was reportedly found dead four hours after barricading himself inside a home with police outside. Baker's girlfriend left following a domestic dispute and called police just before 5:30 p.m. When officers tried to enter the home, Baker allegedly threatened to harm himself or others. At about 9:20 p.m., tactical unit officers found Baker dead inside, police said. Police didn't state the cause of death.

Esparza, mentally ill, drove his family out of their house with a hammer. They called 911. An officer, then a Crisis Intervention Team, tried to reason with Esparza for two hours. Officers organized a team to enter the house. According to HPD, Esparza advanced on officers with his hammer after he was ordered to surrender. Officers shot him with beanbag rounds, then missed him with a stun gun. Officer Rodney D. Chaison fatally shot him.

A robbery suspect's car fleeing the police ran a red light and struck a car carrying young Boyd, her father, and five other children in her family. Boyd sustained fatal injuries and two others emerged in serious condition.

Thomas Edwin Warren died after leading Norman police on a high-speed motorcycle chase that ended in the man losing control of his vehicle and crashing, police said.

Leslie Kirk put Marcus Ramon Kirk Jr., 3, to bed Thursday night and went to sleep herself in a lounger near his bedroom. Leslie Kirk told police she found her son dead about 12:30 a.m. Friday in the master bedroom closet. He'd shot himself with his father's service weapon.

Running down a city street, nude and not willing to cooperative with police, Thompson was tasered and died shortly afterward. Police reported finding crack cocaine in his mouth.

Police responded to a call about a man who was threatening suicide who fled with a car and an assault-style rifle. Hevezi robbed a store. The coroner later determined Hevezi shot and killed himself.

Reed reportedly died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound when deputies trying to serve an arrest warrant entered a mobile home. Officers said they heard a gunshot when they were inside and found Reed lying on a bed with what appeared to be a single gunshot wound to the head. A gun was reportedly lying within reach. Reed was transported to St. Francis Hospital in Memphis, where he died later that day.

Deputy Dale Hadley shot and killed Howard Moody Williams when he confronted Hadley with a hammer after the deputy interrupted a burglary in progress, police said.

Johnson City Police Department officers Sharrell Dykes and Charles Fobbs went to the Roan Centre parking lot to arrest Steven Rupard for a parole violation out of Pennsylvania, where his underlying charges were simple assault and terroristic threats with the intent to terrorize another. After an exchange of gunfire and a short chase, Rupard was shot and killed.

Officers responding to reported hit and run encountered Johnson. He refused to drop shotgun and was shot.

Bryan Jones was shot and killed in a chaotic scene immediately after midnight on New Year's Day. There was a gunfight between police and others, but Jones' family disputed whether he was part of it.

Just before 8 p.m., Deputy Roy Nixon conducted a DWI traffic stop on Benitez, then told him to surrender and remove his hands from his jacket. Deputy Nixon fatally shot Benitez. Benitez, a Spanish-speaker, may not have understood the deputy's orders. He was unarmed.

Daniel Walter Quick died after Sgt. Tony Borgman and reserve deputy Richard Dobkowitz tasered him four times.

Jeremy Klott reportedly killed himself during police standoff. At about 2:30 p.m., officers responded to a report that Klott had threatened his girlfriend with a shotgun. Klott reportedly fired at officers from a window, hitting deputy Trevor Wild in the shoulder near his neck. Police negotiated with Klott for hours before firing tear gas inside and then storming the house at around 10 p.m. Officers found Klott dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Relatives told police Klott had been drinking heavily for a couple of days and was depressed.

State Trooper Chris Phillips and Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement Officer Keith Justice both fired their weapons when John Michael Keen, 36, of Elkhorn City, allegedly reached for a weapon, killing him. He was passenger in a vehicle that fled Pikeville police after a reported armed robbery.

An officer shot Jeremy Robinson when he allegedly pointed a handgun at him. According to police reports, Robinson was a passenger in a pickup truck that had crashed near a police car. Police said the officer approached the truck and Robinson ran. Robinson, reportedly dazed by an activated airbag, tripped and fell after a short sprint. He appeared to be surrendering, but he then allegedly swiveled and pointed a gun at the officer, who shot and killed him. Eyewitness accounts differed considerably from the police version. One witness said the officer shot Robinson twice as he lay on the ground, kicked him, turned him onto his back, shot him 4 more times and then planted a gun on him. Eyewitnesses also said the officer used racial slurs to refer to upset community members gathering at the scene when he called for backup.

Mother and daughter Chau Ho and Jennifer Ho died from injuries they suffered after a pickup truck fleeing police crashed into their car near Peck Road and Durfee Avenue.

Edmundo Francisco Gomez was reportedly killed during an early morning shootout with Fullerton police.

Long Island electrician Calhoun died when a vehicle being aggressively chased by county deputies crashed through the walls of his house. The county commissioner defended his chase policy as reasonable and justified; the same jurisdiction caused another chase death seven months later, killing Gabriel Bergtiani. Calhoun had been two months away from retirement.

Betty Zoe Costello-Garcia was hit by cars while running from CHP officer Joseph Godman after a fender bender.

Police said Deputies Paul Petropoulos and Erick Maldonado were alerted to a stolen vehicle by an anti-theft device and followed the tracking signal. When the driver spotted the deputies, he tried to flee and crashed into trees, fences, a trash bin and one of the deputies' marked patrol car. The deputies fired and killed Whitaker.

Deputy Peter Schisler shot and killed Mike Digiuseppe after he reportedly refused to drop a gun. Three deputies had responded at around 2:30 a.m. to a mobile home park after a resident reported an intruder in a home. A child reportedly ran from a trailer and told deputies a man with a gun was in his room. The deputies entered the home and “found Digiuseppe with the gun.

Spidell was shot to death by police after a car chase, smoking crack, and holding a spark plug as if it were a gun pointed at police.

James E. Dean was killed by a Maryland State Police trooper after a 14-hour standoff in his father's St. Mary's County home. Police said Dean stepped out of the house as the standoff wound down and pointed a gun at an officer. As he did that, Dean was shot and killed by a 17-year state police trooper.

Police said an officer encountered Marquez after he spotted him driving a truck that bore a stolen license plate. The officer tried to make a traffic stop but the truck continued on, and then stopped at the entrance of University Medical Center. He said Marquez got out of the truck and pointed a shotgun at University of Arizona police officer Jeff Wadleigh and refused the officer's orders to drop the weapon. Wadleigh shot and killed him.

Police said Mihalyo fired several shots at an ex-girlfriend and her family before an officer arrived. The officer saw an armed man standing at an open window in an upstairs bedroom, police said, and shot and killed him.

Deputies shot and killed Samuel Ehling after he pointed a rifle at them and refused to drop it.

Sean Michael Hansen, 25, was fleeing from police when he was killed by hitting a tree with his truck, police said. It was not specified why he was fleeing police.

Officer Jose Guardado shot Marlon Ruff after Ruff shot and killed Guardado's partner, Officer Bryan Tuvera.

Tiffany Graves, Ieisha Hayes and Torrance Stapleton died when their car hit a semitrailer parked along an exit ramp while fleeing from police. Police said they'd received a tip that someone in the 2004 Nissan Maxima Stapleton was driving was linked to an October robbery. At around 1 a.m., officers stopped the car at Worley Street and Woodlawn Avenue, but the Nissan sped away with police in pursuit. Stapleton entered westbound I-70 at Stadium Boulevard and police said the officers "totally lost sight" of the Nissan about two miles from the Rocheport exit until they came upon the wreckage. The Nissan struck the left rear corner of the semitrailer, splitting in half. The driver of the tractor-trailer, who was not injured, said that when he got a closer look, "I knew there was no hope for them."

Tiffany Graves, Ieisha Hayes and Torrance Stapleton died when their car hit a semitrailer parked along an exit ramp while fleeing from police. Police said they'd received a tip that someone in the 2004 Nissan Maxima Stapleton was driving was linked to an October robbery. At around 1 a.m., officers stopped the car at Worley Street and Woodlawn Avenue, but the Nissan sped away with police in pursuit. Stapleton entered westbound I-70 at Stadium Boulevard and police said the officers "totally lost sight" of the Nissan about two miles from the Rocheport exit until they came upon the wreckage. The Nissan struck the left rear corner of the semitrailer, splitting in half. The driver of the tractor-trailer, who was not injured, said that when he got a closer look, "I knew there was no hope for them."

Caywood was shot after apparently attempting to run down officer with vehicle. Police were pursuing Caywood as a prime suspect in a recent home burglary. After crashing vehicle, and as officers were approaching on foot, Caywood reversed into police cruiser.

Police said they tried to pull a car over for driving without lights. After a chase, Brandon Allen allegedly tried to drive over police and was shot and killed. Police found drugs stashed inside his colostomy bag.

Kassie Schenck died of injuries she suffered in a traffic crash that happened hours after Neosho police officer Justin Keith Pickup allegedly purchased a pint of vodka and gave it to her. He pleaded guilty to a Class A misdemeanor charge of second-degree child endangerment.

Officers were trying to arrest Nelson on a DeKalb County murder warrant accusing him of the death of his best friend, who was shot three days before. Nelson pointed a gun at police and was shot and killed. Nelson had also apparently killed his girlfriend.

A Houston County deputy was dispatched to the home of Parks' ex-wife in response to a 911 call reporting an unwanted and possibly suicidal person. The ex-wife, who was not at home, shares the residence with her parents. When the deputy arrived, Parks fled the scene. Deputies went to his home. Because Parks was armed and threatened to kill himself, sheriff's deputies called for the special response team. Negotiators attempted to get Parks to surrender but when he shot and killed himself.

Two officers shot and killed Gregory John Brodko Jr. when he allegedly pointed a rifle at them. Brodko's mother called 911 shortly after 3 p.m. reporting that her son was acting strangely and saying the police were coming after him. Two officers responded to the Fox Run Mobile Homes community, where Brodko reportedly threatened to kill himself or an officer and pointed a .22 caliber rifle. The officers then shot Brodko several times.

Police received an early-morning 911 about a disturbance in the parking lot of pub. The disturbance was Diana, an armed handyman upset about a recent breakup with his girlfriend roommate. After an exhange of fire, Diana was found dead of a gunshot wound nearby--although initial reports were unclear about whether it had been self-inflicted.

Police said Roberts was wanted for questioning in a possible double homicide in Oklahoma, and he shot himself at a mobile home in Gillham when police arrived.

William Barefield led police to Chattanooga National Cemetery where he held a gun to his head and shot and killed himself after a two-hour standoff, police said.

According to HPD, an officer working a security job was asked to handle a disturbance at an apartment. When he knocked on the door, a woman invited him inside. Smith threatened him. The officer called for backup. When officers heard the woman beg Smith not to kill her, they entered the apartment. Sergeant K.D. Anthony and Officer W.E. Reiser fatally shot Smith as he turned the knife on officers.

Corey Jamel Brown and Martin Cabbagestalk were fleeing police when they ran into a parked train and were killed.

Gebhart was charged with kidnapping and rape. Police spotted Gebhart, who fled from his pickup truck off a rural road in Marion County. Authorities then launched a search that lasted six hours near the Cotter Bridge and in the White River. Searchers used boats and tracking dogs, but could not find Gebhart. A man walking his dog saw the body in the water of the White River, floating in debris next to a boat dock.

Officers Anthony Villavaso and David Ogozalek pulled over Gerald Arthur for running a stop sign. Arthur allegedly fled when Villavaso tried to handcuff him. As he ran away, Arthur struck Ogozalek with the handcuff, cutting his head. The family's lawsuit says the officers wrestled Arthur to the ground where Villavaso placed Arthur in a choke hold for several minutes while other officers kicked or struck him. City attorneys blame Arthur's death on "acute excited delirium."

Juan Jose Carrillo was hit by a car while fleeing on foot from the CHP.

Reported by the LA Times, Edward Melgoza, 38, died after being shot in South Gate, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Officers shot Steven Tyrone Jones after he reportedly shot and wounded trooper Eric D. Workman during a pre-dawn raid. Workman and other members of a regional task force arrived at the home Jones shared with his father to arrest Jones, who was wanted in connection with a Carroll County home invasion. Five officers entered the home, while four remained outside. Police said they returned fire after Jones came out of a second floor bedroom and shot Workman. Jones died at the scene. Workman was hospitalized at a trauma center with critical injuries and returned to work in March 2007. In the days after the shooting, Jone's father stated, "I've lost my son. I can live with that. He lived the lifestyle; he went out." But he also said he watched officers shoot Jones multiple times after he was already dead. Police disputed Jones' father's account.

Sheriff Darrell Johnson went to Ralph Bond's rural residence to investigate reports that Bond's developmentally disabled daughter needed help. Bond had reportedly exhibited bizarre behavior, including claims that his daughter had died and that "devils" were trying to break into his home, police said. Bond allegedly threatened Johnson and a deputy with a shotgun, and the State Patrol's SWAT team was summoned. Officers established a perimeter and began an eight-hour standoff. Police said they lost contact with Bond in the early evening, but attempted to re-establish it by tossing a "throw phone" through a window. At that time, shots were fired inside the home, police said. About an hour later, Bond came out the front door with two guns and allegedly shot at officers, who returned fire. Bond was fatally wounded. Bond's daughter was physically unharmed, but was admitted to a hospital for observation, police said.

An SUV driven by deputy Joshua Foch ran off the road, flipped several times down an embankment, and ejected two passengers. Jerica Devillier was pinned under the SUV and died about 12 hours later. Deputy Jarred Malone remained in guarded critical condition until his death on December 23.

Russell Carlton Barnes was shot by Officer Kelly when Barnes charged at the officer with a knife on Ivy Mill Road. Police had responded to Barnes' home on Westminster Road in Reisterstown after Barnes called 911 saying he had just killed someone. Police found Barnes' former girlfriend, Jamie Ann Nichols, 43, of Reisterstown, dead.

Yolanda Serna was killed when a van driven by Samuel Flores Tello, who was being pursued by police, crashed into her SUV.

Victim attacked officer responding to a reported physical disturbance and was shot, killing him.

Darrian Dwight Cole, the son of prominent local anti-gang activist Cynthia Mendenhall, reportedly shot himself after an altercation with deputies near Watts.

After an attempted traffic stop, a chase and a gun battle, Charles was shot and killed.

Joe Jackson reportedly went to the high-rise office of intellectual property law firm Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer, chained the doors behind him and opened fire, killing three men, wounding a woman and taking a hostage before SWAT officers Felipe Nunez and Charles Rhein shot him. Police said Jackson arrived at the office in the Citigroup Center just before 3:15 p.m. armed with a revolver, a knife and a sledgehammer. "Over the next several minutes, he shot four victims," said Supt. Philip Cline. Jackson held another man hostage for about an hour, until Nunez and Rhein shot him. Jackson died at the scene.

Police shot and killed a child molestation suspect who brandished a gun as he emerged from a downtown motel after a 34-hour standoff Saturday, authorities said.Honda apparently did not fire his weapon before police fatally shot him about 1 a.m. Saturday at a motel, Owsley said. Honda had been wanted since August, when he failed to appear for trial on various molestation charges.

Aragon was a known Norteno gang member wanted for attempted murder and kidnapping. When the car he was riding in got pulled over, he broke into an apartment--where the owner was hiding in a bedroom--and started a gunfight with police. He was shot and killed.

Eden Prairie police officers responded to a call reporting a suicidal man at an apartment on 6422 City West Parkway. During the incident, Azuz allegedly rushed at police with the metal shaft of a golf club "broken off at a sharp endpoint," Police used less-than-lethal projectiles throughout the incident, but those "did not appear to stop him as he charged the other officers," states the complaint. In the midst of alleged attack, Officer Patrick Kenyon shot Azuz.

Police chased Terrence Harold because he was on a corner in an area known for drug sales. Harold allegedly shot at police and was shot and killed.

Angel Saucedo Jr. was killed when his car crashed into a sound wall during a police pursuit.

Police shot and killed Mario Lopez Ayala and Oscar Rodriguez when Ayala allegedly attempted to run over an officer in the parking lot of La Bomba Mexican Restaurant.

Parks, with a history of schizophrenia and heart disease, was acting strangely and reportedly threatening other patrons with a cane in the bar of a downtown hotel. Responding police wrestled him and tasered him as many as 10 times. After Parks' death police refused to release any details about the incident to the family.

Police shot and killed Thomas Wilson Reticker after he shot and wounded an officer during a high-risk traffic stop on I-880.

Michael Gray was shot and killed as sheriff's deputies Ian Conway and Robert Hanson attempted to serve an arrest warrant on him at his home. According to New Mexico State Police, Gray was shot once each by two deputies, once with a shotgun and once with a .40 caliber rifle. He was holding a pellet gun.

Kareem Wells reportedly committed suicide as police closed in after he shot his wife.

Suspected of stealing a Playstation 3, police were at his front door serving a warrant, they knocked, he did not answer, they fired through the door killing him.

Police chased an SUV with four youths who were allegedly involved in a theft at a Meijer store in Belleville. The SUV reportedly went the wrong way on the freeway and crashed. Passenger Donnie Wells was killed after he was thrown from the SUV. The 17-year-old driver was charged with felony murder, fleeing a police officer and operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license, causing death.

Gray was having financial problems. After arguing with his parents, he took a gun to his room. They called police. When Gray opened the bedroom door, he appeared to be grabbing something off a dresser. Two police officers shot him.

Trooper Dale Derr was driving more than 30 miles an hour over the speed limit when he hit and killed Randy Rakes. A police investigation allegedly said Rakes failed to yield the right-of-way on the road to the trooper.

Police were pursuing a stolen vehicle when the driver, Alex Garcia Lopez Jr., crashed, killing his unidentified passenger. Lopez was charged with first-degree vehicular homicide, reckless driving, attempting to elude, driving on a suspended license, carrying a pistol without a permit and driving under the influence.

A deputy tried to stop a car near Beaver Avenue and Meredith Drive at about 9:30 p.m., having discovered it was reported stolen. The driver fled and the deputy gave chase. The car went out of control, sheared off a light pole and became wedged between some trees. Wilbert McDowell III, a passenger, died at the scene. The driver and another passenger were taken to a hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening, police said.

Eddines and another man in a carjacked SUV were shot in the back by police because their vehicle "suddenly flew" into reverse. Eddines was killed, the other man wounded. Local police came under community criticism and federal scrutiny for this and other shootings in the northwest section of the city. Eddines' mother went uncontacted by police for a week.

Wallace was stopping cars on a country road and jumping into the window. He died shortly after being restrained.

Kenneth Sackett reportedly shot himself when police entered his home after an overnight standoff.

Five plainclothes officers, two of whom were detectives working under cover, fired 50 bullets at a silver Nissan Altima, killing Sean Bell. Moments earlier, Bell and his friends had left a bachelor party at Club Kalua.

An unidentified man was shot to death in a hail of gunfire by two undercover officers who chased him in their car as he fled on foot after he allegedly tried to rob a Family Dollar store.

Officers Chris Bindi and Greg Salas shot and killed Ty Louis Williams after he came at them with a knife.

Bartlett police say Torrey Conley committed suicide at Applebee's, but fired his weapon twice before turning it on himself. Another round fired by a police officer missed Conley. Police said Conley went to the restaurant around 11:15 a.m. to see his former girlfriend, Amy Brown.

Orel robbed a nearby supermarket at gunpoint, then led police on a 500-yard foot walking pursuit southward. He shot once into the air then reportedly leveled his weapon at officers. They shot him just as he shot himself, simultaneously according to one witness, and he collapsed.

Officer James Morningstar was reportedly working an unscheduled overtime shift when he stopped a Chevrolet Cavalier driven by Darrell Norwood in the Immanuel Reformed Church parking lot at about 2:30 p.m. Relatives said Norwood, who had schizophrenia and lived in a group home for the mentally disabled, took a bus to Benton Harbor to spend Thanksgiving with relatives and had taken his grandparents' Chevrolet Cavalier along with two guns. Initial reports said that Morningstar fired several shots at Norwood after Norwood shot him in the arm, and that one of Morningstar's shots struck Norwood in the head. In January, police said that Norwood had shot himself in the right side of his head and that the bullet exited his body and out a partially open window striking Morningstar. The shooting was officially declared a suicide.

Deputies shot and killed Adam Ward Habriel when he shot at them after they found him hiding in a home on Gliddon Street.

Lance Johnson reportedly killed Tasha Cooks, who he'd taken hostage, before killing himself during a 23-hour standoff at a South Side apartment building. At around 1 a.m., witnesses said Johnson tried to force his way into a neighbor's apartment after complaining about a noisy child. The family fled and witnesses said Johnson shot at people on the stairs. Johnson then broke into Cooks' apartment and held her hostage. Neighbors said they heard Johnson threatening to shoot Cooks if police didn't keep their distance. Police confirmed that Johnson threatened violence during the standoff, which ended when SWAT officers stormed the apartment almost a full day later. Inside, police found Johnson and Cooks gravely wounded. Both were later pronounced dead at a hospital.

Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's deputies reportedly heard a shot and found Joseph Wingard dead in rural Tuscaloosa County during a statewide manhunt.

Frances E. Bledsoe was killed when a vehicle fleeing police struck her car as she drive home from Bishop Sullivan Center, a food pantry she volunteered at every Tuesday. The other driver, William C. Shimp Jr., was reportedly trying to elude police after his neighbor reported that he'd brandished a handgun in front of the neighbor's house. Prosecutors charged Shimp with second-degree murder in Bledsoe's death.

Johnston was shot during a botched drug raid in which DeKalb police officers entered the wrong home while executing a no-knock warrant. Johnston had a revolver for self-defense and shot at what she presumed were intruders breaking into her home, and was subsequently fired on by the APD officers. The officers initially tried to cover up their mistake by falsifying reports of finding drugs in her home, but ultimately plead guilty and were sentenced to prison for manslaughter, perjury, and falsification of reports (among other charges).

Barry Austin Schewe was wanted for questioning about a murder. As deputies confronted Schewe outside of his motel room, Schewe pointed a gun at the officers who shot and killed him, police said.

Former high-school football star and active-duty Manson was shot to death by local police in the yard of his former wife. Responding police could not convince him to put down his weapon, and after an early morning standoff he was shot four times in the chest.

Retired judge G.R. Hovey Johnson committed suicide during a standoff with police. He may have had some form of dementia.

Police were called and told a man had a gun. Deputies spent about an hour trying to talk to 47-year-old Robert Killinger, who was outside during the incident. Officials say the standoff ended when Killinger shot and killed himself.

A county deputy approached a stopped motorist who reeked of alcohol, slumped over the steering wheel of his pickup. Ready came to, and attempted to drive off while dragging the deputy alongside the car. Ready was shot six times, killing him. His blood-alcohol level came in at three times the legal driving limit.

A man who fled a routine roadway police check died when his car struck a telephone pole and tree, police said. The man had stopped for the roadway check. While turning his car to flee down Jonesboro Road, he bumped his Ford Taurus against a police officer. The unidentified driver was pronounced dead at the scene. A passenger, whose name was also withheld by police, was hospitalized in stable condition. Police found 14 1/2 grams of crack cocaine in the car

A plainclothes officer shot and killed Michael Smith when he allegedly tried to grab his gun at a Woodlawn convenience store. Smith, his brother and a friend were leaving the store when two officers asked them to put their hands up. According to police, the officers were in the area after a robbery victim called them about the three men in the store. The officers were searching them when Smith allegedly reached for one officer's gun. Police said there was a struggle, and that the officer gained control of the weapon, then shot Smith once in the abdomen. However, witnesses said that Smith did not reach for a gun or engage in any struggle.

Gordon was shot and killed in an altercation with Lowndes County Sheriff's Deputies Marc Miley and Archie Williams, who were responding to a domestic disturbance. When the deputies arrived, Gordon reportedly was holding a nail gun. Both deputies deployed their tasers several times to no effect. The deputies then moved closer to try tasering Gordon from a shorter distance, but were both hit in the head with the nail gun during an ensuing struggle before Gordon was shot twice and died.

Merritt and Alfred Viel, 20, tried to rob Santos Melendez and his father, Marcial Melendez. Officer Eureka Gracia pulled up, and Santos motioned to her that they had been robbed with a gun. Gracia ordered the men out of the van. Viel and Merritt got out and walked toward her. Police said Merritt continued to walk toward Gracia, his hands in the front pockets of his dark-colored sweatshirt. Garcia, believing that he was trying to reach for his firearm, shot and killed Merritt. Viel was charged with murder in Merritt's death because he committed a robbery that led to a death. The result of Viel's trial was not reported.

One of two pedestrians struck by a drunk-driving local officer, Briggs died of her injuries two weeks later. The other woman was also seriously hurt. The officer resigned his post, was sentenced to six months in jail, five years probation, and directed to give a drunk driving presentation to every high school in the county.

Banks was shot after pulling out a pocket knife. Police were serving a bench warrant. Witnesses claim Banks was handing a box cutter to police.

Kevin Cook fled Orange County deputies who were trying to arrest him for failure to appear in court. He crashed into Orleans Police Chief Roy McFarland's vehicle, and pointed a shotgun at McFarland, who shot and killed him.

Passenger Gerry Jesus Saldivar-Chavez was killed and a driver critically injured when a police chase ended in a crash.

Juhnna Hardin died from her injuries a day after her car collided with a police car driven by officer Mark Farmer. Police said Farmer was responding to a call about a person with a gun in his marked squad car and had his emergency lights and sirens activated. Police initially claimed that Hardin ran a red light at Loomis. In December 2012, the city council endorsed paying $750,000 to Hardin's estate.

Senior deputy Shane Matthews shot Adrian Canley when he tried to run him over with a pickup truck in Thousand Oaks.

Distraught family called police at 2:45 a.m. as Salisbury began smashing windows and threatening to hurt himself. The dashcam of the local police shows Salisbury with a large kitchen knife walking toward officers and saying "Shoot me man." He was fatally shot.

Karissa Nicole Workman was a passenger killed in a crash during a police chase.

Budhai was apparently in an emotional crisis. She threatened several people with knives, then refused to disarm at an officer's command. She was shot and killed.

According to police, officers saw Duane Anthony Royster point what appeared to be a gun at people at a bus stop near Schoolcraft and Evergreen. Royster reportedly fled south on Evergreen in a Ford Explorer and then east on westbound I-96 and crashed head-on into an older model Buick, killing the unnamed driver. The Buick was shoved back 40 feet by the impact, police said. The Explorer vaulted end-over-end and landed on its roof. Motorists rescued Royster from the SUV as it burst into flames. Witnesses reported hearing several popping noises that sounded like gunfire. Police said the noise likely was bullets exploding in the fire.

Three officers were attempting to arrest on a felony warrant. Even after being shot, he refused to obey orders to show his hands. Officers shot him again. No weapon was found on or near him.

Police were searching for Donnie Garrett for wanton endangerment. When they stopped his vehicle, he fired on them and shot and killed.

Police followed an SUV for running a red light. After a brief pursuit the vehicles arrived at a busy three-way intersection where the SUV stopped, the driver grabbed a handgun, and maneuvered back and forth in an attempt to escape. The SUV pinned one officer against a parked car. That officer fatally shot the driver, Butler.

Wesley Cook and David Johnston died from injuries sustained in a crash during a police chase.

Larry J. Sicka, who was suspected of killing his estranged wife's parents, barricaded himself inside an acquaintance's home, shot and critically wounded a police officer, and then committed suicide during a standoff of several hours. Sicka was found dead inside the house.

Rodney C. Goss fled state troopers trying to pull him over for a traffic offense and broadsided a 2000 Mercedes carrying Brent Berry, Eugene Pierce Jr. and Eric Flowers. All three men were killed.

Jobe's mother called police. When police arrived, they found Jobe in a neighbor's house. He had broken a window with his arms to get in and was bleeding profusely, police said. Police said he refused to follow orders, and they shot him with a Taser and put cuffs on his ankles and wrists. He died shortly later.

Larry Allen Edwards reportedly jumped into the Tuolumne River and drowned while being chased by the CHP.

Columbus police have identified the officers as Jason Wood, 36, a 13-year veteran; Bradley Thomas, 36, a 12-year veteran; and Melanie Stevens, 37, a nine-year veteran. Police said Stevens tried to break up a fight between Larry D. Parks, 33, and another man in the United Dairy Farmers parking lot. Parks began fighting with Stevens and tried to grab her gun, police said. The gun discharged, killing Parks.

Edward Storer reportedly shot and killed himself during a 50-mile police chase, moments before his vehicle crashed.

Capriotti was wanted for questioning regarding the stabbing death of his wife, Louise Marie Capriotti. When police caught up with him, he threatened them with a knife and was shot and killed.

Ada County Sheriff's deputies responded to a call for assistance by Boise Police Department regarding a noncompliant, armed suspect [Lowery] who had committed aggravated assault involving a firearm. Lowery refused to surrender. Less than Lethal options deployed by BPD and ACSO were ineffective. Lowery went for his weapon and was shot by BPD officers and ACSO deputies.

Hale had been under surveillance for his membership in the Pagans MC. Upon learning of his whereabouts in Wilmington, police rolled up on him in front of his family. They ordered him to show his hands and immediately began tasering. Though he told them he was trying to pull his hands from his pockets while be tasered, he was shot 3 times and killed.

Gaytan got into a fight at Rocklin City Jail. Deputies took Gaytan to Milam County Jail to jail for holding. Gaytan fought with the deputies in the booking area. A deputy tasered Gaytan. He died at Breckenridge Hospital. Texas Ranger Matthew Lindemann investigated. Media reports don't state categorically whether he was booked in Milam County Jail, so this incident may be outside of FatalEncounters dataset, which does not include individuals after they've been booked into the detention system.

Derrick D. Payton was reportedly found unresponsive inside a pickup truck after crashing during a police chase at about 12:45 a.m. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Deputies serving a warrant on Menetti at his place of work agreed to walk him to their patrol vehicle without handcuffs so that he could properly say goodbye to his fiance. Instead, Menetti tried to run away. He was fatally struck by traffic.

Officers responded at about 7:15 p.m. after a woman called 911 and said that a man she did not know had pounded on her front door, then began shooting at her house. Officers told Richard Taushe Kemp to drop his gun, but he allegedly continued in "an unceasing and threatening fashion" so they shot and killed him.

Deputies Quinton Hawkins and Victor Alonzo shot and killed Pasqual Mendoza III after he threatened them with a knife.

Officers forced their way into Hurley's residence in connection with an early-morning shooting that same day. He greeted them with gun in hand, a rifle that he refused to drop. He got off one shot before being killed by return fire.

Glendale police issued a bulletin about a carjacking suspect who was behind the wheel of a red 2002 Honda Civic. A deputy spotted the vehicle and tried to do a traffic stop, but the driver fled. The deputy gave chase and the pursuit eventually ended several miles later at a Lafarge North America sand-and-gravel operation along the Agua Fria River. There, the Honda rolled to a stop and Diaz displayed a weapon. The deputy shot and killed Diaz.

Reported by the LA Times, Alfredo Valdivia, 38, died after being shot in Cerritos, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Officer David Whitson and Chad Davis were both shot and killed by Bowling Green police. They were allegedly fighting and Gonzalez was allegedly armed with knives.

Police responded to the Front Page Book Store at about 3 p.m., after an employee reported an armed robbery. Officers watched surveillance video and a witness told them the man had fled on foot southbound across Eight Mile into Detroit. An officer came across a man who matched the description of the robber, police said. Backup arrived to find the man allegedly pointing a .45-caliber handgun pointed at the officer. Three officers fired 15 to 20 shots, killing the man.

Officer Michael Bocardo and other officers shot Marcus Thomas, William Tyner and Tristan Scaggs, who allegedly brandished weapons. According to police, members of the police gang intelligence unit were tailing a car occupied by three men they suspected were members of of the New Breed gang en route to kill a rival gang member. At about 3:45 p.m., the officers stopped the men across from Humboldt Park. One of the men allegedly lifted an AK-47 toward the officers, who opened fire, killing Thomas and Tyner and hitting Scaggs in the back. One officer was reportedly shot in the hand and lost a finger. Shell casings found at the scene all came from police weapons, and officers had fired at least 69 times from 10 guns.

Deputy Peter Gentry shot and killed Enrique Ramos Aguirre when he ran toward him with a sharp metal object.

Police received a report that someone driving a white Dodge pickup truck with Texas plates fired a gun at two vehicles near West 104th Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard. A few minutes later, a Westminster officer pulled behind the pickup, and the suspect took off across an open space area. He crashed into a light pole, and the pickup truck lost a tire as it smashed into a curb and an embankment. The suspect pulled a gun on officers who approached his vehicle with their own weapons drawn. He then shot and killed himself.

According to the Star Tribune, police responded after Reyes stabbed his girlfriend and a male friend, but Reyes drove off, starting a police pursuit. When police stopped him, they say Reyes swung a sawed-off shotgun toward them before they shot him multiple times.

Keawanna Perdue Henderson, 32, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of 21-year-old Isaac Jolley, police said. She was an off-duty Fulton County Sheriff's Department jail detention officer when during an argument with Jolley's brother Randy Mitchell, she pistol-whipped Mitchell, which made the gun go off, killing Jolley. She was sentenced to five years in prison and five years of probation, police said.

Mentally ill teen talking into a phone receiver, confused, talking about seeing Jesus soon. He did not obey police commands and they tasered him at least 6 times. He died from cardiac arrest.

Adrian Moreno was a passenger killed after the 1983 Buick Regal he was riding in ran a stop light and crashed into a GMC Sierra while fleeing police.

Kathryn Dean Bogosian was killed in a head on collision with a vehicle fleeing police driven by Shayne Randell Tinnel, who also died.

Moses was killed, and his brother jailed, after a shoot-out with undercover GBI agents investigating drug sales. He was shot and killed as he dragged a female agent from her vehicle and reached toward a bulge in his pocket, where undercover officers feared he'd concealed a gun. He was unarmed.

Reported by the LA Times, Jerome Stephens Jr., 21, died after being shot in Green Meadows, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

An NYPD officer had just finished a work shift when he noticed Hines with his gun trained on another man. The officer ordered him to drop his weapon, which started a shootout between the two. The officer was wounded with two bullets, Hines was fired at 11 times and mortally wounded, and the third man shot in the leg.

Sanders was arrested for causing a disturbance. When a deputy tried to handcuff her, she stepped backward into the path of a car, which killed her.

Steven Joseph Appl eluded an intense manhunt for him Wednesday after Colorado State Patrol Trooper Brian Koch was shot and wounded in an altercation after a traffic stop on Garfield County Road 346, outside Rifle. Appl allegedly shot himself while in the back seat of a pickup that had been stopped at a checkpoint south of Silt.

According to the Star Tribune, police were called after Barrett shot at a car. But when police arrived, Barrett came toward them with a 12-inch filet knife and meat cleaver. Police say he declined to drop the weapons, and police shot him after trying to stop Barrett with pepper spray and batons.

Columbus police were called to the Caravan Trailer Park on a report of a stabbing. They found a woman who said she had been stabbed and a man who had been cut by the woman's boyfriend. The man had been trying to help her defend herself against the boyfriend, later identified as Munoz. As police arrived, Munoz had just driven off. Police followed him and the chase ended when he lost control of his car just north of the Goodale Street exit of Rt. 315. The car hit a guardrail and went down an embankment and ended up about 20 feet from the Olentangy River, police said. Munoz was thrown from the car and landed in the river, killing him.

Mohammed Rafi fatally stabbed his estranged wife, Tiffany, at her workplace after he was released from jail for stalking her. Patrons and other employees fled as he waved a pistol at the first Jacinto City officer to respond. He called for backup. A Houston SWAT team responded, but failed to reason with Rafi. The team entered the building and fatally shot him.

County probation officers went to pick him up on a warrant. He refused; they pepper sprayed him. He pulled a hunting knife and was able to escape out the back door and into a gulch. Police were called. An officer arrived and told him to surrender. When he didn't, he was shot twice (chest and hip).

Off-duty Deputy Jimmy Collins, 57, was returning to his car in the parking lot of the Dollar Tree store in the Victory Crossing shopping center on Victory Boulevard just after 8 p.m. Eric Corbett, 15, confronted Collins and produced a weapon, police said. During the confrontation, Collins shot and killed Corbett.

Bobby Aguilar and Edgar Trevino-Mendoza were driving with a friend to a pickup basketball game when their vehicle was hit by a stolen car that ran a red light at South 48th Avenue and West Nob Hill Boulevard as it was pursued by police. Aguilar died at the scene, while Trevino-Mendoza died days later. The fleeing driver, Blake Young, was sentenced to almost 37 years in state prison in 2009 on two counts of second-degree murder and single counts of vehicular assault and second-degree theft in connection with the crash.

Cedrick Brown was shot and killed by police who responded to a disturbance call at the Winn-Dixie warehouse.

During an eight-hour standoff with police, Qwynton Armstead shot and killed himself inside his sister's apartment at Penn State.

LaCroix was shot and killed at home during an investigation of a bank robbery.

Distance runner and warehouse worker Case ingested a large amount of hallucinogenic drugs and wandered out of his apartment, into the neighboring apartment of a young woman with an 8-year-old. The woman called 911. Police arrived, shot Case with pepper spray then bean-bag rounds from a shotgun, which didn't stop him. He was fatally shot.

Reported by the LA Times, Antonio Fernando Biales, 34, died after being shot in East Hollywood, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Police say they chased James Lewis because they believed he was involved in bar robbery nearby.

After a couple interactions, an officer pulled Hill over. He was uncooperative, so the officer called for backup. After backup arrived, Hill managed to get hold of one of the officer's taser, and while they struggled, the second officer shot and killed Hill.

Officer Jordan Swonger responded to a domestic dispute. He told Gregory Boggs to raise his hands, and when Boggs reached for his belt, he shot and killed him. Boggs did not have a weapon.

Kathryn Stephens was killed after she was struck by a police car while crossing Ocean Boulevard.

Rice was shot to death by Bowling Green police Officer Allen Baer after leading police on a chase that ended in the hospital's emergency department. There, Rice indicated he had a weapon and threatened to kill people. A state trooper at the scene tried to immobilize him with a stun gun. When that failed, Rice repeated his threat to kill someone and reached toward his waistband. Officer Baer then fired, hitting him once in the chest, killing him.