Fatal Encounters

A step toward creating an impartial, comprehensive and searchable national database of people killed during interactions with police

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Displaying 3,001 - 3,500 of 63,000

Unique IDNameAgeGenderRaceDateCityStateLatitudeLongitudeAgency involvedCause of deathIntended use of forceBrief descriptionSupporting document link
2378Henry Rodriguez24MaleHispanic/Latino03/13/2003Long BeachCA33.7792597-118.1786814Long Beach Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Henry Rodriguez, a 24-year-old Latino male after being shot in Long Beach, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

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2379Jaime Delatorre Alcala19MaleHispanic/Latino03/13/2003Long BeachCA33.7792597-118.1786814Long Beach Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Jaime Delatorre Alcala, a 19-year-old Latino male after being shot in Long Beach, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

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2375Jesse HamiltonMaleRace unspecified03/13/2003AL32.3668052-86.2999689Montgomery County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Jesse Hamilton ran from deputies and apparently shot himself to death.

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2376Sonia Caine22FemaleRace unspecified03/13/2003TheodoreAL30.5696161-88.1308625Mobile County Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Paul Caine and Sonia Cane were killed in a head-on collision involving deputy Randall Dueitt.

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2377Paul Caine27MaleRace unspecified03/13/2003TheodoreAL30.586345-88.2883Mobile County Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Paul Caine and Sonia Cane were killed in a head-on collision involving deputy Randall Dueitt.

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20974Albert Sloan84MaleRace unspecified03/13/2003DetroitMI42.3391907-83.0300178Detroit Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

At about 4:30 p.m., a police cruiser on a radio run hit another car, killing husband and wife Albert Sloan and Lilian Mae Sloan. Witnesses said the patrol car was speeding eastbound on Lafayette when it ran a red light without its emergency lights flashing, colliding with the Sloans' Honda Civic, which was southbound on St. Aubin. One witness said it didn't appear that the officers tried to stop, pointing out the lack of skid marks on the street.

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20975Lilian Mae Sloan59FemaleRace unspecified03/13/2003DetroitMI42.3391907-83.0300178Detroit Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

At about 4:30 p.m., a police cruiser on a radio run hit another car, killing husband and wife Albert Sloan and Lilian Mae Sloan. Witnesses said the patrol car was speeding eastbound on Lafayette when it ran a red light without its emergency lights flashing, colliding with the Sloans' Honda Civic, which was southbound on St. Aubin. One witness said it didn't appear that the officers tried to stop, pointing out the lack of skid marks on the street.

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2382Carlos Francisco Avila31MaleRace unspecified03/14/2003HoltvilleCA32.8146845-115.3826337Imperial County Sheriff's Office
  • Undetermined
  • Less-than-lethal force

Carlos Francisco Avila died in police custody after fleeing from, then struggling with an officer.

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2380Christopher W. Jones35MaleEuropean-American/White03/14/2003DenverCO39.763436-105.0147637Denver Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police responded to a call in which a roommate said that Jones was suicidal and losing it. After gaining entry into the house, they found Jones in a bathroom, and he brandished a kitchen knife. He was shot and killed.

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22019Nathan Gilliard27MaleAfrican-American/Black03/14/2003IndianapolisIN39.7814274-86.098189Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Nathan Gillard didn't realize that the Village Pantry at 9th and Chestnut was under police surveillance when he went in to rob it. Gillard backed down the street at a high rate of speed, then stopped when he slammed into a parked car. Two officers confronted Gillard. Officer Richard Kenney and one or two other officers fired at Gillard after he brandished an air pistol.

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2381Bruce J. Steiner38MaleEuropean-American/White03/14/2003RaymerCO40.5988147-103.9348912Logan County Sheriff's Office, Colorado State Patrol
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Sterling police were called to investigate someone selling items at a Sterling gas station. Steiner had left the gas station by the time police arrived, but he was intercepted by Sterling police near Walmart. Steiner headed out on to Highway 14, and the sheriff's office took over pursuit when he left the city limits. Steiner led two deputies on a chase into Weld County that at times reached speeds of 115 mph. When his car apparently overheated, Steiner pulled over, got out of the car and began walking toward one of the deputies wielding a gun, according to police. A Colorado State trooper arrived on the scene at this time, and one of the deputies ordered Steiner to drop the weapon. When Steiner continued to approach the deputy with the gun in his hand, the deputy fired one round and killed Steiner.

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2388Richard Specker47MaleHispanic/Latino03/15/2003ChicagoIL41.939116-87.7128945Chicago Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Officer Wilfredo Torres shot Richard Specker after Specker reportedly shot and wounded him inside D&L Snack Shop. At about 2 p.m., a cook flagged down two uniformed officers and said Specker was inside the restaurant with a gun, police said. According to police, one officer went in the rear door while Torres went in the front, where he saw Specker. Torres announced that he was police and Specker allegedly shot him once in each thigh. Torres returned fire, killing Specker.

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2387John J. Rameriz42MaleRace unspecified03/15/2003Yorba LindaCA33.8823351-117.8045638Orange County Sheriff's Department, Brea Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Deputy Sean Howell shot and killed John J. Rameriz, who allegedly came at him with a knife.

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20195Danny M. Schiffler33MaleEuropean-American/White03/15/2003OnalaskaWI43.8995683-91.2206704La Crosse Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Police watched Danny M. Schiffler's vehicle crash, killing Schiffler, moments after they reportedly called off a chase.

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2386Christopher Jones23MaleEuropean-American/White03/15/2003St. LouisMO38.7163387-90.2417165St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Jones was in Six Stars Market in north St. Louis and took two energy drinks without paying. He walked out of the market after the owner asked him to stop, then re-entered the store and took a packet of pastries. Jones was followed outside by the market's manager, who told him he would have to pay for the goods. Witnesses say Jones started throwing items on the street and sidewalk/ He then reportedly pulled a knife out of his waistband and didn't drop the weapon when repeatedly asked by two police officers to do so.

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2385Marquise Hudspeth25MaleAfrican-American/Black03/15/2003ShreveportLA32.4709722-93.7799704Shreveport Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Marquise Hudspeth was killed after after he pointed a shiny object at police; it turned out to be a cellular phone.

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2384Willie Robinson22MaleAfrican-American/Black03/15/2003AkronOH41.0556923-81.4828479Akron Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police received a report of shots being fired. The officer said that Robinson pointed his gun at him and refused to drop it when ordered to do so, and he shot and killed him.

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2383Ernest Lee Merritt28MaleRace unspecified03/15/2003NorcrossGA33.8689441-84.1882658Gwinnett County Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Ernest Lee Merritt, 28, of Buffalo, N.Y., was shot and killed by Gwinnett police during an undercover drug sting at a Doraville Home Depot. Police say the suspect tried to sell drugs to undercover officers and then pulled a gun on them.

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2391Bobby Luke Kleinheinz20MaleEuropean-American/White03/16/2003Portola ValleyCA37.4055718-122.1940237Millbrae Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

Bobby Luke Kleinheinz was a passenger killed when a pickup truck fleeing police crashed.

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2390Kenneth Elliot42MaleRace unspecified03/16/2003SmyrnaGA33.8839926-84.5143761Smyrna Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A Smyrna police officer killed 42-year-old Kenneth Elliot of Atlanta after police said he attacked the officer with a bolt cutter. That investigation has been submitted to the Cobb district attorney for review, said Smyrna police spokesman Lt. Keith Zgonc.

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2392Christopher Smith31MaleAfrican-American/Black03/16/2003AlbuquerqueNM35.0818575-106.5535731Albuquerque Police Department
  • Tasered
  • Less-than-lethal force

According to police, a partially clothed man, Smith, went on a rampage, breaking car windows and vandalizing homes. Police pulled up and saw the suspect fighting with a resident. The man resisted officers' attempts to restrain him. Officers used pepper spray, a baton and a stun gun to subdue him, but he continued to damage property and fight. He died the next day.

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2389Murray J. Morrison51MaleEuropean-American/White03/16/2003ShorelineWA47.7634854-122.343547King County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A woman came to the sheriff's station and reported that a man arrived at her friend's house about three blocks away, very upset about a family problem. The man went to the same church as the two women. As several deputies were preparing to leave the station to go to the house minutes later, the man showed up in the parking lot brandishing a handgun and pointing it at his head. He was surrounded by eight officers, who began to negotiate with him, asking him to put down the gun. After 10 minutes of negotiations, he fired once or twice. Five deputies returned fire, killing the man.

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2394Marcus Bell35MaleAfrican-American/Black03/18/2003ChicagoIL41.7857088-87.6132766Chicago Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

An officer shot and killed Marcus Bell after he allegedly grabbed his partner's gun during a scuffle on a landing outside a two-flat building. According to police, Bell had caused a traffic accident a block away while driving a stolen car. Bell allegedly fought with the two officers, knocking one of them down the stairs, and then took the second officer's weapon. The second officer yelled that Bell was armed and his partner shot Bell.

chicagotribune.com
2393James Bannister36MaleEuropean-American/White03/18/2003DallasTX32.9477536-96.8048161Dallas Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

According to DPD, officers from Irving asked for help as they chased Bannister into Dallas by vehicle. Dallas officers joined the chase. Bannister stopped his vehicle, exited and pointed a shotgun at the officers. DPD Officer Byron Guynn shot at Bannister seven times. Bannister died on the scene.

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22816Phoutthasen Tommy Ontha19MaleRace unspecified03/18/2003MurfreesboroTN35.8546568-86.3676053Rutherford County Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Phoutthasen Ontha was run over and killed by two deputies, Rick Emslie and Randy Morow, who were following him during a slow-speed chase. According to news reports, he jumped out of his moving vehicle, in front of the deputies' vehicle, which swerved to miss his vehicle and ran over him.

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2397Nancy Pearlman56FemaleRace unspecified03/20/2003MalibuCA34.0822166-119.0334449Ventura County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

County officers engaged Pearlman in her car at Point Mugu State Park with a gun in her possession. Police describe the encounter as Pearlman as suicidal and uncooperative, forcing a fatal shooting. Complaints filed by the family dispute those facts and describe one officer shooting out tires on one side of the car, causing an officer on the other side to consider himself under fire and kill the woman.

latimes.com
2398Shawn Lee Featherston26MaleRace unspecified03/20/2003ChandlerAZ33.3466693-111.8642407Chandler Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Two narcotics officers were investigating reports of possible drug activity about at a home when a man outside the home fled when they tried to speak with him, police said. One of the detectives followed the man on foot while the other followed them in a car. The man ran to the back of a nearby home. He pulled a gun and shot the officer. He was shot and killed.

eastvalleytribune.com
2395Richard Allen Shreve36MaleRace unspecified03/20/2003PuyallupWA47.1438235-122.4156261Pierce County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Shreve had been picked up for mental issues. When police found him a few days later, he claimed to be armed and came at police with a metal pipe. He was shot and killed.

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2396Jeffrey CarrawayMaleRace unspecified03/20/2003EllisvilleMS31.6040538-89.1956142Ellisville Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Carraway was shot and killed by officer Tony Stiles, who was responding to a domestic call, when Carraway allegedly refused to surrender his firearm.

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2403Michael David Roehl38MaleEuropean-American/White03/21/2003OrangeCA33.7951025-117.8530901Orange Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police shot Michael David Roehl after he allegedly pointed a toy pistol at a group of children and later refused to drop it.

latimes.com
18846Wesley Ikena Ohaneje14MaleAfrican-American/Black03/21/2003Oklahoma CityOK35.4688772-97.5547647Oklahoma City Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Wesley Ikena Ohaneje was shot and killed by an Oklahoma City police officer. Police said Ohaneje attempted to run over the officer with a stolen sport utility vehicle.

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2401Mark Steven Fitch Jr.22MaleRace unspecified03/21/2003North Fort MyersFL26.6798724-81.8984229Lee County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Fitch fell into a road rage incident with a female driver in a van, not knowing the van also held three off-duty deputies. When he pulled over and smashed a window with a 20-inch barbell, one of the deputies fatally shot him in the chest, claiming self-defense. Fitch was otherwise unarmed. Witnesses disputed the police account.

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2402Atilano Lay Doporto29MaleHispanic/Latino03/21/2003TraverCA37.4434261-120.789523California Highway Patrol
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

CHP Officers Kevin Jeffcoach, Scott Crewse, Ryan Stonebraker, Felix Lara and Mark McAlister shot and killed Atilano Lay Doporto when he allegedly fired at them after crashing during a high-speed chase.

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2399Deandre Melton16MaleRace unspecified03/21/2003FergusonMO38.748361-90.302451Dellwood Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Passengers Deandre Melton and Delonte Stanley were killed after the SUV they were in crashed during a police chase in Ferguson. According to police, the teens were in a Nissan Pathfinder that had been reported stolen from a car wash in Wellston earlier that night. Shortly after the theft, the Pathfinder was allegedly involved in an attempted carjacking in Ferguson. At around 11:30 p.m., a Dellwood officer saw the SUV on Glen Owen Drive and turned on his lights and siren, but the driver sped off. The officer chased the Pathfinder west for more than a mile until the SUV attempted to pass another police car that was headed in the same direction. The SUV, which may have clipped the front of the police car, lost control, flipped over several times and bounced so high that it struck a utility line 13.5 feet above the ground.

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2400Delonte Stanley15MaleRace unspecified03/21/2003FergusonMO38.748361-90.302451Dellwood Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Passengers Deandre Melton and Delonte Stanley were killed after the SUV they were in crashed during a police chase in Ferguson. According to police, the teens were in a Nissan Pathfinder that had been reported stolen from a car wash in Wellston earlier that night. Shortly after the theft, the Pathfinder was allegedly involved in an attempted carjacking in Ferguson. At around 11:30 p.m., a Dellwood officer saw the SUV on Glen Owen Drive and turned on his lights and siren, but the driver sped off. The officer chased the Pathfinder west for more than a mile until the SUV attempted to pass another police car that was headed in the same direction. The SUV, which may have clipped the front of the police car, lost control, flipped over several times and bounced so high that it struck a utility line 13.5 feet above the ground.

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20976Bradley B. "Brad" Custer29MaleEuropean-American/White03/23/2003HollyMI42.7919127-83.6276455Holly Police Department
  • Asphyxiated/Restrained
  • Less-than-lethal force

According to police, officers responded at about 8 p.m. to a report that a man was breaking up an apartment. "He was covered with blood when the officers arrived," said sheriff's Capt. Mike McCabe. Officers alleged that Custer confronted them, then went into apparent cardiac arrest as they tried to restrain him. Custer died at a hospital at about 9 p.m. Custer's family said the cause of his death was positional asphyxiation.

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2404Odell Smith23MaleRace unspecified03/24/2003WashingtonDC38.91186-76.976943Washington Metropolitan Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police responding to reports of shots fired at 3:30 a.m. came upon Smith, running with a bloodstained shirt. Smith is said to have turned during a foot chase and aimed at gun at officers. The police fired on him and killed him.

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2406Jorge Perez Eufemia29MaleHispanic/Latino03/25/2003Van NuysCA34.1982532-118.466207Los Angeles Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Jorge Perez Eufemia, a 29-year-old Latino male, died after being shot in Van Nuys, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

latimes.com
2405Brent B. Bradshaw47MaleRace unspecified03/25/2003ScottsdaleAZ33.509479-111.917459Scottsdale Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Bradshaw, a "disbarred Scottsdale attorney known for erratic behavior," was shot near a civic canal when he refused to drop a shotgun he wielded. He deliberately rolled into the canal, was quickly fished out, but declared dead soon after. One of six suspects shot to death by the same Scottsdale officer, Officer James Peters, within nine years.

eastvalleytribune.com
23124Cameron McKinley "Mackie" Brown39MaleRace unspecified03/25/2003CharlestonWV38.404773-81.6636481Charleston Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Cameron "Mackie" Brown led several police cruisers on a high-speed chase around 4:15 a.m. before crashing an allegedly stolen car less than a half-mile outside city limits. Brown was killed in the crash.

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2407Roderick T. Harvey Jr.28MaleAfrican-American/Black03/25/2003Brooklyn ParkMN45.0700148-93.3667411Brooklyn Park Police Department, Hennepin County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

According to the Star Tribune, Harvey ran away as narcotics officers were trying to arrest him. He fired at least once at the officers, who shot him several times, police said.

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2408Nathanial Lee Searcy50MaleRace unspecified03/28/2003ColumbusOH39.9665522-82.9772267Columbus Division of Police
  • Medical emergency
  • Less-than-lethal force

Police responding to a burglary call saw two people leaving the building. The two suspects were followed to 69 N. 17th Ave. where they parked their vehicle and continued to run on foot. Officers used Mace incapacitate the men, although the coroner said it was more likely heart disease that killed Searcy.

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2409Brian Keith Parrish24MaleRace unspecified03/28/2003AmoryMS34.0033503-88.4793855Lee County Sheriff's Office, New Albany Police Department, Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Brian Parrish reportedly committed suicide following a four-county police chase. Parrish had reportedly kidnapped his estranged wife from her workplace, Money-N-Minutes, on Highway 15 in New Albany at about 8:30 a.m. When Parrish's van was spotted not long afterwards, New Albany police and Highway Patrol troopers began pursuit. At least eight agencies were involved in the pursuit by the end. Parrish reportedly fired shots at officers as the chase continued onto Highway 25 into Amory, where stop sticks flattened each tire on Parrish's vehicle. He drove on for another 1.5 miles before Lee County Sgt. Steve Stanford cornered the van in a front lawn in a residential area across from Amory High School. Stanford pulled the woman out of the van just before Parrish turned the pistol on himself.

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2414Randall A. Varno22MaleEuropean-American/White03/29/2003Fox LakeIL42.3864205-88.1777649Fox Lake Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Randall A. Varno and Dan Schroeder were killed when their car was hit by a vehicle driven by Sgt. Mark Schindler. Schindler was reportedly responding to a call with his lights and siren on at around 2:45 a.m. when his car crashed into Varno's Toyota Corolla, which had pulled into the intersection to turn left. Varno was pronounced dead at the scene. Schroeder died later at a hospital. Schindler was treated and released.

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2415Dan Schroeder24MaleRace unspecified03/29/2003Fox LakeIL42.3864205-88.1777649Fox Lake Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Randall A. Varno and Dan Schroeder were killed when their car was hit by a vehicle driven by Sgt. Mark Schindler. Schindler was reportedly responding to a call with his lights and siren on at around 2:45 a.m. when his car crashed into Varno's Toyota Corolla, which had pulled into the intersection to turn left. Varno was pronounced dead at the scene. Schroeder died later at a hospital. Schindler was treated and released.

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2410Henry W. Miller III55MaleRace unspecified03/29/2003LeavenworthKS39.3111112-94.9224637Leavenworth Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Henry W. Miller III, Olga J. Wilson and George B. Burton Jr. were killed in a crash after fleeing police. Police were reportedly seeking Miller's car in connection with an alleged shoplifting incident at a grocery store in Platte County, MO, during which Wilson stuffed a $5 T-bone steak down her blouse, ran from the store and left in a car. An officer saw the car in Leavenworth and stopped it, but Miller allegedly fled. According to police, the officer stopped the pursuit after about a block and Miller crashed into a tree several minutes later.

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2411Olga J. Wilson54FemaleRace unspecified03/29/2003LeavenworthKS39.3111112-94.9224637Leavenworth Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Henry W. Miller III, Olga J. Wilson and George B. Burton Jr. were killed in a crash after fleeing police. Police were reportedly seeking Miller's car in connection with an alleged shoplifting incident at a grocery store in Platte County, MO, during which Wilson stuffed a $5 T-bone steak down her blouse, ran from the store and left in a car. An officer saw the car in Leavenworth and stopped it, but Miller allegedly fled. According to police, the officer stopped the pursuit after about a block and Miller crashed into a tree several minutes later.

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2412George B. Burton Jr.43MaleRace unspecified03/29/2003LeavenworthKS39.3111112-94.9224637Leavenworth Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Henry W. Miller III, Olga J. Wilson and George B. Burton Jr. were killed in a crash after fleeing police. Police were reportedly seeking Miller's car in connection with an alleged shoplifting incident at a grocery store in Platte County, MO, during which Wilson stuffed a $5 T-bone steak down her blouse, ran from the store and left in a car. An officer saw the car in Leavenworth and stopped it, but Miller allegedly fled. According to police, the officer stopped the pursuit after about a block and Miller crashed into a tree several minutes later.

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2413Jemica Gibson20FemaleRace unspecified03/29/2003St. LouisMO38.674287-90.2617449St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Jemica Gibson was killed when the car in which she was riding was broadsided by an SUV being chased by police. The crash occurred just before 6 p.m. when the SUV, which had been reported stolen, ran a red light. The driver of the SUV, Charles Robbins, 23, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, armed criminal action and robbery, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

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2416Wesley Raymond Farr44MaleEuropean-American/White03/30/2003AmarilloTX35.249567-101.7939461Amarillo Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Around 11:30 p.m., officers responded to a report of a family fight. Farr pointed his wife's handgun at officers and refused to put it down. Corporal Richard Anderson fatally shot Farr.

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20977Richard Lee Helzer58MaleRace unspecified03/30/2003Bay CityMI43.5984388-83.9002571Michigan State Police
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Brian Parrish reportedly committed suicide following a four-county police chase. Parrish had reportedly kidnapped his estranged wife from her work place, Money-N-Minutes, on Highway 15 in New Albany at about 8:30 a.m. When Parrish's van was spotted not long afterwards, New Albany police and Highway Patrol troopers began pursuit. At least eight agencies were involved in the pursuit by the end. Parrish reportedly fired shots at officers as the chase continued onto Highway 25 into Amory, where stop sticks flattened each tire on Parrish's vehicle. He drove on for another 1.5 miles before Lee County Sgt. Steve Stanford cornered the van in a front lawn in a residential area across from Amory High School. Stanford pulled the woman out of the van just before Parrish turned the pistol on himself.

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2419Juan Lozano32MaleHispanic/Latino03/31/2003HoustonTX29.7841274-95.301164Houston Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Officers tried to pull Lozano's vehicle over. Instead, Lozano drove away. Officers pursued him. He tried to take a turn too fast, and rolled into a ditch. He exited his vehicle with a handheld radio. Officer Ronald L. Plotner fatally shot him. Officers later discovered that Lozano's family had recently tried and failed to send Lozano to a psychiatric center about four days earlier for what his sister, Maria, described as depression.

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2418Fabian Hurts22MaleRace unspecified03/31/2003Lake CharlesLA30.2285765-93.2213042Louisiana State Police
  • Drowned
  • No

A routine traffic stop led to Fabian Hurts drowning in Lake Charles.

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2417John C. Bearden38MaleRace unspecified03/31/2003OhatcheeAL33.6941-86.1043Calhoun County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A deputy shot John C. Bearden when he allegedly pointed a gun at the deputy during a barricaded standoff.

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2420Cristino Dagoberto Vargas Mendoza28MaleHispanic/Latino04/01/2003AuburnWA47.3208794-122.2287355Auburn Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Vargas was a suspected drug dealer when he was pulled over. He apparently ran over Officer Doug Faini foot before he was shot and killed. His female passenger was also shot, but did not die.

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2421Lonnell Mayberry19MaleAfrican-American/Black04/01/2003Kansas CityMO39.0696435-94.5518715Kansas City Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Two officers shot and killed Lonnell Mayberry after he allegedly fired at them inside a pawnshop. Mayberry had reportedly attempted to rob Cash America Pawn. An employee tripped a silent alarm, which alerted police at 9:35 a.m. Three officers entered the store while Mayberry's back was turned. A witness said he heard police identify themselves and tell Mayberry to put the gun down. The witness, who was on the floor and couldn't see what happened, said he heard three gunshots. Police said Mayberry shot at two officers, who returned fire, hitting Mayberry.

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2424Frank Guzman34MaleHispanic/Latino04/02/2003ArcadiaCA34.1117135-118.0104748Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Frank Guzman, 34, died after being shot in Mayflower Village, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

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2422Antonio Joselito "Joe" Sapinoso34MaleAsian/Pacific Islander04/02/2003GreenvilleSC34.7940661-82.3186631Greenville County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Kamell Delshawn Evans was holding a deputy and his father hostage and was allowed to speak to his ex-girlfriend on the phone moments before he killed the pair, police said. The two had a brief, but calm, conversation. Then deputies heard several gunshots. A SWAT team stormed into the Mauldin house and found deputy Joe Sapinoso and his father, Antonio, shot several times in the head. Evans was arrested and was charged with two counts of murder.

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2423Aaron King39MaleRace unspecified04/02/2003St. LouisMO38.7157622-90.2283501St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Two officers shot Aaron King after he allegedly fired at them during a foot chase. At about 7 p.m., police responded to a report of suspicious men outside the St. Louis Super Market and saw two men take off running in different directions as they arrived. The officers chased one of the men (King) to just off the store's parking lot, where he allegedly turned, pulled a revolver from his waistband and fired one shot at one of the officers. Both officers fired several shots at King, killing him. No one else was injured. King's companion reportedly got away.

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2426Jeffrey Brian Johnson38MaleEuropean-American/White04/03/2003WhittierCA34.0008583-118.0625339Whittier Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Jeffrey Brian Johnson, 38, died after being shot in Whittier, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

latimes.com
21581Abraham Santiago29MaleRace unspecified04/03/2003Jersey CityNJ40.7346573-74.0533456Hoboken Police Department, Hudson County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Two police officers were shot, and Abraham Santiago was shot and killed during a crime spree through Hoboken and Jersey City that involved the shooting of a cab driver, a carjacking at gunpoint, and two shootouts, police said.

nytimes.com
2428Brice Everett Ross27MaleAfrican-American/Black04/04/2003ComptonCA33.8950654-118.2292608Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Brice Everett Ross, 27, died after being shot in Compton, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

latimes.com
2427Paul Aaron Williams45MaleEuropean-American/White04/04/2003WhittierCA33.9404791-117.9999579Whittier Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Paul Aaron Williams, 45, died after being shot in Whittier, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

latimes.com
19616Anthony L. Griffin22MaleRace unspecified04/04/2003Penn HillsPA40.4584914-79.8467583Penn Hills Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Police said they went to Anthony Griffin's apartment to arrest him They were outside when they heard a shot. They entered and found him dead of a self-inflicted gunshot.

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2429David Christopher Medina42MaleHispanic/Latino04/05/2003Los AngelesCA34.0269101-118.2764453Long Beach Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

David Christopher Medina, 42, died after being shot in University Park, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

latimes.com
2430Heath Edward Suggs30MaleEuropean-American/White04/05/2003PhoenixAZ33.4938143-112.0819413Phoenix Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Officers were investigating auto theft. Suggs fired on officers, and he was shot and killed.

google.com
2433James Hanlon McDonough Daniels19MaleRace unspecified04/08/2003Thousand OaksCA34.1861076-118.8737717Ventura County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A deputy shot and killed James Hanlon McDonough Daniels because he presented a "perceived threat" to the children and staff at a Thousand Oaks swim school.

latimes.com
2434Da Som22MaleRace unspecified04/08/2003StocktonCA38.0208177-121.3151028Stockton Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Da Som reportedly died in a shootout with police in a north Stockton parking lot.

recordnet.com
2435William Orthendahl53MaleRace unspecified04/08/2003AlbuquerqueNM35.1375651-106.5598588Albuquerque Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Officers were dispatched to Orthendahl's home after his mother, who did not live with him, requested police check on his welfare, police said. Orthendahl met two officers at the door and pointed a shotgun at them. One officer fired at Orthendahl, hitting him in the torso. The man then barricaded himself inside, and SWAT units were called to try and negotiate with the man. When police entered the home, Orthendahl met two SWAT officers in a hallway and pointed his shotgun toward them. He was shot and killed.

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2439Lionel Major18MaleRace unspecified04/08/2003RavenelSC32.7618704-80.2441996Charleston County Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Major, who was driving a stolen Honda Accord, reportedly fled from a deputy who tried to stop him for speeding along U.S. 17. The deputy eventually quit the chase after his emergency lights failed. A short time later, the Accord crashed into a utility pole and a tree on S.C. Highway 165, police said.

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20978Nicholas Joshua Schuehlein16MaleRace unspecified04/08/2003Grand RapidsMI42.9629241-85.654395Grand Rapids Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

At around 11:15 p.m., an officer tried to pull over a Jeep Cherokee because the driver, Nicholas Joshua Schuehlein, failed to stop while entering the roadway, police said. The officer then ran the Jeep's license plate and discovered it had been reported stolen earlier that day. The SUV sped away and a short pursuit ensued. Schuehlein lost control of the Jeep, wrapped it around a tree, and died. According to police, officers had ended the chase just before the 11:30 p.m. crash.

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2432Samuel E. Byers III26MaleAfrican-American/Black04/08/2003MissionKS39.0411771-94.6604121Johnson County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A deputy shot Samuel E. Byers III as Byers reportedly ran him over at the Falls Apartments complex. Deputies were watching the parking lot because of a rash of auto burglaries. At about 2 a.m., the surveillance team allegedly saw Byers break into a car and get back into his vehicle. One deputy followed Byers, while another blocked the only exit. Byers tried to turn around, but ran into two parked cars and a deputy's vehicle. Byers backed up and stopped his car as deputies got out of their cars with guns drawn. Byers reportedly stepped on the gas and ran into the sergeant, who fired once through the windshield. Byers died at the scene. The sergeant sustained a broken leg. Johnson County District Attorney Paul Morrison cleared the deputy of wrongdoing.

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23125Joseph Michael Houchins38MaleEuropean-American/White04/08/2003South CharlestonWV38.36006-81.690479South Charleston Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Joseph M. Houchins was reported for sitting in his Chevrolet Cavalier near his South Charleston home. Houchins left the scene after the officer arrived, in what was described as a slow-speed chase through the neighborhood. Corporal J. A. Compton shot and killed Houchins after Houchins allegedly drove at him. Witnesses said Compton kept shooting after he'd stepped out of the car's path. In 2004, South Charleston agreed to pay $1.8 million to settle a wrongful death claim.

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2436Ervin Bernard Maynard28MaleAfrican-American/Black04/09/2003MariettaGA33.915735-84.484134Cobb County Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Maynard was shot to death at his Lincoln Hills apartment while officers were trying to arrest him for a parole violation.

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2437Milton Sanchez39MaleEuropean-American/White04/09/2003BoiseID43.5684599-116.2220578Boise Police Department, Ada County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Milton and Melody Sanchez had committed an armed robbery at a local restaurant on March 30, 2003. On April 5, 2003, a male and female, subsequently identified as Milton and Melody Sanchez, committed an armed robbery at a local beauty supply business. On April 8, 2003, BPD received information that Milton and Melody had planned a second armed robbery at the same restaurant as March 30, 2003. On April 9, 2003, BPD attempted to arrest them at a local gas station. They fled; resulting in a pursuit with shots fired striking an ACSO vehicle. They failed to stop after being rammed by an ACSO vehicle. They ultimately drove onto an active runway at the airport where they shot at BPD officers who returned fire. They were finally stopped on an airport runway after an ACSO deputy executed a "PIT" maneuver on their vehicle. Milton fatally shot Melody and then himself. Melody was deceased at the scene; Milton later died at a local hospital.

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2438Melody Sanchez32FemaleEuropean-American/White04/09/2003BoiseID43.5684599-116.2220578Boise Police Department, Ada County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Milton and Melody Sanchez had committed an armed robbery at a local restaurant on March 30, 2003. On April 5, 2003, a male and female, subsequently identified as Milton and Melody Sanchez, committed an armed robbery at a local beauty supply business. On April 8, 2003, BPD received information that Milton and Melody had planned a second armed robbery at the same restaurant as March 30, 2003. On April 9, 2003, BPD attempted to arrest them at a local gas station. They fled; resulting in a pursuit with shots fired striking an ACSO vehicle. They failed to stop after being rammed by an ACSO vehicle. They ultimately drove onto an active runway at the airport where they shot at BPD officers who returned fire. They were finally stopped on an airport runway after an ACSO deputy executed a "PIT" maneuver on their vehicle. Milton fatally shot Melody and then himself. Melody was deceased at the scene; Milton later died at a local hospital.

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2440Melvin Maurice Brown20MaleRace unspecified04/10/2003VictorvilleCA34.506959-117.3297952San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office, California Highway Patrol
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A deputy shot and killed Melvin Maurice Brown in the parking lot of the Victorville Target after a car chase.

desertdispatch.com
2441William Lawrence37MaleAfrican-American/Black04/10/2003San BernardinoCA34.1098368-117.2986401San Bernardino Police Department
  • Beaten/Bludgeoned with instrument
  • Less-than-lethal force

William Lawrence died shortly after being detained by police outside the Greyhound bus terminal on G Street.

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2442Matthew Adam Trullinger21MaleEuropean-American/White04/11/2003BelvidereIL42.2564991-88.8403969Belvidere Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Driver James T. Woodard and passenger Matthew Adam Trullinger died when their Pontiac Grand Am was hit by a freight train after a police chase. According to police, the pursuit was called off as Woodard allegedly sped into the downtown district at about 10:30 p.m. Moments later, the car crashed into a Union Pacific train.

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2443James T. Woodard21MaleEuropean-American/White04/11/2003BelvidereIL42.2564991-88.8403969Belvidere Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Driver James T. Woodard and passenger Matthew Adam Trullinger died when their Pontiac Grand Am was hit by a freight train after a police chase. According to police, the pursuit was called off as Woodard allegedly sped into the downtown district at about 10:30 p.m. Moments later, the car crashed into a Union Pacific train.

google.com
2444William Edward O'NealMaleRace unspecified04/12/2003Valley CenterCA33.2676308-116.955411San Diego County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

A robbery suspect shot a sheriff's deputy outside a Temecula casino and shot two more people—one fatally—inside another casino near San Diego before turning his gun on himself, police said

latimes.com
2448Francisco A. Gallardo26MaleHispanic/Latino04/12/2003PhoenixAZ33.4586258-112.0345997Phoenix Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Phoenix Police Officer Robert Sitek was shot four times 4/12/03 during a traffic stop altercation with an illegal alien that became violent. Sitek and his partner David Thwing were on routine patrol when a red truck cut off their squad car, and when the officers stopped the truck the driver began shooting. Officer Sitek was in cardiac arrest by the time he reached the hospital and lost a considerable amount of blood. Shooter Francisco A. Gallardo was a "Mexican citizen who had recently completed a seven-year prison term for aggravated assault." He had been deported after his release but had returned to Arizona. Gallardo was shot and killed as he tried to escape by Officer Thwing.

tucsoncitizen.com
2446Arthur Partee28MaleAfrican-American/Black04/12/2003Benton HarborMI42.089155-86.43971Benton Township Police Department
  • Asphyxiated/Restrained
  • Less-than-lethal force

Partee's mother went to police looking for help getting her son hospitalized. He was acting strangely. They searched for outstanding warrants, found one, and went to collect him. Partee was killed—apparently strangled—during the attempted arrest. One of the officers told the mother he was "playing possum." Legal action reached the Sixth Circuit. Partee's death, with Terrence Shurn's, caused community unrest.

heraldpalladium.com
20979Ramone Robinson19MaleAfrican-American/Black04/12/2003DetroitMI42.3867786-83.2059724Detroit Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

According to police, three armed men announced a holdup at the Liquorland Party Store at around midnight. There were two employees and two customers in the store. One employee secretly triggered the store's silent alarm system, which alerted police. Two officers from the Sixth Precinct entered the building and said they saw a man holding a pistol to an employee's head, using him as a shield. The employee broke free, police said, and the officers told the man to drop his gun. The man allegedly pointed it toward the officers, who shot and killed him.

yahoo.com
2445Larry Scott Biffle37MaleRace unspecified04/12/2003Social CircleGA33.658826-83.7127379Walton County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

After a deputy tried to pull Biffle over for erratic driving, there was a slow-speed chase, and then Biffle tried to ram the deputy's vehicle. Biffle was shot and killed.

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2447Name withheld by police28MaleRace unspecified04/12/2003PeoriaAZ33.5785008-112.230367Phoenix Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

This man was fleeing with a murder suspect. He pointed a gun at police and was shot and killed.

google.com
2449Mark Thomas Willmon Jr.45MaleEuropean-American/White04/13/2003SacramentoCA38.4853871-121.4910309Sacramento Police Department
  • Beaten/Bludgeoned with instrument
  • Less-than-lethal force

Mark Thomas Willmon Jr. died while struggling with officers Sean Stokhaug and Mark Egeland.

google.com
2452Michael Cofiell42MaleRace unspecified04/14/2003Glen BurnieMD39.1725406-76.6056457Anne Arundel County Sheriff's Office
  • Medical emergency
  • Less-than-lethal force

Cofiell stumbled into a 7-11 seeking help for a medical problem, likely caused by drugs. When paramedics and police arrived he fled, then he again sought help from an off-duty officer in a marked car. When he heard his name broadcast on the police radio, he fled once more. The off-duty officer struggled with him, subdued him, and Cofiell died in an ambulance shortly afterward.

baltimoresun.com
2450Harold Williams49MaleRace unspecified04/14/2003AugustaGA33.4690613-81.9710821Richmond County Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Police said Eric Delano Ferguson was driving a stolen 1994 Nissan pickup Monday when he ran a red light at Ninth Street and Walton Way and smashed into a station wagon driven by Mr. Williams, killing him. Ferguson had stolen the vehicle from Broad Street and sped up when he realized a deputy had spotted him, police said.

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2451Ajay L. Williams49MaleRace unspecified04/14/2003AugustaGA33.4701119-81.9744755Richmond County Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Williams was driving on Walton Way when a stolen car driven by Eric Ferguson crashed into him. Mr. Williams died of his injuries. Ferguson was charged, convicted and sentenced to life in prison for murder.

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2453Lyle Eugene Larsen52MaleEuropean-American/White04/15/2003DenverCO39.763768-105.004452Denver Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A Denver police 911 operator received a call from a man identifying himself as Lyle Larsen. The caller stated that he was "going to kill someone or himself" and that "he was going nuts." When officers arrived at the address, Larsen was waiting on the porch with a large knife. He began to comply with police orders to drop the knife, but then seemed to prepare to attack, and he was shot and killed.

denverda.org
2454Corey Calvin Clark33MaleEuropean-American/White04/16/2003AmarilloTX35.1865555-101.8576324Amarillo Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Officers followed Clark, high on cocaine, as he drove a stolen van. He crashed the van. Officers told him to leave the vehicle. Clark reached behind the driver's seat. He was shot with a stun gun. Sergeant Phil Dean shot Clark twice. Clark died at Northwest Texas Hospital. Accounts conflict concerning whether Clark was armed. At least four of five homicides by Amarillo officers in 2003, including Clark's, followed Texas Penal Code guidelines according to decisions by Potter County grand juries.

amarillo.com
2455Francis "Frank" Jack31MaleRace unspecified04/16/2003MamouLA30.6338092-92.4192993Evangeline Parish Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Deputy Charles Smith was shot and killed while he and other officers attempted to serve an arrest warrant on a man wanted for escaping from the parish jail.

november.org
2457Roberto "Pino" Peralez69MaleHispanic/Latino04/16/2003StantonCA33.8046719-117.990793Orange County Sheriff's Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Sgt. Joseph Balicki shot and killed unarmed Roberto 'Pino' Peralez because he thought Peralez was trying to run him over with his vehicle.

ocweekly.com
2456Etzel Faulkner43MaleAfrican-American/Black04/16/2003QueensNY40.6644157-73.7754328City of New York Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Faulkner confronted his former employer from seven years ago, demanding back pay on thin grounds. When refused, Faulkner smashed in the rear window of a BMW as revenge, and when the police arrived he confronted them with a pellet gun. He was fatally shot about six times.

timesledger.com
20369Gordon Dean McClurg61MaleRace unspecified04/16/2003HaywardWI45.9560493-91.3779077Sawyer County Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Kenneth Quaderer was fleeing from a sheriff's deputy when he ran a stop sign and crashed into a northbound Ford van driven by Gordon Dean McClurg. McClurg, 61, and his wife, Sally Miller McClurg, 63, were killed. Also killed was a passenger in Quaderer's vehicle, 18-year-old Aaron Scharp.

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20370Sally Miller McClurg63FemaleRace unspecified04/16/2003HaywardWI45.9560493-91.3779077Sawyer County Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Kenneth Quaderer was fleeing from a sheriff's deputy when he ran a stop sign and crashed into a northbound Ford van driven by Gordon Dean McClurg. McClurg, 61, and his wife, Sally Miller McClurg, 63, were killed. Also killed was a passenger in Quaderer's vehicle, 18-year-old Aaron Scharp.

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20371Aaron Scharp18MaleRace unspecified04/16/2003HaywardWI45.9560493-91.3779077Sawyer County Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Kenneth Quaderer was fleeing from a sheriff's deputy when he ran a stop sign and crashed into a northbound Ford van driven by Gordon Dean McClurg. McClurg, 61, and his wife, Sally Miller McClurg, 63, were killed. Also killed was a passenger in Quaderer's vehicle, 18-year-old Aaron Scharp.

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2460Earl Foster Jr.40MaleAfrican-American/Black04/17/2003ModestoCA37.6747665-121.0077521Modesto Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Johnson, a fugitive parolee wanted in connection with the shooting death of a Pittsburgh police officer was gunned down late in the day at a Modesto shopping center in an exchange of gunfire with officers at the College Center Shopping Center, police said.

sfgate.com
2458Sabrina Desilva25FemaleRace unspecified04/17/2003New OrleansLA30.1126874-89.8879304New Orleans Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Sabrina Desilva was killed in a traffic accident when her car collided with a vehicle driven by off-duty officer Frederick Carter.

wafb.com
2459Christian Leshawn Griggs22MaleAfrican-American/Black04/17/2003BooneNC36.220473-81.691654Watauga County Sheriff's Office, Boone Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Griggs was wanted for attempted murder and robbery charges the previous month. Deputies spotted his car, tried to detain him, and set up a four-hour armed standoff during which Griggs threatened suicide. When he pointed his weapon at officers, he was shot to death.

google.com
2462Antonio Tobar46MaleNative American/Alaskan04/18/2003AmarilloTX35.2253482-101.8341665Amarillo Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Tobar reportedly shot his wife at Wishing Well Bar. The next day, armed with a pistol, he entered a woman's home and refused to leave. She reported Tobar at Amarillo Police Department, and stayed there as Officer Barry Ralston and Corporal Mitch Woodward went to her house. As they arrived, a red truck drove up to the residence and stopped. Tobar entered the passenger seat. The officers pointed their guns at Tobar and told him to leave the truck. Officer Ralston saw Tobar's pistol between his legs. According to Lieutenant Gary Trupe, Officer Ralston shot Tobar fatally in the chest as he reached for the pistol.

amarillo.com
2461Shaun Gilman20MaleEuropean-American/White04/18/2003DenverCO39.7352801-104.9861392Denver Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police were called to a 7-11 by a store clerk reporting that a man in a black jeep was aiming a red laser pointer at him. When an officer located the vehicle down the street, he ordered the driver, a white male, to step out. Instead the man put the car in reverse, rammed a patrol car, and led officers on a high-speed chase toward downtown. The pursuit when the Jeep crashed on top of a fire hydrant. As SWAT officers set up a perimeter, Shaun Gilman, barricaded himself inside his vehicle and displayed a crossbow and what officers believed to be the barrel of a rifle. When Gilman directed the metal pipe toward the street, eight officers fired upon his vehicle, killing him.

denverda.org
2464Allan F. Liberty26MaleEuropean-American/White04/18/2003Rapid CitySD44.0531305-103.2126717Rapid City Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

According to the Argus Leader: Rapid City Police Officer Spencer O'Bryan spotted a suspicious man near his home. O'Bryan turned on his flashlight and saw Liberty crouched behind a fence. Liberty stood up and shined a flashlight in the off-duty officer's face. O'Bryan drew his weapon and said "I have a gun and I'm a cop." Liberty got down on the sidewalk when ordered to and told O'Bryan he had a gun. Liberty then got up from the sidewalk and approached O'Bryan. He ignored orders to stop and began to draw his gun. O'Bryan fired five times, all five shots hit Liberty, who died.

google.com
2463Jon Kenji Fukumoto39MaleAsian/Pacific Islander04/18/2003Las VegasNV36.1109632-115.2109335Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Las Vegas police officer escorted Jon Kenji Fukumoto, 39, to his apartment near Flamingo Road and Decatur Boulevard after an intoxicated Fukumoto banged on the door of a neighbor's apartment in the middle of the night. After the officer declined to go inside his apartment, Fukumoto grabbed a golf club and charged Bressler, prompting the officer to fatally shoot him.

google.com
2465Raymond Sterling Jr.21MaleAfrican-American/Black04/19/2003Fort LauderdaleFL26.1372438-80.1661029Fort Lauderdale Police Department
  • Medical emergency
  • Less-than-lethal force

The medical examiner determined that Sterling died of a combination of pepper spray, a fight with police trying to detain him, and a sickle-cell condition he wasn't aware of. He'd run from a traffic stop. Accounts of police and responding firefighters differed to the point where four firefighters were terminated. Sterling's father accepted a half-million dollar settlement from the city but later killed himself over the incident.

sun-sentinel.com
18845Shane Allen Humphrey24MaleEuropean-American/White04/19/2003TulsaOK36.1590572-95.9368575Tulsa Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Leatherman attempted to stop Humphrey because his car had only one working headlight. Shane Humphrey fled, and Officer Ron Leatherman gave chase. They fought and Humphrey was shot and killed.

newsok.com
22817Denvey Lee Buckley43MaleRace unspecified04/19/2003MemphisTN35.115457-89.996454Memphis Police Department
  • Medical emergency
  • Less-than-lethal force

Denvey Buckley died after fighting with police during a suicide attempt. His death was ruled a heart attack.

google.com
2466Omar Marti23MaleAfrican-American/Black04/20/2003BushnellFL28.6507293-82.05543Hernando County Sheriff's Office, Sumter County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Marti was sought for the killing of one New Jersey officer and the wounding of another. After a dramatic 20-mile high-speed police chase, the last leg of it on rims and shredded tires, Marti confronted six deputies by emptying his .44 Magnum and .380 automatic at them, pretended to surrender, then defiantly raised a shotgun. Marti was fatally shot.

nytimes.com
19545Name withheld by policeMaleRace unspecified04/20/2003CovingtonKY39.0719921-84.5054612Covington Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

A unidentified man filled a multi-family building with natural gas and fired shots at police before taking his own life during a standoff, police said.

google.com
2468James William Watson32MaleRace unspecified04/21/2003WebbMS33.9483686-90.3521844Webb Police Department, Tutwiler Police Department, Tallahatchie County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Watson attempted to outrun Tutwiler police after officers tried to stop Watson's car at about 4 a.m. for an alleged traffic violation. Watson traveled southeast on MS 49 and turned onto MS 32 East at Webb, where police had been alerted to be on the lookout for the vehicle. Watson reportedly stopped for Webb police, but would not exit his vehicle and allegedly proceeded to ram the police car with his Mustang. Webb police then fired shots at Watson's car, shooting out both left tires before Watson fled in the car east MS 32. As he approached the Tallahatchie River bridge, Watson reportedly began firing shots at police, who then dropped back and waited for backup. Watson stopped his car in the highway and ran. Tallaharchie County sheriff's deputies later found Watson dead at about 9 a.m. in a bean field just off MS 32, reportedly from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

grenadastar.com
2470Arnoldo Duarte Juarez33MaleHispanic/Latino04/21/2003InglewoodCA33.9422794-118.3363378Inglewood Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Arnoldo Duarte Juarez, 33, died after being shot in Inglewood, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

latimes.com
18844Joseph Clark14MaleAfrican-American/Black04/21/2003Del CityOK35.461179-97.456917Del City Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police report that Clark had a gun in his hand when he ran from a car driven by Felix Finley, 18, who was accused of fatally stabbing Jason Carolina, 23. He was shot once in the back, killing him.

newsok.com
2469Claude Webster51MaleEuropean-American/White04/21/2003Boones MillVA37.1146568-79.9548881Franklin County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Former public safety director Webster had resigned after a drunk driving arrest, had been convicted of flourishing a weapon at a fast food restaurant, and had moved back in with his parents. When a deputy and an animal control officer tried to serve him with an arrest warrant for stalking a female neighbor, Webster produced a weapon, and was shot to death.

collegiatetimes.com
2467Kerry William Gunkel30MaleRace unspecified04/21/2003The PineryCO39.4351403-104.7603331Douglas County Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Kerry William Gunkel was killed after he rolled his car while fleeing from a deputy who'd tried to pull him over for failing to use his headlights, police said.

google.com
2472William McClintock46MaleRace unspecified04/22/2003FontanaCA34.0849708-117.4051992San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office, California Highway Patrol
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

William McClintock apparently shot himself after fleeing a courtroom and leading deputies on a chase in Fontana.

latimes.com
2471Eustolio Aguilar22MaleHispanic/Latino04/22/2003ModestoCA37.6310283-120.9686481Modesto Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Two officers killed Aguilar after the Modesto man pulled a gun from his waistband, police said. The officers had stopped to talk to Aguilar and another man who were standing at Oregon Drive and Empire Avenue in the airport neighborhood.

modbee.com
20194Name withheld by police42MaleRace unspecified04/22/2003MilwaukeeWI42.9946497-87.8946284Milwaukee Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A 42-year-old man with a knife refused to comply with Milwaukee Police Sgt. Jeffrey Cook's repeated orders to disarm and was walking toward the officer when Cook shot and killed him, police said.

google.com
20980David Paul Eisenhardt27MaleEuropean-American/White04/22/2003MendonMI42.0100906-85.4115588Vicksburg Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

David Paul Eisenhardt was stopped by Vicksburg officers for a driving offense, but gave a false name, police said. When officers asked him to step from his car for a second check, Eisenhardt reportedly fled in the 1998 Acura, leading police on a chase down back roads in Kalamazoo, Calhoun and St. Joseph counties at speeds over 100 mph. Officers from Vicksburg, Schoolcraft and the Kalamazoo County sheriff's department chased Eisenhardt. Eisenhardt ran a stop sign on M-66 at M-60 just after 2 a.m. and was hit by a semi-truck. Eisenhardt was pronounced dead at the scene.

google.com
2476Jeremiah L. Humphrey33MaleAfrican-American/Black04/23/2003ChicagoIL41.7971791-87.6953616Chicago Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Officer Jake Alderden shot and killed Jeremiah L. Humphrey when he allegedly pointed a gun at him. Alderden and his partner responded to a report of a suspicious man at around 3:30 a.m. According to police, Alderden's partner asked Humphrey to stop, but he ran. Alderden chased Humphrey into a dark, narrow gangway. Near the end of it, Humphrey ran into a waist-high fence and tumbled over it. Humphrey got back up and ran through a fenced-in backyard, then fell again. Alderden reportedly grabbed Humphrey's coat from the other side of the fence, and then shot him twice when Humphrey allegedly aimed a gun at him.

chicagoreporter.com
2475Charla Jean Schwerstein57FemaleEuropean-American/White04/23/2003TorranceCA33.8350065-118.326523Torrance Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Charla Jean Schwerstein, 57, died after being shot in Torrance, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

latimes.com
2474David Spencer36MaleEuropean-American/White04/23/2003DallasTX32.7633901-96.6769668Dallas Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

According to DPD, officers conducted a traffic stop on Spence, named in a parole violation warrant. Spence exited his vehicle. He and the officers fought. Officer Phillip White saw the point of a knife "protruding from the backside of the subject's clenched fist." Officer White shot Spence once. Spence died at the scene.

dallaspolice.net
2473Daniel T. Kendzierski39MaleEuropean-American/White04/23/2003New FranklinOH40.984723-81.5709765Summit County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

An off-duty Summit County sheriff's deputy and his wife were watching television in their bedroom when they heard glass breaking in a spare bedroom. When the deputy, armed with a .38-caliber revolver, went to investigate, he found Kendzierski trying to rip off a storm window to gain entry. The deputy ordered Kendzierski to stop. When he did not, the deputy fired a single shot that struck him in the torso and killed him.

justia.com
2479Pablo Ortega36MaleHispanic/Latino04/24/2003ChicagoIL41.8958587-87.6794939Chicago Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

An off-duty Chicago police officer shot and killed a 315-pound man who had broken into the officer's Northwest Side home and had hit the officer with a brick after trying to escape, police said.

chicagotribune.com
2478Bryan Migues43MaleRace unspecified04/24/2003New IberiaLA29.993253-91.838359New Iberia Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Bryan Migues reportedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound during a standoff that began when officers responded to a call that Migues was threatening to commit suicide.

iberianet.com
2477Eric Brinkman30MaleRace unspecified04/24/2003Yates CenterKS37.8845765-95.7338957Yates Center Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Off-duty officer Steve Dillow shot and killed Eric Brinkman when he allegedly approached the officer with knives and asked him to kill him. The department said in a news release that Dillow went to the home after a dispatcher received a 911 call reporting that Brinkman was attempting suicide.

google.com
19615Gerald A. Flowers29MaleRace unspecified04/24/2003HazletonPA40.9579209-75.9956376Pennsylvania State Police
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Gerald A. Flowers had been making suicidal threats when police came to his home. He allegedly was shot and killed when he threatened police with knives.

google.com
2480Michael Grimaldo23MaleHispanic/Latino04/25/2003WestminsterCO39.8277191-105.0227066Westminster Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police approached a van parked outside a bowling alley, according to a Westminster police spokesman. The van was rocking and an officer asked a man inside the vehicle to step out. Instead, the man jumped into the driver's seat, gunned the engine and attempted to run down the officer, police said. The officer fired at the van. The van got away, and a few minutes later, a person called police and said a bleeding man had stopped his van. The first officer at that scene ordered Grimaldo to show his hands. Grimaldo refused, then "lunged forward to grasp for something from under the seat of his car." He was shot and killed.

google.com
19614Steven Johnson50MaleEuropean-American/White04/25/2003BlakesleePA41.059866-75.5547269Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Pat Kiss phoned 911 to report that her common-law husband fired a gun in their home, police said. Steven Johnson, 49, held police at bay for several hours before firing his gun at officers. Police then shot and killed Johnson in front of the home.

google.com
2481Crystal DeEtte Judson Brame35FemaleEuropean-American/White04/26/2003Gig HarborWA47.3008972-122.5778492Tacoma Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Tacoma Police Chief David Brame shot his wife in front of their kids and then killed himself in shopping center parking lot.

nytimes.com
2482Charquissa Johnson23FemaleAfrican-American/Black04/26/2003WashingtonDC38.8625977-76.9817978Washington Metropolitan Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Three eyewitnesses disputed the police account of Johnson's fatal shooting in the stairwell of her apartment building. Police were called out on a shots-fired call. On arrival neighbors told them it was probably firecrackers. Police proceeded to confront the mother of two, ordered her to drop a 9mm pistol in her hand, and shot her. The witnesses say she was unarmed and had her hands raised.

washingtonpost.com
2483Eric M. Podtburg14MaleRace unspecified04/26/2003MorrisMN45.5919444-95.9188889Morris Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

A 14-year-old boy died after the car in which he was riding with three other youths crashed while apparently eluding police, police said. Eric M. Podtburg, of Morris, was thrown from the car in the one-car accident on a gravel road east of Morris in west-central Minnesota. He died of head injuries, police said. A Morris police officer spotted the car on the University of Minnesota-Morris campus when someone called 911 reporting that youths in a car had thrown a bottle at a passing car. The car sped away and police followed at a distance, Stevens County Sheriff Randy Willis said.

google.com
2488Anthony Fortson29MaleRace unspecified04/27/2003AtlantaGA33.7609833-84.3875519Atlanta Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

An Atlanta police officer returning home from an extra job shot a man to death Sunday morning while trying to break up a fight." Fortson's mother filed a wrongful death claim against the city, but it was rejected in October.

onlineathens.com
2487Byron JohnsonMaleRace unspecified04/27/2003DothanAL31.2232313-85.3904888Dothan Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Byron Johnson was killed when his motorcycle crashed into another vehicle during a police chase.

casetext.com
2484Amir Spencer15MaleRace unspecified04/27/2003AustellGA33.8104261-84.6192475Cobb County Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Police said the fatal crash happened less than two minutes after an officer pulled over a "suspicious" red Chevrolet Monte Carlo. When the officer walked up to the car, the driver sped off. As the driver of the Monte Carlo tried to get around two other cars on Maxham Road, he crossed a double yellow line and collided with a Honda Civic. Sonja Levy Todmann, 56, the driver of the Honda, was killed in the crash. The officer pulled the driver out of the burning Chevrolet but was not able to get to the passenger before fire engulfed the car. The passenger, Amir Spencer, died in the car. The driver, identified as 20-year-old Subhan A. Bey of Atlanta, also died.

google.com
2485Sonja Levy Todmann56FemaleRace unspecified04/27/2003AustellGA33.8104261-84.6192475Cobb County Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Police said the fatal crash happened less than two minutes after an officer pulled over a "suspicious" red Chevrolet Monte Carlo. When the officer walked up to the car, the driver sped off. As the driver of the Monte Carlo tried to get around two other cars on Maxham Road, he crossed a double yellow line and collided with a Honda Civic. Sonja Levy Todmann, 56, the driver of the Honda, was killed in the crash. The officer pulled the driver out of the burning Chevrolet but was not able to get to the passenger before fire engulfed the car. The passenger, Amir Spencer, died in the car. The driver, identified as 20-year-old Subhan A. Bey of Atlanta, also died.

google.com
2486Subhan A. Bey20MaleRace unspecified04/27/2003AustellGA33.8104261-84.6192475Cobb County Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Police said the fatal crash happened less than two minutes after an officer pulled over a "suspicious" red Chevrolet Monte Carlo. When the officer walked up to the car, the driver sped off. As the driver of the Monte Carlo tried to get around two other cars on Maxham Road, he crossed a double yellow line and collided with a Honda Civic. Sonja Levy Todmann, 56, the driver of the Honda, was killed in the crash. The officer pulled the driver out of the burning Chevrolet but was not able to get to the passenger before fire engulfed the car. The passenger, Amir Spencer, died in the car. The driver, identified as 20-year-old Subhan A. Bey of Atlanta, also died.

google.com
2489Santon Gonzales44MaleRace unspecified04/28/2003PacoimaCA34.2646693-118.4158049Los Angeles Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

SWAT officer Douglas Dingman shot and killed Santon Gonzales after he allegedly fired several shots in officers' direction during a standoff at a Pacoima residence.

thefreelibrary.com
2490Floyd Quinones28MaleHispanic/Latino04/30/2003BrooklynNY40.6937666-73.9733314City of New York Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

The police shot and killed a 28-year-old man early yesterday morning in a housing project in Brooklyn after he fired 17 shots into the air in what apparently was celebratory gunfire to mark a friend's birthday

nytimes.com
20193Timothy Husk32MaleRace unspecified04/30/2003WaukeshaWI42.962323-88.2632768Mukwonago Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Timothy Husk killed two people before killing himself during a police standoff.

google.com
2493Clifford Jerome Marks34MaleRace unspecified05/01/2003OceansideCA33.2721745-117.4438516Irvine Police Department, Laguna Beach Police Department, Orange County Sheriff's Department, Anaheim Police Department, California Highway Patrol
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Clifford Jerome Marks, dubbed the "Whisper Bandit" by the FBI, reportedly robbed a bank, led police on a 100-mph chase and then killed himself while driving on I-5 near Camp Pendleton.

latimes.com
2491Macario Jesus Martinez20MaleHispanic/Latino05/01/2003Los AngelesCA33.990449-118.255492Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Macario Jesus Martinez, 20, died after being shot in Central-Alameda, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

latimes.com
2492Carlos Lopez19MaleHispanic/Latino05/01/2003BrooklynNY40.6875618-73.9389514City of New York Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

NYPD officers reported seeing Lopez shoot and kill another man, perhaps over a drug deal, and leave in a van. They chased Lopez, pulled him over, saw him turn toward them, and shot him to death. Together with the shooting of Floyd Quinones just a few days previously the event caused local protests and unrest.

nytimes.com
2494Gregory Herring37MaleRace unspecified05/02/2003Colorado SpringsCO38.9109297-104.7195268Colorado Springs Police Department
  • Beaten/Bludgeoned with instrument
  • Less-than-lethal force

Died of "sudden cardiovascular collapse" during struggle with police. The police were responding to report of a naked and bleeding man in apartment parking lot who was yelling and banging on doors. City settled for $19,500 with Herring estate

gazette.com
2495Karen Yontz50FemaleEuropean-American/White05/02/2003AlbuquerqueNM35.15682-106.5950551Albuquerque Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Karen Yontz was chased down in her car and shot to death by two Albuquerque Police Officers who suspected her of robbing a bank. Yontz was a longtime criminal investigator with both the Attorney General's Office and the District Attorney's Office in Santa Fe and a former Bernalillo County sheriff's deputy. At the time of her death, Yontz was building a case against Municipal Judge Charles Maestas, who was facing 28 criminal charges of trading judicial favors for sex with women who appeared before his court. She was also investigating the Russell Cage case (see above).

freerepublic.com
2496Dontavious Lamar Cliatt21MaleRace unspecified05/03/2003Phenix CityAL32.4471213-85.0307199Russell County Sheriff's Office, Phenix City Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Dontavious Lamar Cliatt was believed to be connected with the shooting death of David Glenn Gibson, 45, during a suspected robbery at Gibson's used car lot in Phenix City. About 90 minutes later, Cliatt was spotted and stopped by police as he was driving along Sandfort Road. When officers directed Cliatt to exit the vehicle, he emerged with pistol in hand and fired at officers, police said. Two Russell County deputies and five Phenix City officers fired back at Cliatt, striking him multiple times.

google.com
2498Homero Campos23MaleHispanic/Latino05/04/2003San JoseCA37.3366932-121.8895012San Jose Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Officer Joseph Fleming shot Homero Campos when he allegedly tried to flee from police, dragging one officer and running over Fleming's foot.

utsandiego.com
2497Johnny J. Roth III23MaleRace unspecified05/04/2003TomballTX29.9391112-95.5197581Harris County Constable's Office Precinct 4
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Deputies served a warrant on Roth and Billy McCoy in relation to the disappearance of a woman from Wichita Falls. A deputy dressed as a pizza deliverer knocked on the door of their apartment. McCoy responded. The deputy grabbed McCoy. McCoy went back into the apartment, dragging the deputy with him. Roth fired two shots at the deputies. Roth was fatally shot. One of the responding deputies, Terry Ashabranner, also killed Michael Goodman and shot at Waseem Jung. He left Precinct 4 on Mar. 15, 2005.

freerepublic.com
2499Christopher Johnson14MaleRace unspecified05/04/2003East St. LouisIL38.6295074-90.1490106East St. Louis Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Christopher Johnson was killed by an off-duty, unidentified jailer with the East St. Louis Police Department when he was working security for the Family Center.

google.com
2501Kendra James21FemaleAfrican-American/Black05/05/2003PortlandOR45.554788-122.6761802Portland Police Bureau
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Kendra James, a 25-year-old woman, was fatally shot by a Portland police officer as she tried to drive from a traffic stop.

wweek.com
2502Allen Marion Roberts66MaleRace unspecified05/05/2003BrooksvilleFL28.432954-82.281013Inverness Police Department, Citrus County Sheriff's Office, Hernando County Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Roberts had a lengthy arrest record, but no outstanding warrants, when he fled from an early-morning traffic stop for having a headlight out. The resulting high-speed chase across three counties involved three agencies. Officers of two agencies were told to pull back but disobeyed. Roberts' SUV crashed and rolled in an interstate median, ejecting and killing him.

google.com
2500Cameron L. Leapheart18MaleAfrican-American/Black05/05/2003Kansas CityKS39.1311893-94.6430104Kansas City Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A police sergeant shot Cameron L. Leapheart after he allegedly refused to drop a knife. The officer had responded to a 911 call at about 7 p.m. and found Leapheart, who the officer said was angry and bleeding, with a steak knife outside his home. According to police, the sergeant shot Leapheart twice when he continued moving toward him. Family members said Leapheart did not threaten the officer and did not advance on him. Wyandotte County District Attorney Nick Tomasic cleared the officer.

google.com
2504Luther Mitchell Jr.49MaleAfrican-American/Black05/06/2003ChicagoIL41.7935489-87.5804185Chicago Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police shot and killed Luther Mitchell Jr. when he allegedly threatened them with a handgun. According to police, Mitchell was walking on South Shore Drive at about 9:30 p.m., when two plainclothes officers saw him acting suspiciously and carrying something in his right hand. When the officers got out of their car, Mitchell allegedly turned toward them with a gun and said, "I'm going to kill you and then I'm going to kill myself." Police said the officers identified themselves as police and told Mitchell to drop his weapon several times. One of the officers then shot Mitchell. However, witnesses said they didn't see a gun in Mitchell's hand and that both officers fired at Mitchell.

chicagotribune.com
2505Gary Wayne Smith48MaleRace unspecified05/06/2003Fort LawnSC34.7020889-80.8947978Fort Lawn Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Gary Wayne Smith of Fort Lawn was shot five times by an officer but died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head, said Chester County Coroner Watson Wright. Officer Paul Christmas, 48, of Rock Hill, told police Smith sideswiped his pickup truck on U.S. Highway 21 and drove away. Christmas followed Smith to a private driveway to confront him when Smith shot at the officer with a .22-caliber pistol.

thetandd.com
2503Christopher R. Pullen36MaleRace unspecified05/06/2003PolandME44.0932358-70.3488382Maine State Police
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

After a standoff in which a drunken and emotionally distraught Pullen repeatedly threatened police, he approached Tactical Team officers with a gun. They shot him twice, killing him.

maine.gov
2506James AlexanderMaleRace unspecified05/07/2003VicksburgMS32.2917696-90.8552338Warren County Sheriff's Office, U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives
  • Other
  • No

A 14-hour standoff ended with a large explosion and the death of James Alexander, a wanted man. It started at 1 a.m., when sheriff's deputies arrived to serve a warrant and were met by Alexander, who was armed with a gun and explosives. By noon, negotiators had made no progress in coaxing Alexander to come out of his RV. Shortly after 2 p.m., the negotiations broke off. Then, a large explosion shook the RV, and it was reportedly consumed by flames within seconds with Alexander still inside.

msnewsnow.com
2507Eric Von Netters31MaleAfrican-American/Black05/07/2003MinneapolisMN45.0038742-93.308196Minneapolis Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

When officer James Boyd told Netters he would be arrested and reached in the door to get him out of the vehicle, Netters hit the gas pedal, catching Boyd's arm in the door and dragging him down the street. Netters, 31, was shot and died at the scene. Boyd was treated for broken bones in his arm and Bohnsack was not injured.

thehighroad.org
2509Robert Joseph Dingman29MaleEuropean-American/White05/08/2003WhittierCA33.9271668-118.0309914Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Robert Joseph Dingman, 29, died after being shot in South Whittier, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

latimes.com
19613Dion Lee Hall17MaleAfrican-American/Black05/08/2003PittsburghPA40.4530886-80.0556412Pittsburgh Bureau of Police
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Hall, 17, allegedly robbed a pizzeria, shot a bystander in the arm, stole money and then fled to nearby Hillsboro Street, where he holed up in a disabled van. Police said that a shot rang out as they approached the van and though an officer fired into the van, Hall shot and killed himself.

post-gazette.com
2508Thomas Wallace52MaleEuropean-American/White05/08/2003St. PetersburgFL27.7878426-82.6633813St. Petersburg Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Neighbors were familiar with encountering Wallace. Homeless but tidy, delusional, paranoid, claiming to have a degree in marine biology (which turned out to be true), he lived in an abandoned two-story water tank. His encounter with somebody sent out to cut brush on "his" property developed into a call from the police. He refused to leave the tank. Officers entered and Wallace was shot dead within moments.

sptimes.com
22388Christopher Allen Holmes43MaleRace unspecified05/09/2003ChristiansburgVA37.1360493-80.361729Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, Christiansburg Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Shoplifting suspect Christopher Holmes took Officer Scott Allen Hylton's gun and killed him with it. He fled and was killed during a gunbattle with police in a nearby parking lot.

google.com
2511Joshua Hollander22MaleRace unspecified05/10/2003San DiegoCA32.7609634-117.1181844San Diego Police Department
  • Tasered
  • Suicide

Joshua Hollander died after he slashed his wrists then struggled with officers who used a carotid restraint and tasered him.

usatoday.com
2510Breeonna Mobley24FemaleAfrican-American/Black05/10/2003OaklandCA37.7590832-122.1869801Oakland Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

Breeonna Mobley, was killed when the car in which she was riding crashed into a tree at more than 100 mph while fleeing police.

berkeleydailyplanet.com
2512Steven M. Williams26MaleEuropean-American/White05/11/2003HerrimanUT40.5137625-112.0294852Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Williams is said to have confronted police with a knife in both hands as they encountered him in a domestic dispute call. Neither pepper spray or "water balls" were successful in making him comply. He was fatally shot.

deseretnews.com
2513Jonathan A. Conway24MaleRace unspecified05/12/2003BallwinMO38.5895053-90.5315946St. Louis County Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Sgt. Jeffery Burk and officer Stephen Trentham shot Jonathan A. Conway when he allegedly he swung a sword at police inside his bedroom. Trentham, Burk and officer Stephen Nagle initially responded to a call from Conway's mother after her son, who suffered from depression, agoraphobia and panic attacks, threatened to hang himself. Burk went to Conway's bedroom door and identified himself and said Conway had to open the door because the officers needed to see him. Conway refused and asked the officers to leave. Conway said if the officers entered the room he would stab them. Burk called for a ballistics shield and Sgt. Scott Johnston, Lt. Mary Barton and officer Richard Muehlenbeck responded. Johnston kicked open the door and the officers entered the room. The officers said Conway swung the sword and moved toward them. Johnston discharged a beanbag shotgun, but Conway kept advancing with the sword. Trentham and Burk shot Conway, killing him.

findlaw.com
2518Kevin W. Diabo24MaleNative American/Alaskan05/13/2003La QuintaCA33.6537935-116.3086906Riverside County Sheriff's Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Deputy Robert Burbach shot and killed Kevin W. Diabo, after Diabo killed RCSD Deputy Bruce Lee and swung a baton at Burbach.

latimes.com
2515Robert Dick45MaleRace unspecified05/13/2003CheyenneWY41.1399814-104.8202462Cheyenne Police Department
  • Medical emergency
  • Less-than-lethal force

Dick survived eight days in the hospital after collapsing while being arrested. He'd been intercepted running into traffic and waving a gun. He also chewed on a police vehicle's tire for awhile. Officers used a body wrap to contain him, and he became unresponsive and stopped breathing.

billingsgazette.com
2516Wayne Patrick Anderson40MaleEuropean-American/White05/13/2003ScottsdaleAZ33.4795051-111.934739Scottsdale Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Emergency dispatchers received a call from a man who reported his housemate had been stabbed, then abducted by her ex-boyfriend, police said. Police spotted Anderson's Nissan sport utility vehicle. Officers Ben Hoster and Kary Sitzmann, a six-month recruit, followed. Anderson evaded the police car by heading into a neighborhood, then making a U-turn and parking with the vehicle facing west, police said. The kidnapped woman ran out of the SUV bleeding from the chest. Anderson stepped out of the vehicle and approached Hoster from about 60 feet away, police said. When Anderson was about 10 feet away, he reached behind his back. Hoster fired, hitting him three times in the torso, killing him.

eastvalleytribune.com
2514Name withheld by policeFemaleRace unspecified05/13/2003RichmondMO39.4000939-93.9939696Ray County Sheriff's Office, Richmond Police Department, Missouri State Highway Patrol
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

An unidentified woman reportedly died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a standoff. Deputies had arrived at around 2:15 p.m. and met the woman's husband, who said his wife had locked herself in a room. Deputies tried to talk to her, but she fired a shot at them, so they left the home. Additional deputies, as well as members of the Richmond Police Department and the Missouri Highway Patrol responded to the scene. Several attempts to talk to the woman were reportedly unsuccessful. Later that evening, police shot tear gas inside the home and entered the residence soon afterwards. The woman was pronounced dead at 9:23 p.m. after officers found her body inside.

google.com
2517Erik David Nylen29MaleEuropean-American/White05/13/2003AndoverMN45.2262162-93.3192401Anoka County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

According to the Star Tribune, a noise complaint brought officers to Nylen's duplex. Nylen shot a deputy in the hip and arm, and the deputy returned fire.

youtube.com
22819Keith Harris26MaleRace unspecified05/14/2003MemphisTN35.1928068-89.8952591Memphis Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Keith Harris, whose death was ruled a suicide, was pursued into a wooded area and shot by police after they responded to a domestic disturbance call.

google.com
22818Anthony J. Bowman44MaleRace unspecified05/14/2003MemphisTN35.1069275-89.8787697Memphis Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Dr. Anthony Bowman, a local cardiologist, was killed outside his apartment after refusing orders to lower a gun pointed at police.

google.com
18843Alford Threkfeld Lounds33MaleAfrican-American/Black05/15/2003Oklahoma CityOK35.4790112-97.5599769Oklahoma City Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Sgts. Frank Torres and Darren Martin drove up on a domestic dispute between Lounds and his wife, Georgia Marie Fuston-Lounds. When Lounds tried to drive off, he was shot and killed.

newsok.com
2519Lorne Allen Martin38MaleRace unspecified05/15/2003RobbinsdaleMN45.0412894-93.3329303Minneapolis Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

A 25-year-old suspect pursued by police for running a stop sign crashed at about 100 MPH into a Ford Expedition from behind. Husband and wife Rene and Lorne Martin were ejected from their vehicle and dead at the scene.

highbeam.com
2520Rene Marie Martin47FemaleRace unspecified05/15/2003RobbinsdaleMN45.0412894-93.3329303Minneapolis Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

A 25-year-old suspect pursued by police for running a stop sign crashed at about 100 MPH into a Ford Expedition from behind. Husband and wife Rene and Lorne Martin were ejected from their vehicle and dead at the scene.

highbeam.com
21497Michael Wills23MaleRace unspecified05/15/2003LaurelMD39.1012558-76.8567544Laurel Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Laurel Police Officer John Sims shot and killed Michael Wills outside an apartment late after Wills shot a woman and then fired in the direction of the officer, police said.

washingtonpost.com
2521Ratmir Gasanov35MaleEuropean-American/White05/16/2003GreensboroNC36.1384868-79.8362397Greensboro Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Suicidal Azerbaijan immigrant Gasanov encountered police in his front yard. He held a BERSA .380-caliber semi-automatic pistol. Family asserted that Gasanov had been cooperatively obeying police instructions when he was fatally shot, and his death was entirely unnecessary.

digtriad.com
2522Alberta Spruill57FemaleAfrican-American/Black05/16/2003New York CityNY40.8215534-73.9435144City of New York Police Department
  • Medical emergency
  • No

New York City police conducted an early-morning no-knock SWAT-style raid on Spruill's apartment, based on bad information provided by a drug dealer, and in pursuit of a suspect who was already in custody. The shock of the raid caused the long-time city employee to have a fatal heart attack on the way to the hospital. The city paid her family $1.6M.

nytimes.com
2523Ryan Craig13MaleRace unspecified05/17/2003St. LouisMO38.4928657-90.3819593St. Louis County Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Ryan Craig, 13, was killed and a 17-year-old driver was critically injured when their car crashed while fleeing from police. Police said the officer started pursuing the car at about 12:30 a.m. after it pulled out of a parking lot at high speed. The car hit a guardrail and overturned on Tesson Ferry Road just north of I-270. Craig died at the scene.

semissourian.com
19544Sean Gillispie19MaleAfrican-American/Black05/18/2003KnoxvilleTN35.970264-83.914889Knoxville Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Sean Gillispie, 19, was shot and killed by a Knoxville police officer as authorities tried to break up a crowd that had gathered in the parking lot of a downtown convenience store. Police were dispatched to check out a report that a "large crowd of people" was being loud and disorderly in the parking area, police said. Gillispie was shot once in the chest after allegedly "going for a gun" while in the back seat of a car that had been approached by Officers Jason Keck and David Ogle.

google.com
18842Robert D. Claborn29MaleEuropean-American/White05/19/2003ChickashaOK35.052565-97.9364326Chickasha Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police received a call from Claborn's mother, saying he'd stopped taking medication for mental illness. Police then got a call from a Chickasha convenience store saying a man had stolen a knife from the store and fled on foot. officer Michael Delong caught up with Claborn, who turned toward Delong with the knife out, police said. Claborn then approached Delong with the knife. Delong shot and killed him.

newsok.com
2524Claudia Morales26FemaleHispanic/Latino05/19/2003JulianCA32.8781669-116.2095793U.S. Customs and Border Protection
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

Undocumented immigrant Claudia Morales was killed and three people were injured when a compact car carrying seven undocumented immigrants rolled off the road for an unknown reason while being followed by a Border Patrol agent.

google.com
2525Thomas Yohe42MaleRace unspecified05/20/2003Palos HillsIL41.6966992-87.8169984Bedford Park Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Thomas Yohe reportedly stabbed himself to death during a police chase. Yohe, on parole for the 1985 murder of Susan Wainio, fled when officers stopped him for a traffic violation. A check of the license number indicated police were seeking the car's owner, Martha A. McLees, 44, Yohe's wife of one month. McLees' parents had reported her missing the previous week. After the chase, police said they found a knife and a length of tubing arranged in a manner indicating he'd tried to connect it to the exhaust pipe. McLees' remains were found in the Cook County Forest Preserve in April 2005.

chicagotribune.com
2526Mark C. Merrill36MaleRace unspecified05/21/2003MonsonMA42.1535058-72.3740845Monson Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Merrill led officers on a car chase that led to the Magic Lantern strip club, where a police sergeant fatally shot him in response to Merrill threatening his life with a barbecue fork.

seacoastonline.com
2527Cloyd O. Kenshalo35MaleEuropean-American/White05/21/2003AltonIL38.921959-90.191092Madison County Sheriff's Office, Alton Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Two officers shot Cloyd O. Kenshalo when he allegedly backed a car toward them after a high-speed chase from Godfrey to Alton. Kenshalo had led officers from the Madison County Sheriff's Office and the Alton Police Department on a brief chase before crashing into a chain-link fence. A witness said that he heard the officers tell Kenshalo to get out of the car, and saw Kenshalo put the car into reverse. Two officers then opened fire. A grand jury said the officers were justified in killing Kenshalo.

google.com
18841Lucas Adams Andrews21MaleEuropean-American/White05/22/2003OwassoOK36.2816396-95.8482024Tulsa Police Department, Oklahoma Highway Patrol
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

After a nearly 20-mile police chase, Lucas Adams Andrews was shot and killed as he attempted to retrieve a rifle from the back seat of his pickup after crashing into a highway sign, police said.

newsok.com
2528Ousmane Zongo43MaleAfrican-American/Black05/22/2003New York CityNY40.7478166-73.9966529City of New York Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Zongo encountered Officer Conroy, in plainclothes, on the third floor, guarding a room full of counterfeit compact discs after a raid. The encounter ended with Zongo shot four times.

nytimes.com
2529Calvin Clarence Barrett43MaleEuropean-American/White05/22/2003StewartvilleMN43.860338-92.476828Olmsted County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

According to the Star Tribune, a deputy approached Barrett to question him about an arrest warrant. Barrett ran, ignoring the deputy's command to stop. The deputy deployed a Taser, which did not stop Barrett. Then both men drew guns and fired. The deputy was wounded, and Barrett was fatally injured.

google.com
2530Harold L Wells35MaleAfrican-American/Black05/24/2003DaytonOH39.7652715-84.2057524Dayton Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Officer Christopher Cornwell was shot by another subject and Cornwell shot and killed Wells in leg.

mydaytondailynews.com
2531Manuel Frank Perez Jr.46MaleRace unspecified05/24/2003Chula VistaCA32.6401383-117.0840316National City Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

Manuel Frank Perez Jr. was killed when his pickup truck crashed while fleeing police.

google.com
18840Rutger Allen Harjo15MaleNative American/Alaskan05/25/2003BethanyOK35.4925567-97.6393624Oklahoma City Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

After a chase ended at West Oak Elementary School, police said, officer Craig McBride stepped out of his scout car, and the other vehicle accelerated toward him in reverse. McBride fired two shots. One killed 15-year-old Rutger Allen Harjo who was driving the stolen vehicle

newsok.com
2532Michael George Oliver26MaleRace unspecified05/25/2003Twentynine PalmsCA34.1725609-116.071712California Highway Patrol, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

An officer shot and killed Michael George Oliver when he allegedly reached for a weapon in the desert.

hidesertstar.com
2533Volne Lamont StokesMaleAfrican-American/Black05/27/2003RiversideCA33.9343044-117.3981592Riverside Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Officers were dispatched for a suspicious person sitting inside a vehicle call. Stokes was seated in a 1997 silver Acura. A female officer walked up to the left side of the vehicle and made contact with Stokes. Stokes got out of his vehicle and began advancing on her. Stokes had a knife in his right hand and a screwdriver in his left hand. A male officer arrived. Both officers yelled at him to drop the weapons. Stokes turned from the female and advanced on the male, while both officers shouted commands at him. When Stokes was about 10 feet away from him, the male officer fired three or four shots. The female also fired her weapon. Stokes fell down and then tried to stand up. Stokes dropped the knife, but continued to hold the screwdriver as he then collapsed back on to the ground. He died from the bullet wounds.

cityofriverside.org
2535David Rubio18MaleHispanic/Latino05/27/2003FairfieldCA38.2890465-122.0351513Fairfield Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police shot and killed David Rubio when he allegedly emerged from his motel room brandishing a .38-caliber revolver.

sfgate.com
2534Javier Ramirez Sainz40MaleHispanic/Latino05/27/2003South TucsonAZ32.1984245-110.9684841South Tucson Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

The incident began at 2 a.m., when Ramirez Sainz, an undocumented immigrant, tried to enter the Circle K at 2004 S. Sixth Ave., but found the door locked. Authorities said he started firing a semi automatic handgun in the parking lot. Four officers came to the store, officials said. When the man continued firing, Officer Leonard Perez, 30, shot Ramirez Sainz once in the head with a shotgun.

google.com
2536Beverly Meyers50FemaleEuropean-American/White05/27/2003Forest AcresSC34.0109082-80.9818846Forest Acres Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Beverly Meyers, 50, died in a crash with the Pontiac Grand Am police had been chasing. The Grand Am ran a stop sign at Beltline Boulevard and Parkman Drive and slammed into the Subaru in which Meyers was riding. Andre Roach, 29, of Columbia was arrested on charges of reckless homicide and leaving the scene of an accident in the crash.

google.com
2539J.C. Conyers40MaleAfrican-American/Black05/28/2003OrlandoFL28.5209406-81.3971082Orange County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A schizophrenic who rode a kid's bike around his tough neighborhood, picking up trash with the idea that his mother could sell it, there was plenty of evidence of Conyers' mental illness. Still he somehow ran afoul of police and ended up in a confrontation in a small bedroom of his mother's house. He threatened the police with a garden rake, and was fatally shot.

orlandosentinel.com
2538Wilmer Sanchez43MaleHispanic/Latino05/28/2003West Palm BeachFL26.720038-80.116373Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A county deputy shot and killed Sanchez in the parking lot of an apartment complex. Sanchez had tried to break into the unit of an ex-girlfriend, and he reportedly confronted the deputy with a weapon.

sun-sentinel.com
22389Francho S. Bradley26MaleAfrican-American/Black05/28/2003MidlothianVA37.4494339-77.621969Chesterfield County Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Francho S. Bradley shot and killed Officer Ryan E. Cappelletty before Officer Steve A. Bracciodieta shot and killed Bradley. Police had responded to reports of Bradley shooting a gun in his front yard. He refused to drop it and shot Cappelletty.

richmond.com
2537Jesse Martinez29MaleHispanic/Latino05/28/2003OntarioCA34.0370634-117.6698852Ontario Police Department
  • Undetermined
  • Less-than-lethal force

Jesse Martinez, 29, died in police custody after he called 911 and told dispatchers he was overdosing on methamphetamine and was going to die, police said. He was pronounced dead about an hour after he was handcuffed and restrained by as many as four Ontario police officers near his condominium.

google.com
2543Jorge Beeton47MaleRace unspecified05/29/2003GlendaleCA34.1572912-118.2921201Glendale Police Department, Burbank Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police shot and killed Jorge Beeton during a five-hour standoff and shootout at the Griffith Park Apartments and Dude Ranch.

burbankleader.com
2540John Eric Henderson32MaleAfrican-American/Black05/29/2003ChattanoogaTN35.0469062-85.27017Chattanooga Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A local officer stopped Henderson for his loud muffler and a plate that belonged on another car. The officer had been patrolling solo for only four days. When Henderson went to retrieve his paperwork from the glove box, the officer mistook, he said, a cologne bottle for the butt of a gun, and fatally shot him. The officer was booked for criminally negligent homicide but ultimately acquitted.

chattanoogan.com
2541Lorena Rodriguez17FemaleHispanic/Latino05/29/2003FresnoCA36.6344097-119.7458055Fresno County Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

Lorena Rodriguez and her unborn baby died as passengers in a stolen car driven by her boyfriend, chased by police, when the car struck the vehicle of county deputy Joshua Lancaster at high speed in a rural intersection. Lancaster was also killed.

odmp.org
2542Joshua Lancaster27MaleEuropean-American/White05/29/2003FresnoCA36.6344097-119.7458055Fresno County Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

Lorena Rodriguez and her unborn baby died as passengers in a stolen car driven by her boyfriend, chased by police, when the car struck the vehicle of county deputy Joshua Lancaster at high speed in a rural intersection. Lancaster was also killed.

odmp.org
19593Justin McCarthy22MaleEuropean-American/White05/30/2003Washington TownshipNJ40.7570551-74.986127Washington Township Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Justin McCarthy, 22, was riding around several Warren County municipalities shooting at buildings and street signs. He shot and wounded a Washington Township police officer before being shot and killed by state troopers, police said.

newjerseyhills.com
2544Tremaine Williams22MaleRace unspecified05/30/2003MariettaGA33.9467032-84.5406711Marietta Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Police said Williams shot his girlfriend, Triell Bell, 22, as she was being escorted by two officers into the apartment the couple shared. An officer shot and wounded Williams before he went outside and shot and killed himself.

google.com
2545Bobby Joe Martinez28MaleRace unspecified05/30/2003ModestoCA37.6159263-120.9940201Stanislaus County Sheriff's Office
  • Drowned
  • No

Bobby Joe Martinez died when he tried to flee from deputies by swimming across the Tuolumne River.

google.com
2546Shawn Gordon Dameral35MaleRace unspecified05/31/2003RiponCA37.7512119-121.1412995Manteca Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

Shawn Gordon Dameral was killed when his car crashed during a police chase that started in Manteca and ended in Ripon.

google.com
2548Kenneth Sean Anderson38MaleEuropean-American/White06/01/2003Huntington BeachCA33.6764158-118.0025715Huntington Beach Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Officer Corwin Bales shot and killed Kenneth Sean Anderson, who allegedly stole a lighter and other inexpensive items from an AM/PM convenience store, then threatened to run officers over after a chase ended in the parking lot of Huntington Beach High School.

hbindependent.com
2547Samuel West III33MaleAfrican-American/Black06/01/2003DallasTX32.6609281-96.8898283Dallas Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

According to DPD, officers tried to help a civilian to take personal property from a room in a Super 7 Inn. When West saw the officers at the door of the room, he ran to the bathroom "carrying something in his hands." He flushed the toilet repeatedly. Officers tried to enter the bathroom. West shot at them twice with a .45-caliber pistol. Officers Rolando Carballo Jr., Alphonse Alexander and Tami Yanez shot at West. He died at the scene.

dallaspolice.net
2550Bret J. Lemoine33MaleEuropean-American/White06/02/2003Grand IsleLA29.2350155-90.0007752Grand Isle Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Bret J. Lemoine was shot by Sgt. Keeland Cheramie after Lemoine a chase that ended on a dead-end street.

dailycomet.com
22390Shane Michael Lester21MaleEuropean-American/White06/02/2003Virginia BeachVA36.8201254-76.0757151Virginia Beach Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

An officer spotted Shane Michael Lester sitting alone in a pickup truck parked near the closed Lynnhaven North Shopping Center, police said. Lester refused to give the officer his identification, and the officer noticed drug paraphernalia in the front seat. The officer opened the driver's door because it appeared Lester was fidgeting around and doing something in the vehicle. A second officer arrived, opened the truck's passenger door and saw a handgun in the Lester's hand. The first officer tried to disarm Lester, they struggled, and the officer backed away. The second officer shot and killed him.

storm2k.org
20981Christopher Morse31MaleRace unspecified06/02/2003FentonMI42.7709169-83.7513867Michigan State Police, Oakland County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Police said Christopher Morse was suspected of murdering his friend Bobby Brown, whose body was found in his home in Cabot, Vermont. Vermont State Police requested that Michigan State Police check for Morse at his parents' Rose Township residence, but he wasn't there. The next morning, a neighbor saw Morse's vehicle parked in the driveway and called police. Troopers saw Morse leave and followed him. Other troopers and OCSD deputies arrived and police prepared to stop Morse. According to police, troopers activated their emergency lights, and Morse shot himself in the head.

tctimes.com
2549Darryl Luck47MaleRace unspecified06/02/2003AtlantaGA33.7985528-84.3861432Atlanta Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

An officer investigating gunshots at a parking lot on Spring Street was told by witnesses that a man in a blue Toyota was shooting at them. When a second officer attempted to pull the car over on West Peachtree Street, he took off. The Toyota jumped a curb and came to a stop near the end of West Peachtree Street. Police found the man, later identified as Darryl Luck, dead inside the car. He had shot himself in the mouth, police said.

google.com
2552Luis Ortiz31MaleHispanic/Latino06/03/2003DallasTX32.67207-96.620185Dallas Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

According to DPD, officers encountered Ortiz, a robbery suspect. Armed with a shotgun, he fled officers a short distance, then turned and shot at them. Officers Stan Verbal, Matthew Edwards, Bronco McCoy, James Swafford and Brian Fry fatally shot him.

dallaspolice.net
2554Tayler Romine9FemaleEuropean-American/White06/03/2003TuscolaIL39.7917239-88.3217137Douglas County Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Tayler Romine was killed when the car she was in collided with a squad car driven by rookie correctional officer Christopher Darr, 23. Romine was in the back seat of a car driven by her older sister, who attempting to turn left onto US 36. According to police, Darr was taking a man to Hillsboro to begin serving a two-year sentence for driving with a revoked license. Romine's older sister was reportedly charged with failure to yield from a private drive.

news-gazette.com
2551Bernard Bates50MaleAfrican-American/Black06/03/2003ClevelandOH41.5057013-81.6209822Cleveland Police Department
  • Medical emergency
  • No

A heart attack brought on by cocaine use killed Bates, who died in police custody, Cuyahoga County Coroner Elizabeth Balraj ruled.

google.com
2553Eugene R. Cooper55MaleEuropean-American/White06/03/2003PhoenixAZ33.5001804-112.0432198Phoenix Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Eugene Cooper broke into Jennifer Cooper's home, armed with a gun, and threatened to kill her, police said. Jennifer's screams awakened her roommate, who called 911. When police arrived, the husband was standing inside the door, naked, holding the handgun. He screamed for officers to "Get out!" He was ordered to drop the weapon but raised it at the officers. Officer Ruben Ruiz, 33, with two years on the force, fired at least once, killing him.

google.com
2555Jose Mateo22MaleRace unspecified06/04/2003New York CityNY40.8474041-73.9358771City of New York Police Department
  • Medical emergency
  • Less-than-lethal force

Mateo's girlfriend called 911 to report his violent, irrational behavior, hallucinating on drugs. By the time they arrived Mateo was attacking his own father and smashing furniture. He was pepper-sprayed, handcuffed, taken down two flights into an ambulance, and died of cardiac arrest.

nytimes.com
2556Rosalie Ann Alico43FemaleEuropean-American/White06/05/2003FrederickMD39.4602915-77.4093615U.S. Postal Inspection Service
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Victim's husband killed her with his service weapon issued to him as a US Postal Inspector during an episode of domestic violence.

fredericknewspost.com
2558Michael D. Swann44MaleRace unspecified06/05/2003Pell CityAL33.5885429-86.288278Pell City Police Department, Riverdale Police Department
  • Chemical agent/Pepper spray
  • Less-than-lethal force

Michael Swann died en route to jail after police chased him on foot and sprayed him with Freeze plus P before arresting him.

google.com
2557Barry Daniel Baker26MaleRace unspecified06/05/2003CalhounGA34.5075302-84.9104022Calhoun Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Baker broke into a woman's home and refused to follow police orders when they arrived. He threatened them and was shot and killed.

google.com
2560Mark Steven Navarrette41MaleHispanic/Latino06/06/2003WilmingtonCA33.785803-118.273735Los Angeles Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Mark Steven Navarrette, 41, died after being shot in Wilmington, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

latimes.com
2559Name withheld by policeMaleRace unspecified06/06/2003DouglasvilleGA33.7514966-84.7477136Douglasville Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

The unidentified man was involved in a hit and run. He apparently shot a deputy, but was killed when two Douglasville Police Departments went to his home.

google.com
2561William Lewis Snipes42MaleRace unspecified06/07/2003SimpsonvilleSC34.7177645-82.2725422Greenville County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Snipes was wanted for questioning in connection with the shooting death of his wife. He shot himself in the head as a SWAT team surrounded him inside a house.

thehighroad.org
2562Jeremias Velazquez Bamaca23MaleHispanic/Latino06/07/2003Fort PayneAL34.481719-85.7320501Fort Payne Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Officer Hector Ortiz reportedly shot and killed Jeremias Bamaca by accident when Ortiz slipped on some pine needles, causing his handgun to fire.

google.com
19543Bobby Litton37MaleEuropean-American/White06/08/2003PrestonsburgKY37.6829456-82.7281207Allen City Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Bobby Litton was killed when police attempted to stop him for suspicion of drunken driving. Litton's car missed a turn and ended up in a lake.

google.com
2564Otis Moore Jr.43MaleAfrican-American/Black06/09/2003Chicago HeightsIL41.5022297-87.6356208Chicago Heights Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Otis Moore Jr. reportedly shot himself across from the CHPD station just after 10 p.m. Moore's family believed he was murdered in retaliation. In the early 1990s, Moore had testified against three CHPD officers who were convicted of aiding him in operating a crack cocaine ring. Moore was released from prison in 2000. Suspicions of foul play grew when it was revealed that Moore was wearing a wire as part of a federal drug investigation when he died. FBI agents were in the area at the time he died, but Moore wasn't in sight, a law enforcement source said. The source said sheriff's deputies and CHPD officers were aware Moore was cooperating and had agreed to wear the device.

chicagotribune.com
2563Timothy R. Sleet44MaleAfrican-American/Black06/09/2003SpringfieldMO37.2157918-93.3683716Springfield Police Department
  • Tasered
  • Less-than-lethal force

Timothy R. Sleet was allegedly uncontrollable and defiant as police tried to arrest him for stabbing his girlfriend. Police responded to a call from an 8-year-old boy who said his father was killing his mother. Officers arrived and found Cortney L. Eden, 27, dead on the kitchen floor. According to police, officers used a Taser and a baton to try and subdue Sleet, then shot him with "sock rounds," beanbag-style weapons containing buckshot, when they still couldn't restrain him. Sleet died at the scene. "At this point, there's no conclusive cause of death," Greene County deputy medical examiner Ron Yoder said. "But we did rule out his death being caused by the Springfield Police Department.

google.com
20982Richard Martinovics41MaleRace unspecified06/10/2003RosevilleMI42.4991693-82.9410452Roseville Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A blue Dodge pickup was spotted leaving a hit-and-run accident. A man who saw the accident called police on his cellular phone and followed the truck for several blocks, giving officers its license plate number and directions of where Richard Martinovics was going. An officer spotted the truck at 13 Mile and Gratiot and chased the vehicle for about two miles at high speed through subdivisions, where the truck ran over curbs and struck at least two parked cars, police said. Martinovics lost control of the pickup and ran into a third parked car at Roseville Boulevard and Maple. The officer tried to pull Martinovics out of the vehicle, but he attacked the officer, punching the officer in his face and chest. Martinovics pinned the officer between the police car and a building with the truck. The officer shot and killed Martinovics.

google.com
19612Milo Fornwald20MaleAfrican-American/Black06/10/2003PhiladelphiaPA39.9257681-75.151625Philadelphia Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Fourth District Officer Frederick Girardo opened fire on Fornwald after he allegedly drove toward him and attempted to run him over when the officer tried to break up a drug sale, police said.

google.com
2565Letim Harris23MaleRace unspecified06/11/2003ShreveportLA32.4919809-93.7692777Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office
  • Medical emergency
  • No

Letim Harris died of heat exhaustion after reportedly running away from deputies during a traffic stop.

ksla.com
20983Chad W. Stokes27MaleRace unspecified06/11/2003St. IgnaceMI46.0565234-84.6868718Michigan State Police
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

According to officials, a man entered the Central Savings Bank in Rudyard at around 2:50 p.m. brandishing a handgun. Dressed all in black with sunglasses and a black hat, the man allegedly collected more than $20,000 and left. Tellers called 911 and provided a description of the man. Trooper Chris MacMaster stopped Chad W. Stokes along southbound I-75 near the M-134 juncture, approximately 15 miles south of Rudyard. Police did not have a good description of the vehicle—only of the driver—but police said MacMaster noted Stokes dark clothing and demeanor and decided to initiate the traffic stop. According to police, Stokes initially held both hands out the window, as MacMaster approached with his gun drawn. Stokes then allegedly withdrew one of his hands. MacMaster said he backed off to wait for other officers, then heard a gunshot and discovered that Stokes had taken his own life with a 9 mm Ruger.

google.com
2567Craigor Smith36MaleEuropean-American/White06/12/2003EncinoCA34.1551257-118.4745178Los Angeles Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Craigor Smith, 36, died after being shot in Encino, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

latimes.com
2568Robert Roy Freeman III16MaleAfrican-American/Black06/12/2003RichmondCA37.930773-122.3479678Richmond Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

An officer posing as a pizzeria worker shot and killed Robert Freeman III when he allegedly produced a toy handgun.

pizzamarketplace.com
2566Christopher Tillotson34MaleRace unspecified06/12/2003EnglewoodCO39.6603856-104.995867Englewood Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Englewood police officers were called to 3050 S. Lipan St. Tillotson was involved in an assault there, police said. A witness at nearby Cushing Park told Officer Mike Hawkins that Tillotson was hiding among some playground equipment in the park. When Hawkins tried to arrest him, Tillotson began fighting, Ulrich said. During the scuffle, Tillotson grabbed Hawkins' baton and threatened him. Tillotson didn't heed warnings to drop the baton and charged Hawkins, who shot and killed him.

google.com
2569Carlton E. Fitz30MaleEuropean-American/White06/12/2003DubuqueIA42.54802-90.6916863Dubuque County Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

At about 2:50 a.m., a deputy saw Carlton E. Fitz riding a motorcycle at high speeds in Dubuque. A chase ensued, during which police said the deputy paced the motorcycle traveling near 100 mph at one point. Fitz lost control of the motorcycle, struck a signpost and died.

highbeam.com
19611William Joseph Gingerella41MaleRace unspecified06/13/2003Beaver FallsPA40.7585054-80.3152429Beaver Falls Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

William Gingerella called police to tell them of his suicidal plans. He apparently shot and killed himself as police surrounded his home.

google.com
2571Jesse Lee Owens Jr.20MaleAfrican-American/Black06/14/2003AustinTX30.2803024-97.7011925Austin Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Officer Scott Glasgow, who had served for three years, conducted a traffic stop on Owens. He may have drawn his gun as he approached the vehicle. During the stop, Owens tried to drive away, the driver's side door of his Dodge Neon shutting on the officer as it accelerated. The officer shot Owens five times, killing him. Officer Owens was indicted for criminally negligent homicide, becoming the first APD officer indicted in an on-duty shooting. The indictment was handed down, not because of the shooting, but because of the reported sloppiness of the arrest that lead to it. Though the indictment was thrown out, Officer Glasgow received a 90-day suspension from APD.

austinchronicle.com
2570Darren Welker40MaleRace unspecified06/14/2003Van WertOH40.8636596-84.5759722Van Wert Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Welker was shot and killed by a sniper inside his home, from which he had fired at officers, police said.

toledoblade.com
2572Warren Harris32MaleRace unspecified06/15/2003HalethorpeMD39.2448302-76.64447Baltimore County Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Unknown why Harris fled from an early-morning Sunday police stop, with no warrants or any other apparent reason. He sped away and with police in pursuit rolled his 1993 Ford Taurus into a fatal accident.

baltimoresun.com
22017Dallas Johnson37MaleRace unspecified06/15/2003MadisonvilleKY37.3281005-87.4988882Madisonville Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Dallas Johnson broke into a home armed with a knife. Officers Jerry Robards and Nathan Lutz, who had confronted Johnson in the building's garage, shot and killed him in order to defend the family inside, police said.

google.com
2573Terrence Shurn27MaleAfrican-American/Black06/16/2003Benton HarborMI42.1016682-86.4525542Berrien County Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Motorcyclist Shurn died in a collision while being pursued by police for speeding at 2 a.m. His death, compounding other local police killings and incidents (Trenton Patterson and Arthur Partee, to name two) and apparently chronic police corruption, caused racial protests and civil unrest comparable to Ferguson, Missouri, 12 years later.

chicagotribune.com
2574Lathern Broughton64MaleAfrican-American/Black06/16/2003EnsleyFL30.5242086-87.2488304Escambia County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Professional mason Broughton was shot to death by deputies to end a three-hour standoff. With no prior criminal record, Broughton had barricaded himself inside his house after a domestic disturbance call, and after he'd fired a 12-gauge into the back window of a police car.

jacksonville.com
2576Name withheld by policeFemaleRace unspecified06/16/2003Thousand PalmsCA33.816576-116.346476Riverside County Sheriff's Department
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

A female passenger in an uninvolved car was killed by a car fleeing deputies.

googleusercontent.com
2575Juan Carlos Sanchez30MaleHispanic/Latino06/16/2003New York CityNY40.8279692-73.9447415City of New York Police Department
  • Fell from a height
  • No

Sanchez attempted to escape from a drug raid through a fourth-story window and fell to his death.

nytimes.com
2577Frank "Pancho" Gonzales22MaleRace unspecified06/17/2003PuebloCO38.2897949-104.6296338Pueblo Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Gonzales was a fugitive from another burglary when he broke into a home that had people in it. Police shot and killed him.

chiefads.com
2578Samuel Ramsey22MaleRace unspecified06/18/2003MagnoliaMS31.140286-90.4773Magnolia Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Ramsey died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the abdomen after Magnolia police responded to a disturbance at his family's house.

enterprise-journal.com
2579Calvin Washington41MaleRace unspecified06/18/2003BrooklynNY40.695707-73.941748City of New York Police Department
  • Medical emergency
  • No

Washington's home was invaded by NYPD officers, without warning or warrant, purportedly in hot pursuit of a suspect. Guns drawn, they kicked down the door, slapped a 7-year-old girl, ransacked the house, then provided no explanation. Washington suffered a heart attack and his family attributed his death, 10 days after, to the effects of the raid.

nytimes.com
2580Darnell Moss25MaleAfrican-American/Black06/19/2003WaukeganIL42.3704839-87.8815015U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Waukegan Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

An officer shot Darnell Moss when he allegedly rammed an unmarked squad car in a McDonald's parking lot. According to police, DEA agents and Waukegan police were conducting a drug buy at around 7 p.m. Officers moved to arrest Moss, who allegedly tried to escape arrest and hit an unmarked Waukegan police car with an officer inside.

chicagotribune.com
2581David Stauder31MaleRace unspecified06/20/2003River RidgeLA29.9712874-90.2102581Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Ten officers shot and killed David Stauder during a standoff after he allegedly turned and pointed a gun at officers.

google.com
20984Christopher Drypen16MaleEuropean-American/White06/22/2003Highland Charter TownshipMI42.661674-83.608102Oakland County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Several deputies responded at about 12:15 p.m. to a report that Christopher Drypen, who had a history of mental health problems, was in the basement of his parents' home acting irrationally and playing music at a very loud volume. Drypen allegedly lunged at deputies Arnold Terrell and Todd Wood with a knife, and they shot him in the basement stairwell. In 2005, Oakland County settled a wrongful death lawsuit brought by Drypen's family for $4 million.

prisontalk.com
22391LeKeith Devon Speller21MaleAfrican-American/Black06/23/2003Virginia BeachVA36.785284-76.080129Virginia Beach Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Officer Rodney F. Pocceschi was killed on Dam Neck Road during a shootout that began with a traffic stop. LeKeith Devon Speller was also killed during the shootout. Police said that Speller had been involved in the robbery of an IHOP restaurant a few minutes before Pocceschi tried to pull over his vehicle.

pilotonline.com
19609Dana Richard Herminzek46MaleEuropean-American/White06/24/2003DerryPA40.3152036-79.3747331Pennsylvania State Police
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Dana Richard Herminzek was shot and killed by police during a domestic violence incident. He attacked police with a knife.

post-gazette.com
2582Donald Motley51MaleRace unspecified06/25/2003ChicagoIL41.7341944-87.6306787Chicago Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Off-duty Cook County correctional officer Motley was inside his own home and had wounded himself with a 13-inch knife. He'd worked in corrections for 22 years. When two responding officers told Motley to drop the knife, he threatened them with it instead. He was killed with three shots to the chest.

chicagotribune.com
2583Troy Stephen Triplett33MaleRace unspecified06/25/2003Walnut RidgeAR36.068371-90.9559983Arkansas State Police, Lawrence County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

According to police, Triplett crashed his vehicle and started shooting at police, who shot and killed him.

google.com
2588Paul Rapacz37MaleEuropean-American/White06/26/2003Des PlainesIL42.0047889-87.884215Rosemont Police Department, Des Plaines Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police shot Paul Rapacz when he allegedly pointed a gun at officers after robbing O'Hare Liquors. Police had responded to a report of a man with a gun inside the store at 8 p.m. The clerk had fled, leaving Rapacz alone inside, police said, and officers surrounded the store. When Rapacz left the store, police repeatedly told him to drop his gun, but he allegedly pointed the weapon at them instead. Two officers shot Rapacz, who died at the scene

chicagotribune.com
2584David Sean Lewandowski26MaleRace unspecified06/26/2003PensacolaFL30.449137-87.31421Escambia County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Air Force veteran Lewandowski had an obvious psychological meltdown at a convenience store. Unarmed, nude, ranting and praying in the middle of the street, he was dead shortly after deputies arrived, although nobody was sure whether the cause was being tasered three times, being shot, or because he'd put his hand through a neighbor's window and severed an artery. The second fatal encounter for county deputies in a 10-day period.

thehighroad.org
2585Mario Perez OrtegaMaleHispanic/Latino06/26/2003Borrego SpringsCA33.1370204-116.3750373California Highway Patrol
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

Undocumented immigrants Mario Perez Ortega, Leonardo Sanchez Placido and Erendira Jimenez Garcia were passengers killed when a vehicle crashed while fleeing the CHP.

utsandiego.com
2586Leonardo Sanchez PlacidoMaleHispanic/Latino06/26/2003Borrego SpringsCA33.1370204-116.3750373California Highway Patrol
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

Undocumented immigrants Mario Perez Ortega, Leonardo Sanchez Placido and Erendira Jimenez Garcia were passengers killed when a vehicle crashed while fleeing the CHP.

utsandiego.com
2587Erendira Jimenez GarciaFemaleHispanic/Latino06/26/2003Borrego SpringsCA33.1370204-116.3750373California Highway Patrol
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

Undocumented immigrants Mario Perez Ortega, Leonardo Sanchez Placido and Erendira Jimenez Garcia were passengers killed when a vehicle crashed while fleeing the CHP.

utsandiego.com
21580Angelo Turpin26MaleRace unspecified06/26/2003East OrangeNJ40.7617286-74.1954328East Orange Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police shot and killed Angelo Turpin when he struck an officer with the stolen car he was allegedly driving.

google.com
18839Duane Sasse26MaleRace unspecified06/27/2003Elk CityOK35.4168123-99.4117197Elk City Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Sasse was arrested for allegedly assaulting an ex-girlfriend. After his release from jail, Sasse went to the woman's residence, police said. A male friend of the woman was there when Sasse arrived, and Sasse threatened him. The friend fled to another home to call police. When Officer Chet Glancy and Sgt. David Pruitt arrived, Sasse was wielding a knife. Police said Sasse threatened someone with the knife, but the department would not say whom. Sasse was told to put down the knife, but he refused, and he was shot and killed.

newsok.com
2591Wayne Earl Ellis54MaleEuropean-American/White06/27/2003LincolnAL33.5883299-86.123914Lincoln Police Department
  • Beaten/Bludgeoned with instrument
  • Less-than-lethal force

Wayne Earl Ellis, a disabled Vietnam veteran, was pulled out of his pickup truck and beaten to death by officer Kenneth Pollard and Sgt. Kevin Jung.

annistonstar.com
22820Brandon Antonio Miller29MaleAfrican-American/Black06/27/2003ChattanoogaTN35.0826201-85.0284609Bradley County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Brandon Miller was driving east on US 64 when Bradley County Deputies Shane McKee and David Harper pulled him over for speeding. He allegedly threatened an officer with his vehicle and was shot and killed.

chattanoogan.com
22392Lonnie R. Russell26MaleEuropean-American/White06/27/2003ConcordVA37.1917648-78.8784414Charlotte County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

After robbing a bank, invading a house and stealing a car, Lonnie Russell led police on a chase that ended in a gunbattle and his death.

google.com
2589Samuel Padgett23MaleRace unspecified06/27/2003BatesburgSC33.9055889-81.5360506Batesburg-Leesville Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Alex Underwood, 40, a State Law Enforcement Division SWAT team member, shot and killed Samuel Padgett after Padgett shot him in the chest, after a nine-hour standoff.

google.com
2590David Whitehead15MaleAfrican-American/Black06/27/2003CincinnatiOH39.1296046-84.5499002Cincinnati Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Whitehead led police on a high-speed chase before crashing and killing himself and at least two companions.

google.com
2595Christopher S. Moallankamp25MaleEuropean-American/White06/28/2003HerrinIL37.7554816-89.0242985Perry County Sheriff's Office, Pinckneyville Police Department, Christopher Police Department, Williamson County Sheriff's Office, Illinois State Police, Herrin Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Christopher S. Moallankamp reportedly shot himself following a three-county chase. Perry County deputies and Pinckneyville police responded to a report of a truck sitting at IL-154 and Perry Street. Officers found Moallankamp slumped inside a 2001 Ford pickup truck that was towing a ski-boat and trailer. Police awakened Moallankamp and asked for ID, but he fled. Near Herrin, stop sticks flattened the truck's front tires, but Moallankamp continued on Park Avenue for about two miles. Moallankamp allegedly tried to seize a Ford Ranger pickup from a motorist at gunpoint, then turned his gun on himself when his attempt failed. Moallankamp died at a hospital the next evening.

thesouthern.com
2592Anthony Davenport34MaleRace unspecified06/28/2003ChattanoogaTN35.0839862-85.3176324Red Bank Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

An officer speeding toward a vehicle accident scene at 3 a.m. at about 70 MPH apparently didn't see the streetsweeper stopped in the road, and crashed into it full speed. Both streetsweeper Davenport and the officer were fatally injured.

chattanoogan.com
2593Rosalai Cal10FemaleRace unspecified06/28/2003ProsperityWV37.8344996-81.2143657West Virginia State Police
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

A prison escapee in a stolen car spotted by a West Virginia Courtesy Patrol driver led troopers on a high-speed interstate chase. He slammed into an SUV full of Canadian tourists, throwing their daughter from the vehicle, killing her.

register-herald.com
2594Jose Ulloa21MaleHispanic/Latino06/28/2003OceansideCA33.2144625-117.2682526Oceanside Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Officers John Janda and Carl Wilson shot and killed Jose Ulloa when he allegedly attempted to run over an officer.

sandiegouniontribune.com
2601Joseph Hunter Parker II30MaleEuropean-American/White06/29/2003IrvineCA33.7235159-117.7716468Irvine Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police shot and killed Joseph Hunter Parker, who was reportedly armed with a samurai-style sword, after he killed two former co-workers and wounded three other people at an Irvine supermarket.

latimes.com
2596Michael Dariell Branch Sr.44MaleRace unspecified06/29/2003ThorntonCO39.8845278-104.9679593Northglenn Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Northglenn police officer Patrisha McEachern, 32, responding to a medical emergency, slammed into a car that crossed in front of her, killing Michael Dariell Branch Sr., 44.

highbeam.com
2598Sandra Bee Wilson42FemaleAfrican-American/Black06/29/2003North Miami BeachFL25.9173165-80.169Miami-Dade Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Wilson had a 15-year romantic relationship with an officer on the same force. When it ended, the emotionally unbalanced officer stalked, threatened and harassed her, using his issued service weapon, yet was permitted to keep that weapon and stay on active duty. Three weeks after requesting assistance Wilson was murdered by the other officer, who then killed himself.

leagle.com
2599Francisco Javier Platt Medina25MaleHispanic/Latino06/29/2003NogalesAZ31.3403775-110.9342532U.S. Customs and Border Protection
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

According to a complaint filed with the consulate, the family of Francisco Javier Platt Medina, 25, says he died a week after he was in Border Patrol custody and returned to Mexico, where an autopsy showed that he died of liver and kidney failure. His midsection was also covered in bruises.

nogalesinternational.com
2600Ronald Chandonais56MaleEuropean-American/White06/29/2003EscalonCA37.8421904-120.9797214San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Deputies shot and killed Ronald Chandonais when he allegedly raised a gun at them.

recordnet.com
2597Jaime Bonilla18MaleHispanic/Latino06/29/2003CharlotteNC35.2270869-80.8431267Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Bonilla was fatally shot by a local officer as he was threatening another man with a knife. The threatened man was also arrested; he'd been trying to break into Bonilla's "burgundy sports utility vehicle."

wsoctv.com
19608Gregory "Greg" Magee28MaleEuropean-American/White06/29/2003PhiladelphiaPA39.9248471-75.1718835Philadelphia Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Gregory "Greg" Magee, a 28-year-old mechanic, was shot and killed by Philadelphia police officers, while attempting to break into the garage next door to his father's shop that night, and when confronted by the cops, ran around the corner, allegedly firing a pistol in their direction. They caught up to Greg less than a block away and shot and killed him.

google.com
22152Anthony Jagiela28MaleEuropean-American/White06/29/2003MerrillvilleIN41.4711614-87.3649851Merrillville Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Anthony Jagiela was on his motorcycle when he was struck and killed by a Merrillville officer who was allegedly on his way to a call of "shots fired."

google.com
2603Thomas Leon White Jr.14MaleRace unspecified06/30/2003St. PaulMN44.985647-93.0484896St. Paul Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Relatives of a 14-year-old boy who drowned after driving a stolen car into Lake Phalen thanked police for trying to save the boy. Thomas Leon White died after being chased by police through an east side neighborhood. Police said White freed himself from the sinking car and yelled for help but the two pursuing officers, who were slightly injured when their squad car also went into the water, couldn't find him in time.

postbulletin.com
2602Kenneth Lee Thomas43MaleRace unspecified06/30/2003GlenwoodGA32.1782292-82.6708615Glenwood Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Thomas was shot and killed by a Glenwood city police officer after a domestic disturbance outside Wheeler County Hospital, according to police. He died shortly after the shooting in the emergency room of the hospital.

google.com
18838Tony Kris Richardson33MaleRace unspecified06/30/2003TulsaOK36.1329341-95.8652907Tulsa Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Tulsa Police Officer Josh Martin shot and killed Tony Kris Richardson after a pursuit ended with the man telling police he had a gun and would not be taken alive. A knife was found inside the truck the man was attempting to steal, but no gun was found, police said.

google.com
19542Leon Brown52MaleEuropean-American/White06/30/2003LibertyKY37.3230134-84.9330005Liberty Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Leo Daniel Cook Jr. shot and killed Leon Brown as he attempted to arrest Brown on domestic violence charges. Cook was charged with second-degree manslaughter but was acquitted.

google.com
2604Jonathan Russell25MaleEuropean-American/White07/01/2003Jefferson CityMO38.5736064-92.1710259Jefferson City Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Officer Patrick McCutchen exchanged shots with Jonathon Russell outside the police station at about 10:45 p.m., less than 20 minutes after Russell was identified as the shooter who'd killed his co-workers, Ricky Borts, Tim Wilbers and Terry Wilson, and wounded five others before his shift at Jefferson City's Modine Manufacturing Co. McCutchen's shots struck Russell twice; Russell reportedly then shot himself.

columbiatribune.com
19541Aaron Tackett57MaleEuropean-American/White07/01/2003PrestonsburgKY37.634507-82.7438654Kentucky State Police
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Kentucky State Police Trooper Kerry White shot and killed Aaron Tackett, 57, after failing to subdue him with pepper spray and striking him in the left temple with a police baton, police said. Tackett's car was stopped for speeding.

google.com
2605Efrain Cuenca Dimas16MaleHispanic/Latino07/01/2003Las VegasNV36.1257217-115.2430703Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Off-duty Las Vegas officer was manning a fireworks stand with his wife when he was robbed at gunpoint by Efrain Cuenca Dimas, 16. Dimas demanded money but the officer feared he was going to shoot him or his wife when Dimas started counting down. Johnson pulled out a concealed gun and fired six times. Dimas died at the scene. An investigation found Dimas had robbed another fireworks stand earlier.

google.com
2606Juan Alberto Negron Gonzalez aka Ruddy Lora23MaleHispanic/Latino07/02/2003HartfordCT41.7647267-72.7091217Hartford Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Two officers approached Gonzalez in connection with a minor traffic incident, and found him "nervous and evasive". The situation developed into a physical struggle with the victim, who was then pepper-sprayed without effect. Gonzalez pulled a pistol and wounded one officer in the legs. He was then shot at least four times, fatally. A city official normally critical of police happened to be an eyewitness on scene and confirmed the officers' actions as justified

courant.com
2607Jorge Sanchez Mendoza aka Santos Misael Sanchez-Mendoza aka Misrael Santos Sanchez23MaleHispanic/Latino07/02/2003Paso RoblesCA35.6460285-120.6917698Paso Robles Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Officer Roger Degnan shot and killed Jorge Sanchez Mendoza when he allegedly walked toward him with a knife with a "crazed or wild look" in his eyes.

google.com
2610Jason L. Summe20MaleRace unspecified07/03/2003St. RobertMO37.80152-92.1056819St. Robert Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Jason Summe was being pursued by an officer at around 7:40 p.m. when his ATV crossed the center line on a curve and struck an oncoming Jeep Cherokee. Summe was killed in the crash.

columbiatribune.com
18837Claid Drew Bales51MaleEuropean-American/White07/03/2003MeekerOK35.4957459-96.824382Oklahoma Highway Patrol
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Trooper Charles Cowden was one of three troopers who responded to a call for assistance from the Lincoln County sheriff's office involving a domestic disturbance that involved Claid Drew Bales threatening to shoot a family member. Bales stepped onto a second-story balcony and was shot by the trooper after Bales used a long- barrel shotgun to open fire at law enforcement officials.

newsok.com
2608Lonnie James JeffersonMaleRace unspecified07/03/2003LufkinTX31.3587714-94.7623682Angelina County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Deputy Joey Davidson conducted a traffic stop on Jefferson's motorcycle. They exchanged words. Jefferson pulled Deputy Davidson's pistol off of his duty belt and shot him. Deputy Davidson drew a backup pistol and fatally shot Jefferson. Deputy Davidson survived. Multiple law enforcement agencies, including the Texas Ranger Division, investigated.

thehighroad.org
2609Gordon Sandwold65MaleRace unspecified07/03/2003SnohomishWA48.009088-121.9407515Snohomish County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Acting on a tip, deputies pursued Sandwold for drunken driving. There was an exchange of gunfire, but Sandwold reportedly shot himself.

google.com
20192Frances Tabaka84FemaleRace unspecified07/03/2003GreenfieldWI42.9666674-87.9584956Milwaukee Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

A 15-year-old girl's name was withheld when she went to court for killing Frances Tabaka, 84, during a police chase.

google.com
2611Mario Dee Jackson27MaleRace unspecified07/04/2003MontgomeryAL32.40481-86.1650357
  • Drowned
  • No

Mario Dee Jackson apparently drowned while fleeing from police.

wsfa.com
2612Paul Nash Childs15MaleAfrican-American/Black07/05/2003DenverCO39.762896-104.922848Denver Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police were called because a developmentally disabled boy threatened his mother with a knife. He refused to drop the knife when police arrived and was shot and killed.

denverda.org
2613Wayne Conger43MaleAfrican-American/Black07/05/2003DallasTX32.7786327-96.784812Dallas Police Department
  • Drug overdose
  • No

Conger was observed walking erratically and bleeding from his arms. Officers restrained Conger as he resisted Dallas Fire-Rescue Department personnel who tried to give him medical attention. He was later pronounced dead at Baylor Medical Center. He had overdosed.

google.com
19607Mark Armstead31MaleAfrican-American/Black07/05/2003PhiladelphiaPA40.064454-75.2389615Philadelphia Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Off-duty Patrolman Jason Potts shot and killed a man who tried to rob him and his 18-year-old stepdaughter at the Andorra Shopping Center, police said.

google.com
2614Lawrence Raul Licano33MaleHispanic/Latino07/06/2003PomonaCA34.0787648-117.7570648Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Lawrence Raul Licano, 33, died after being shot in Pomona, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

latimes.com
2617Jermaine Timothy Simmons21MaleRace unspecified07/06/2003CharlestonSC32.7851381-79.9332158Charleston Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Charleston police officer David Gahm stopped Simmons and a cousin after spotting them acting suspiciously in a Ford Crown Victoria that lacked proper license plates, police said. Greenberg has said that Simmons struck Gahm, dove into the car, reached for the shotgun and was turning toward Gahm when the officer shot and killed him.

google.com
2615Damien W. Morton22MaleAfrican-American/Black07/06/2003Las VegasNV36.1678925-115.1444557Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Las Vegas police officer saw a car driving the wrong direction and tried to pull it over. The driver, Damien Morton, wouldn't stop until the intersection of Third Street and Bridger Avenue, where he got out and began running. The officer chased him on foot and saw Morton try unsuccessfully to carjack a vehicle nearby. The officer then saw Morton jump into the passenger window of a car, and the officer fired twice. The car was the same vehicle Morton had been driving, but Morton's girlfriend was behind the wheel, and she drove Morton to a hospital.

google.com
21579Corey Graham33MaleRace unspecified07/06/2003CamdenNJ39.9273295-75.1003359Camden Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Officer Kenyatta Kelly shot and killed Corey Graham during a struggle in which Graham pulled a pistol.

google.com
22016Mark Carlisle22MaleEuropean-American/White07/06/2003EvansvilleIN37.984128-87.5780447Evansville Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Mark Carlisle shot and killed his former girlfriend, Billi Vincent, 22, before he was shot and killed by Officer Dave Barron.

google.com
2616Merrill Patten37MaleEuropean-American/White07/06/2003VergennesVT44.1672771-73.2540111Vergennes Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Officers were responding to a domestic violence report. They were inside an apartment when Patten pulled a shotgun and pointed it toward them. They fired, killing Patten.

google.com
2634Scott Allen Woodring40MaleEuropean-American/White07/07/2003FremontMI43.4456565-86.0392353Michigan State Police
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A member of the anti-government Michigan Militia, Woodring had shot and fatally wounded a Michigan State Police trooper in a July 7th raid. The following day the state police shot grenades into his house from an armored vehicle, burning it down, without immediately realizing Woodring had escaped with a backpack. Days later an informant tipped off his location, he was found resting in a vehicle, surrounded by police, and shot to death while exiting the vehicle rifle in hand.

adl.org
2618Scott E. Adsit35MaleEuropean-American/White07/07/2003San FranciscoCA37.7191823-122.4357652San Francisco Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

Scott Adsit was loading his pickup truck when he was struck by a vehicle fleeing from police.

sfgate.com
19606Tyrone G. Hills17MaleRace unspecified07/07/2003HarrisburgPA40.2777012-76.8924981Harrisburg Police Bureau
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Tyrone G. Hills, 17, was allegedly the driver of a car used in a drive-by shooting. He was killed when the car crashed into the Rose of Sharon Baptist Church during a pursuit.

google.com
29531Anthony Brown28MaleEuropean-American/White07/07/2003BuffaloNY42.8832023-78.8780273Buffalo Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Less-than-lethal force

Anthony Brown reportedly was taken into custody by police from the scene of a burglary. Police said he became belligerent, damaging a police cruiser. Once at central booking, the man began to get physical. Police were taking him up to the fourth-floor cellblock when he collapsed and died at about 4:45 p.m. Media reports don't state categorically whether he was booked, so this incident may be outside of FatalEncounters dataset, which does not include individuals after they've been booked into the jail or prison system.

google.com
2622Wilson "Joe" Tanner61MaleRace unspecified07/08/2003TalladegaAL33.5206927-86.2236894Talladega County Sheriff's Office
  • Drowned
  • Suicide

Wilson "Joe" Tanner reportedly led police on a low-speed chase before he drove his car into Logan Martin Lake and drowned.

11alive.com
2619Sa'id Yusuf also Luke RappMaleRace unspecified07/08/2003GeneseeID46.6106623-116.9499216Latah County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Deputy Phil Gray was investigating a report of a man acting crazy. When he arrived, Rapp said, "I am Zoltar. You are in my way, demon." Eventually he charged with a knife and Gray shot him. Rapp died 19 months later.

google.com
2621Roger Ashby39MaleRace unspecified07/08/2003EldoradoIL37.8134178-88.4654357Illinois State Police, Saline County Sheriff's Office, Eldorado Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Roger Ashby reportedly killed himself during an overnight standoff with police and sheriff's deputies. The standoff began at around 10:25 p.m. when Ashby's wife ran to her neighbor's home, called 911 and told dispatchers her husband had just shot at her with a shotgun. Ashby was found dead inside his mobile home at about 5:45 a.m. after an ISP tactical response team entered the residence.

google.com
2620Randall N. Vergari47MaleRace unspecified07/08/2003CollinsvilleIL38.6806334-90.0088158Collinsville Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Sgt. Tom Coppotelli and Detective Rich Wittenauer shot Randall N. Vergari three times after he allegedly attacked them with a knife. Shortly before 4 p.m., the officers responded after Vergari's sister reported that her brother had stabbed her in the arm when she went to his apartment to check on him. According to police, Wittenauer moved the curtain at an open sliding door to look inside, and Vergari stabbed him four times. WIttenauer and Coppotelli then shot Vergari, who was pronounced dead at a hospital. A grand jury decided that the officers' actions were justified.

yahoo.com
2624Manuel Ernesto Garcia39MaleHispanic/Latino07/09/2003ComptonCA33.8864744-118.2522652Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Manuel Ernesto Garcia, 39, died after being shot in Compton, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

latimes.com
2623Duc Minh Pham34MaleAsian/Pacific Islander07/09/2003AlbuquerqueNM35.0801345-106.6086206Albuquerque Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Sgt. Carol Olesak was attempting to arrest Duc Mihn Pham when he shot her with her gun. Minutes later, fearing Pham might fire the gun again, police officers shot and killed him. Pham walked up to Oleksak's patrol car in the Walgreens parking lot and released a barrage of bullets. According to witnesses, the suspect then calmly walked up Central Avenue, firing his gun over his shoulder as other officers rushed to the scene. Additional officers confronted the unidentified suspect in front of Kelly's Brew Pub, where he was shot and killed.

koat.com
2625Toni G. Sena46FemaleRace unspecified07/10/2003Kansas CityMO38.9908904-94.6068698Kansas City Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Bicyclist Toni Sena was killed by a motorist involved in a high-speed chase with police from both Kansas and Missouri. Sena was riding with her husband and other friends in the weekly Brookside Ride when William R. Beggs, 40, who had reportedly run over a man earlier, drove down a residential street at high speed, striking Sena with his pickup truck and then running over her. In December 2004, Beggs pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Sena's death. The case prompted police to change their pursuit policy in 2004.

joplinglobe.com
2626William Phillip Kellogg21MaleEuropean-American/White07/11/2003RoscoeTX32.4474261-100.5287965Roscoe Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Around 2:30 a.m., a black car, containing three suspected burglars from Georgia, ran a stop sign. Officer Felix Pantoja,36, pursued. The car crashed near a cotton field. Kellogg and a woman left the vehicle. Kellogg drew a pistol. The officer and Kellogg shot each other by moonlight at a range of about 10 yards. Kellogg shot the officer's right arm. The officer continued to shoot with his left hand. Kellogg, struck repeatedly, died. Officer Pantoja, wearing a bullet-resistant vest, survived. He received an honor pin, a purple heart pin and a medal of valor.

reporternews.com
21503Randolph E. Walston48MaleRace unspecified07/11/2003Owings MillsMD39.4059288-76.7604505Baltimore Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Police said Randolph E. Walston had stolen a Lexus from an Owings Mills car dealership when he died after the vehicle crashed during a police chase. Police said they were pursuing the Lexus "in a chase that lasted less than a minute."

google.com
2627Seth Michael Ward aka Seth Micah Warde22MaleRace unspecified07/11/2003GeyservilleCA38.7047042-122.9048174California Highway Patrol
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Seth Michael Ward reportedly killed himself on US-101 as officers tried to arrest him.

google.com
2628Chad E. Seymour26MaleEuropean-American/White07/12/2003Kansas CityMO39.2529032-94.642562Kansas City Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police shot Chad E. Seymour in the back when he allegedly charged at officers with a grenade during a standoff. At about 11:20 p.m, police responded to a domestic disturbance at a duplex. Seymour reportedly ran into the backyard, held up a grenade and threatened to detonate it. Negotiators tried to persuade Seymour to surrender until around 3:30 a.m., when he allegedly charged at officers and was shot. Seymour fell on top of the grenade. Police sent in a robot to retrieve the grenade, fearing it might detonate (it did after the robot rolled Seymour's body off it). Police said the grenade's pin had been pulled.

semissourian.com
2630Jennifer Gray27FemaleEuropean-American/White07/12/2003SloanIA42.1709387-96.3291305Iowa State Patrol
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

A state trooper tried to stop Troy Gray, who was riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle on I-29 with Jennifer Gray as a passenger, for a broken tail light. Troy Gray reportedly sped away and exited at Sloan, then continued west on a county road and onto gravel roads. According to police, the motorcycle kicked up a lot of dust and the trooper lost sight of it. Soon afterward, the Harley failed to negotiate a curve, flipped into the ditch and hit a fence post. Jennifer Gray called 911, and officers found the crash site. Troy Gray was pronounced dead at the scene and Jennifer Gray died from head injuries two days later.

siouxcityjournal.com
2631Troy Gray27MaleEuropean-American/White07/12/2003SloanIA42.1709387-96.3291305Iowa State Patrol
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

A state trooper tried to stop Troy Gray, who was riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle on I-29 with Jennifer Gray as a passenger, for a broken tail light. Troy Gray reportedly sped away and exited at Sloan, then continued west on a county road and onto gravel roads. According to police, the motorcycle kicked up a lot of dust and the trooper lost sight of it. Soon afterward, the Harley failed to negotiate a curve, flipped into the ditch and hit a fence post. Jennifer Gray called 911, and officers found the crash site. Troy Gray was pronounced dead at the scene and Jennifer Gray died from head injuries two days later.

siouxcityjournal.com
2629Ralph "Steven" Burke55MaleRace unspecified07/12/2003ElkinsAR36.004303-93.953644Fayetteville Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

After a three-hour standoff, Ralph "Steven" Burke, 55, was killed after allegedly firing at least one shot at police.

google.com
2633Madeline "Gina" Diaz39FemaleHispanic/Latino07/13/2003ZionIL42.4480397-87.854631Zion Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Madeline "Gina" Diaz was killed, and her husband was seriously injured, after a police car crashed into their Ford convertible. According to police, the officer was traveling south on Lewis Avenue and had the right of way when he broadsided the Diaz' car at about 9:30 p.m. Police said the squad car did not have sirens or lights on and that the officer wasn't responding to an emergency or speeding. The officer was treated and released.

chicagotribune.com
2636Bernard Curry45MaleRace unspecified07/13/2003Corte MaderaCA41.3632465-123.9894411California Highway Patrol, Twin Cities Police Authority
  • Medical emergency
  • Less-than-lethal force

Bernard Curry stopped breathing and died during a struggle with officers.

sfgate.com
2635Cau Bich Tran25FemaleAsian/Pacific Islander07/13/2003San JoseCA37.3541153-121.8896329San Jose Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Tran called the police, who showed up to her home. She was holding a vegetable peeler common in Asian cooking with no outwardly sharp edges. Officer mistook vegetable peeler for a meat cleaver, fired gun

sfgate.com
2632David L. Fowler23MaleRace unspecified07/13/2003South RoxanaIL38.830646-90.060774Illinois State Police
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

David L. Fowler reportedly shot himself while being chased by a state trooper. At about 5:50 a.m., the trooper tried to stop Fowler's 1997 Range Rover for a traffic violation, police said. Fowler allegedly displayed a gun and fled. The trooper followed the Range Rover northbound on 255. After a few minutes, police said Fowler shot himself in the head. The Range Rover then left the road and came to rest in a dry water-retention pond. Fowler was pronounced dead at the scene.

theintelligencer.com
2637Joan McHugh47FemaleRace unspecified07/14/2003Roslyn HeightsNY40.7781443-73.6506424City of New York Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

McHugh was shot and killed by her boyfriend of 22 years, an active-duty NYPD lieutenant, who then turned the gun on himself. No motive was immediately apparent.

nydailynews.com
2639Etienne Molina18MaleRace unspecified07/15/2003MiamiFL25.7933331-80.143992Miami-Dade Police Department
  • Fell from a height
  • No

In the early morning hours of a Tuesday Molina was one of five teens who broke into the Dade Marine Institute, where he had been a student, and stole some items. Police followed the fleeing teens until their car crashed. Molina ran away, dropped 25 feet off an expressway ramp onto concrete, and died of the resulting injuries.

sun-sentinel.com
2640William Thrasher69MaleRace unspecified07/15/2003Peach OrchardAR36.2457522-90.7162743Arkansas State Police
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Jerry Dodd was driving a stolen truck and fleeing police when an Arkansas State Police trooper tried to end the chase with "stop sticks." Dodd avoided the sticks, but stopped when he crashed into another truck driven by Robert Wagster, killing Wagster's passenger, William Thrasher. Dodd was charged with manslaughter.

kait8.com
2638James Dwight Jr.26MaleRace unspecified07/15/2003JacksonvilleFL30.3747802-81.7141576Jacksonville Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Right in the middle of being caught selling drugs at a gas station in a narcotics sting, Dwight emerged from his car with a .45 and pointed it at officers. Three officers fired before he could, killing him.

news4jax.com
21578Kevin Jenkins25MaleRace unspecified07/15/2003BridgetonNJ39.433571-75.2327154Bridgeton Police Department
  • Drowned
  • No

Kevin Jenkins was wanted for questioning about an assault. He fled a police stop on foot, jumped into the Cohansey River and drowned.

google.com
2641Jose Luis Ives Jr.17MaleHispanic/Latino07/16/2003Union CityNJ40.7682751-74.0248576Weehawken Police Department
  • Beaten/Bludgeoned with instrument
  • Less-than-lethal force

Off-duty officer confronted Ives, one of several youth reportedly setting off car alarms, with a physical battle that ended with Ives cracking his skull against the street paving. He died several days later. The officer was acquitted of manslaughter but received 8 years in prison for assault and another 7 for filing false reports.

hudsonreporter.com
23126James Russell Leake29MaleRace unspecified07/16/2003Falls MillWV38.7737104-80.5498125Braxton County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

A standoff reportedly began when police arrived to arrest James Russell Leake at his friend's residence, following an anonymous tip. According to police, "The officers had secured the perimeter and were attempting to engage him in dialogue. He didn't respond and three shots rang out." The first two shots hit the wall and ceiling. The third struck Leake in the temple, police said.

hurherald.com
2642Oscar Curtis Tilghman44MaleEuropean-American/White07/16/2003FresnoCA36.7991318-119.7812074Fresno Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police shot and killed Oscar Curtis Tilghman after a lengthy standoff during which Tilghman reportedly threatened to kill himself, family members and police.

upi.com
19540Name withheld by policeMaleRace unspecified07/16/2003LexingtonKY38.0956048-84.4856505Kentucky State Police
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A man driving a Dodge Durango that Lexington police believe to be stolen from Fayetteville, N.C., shot and killed himself after being stopped by a Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement officer, police said.

google.com
2644Roger Allan Moore Jr.48MaleRace unspecified07/16/2003CharlestonSC32.7009517-79.9523603Charleston County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Deputies were called to Moore's Garrison Street home to investigate a domestic disturbance between him and his common-law wife, Lynne Perry, police said. The four-hour standoff ended when sheriff's deputies discovered Moore had killed himself with a pistol.

google.com
2643Maurice Cook28MaleAfrican-American/Black07/16/2003Mead ValleyCA33.8517075-117.296773Riverside County Sheriff's Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Deputy Thomas Segobia shot and killed Maurice Cook when he allegedly pulled a knife.

google.com
18836Roy Lee White52MaleEuropean-American/White07/17/2003TishomingoOK34.2355839-96.6765338Ardmore Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Roy White was shot and killed by a police sharpshooter after he fired random shots during the standoff and pointed a gun at officers, police said.

newsok.com
2646Dennis G. Colombo Jr.28MaleEuropean-American/White07/18/2003Palm Beach GardensFL26.8132472-80.1110186Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

An ex-con with 14 prior arrests, Colombo greeted a raiding SWAT force, with an armored vehicle and 15 deputies in riot gear, with a MAC-10 automatic of his own. He was fatally shot.

sun-sentinel.com
2645James Paul Faulkner Jr.54MaleRace unspecified07/18/2003LaFayetteGA34.6875513-85.3013132Walker County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Expecting stiff resistance a "special operations team" came for Faulkner at his mobile home at 3:30 a.m. He was the prime suspect in an Alabama murder. Faulkner shot a deputy in the head, his life saved by a bullet-resistant helmet. The suspect was killed by return fire.

chattanoogan.com
22090Brandon S. Hilbert20MaleEuropean-American/White07/18/2003DunkirkIN40.4497412-85.2201025Portland Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Police tried to pull Brandon Hilbert over because they suspected his license had been suspended. He fled and crashed his motorcycle, which killed him and injured his passenger. Speeds reached more than 130 mph.

google.com
2647Name withheld by police62MaleRace unspecified07/18/2003UnionNE40.814293-95.9219836Cass County Sheriff's Office, Nebraska State Patrol
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

A deputy tried to stop an unidentified 62-year-old man for speeding on US 75, and a high-speed chase ensued on county roads east of the highway. According to police, the driver displayed a gun and tried to drive away after his pickup went into a ditch after he was cornered on a dead end road near Union. The man then allegedly got out, fired his gun and ran off into a wooded area. The deputy called for backup and the area was cordoned off. The NSP sent its SWAT team and a helicopter to search for the man. The man was reportedly found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at around 7:30 p.m. near where the chase had ended about 2.5 hours earlier.

google.com
19605Anthony "Tony" Overton31MaleAfrican-American/Black07/19/2003Chester HeightsPA39.8980671-75.4733447Pennsylvania State Police
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Anthony "Tony" Overton was stopped for a DUI, when he pointed his gun at troopers. They shot him, but he got behind a concrete barrier and shot and killed himself, police said.

google.com
22821Randy Mitchell24MaleRace unspecified07/19/2003JacksonTN35.6208106-88.8340659Jackson Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Avery McAlister, 24, was allegedly drunkenly driving a car that fled a police stop and chase and crashed into a utility police, killing Randy Mitchell. The officer had allegedly broken of the chase moments before the crash.

google.com
20191Michael Earl Crispin28MaleRace unspecified07/19/2003OnalaskaWI43.8844092-91.2351393Trempealeau County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Michael Earl Crispin was shot and killed by Deputy David "Scotty" Gibbons after a high-speed chase. He allegedly threatened officers with a knife.

google.com
2648David Sandoval Jr.37MaleRace unspecified07/19/2003MercedCA37.288886-120.488467Merced Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

An officer shot and killed David Sandoval Jr. when Sandoval allegedly became "aggressive" with the officer while wielding a pointed corn-dog stick during a domestic disturbance call.

google.com
2649Brian R Swotek30MaleEuropean-American/White07/20/2003OmahaNE41.2347033-95.9399285Omaha Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Pointed gun at self and then at undercover Officer Scott Beran - was wanted by FBI for conspiracy to deliver narcotics.

nonpareilonline.com
22822Angel Marie Gullet1FemaleRace unspecified07/20/2003KodakTN35.9294269-83.635437Sevier County Sheriff's Office
  • Drowned
  • No

Christopher Wayne Adams, 30, allegedly drove a 1994 Ford Probe in the French Broad River while being chased by a Sevier County Sheriff's deputy. In the car were 15-month-old Angel Marie Gullet and her mother, Misty Dawn Gullet, 28, who was Adams' girlfriend. Angel, who was strapped into a car seat, drowned.

google.com
20190Jennifer L. Shepherd31FemaleRace unspecified07/20/2003Turtle LakeWI45.3944027-92.1424066Polk County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Jennifer Shepherd was shot and killed by a deputy during a short standoff. She approached police with a rifle and refused to drop it. She was reported to be suicidal.

google.com
2652Eric Quick31MaleEuropean-American/White07/21/2003BellmawrNJ39.872347-75.0904665New Jersey State Police
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Three state troopers fired 39 shots during the fatal conclusion of a car chase along Interstate 295 in the woods off Milepost 27.7. Eight of the 18 bullets that hit Quick entered through the back of his body. The troopers told investigators that they mistook a crack pipe Quick pulled from his waistband as a weapon.

philly.com
2651Eric Hudson38MaleRace unspecified07/21/2003EufaulaAL31.8923973-85.1418005Eufaula Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Eufaula Fire medic Eric Hudson was shot and killed when he allegedly raised his gun at police following a pursuit and exchange of gunfire.

wtvm.com
2650Willie Floyd Bailey78MaleRace unspecified07/21/2003SealeAL32.3717207-85.1769607Russell County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Deputies were called to the red-brick house Bailey shared with his girlfriend. By the time deputies arrived, Bailey already had fired his gun at his victims and then took aim at the deputies. He locked himself in the house with his girlfriend. Authorities spent several hours trying to get him to come out, then sent in a SWAT team. Authorities say Bailey fired at officers from a bedroom, where he was holding his girlfriend. A deputy shot Bailey when his girlfriend moved out of the way, police said.

google.com
2653James Richard Wagner56MaleRace unspecified07/21/2003MaderaCA36.9862918-120.0196411Madera County Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

James Richard Wagner was killed when he crashed an allegedly stolen car into a eucalyptus tree while fleeing pursuing deputies.

google.com
2654Matthew Paul West17MaleEuropean-American/White07/22/2003DurhamNC35.9916125-78.911903Durham Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Officer ran a red light while not on his way to an incident, struck the vehicle, a Jeep Wrangler, that the victim was riding in the back seat of. The victim was thrown from the vehicle and succumb to injuries 2 days later. The office plead guilty to running a red light, paid a $100 fine and resigned. The city of Durham paid $350,000 as part of a $1.75 million civil settlement.

newsobserver.com
2655Name withheld by police48MaleRace unspecified07/22/2003Elk GroveCA38.4323334-121.4349776Sacramento County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

A man reportedly shot and killed himself during a five-hour standoff with sheriff's deputies.

google.com
20985Michael John Sommers31MaleEuropean-American/White07/22/2003WarrenMI42.5064985-83.0283004Warren Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A chase ensued after police tried to stop a 1986 Chevrolet minivan driven by Michael John Sommers for making an illegal turn near Twelve Mile and Mound at around 5:25 p.m. Sommers drove into a subdivision, where he allegedly failed to follow officers' orders to stop the van and kept driving toward them. An officer fired six shots into the minivan, killing Sommers.

google.com
20986Name withheld by police19MaleRace unspecified07/22/2003River RougeMI42.271646-83.1273705Riverview Police Department, Wyandotte Police Department, River Rouge Police Department, Ecorse Police Department
  • Drowned
  • No

At around 5:30 a.m., Riverview police got a report that a group of people were trying to break into cars on Windy Court. According to police, an officer tried to pull a car with several occupants over, and a chase began when the driver didn't stop. Wyandotte, Ecorse and River Rouge officers joined in the pursuit as it continued at high speeds through four downriver communities until the driver lost control of the vehicle and plunged into the Rouge River. One of the four passengers, an unnamed 19-year-old, hit the ground or a concrete barrier when he was ejected from the car. He died from his injuries at a hospital. The driver, Christopher Lee Bonarito, 20, was charged with felony murder.

google.com
2657Othniel Askew31MaleAfrican-American/Black07/23/2003New York CityNY40.7128498-74.006465City of New York Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Othniel Askew shot and killed New York City Councilman James E. Davis while council was in session. A plainclothes police officer returned Askew's fire striking Askew five times. Evidence showed Askew may have been planning suicide.

nytimes.com
2656Alacia Williams10FemaleAsian/Pacific Islander07/23/2003KapoleiHI21.3439684-158.1135525Honolulu Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Ryan K. Goto, a Honolulu Police Department motorcycle officer and Alacia Williams, 10, were killed near Honokai Hale in a chain-reaction accident set off by a cardboard box that fell off a vehicle onto the road. The owner of the box, Eric Henderson, 49, a pilot for Continental Airlines, eventually settled a lawsuit regarding the accident.

honoluluadvertiser.com
29532Ryan G. Nichols23MaleRace unspecified07/23/2003YoungstownNY43.1966611-79.0081274Lewiston Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Ryan Nichols died after town police responded to a report of a suicidal man. Officer Alan F. Baird had disarmed Nichols and was about to leave the club with him when Nichols, who appeared to be cooperating, attacked him without warning, wrested the officer's gun away and shot himself in the hand, chest and head. The death was ruled a suicide.

google.com
2658Lennon Christopher "Chris" Johnson27MaleRace unspecified07/24/2003AustinTX30.2587717-97.6952763Travis County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Patricia Harrison, 35, stopped a red Dodge Neon at a red light. She asked Sergeant Gregory Truitt and Deputy Dan Whitehead, seated in the patrol vehicle next to her, for help. Johnson, in the passenger seat of the Neon, attacked Harrison. Deputy Whitehead pulled Harrison out of the Neon. Johnson pulled Sergeant Truitt into the Neon, then accelerated down a dead-end street. Truitt shot Johnson once, fatally, in the chest.

austinchronicle.com
2659Tony Vernon38MaleAfrican-American/Black07/24/2003DallasTX32.7119386-96.68943Dallas Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

According to DPD, officers wearing "raid jackets" while conducting a "reverse buy bust operation" approached Vernon after he stepped out of his vehicle. Vernon drew a 9mm pistol and shot once at the officers. Officers Mike Rangel and Mark Aremandariz shot Vernon. He was pronounced dead at Baylor Hospital. According to freerepublic.com, the shooting resulted in an FBI probe, that examined whether or not Vernon shot his pistol and whether he was shot in the back.

dallaspolice.net
22823Raymond L. Nelson18MaleRace unspecified07/24/2003HarrimanTN35.9555637-84.4386432Oliver Springs Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Raymond Nelson was killed when the Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck he was driving struck a tree during a police chase. The pursuit began in Oliver Springs, after Officer Teddy Dwayne Bales allegedly saw Nelson's speeding truck cross a double yellow line to pass another vehicle in the city limits. Officers from several agencies participated in the pursuit.

google.com
20987Terrance Devonny Griffin30MaleAfrican-American/Black07/24/2003DetroitMI42.43737-83.2120549Southfield Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

According to police, Terrance Devonny Griffin was was carrying false identification and driving a 2002 Volvo registered to another man when he was stopped for a traffic violation at about 11:40 a.m. Police said the Volvo belonged to Rodriguez Pickett, 33, who was wanted on a felony warrant. After giving police Pickett's Illinois driver's license, Griffin reportedly sped off, crashed into a parked Ford Tempo on Pembroke, fled on foot and ran onto a porch on Biltmore Street, where he allegedly made a move that gave the impression that he was armed. An officer shot and killed Griffin.

yahoo.com
2661Julio Cesar Contreras39MaleHispanic/Latino07/25/2003MadisonWI43.0398751-89.3935659Madison Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Madison Police Lts. Wayne Strong and Sue Williams and Officers Phil Petersen and Erik Fuhremann shoot and kill Julio Cesar Contreras, 39, who fired at them at a Park Street Mobil station after a botched robbery attempt at nearby Park Bank, 2401 S. Park St.

madison.com
2660Glennel Givens Jr.28MaleAfrican-American/Black07/25/2003BerkeleyCA37.8651489-122.2654479Berkeley Police Department, Oakland Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Givens was shot and killed by three police officers after he allegedly brandished a weapon. He also was a suspect in a series of takeover robberies of banks in Oakland and San Francisco, police said.

sfgate.com
2663Sammie Robinson43MaleRace unspecified07/26/2003ChicagoIL41.7314477-87.5855254Chicago Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Off-duty sergeant Chris Fletcher shot and killed Sammie Robinson after Robinson and another man allegedly tried to rob Fletcher and his girlfriend just after midnight on the South Side. Fletcher reportedly suffered a gunshot wound to his right hip during the exchange of gunfire.

chicagotribune.com
2665Victor Espinoza20MaleRace unspecified07/26/2003Salt Lake CityUT40.7607793-111.8910474Salt Lake City Police Department
  • Medical emergency
  • Less-than-lethal force

He just happened to die while he had handcuffs and leg irons on, a local detective said of Espinoza. Restrained after a domestic disturbance call and a fight with police, Espinoza had some kind of medical crisis, vomited, and died in custody before paramedics arrived. His behavior suggested a drug overdose, although whether it actually was a drug overdose was never apparently reported.

heraldextra.com
2664LeRoy Robinson14MaleEuropean-American/White07/26/2003SpringfieldIL39.8139022-89.6503425Springfield Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

LeRoy Robinson was killed when he crashed after a police chase. Just before 5 a.m. police said they tried to stop Robinson for driving without headlights. According to police, the chase was called off when Robinson turned the wrong way onto one-way Madison Street. Police said they believed the car became airborne about 30 seconds later when it crossed railroad tracks and hit a tree. Robinson's family members said that several residents near the crash site told them the chase had continued on Madison, and that the youth was pursued by squad cars without their lights or sirens on over the railroad tracks. His family thought Robinson was rear-ended during the chase, because the car had white paint on the rear bumper, as well as a cracked rear fender after the crash.

google.com
2662Joseph W. Steele19MaleRace unspecified07/26/2003Yates CenterKS37.8806656-95.7322162Yates Center Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Joseph W. Steele was killed when his ATV crashed while trying to elude an officer. Steele was on his ATV at around 11:30 p.m., headed eastbound in an alley, when he reportedly failed to yield to a southbound truck at the intersection of the alley and Main Street. The police vehicle avoided the collision. Steele died at a hospital.

google.com
2666Franciso Antonio Perez22MaleHispanic/Latino07/27/2003Middle RiverMD39.3365331-76.4405142Baltimore County Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Questions arose about how Honduran immigrant Perez could have possibly understood and complied with officers' instructions, as three of them shouted at him in English to drop the knife he was holding, and Perez could not speak English. The police countered that he must have understood. He was fatally shot.

baltimoresun.com
2667Yousuf Ali Mollah32MaleAsian/Pacific Islander07/27/2003Los AngelesCA34.087442-118.3064159Los Angeles Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Yousuf Ali Mollah, 32, died after being shot in East Hollywood, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

latimes.com
2668Anthony Zakharoff49MaleEuropean-American/White07/27/2003Santa RosaCA38.46756-122.724369Santa Rosa Police Department, Sonoma County Sheriff's Office
  • Drug overdose
  • No

Anthony Zakharoff collapsed while being booked into the Sonoma County jail after allegedly swallowing two bags of methamphetamine, one of which burst in his stomach.

pressdemocrat.com
2673Christopher Skwierc18MaleEuropean-American/White07/28/2003West Palm BeachFL26.8034334-80.0902805Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Bipolar Skwierc was shot and killed while on the roof of his house. He'd been drinking after a telephone argument with his girlfriend, and a 4 a.m. 911 call for medical help. As his mother screamed at responding deputies that he was only holding a pellet gun, they responded with deadly force, claiming self-defense. The shooter was already under investigation for the "mishandling the inquiry into the vicious beating of a gay man."

sun-sentinel.com
2671Porfirio Heriberto Maravilla Jr.18MaleHispanic/Latino07/28/2003ResedaCA34.193588-118.5332567Los Angeles Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Porfirio Heriberto Maravilla Jr., 18, died after being shot in Reseda, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

latimes.com
2672Robert Duke45MaleRace unspecified07/28/2003GainesvilleFL29.6422356-82.2907377Alachua County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A mentally ill Duke was shot to death by county deputies on the grounds of the sheriff's department. Duke was challenging officers with a pair of knives. Tasered twice in an effort to subdue him, he continued to attack with the knives. The grand jury review recommended additional training for officers on handling mentally ill people.

gainesville.com
2670David Alan Buchanan35MaleRace unspecified07/28/2003LillingtonNC35.4031048-78.8323077Harnett County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Sought by deputies for charges related to stealing an air-conditioning unit from a church, Buchanan tried to flee in his car, wrecked the vehicle in a 100 MPH police chase, abandoned the car, then refused to stop threatening the deputies with a knife as they approached. He was fatally shot.

wral.com
2669Jerod Kelley28MaleRace unspecified07/28/2003Wake VillageTX33.4245374-94.1029058Wake Village Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Jerod Kelley shot his wife, killed a family friend and held his children hostage for more than 12 hours before shooting himself in the head.

google.com
2674Betty Joe Perry Gadson49FemaleRace unspecified07/28/2003Myrtle BeachSC33.6768781-78.9695215South Carolina Highway Patrol
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A state trooper and his wife killed each other Monday, both using one of his S.C. Highway Patrol service weapons, police said. Lance Cpl. John W. Gadson shot and killed Betty Joe Perry Gadson, his wife of 17 months, while pleading with emergency 911 operators for help after she shot him.

google.com
2677Richard Fredrick Carver18MaleRace unspecified07/29/2003EasleySC34.841658-82.5186828Pickens County Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Richard Fredrick Carver, 18, was killed shortly after Carver and another motorcyclist sped past a Pickens County deputy, who turned his patrol car around to chase them, police said.

google.com
2676Carl D. Hays38MaleRace unspecified07/29/2003MindenLA32.589699-93.2945102Webster Parish Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Carl D. Hays died when his motorcycle crahed into an interstate guard rail while he tried to elude a Webster Parish deputy.

google.com
2675Daniel Bucci19MaleEuropean-American/White07/29/2003Mayfield HeightsOH41.5154634-81.4669601Mayfield Heights Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Bucci was shot by a Mayfield Heights police officer after Bucci punched out her patrol car window and attacked her with a knife.

shroomery.org
21577Michael A. Newkirk20MaleAfrican-American/Black07/30/2003NewarkNJ40.7594178-74.1679174Newark Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Newark police officers responding to complaints of noise and public drinking at a North Ward barbecue. Police say Newkirk pointed a gun at officers, but family members say he was holding only a liquor bottle.

google.com
2678Greg D. Thompson42MaleRace unspecified07/30/2003Pleasant TownshipOH39.9463092-83.5692562Ohio State Highway Patrol
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Thompson shot himself in the head instead of surrendering to the Ohio Highway Patrol, police said. Thompson had locked himself inside a two-story house in Pleasant Twp. and kept troopers at bay for more than 30 hours.

google.com
2679Anthony Minner22MaleAfrican-American/Black07/30/2003Las VegasNV36.0317388-115.1787002Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Las Vegas police officer was called to an apartment where Anthony Minner was suspected of shooting a 16-year-old boy in the face. Minner was expected to return to the apartment and the officer awaited a phone call from Minner's roommate upon Minner's return. The officer was called and went to the apartment, where he saw Minner in the patio area. When the officer told him to put his hands up, Minner initially complied, then reached for the handgun and pointed it at the officer. The officer fired three times and Minner died.

google.com
2682Sharokh Haghighat43MaleEuropean-American/White07/31/2003Long BeachCA33.7824298-118.1605344Long Beach Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Sharokh Haghighat, 43, died after being shot in Long Beach, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

latimes.com
2681Terence Raibon25MaleAfrican-American/Black07/31/2003TylerTX32.376948-95.312142Tyler Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Raibon shot and wounded Officer Kenneth Gardner in a drug-related incident. Officers Josh Green, Philip Johnson and Mike Saxion were involved in the fatal shooting of Rabon. Witnesses Kendrick Williams, Tawakani Jones, Terrance Black and Fleshia Jackson claimed that Raibon was shot in the back, then kicked in the head after he fell down. Forensics contradicted the claims of the four witnesses, who withdrew their testimony.

kltv.com
2680Alphons Torregrossa17MaleRace unspecified07/31/2003St. LouisMO38.751353-90.2394999Ferguson Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Alphons Torregrossa was killed when he crashed an allegedly stolen SUV during a police chase. Ferguson police were pursuing the SUV south on Highway 367 shortly after 4 a.m. when Torregrossa lost control of the vehicle, causing it to flip over several times and eject all three occupants. Two other teens in the SUV were injured in the wreck, one critically.

google.com
2683David C. Hinson57MaleAfrican-American/Black08/01/2003Daytona BeachFL29.2007366-81.0361913Daytona Beach Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Educator Hinson was struck and killed by a vehicle fleeing from the police. On reports of a vehicle speeding and weaving, local police had pulled the 1999 Mercury Sable over, successfully, but it then bolted. The first jurisdiction alerted Dayton Beach police, who were after the Sable when it ran an intersection and collided with Hinson.

theledger.com
2684Kenneth R. Dukes23MaleAfrican-American/Black08/02/2003ChicagoIL41.6964251-87.6635284Chicago Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police on patrol heard gunshots and went to investigate. At the scene, they found two cars parked side by side in the street. Dukes jumped from the passenger's seat of one of the cars and ran between his home and the one next, turning and aiming a gun at police, who shot and killed him at the scene.

chicagotribune.com
2685Donald Van Zant74MaleRace unspecified08/02/2003YucaipaCA34.0157309-117.0322988San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A deputy shot and killed Donald Van Zant after he shot and killed his neighbor, Carl Miles, 49.

latimes.com
19591Teneka M. Milbourne26FemaleRace unspecified08/02/2003BridgetonNJ39.4256537-75.191318New Jersey Department of Corrections
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

New Jersey corrections officer Teneka M. Milbourne allegedly was killed by her boyfriend, New Jersey corrections officer Jonathan K. Norman.

corrections.com
2687Kevin Larson Smith aka Kevin Laron Smith27MaleRace unspecified08/02/2003VallejoCA38.1047022-122.2424254Vallejo Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Three officers shot Kevin Larson Smith when he allegedly tried to take another officer's gun during a struggle after he fired shots and led them a foot chase into the Children's Wonderland park.

sfgate.com
2686Marc A. Leber40MaleEuropean-American/White08/02/2003GlobeAZ33.3922222-110.7653683Globe Police Department, Gila County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Globe police responded to a report of a suicidal subject at a motel. Police said the caller was Leber, who wanted an officer sent to his motel room regarding a body. When officers arrived, they found Leber's motel room door open and a suicide note inside. About that time, a motel employee identified a man driving by the room as Leber. Two Globe police officers and a Gila County sheriff's deputy followed Leber about a quarter mile away from the motel and pulled the BIA agent over. He brandished his weapon toward the sheriff's deputy and all three officers shot, killing Leber.

trivalleycentral.com
2689Juan C. Meraz21MaleHispanic/Latino08/03/2003Kansas CityMO38.9926704-94.5533009Kansas City Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police shot Juan C. Meraz after he allegedly threatened two officers with a barbell. At around 12:30 a.m., police responded to a disturbance in a parking lot behind two apartment buildings and tried to take Meraz into custody on suspicion of aggravated assault. Police said the officers shot Meraz when he didn't drop the barbell. Meraz was pronounced dead at a hospital.

columbiatribune.com
2690Michael Sherman27MaleEuropean-American/White08/03/2003BismarckND46.7859372-100.7766504Bismarck Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A 14-hour standoff developed around a mobile home when local officers attempted a search warrant on drugs charges. A 17-year-old girl was released and informed the police that the two men left were heavily armed. Sherman's accomplice was wounded. Sherman was killed.

bismarcktribune.com
19604Edward Shawn "Boo" Pickens31MaleAfrican-American/Black08/03/2003PhiladelphiaPA39.9437841-75.2227945Philadelphia Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police said Pickens was selling drugs on Warrington Avenue. When narcotics officers tried to arrest him, Pickens shot at them. Some witnesses said Pickens was simply walking down the street, unarmed, on his way home from a neighborhood corner store

philadelphiaweekly.com
2688Name withheld by police33MaleRace unspecified08/03/2003DecaturGA33.7596427-84.25059DeKalb County Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police responded to a domestic disturbance call at a house. The officer did not find the man during an initial search of the house. But when the officer returned for a second check, he found the man inside, armed with a knife and threatening those inside. unidentified man refused the officer's orders to drop the knife and lunged at the officer, police said. He was shot and killed.

google.com
2691Troy Dale Nowell51MaleEuropean-American/White08/04/2003AmarilloTX35.2074862-101.845062Amarillo Police Department
  • Tasered
  • Less-than-lethal force

Corporal Eddie Stallings shot Nowell repeatedly with a stun gun as he resisted an assault-related arrest. Nowell died of heart and lung failure.

amarillo.com
2692Rodger Wayne Chastain23MaleRace unspecified08/04/2003San FranciscoCA37.6452246-122.4055491South San Francisco Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Rodger Wayne Chastain reportedly killed himself in a South San Francisco motel room after a 12-hour standoff with police.

sfgate.com
18835Eugene Hartsell46MaleRace unspecified08/05/2003SallisawOK35.4603711-94.7874463U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Eugene Hartsell was killed after Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents came into his house. ATF spokesman Tom Crowley said agents knocked and announced themselves before they entered Hartsell's house. Hartsell confronted the ATF agents with a shotgun when he was shot and killed.

newsok.com
2694Gregg Wynn Hackett48MaleRace unspecified08/05/2003Thousand OaksCA34.2478629-118.8340723Ventura County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Gregg Wynn Hackett was killed in a shootout with deputies in front of the Thousand Oaks sheriff's station.

trivalleycentral.com
22015Martin Edward Moore36MaleRace unspecified08/05/2003GrandviewIN37.9679336-86.9068106Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Martin Edward Moore as police closed in. He was wanted for the murder of his wife in Texas.

google.com
2693Denise Michelle Washington30FemaleAfrican-American/Black08/05/2003AuroraCO39.688459-104.870118Aurora Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police were called because Washington was off her mental illness meds. Washington was shot five times when she struck a policeman with a candlestick.

utexas.edu
2697Rodolfo A. Greene56MaleRace unspecified08/06/2003El PasoTX31.8755165-106.5473861U.S. Customs and Border Protection
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Agent Greene fatally shot his wife and himself during an argument at their residence. Cynthia Sanchez, 10, Rebeca's cousin, and Lizbeth Greene, 6, Rebeca's daughter, were both in the residence at the time of the shooting. The marriage had lasted less than a month.

beaumontenterprise.com
2698Rebeca Greene30FemaleEuropean-American/White08/06/2003El PasoTX31.8755165-106.5473861U.S. Customs and Border Protection
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Greene's husband Rodolfo, a Border Patrol Agent, fatally shot her and committed suicide after an argument at their residence. Cynthia Sanchez, 10, Rebeca's cousin, and Lizbeth Greene, 6, Rebeca's daughter, were both in the residence at the time of the shooting. The marriage had lasted less than a month.

beaumontenterprise.com
2696Glen Willis47MaleAfrican-American/Black08/06/2003OaklandCA37.7691361-122.1996494Oakland Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

police shot and killed Willis after he stabbed an officer several times in the back and arm. The police described him as mentally unstable. Willis' family told police he was a known schizophrenic and was not taking his medication.

mercurynews.com
20988John Lee Thompson44MaleEuropean-American/White08/06/2003SaginawMI43.4796433-83.9422896Carrollton Township Police Department, Zilwaukee Police Department, Saginaw County Sheriff's Office
  • Tasered
  • Less-than-lethal force

Police responded to the Sterling Crest Apartments on a report that John Lee Thompson had become belligerent during a card game. Witnesses reportedly said that Thompson threw a potted plant at officers. A prolonged scuffle ensued that eventually involved 10 officers from multiple jurisdictions. Police tasered and pepper sprayed Thompson multiple times during his arrest and again in the sallyport of the Saginaw County jail. Thompson died two days later. Saginaw County Medical Examiner Dr. Kanu Virani decided that Thompson died of natural causes and suffered from heart disease.

mlive.com
2695Dante W. Miller aka Daunte Miller20MaleAfrican-American/Black08/06/2003ColumbusOH39.956294-83.0100511Columbus Division of Police
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

According to police, the two officers, Sgt. Anthony Luzio and Officer Bruce Beard, approached Miller in front of the Open Shelter. After a brief conversation, Miller ran. He turned around with a firearm, and the officers shot and killed him.

google.com
2699Walter C. Burks36MaleRace unspecified08/06/2003MinneapolisMN44.9698555-93.280709Minneapolis Police Department
  • Tasered
  • Less-than-lethal force

According to police, Walter C. Burks, 36, was uncooperative and ``assaultive" when officers were called to a convenience store in the 100 block of W. Grant St., near Loring Park, to quell a quarrel. Because of Burks' behavior, officers decided to take him to the crisis center at Hennepin County Medical Center rather than to jail or a detox center, police said. He died before he could be admitted.

google.com
19590Devon Still30MaleRace unspecified08/06/2003CamdenNJ39.9359976-75.1262581Camden Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Devon Still was killed by a police van driven by Officer Troy Redd after Still fell or jumped off a stolen bicycle.

google.com
2705Donald Charles Kueck52MaleEuropean-American/White08/08/2003LittlerockCA34.5726788-117.8942718Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Authorities used tear gas and a battering ram to try to flush out a heavily armed, barricaded man suspected of killing a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy. A fire broke out about 8 p.m. Kueck, 52, had exchanged gunfire with sheriff's deputies before the fire, which quickly spread through the house and several outbuildings. They said it was not immediately known whether Kueck, who was moving about the property, had been trapped and killed in any of the structures, all of which were destroyed.

latimes.com
2707Richard Burrola50MaleHispanic/Latino08/08/2003RubidouxCA33.9975346-117.4027023Riverside County Sheriff's Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Deputy shot Richard Burrola after he allegedly struck the deputy several times with a metal object.

latimes.com
2700Melissa Sue "Missy Sue" Sadlowski21FemaleEuropean-American/White08/08/2003StowOH41.1594247-81.4334692Stow Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Anthony Brennan was sentenced in Summit County Juvenile Court after accepting charges of aggravated vehicular homicide and aggravated vehicular assault. Brennan crashed into Sadlowski's car while fleeing police with his headlights turned off.

cleveland19.com
2702Ernie Martinez40MaleNative American/Alaskan08/08/2003Uintah-Ouray ReservationUT40.1069499-109.3783206Uintah County Sheriff's Office, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Federal BIA officers and county deputies responded to a domestic dispute situation on the reservation. They were met with Martinez who opened fired on them twice. They returned fire, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

deseretnews.com
23127Neil Campbell Parker34MaleEuropean-American/White08/08/2003LewisburgWV37.8229615-80.4770269West Virginia State Police, Lewisburg Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

According to reports, a Lewisburg police car was rushing to the scene of a fight. State troopers in two squad cars saw the city cruiser and sped after it to assist "out of courtesy." However, the troopers apparently didn't know what they were assisting, because they couldn't talk to the Lewisburg officer over their dissimilar radios. The city officer stopped in the road at the top of a hill to talk to some witnesses. One of the state troopers was able to stop. The second trooper, Greg Collins, swerved left to miss the stopped vehicles and hit an oncoming car driven by Neil Parker, killing him.

hurherald.com
2703Natalie Turner31FemaleEuropean-American/White08/08/2003near Park CityUT40.6616551-111.5036967Summit County Sheriff's Office, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Turner was pulled over in a car with her friend and her ex-husband in it, her ex-husband bleeding from gunshot wounds. They'd shot him and were taking him to the hospital. Turner emerged from the car and leveled a weapon at officers, and she was fatally shot.

ksl.com
2708Teale Marie Sisson9FemaleEuropean-American/White08/08/2003SloughhouseCA38.4824274-121.0436805California Highway Patrol
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

Teale Marie Sisson was killed when the car in which she was riding was struck by a vehicle fleeing police.

mymotherlode.com
2706Melvin Sylvester65MaleAfrican-American/Black08/08/2003New York CityNY40.812717-73.9454803City of New York Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A family feud between neighbors at the St. Nicholas Houses in Harlem developed into a confrontation between 65-year-old Sylvester, holding a six-inch knife and reportedly intoxicated, and an undercover vice cop, who fatally shot Sylvester when he refused to drop the weapon.

nydailynews.com
2704David Kruljac42MaleRace unspecified08/08/2003MelbourneFL28.2420978-80.7217567Melbourne Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Kruljac set fire to the garage of a house, stole his roommate's pick up, assaulted another man at the service station where he worked, then led police on a slow-speed chase. On I-95 he continued for about a mile only on rims after driving over stop-spikes. Ultimately Kruljac crossed over into opposing traffic. There he hit another vehicle head on, was ejected and then run over by the police pursing him.

theledger.com
2701Lucas Cain McGee21MaleRace unspecified08/08/2003SheridanAR34.3070165-92.3990836Arkansas State Police
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Lucas Cain McGee, 21, was riding His Kawasaki motorcycle at speeds of up to 100 miles an hour when he was spotted by state police. After a 10-minute chase, McGee's motorcycle ran into the back of a trailer hauling two all-terrain vehicles. The motorcycle caught fire, and McGee was killed.

google.com
23128Christina McKibben18FemaleRace unspecified08/09/2003LewisburgWV37.827922-80.5582787Greenbrier County Sheriff's Office, West Virginia State Police
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police said John Richard Mayhew, 35, shot and killed his former wife and her fiance in Columbus on August 7, then took his daughter, Christina McKibben, hostage. Greenbrier County deputy Nathan Hershman pulled Mayhew over about 8 p.m. two days later for not displaying a motor vehicle inspection sticker, police said. Mayhew allegedly shot Hershman in the left arm with a .25 caliber handgun. Police said Hershman returned fire as Mayhew sped away and chased him while requesting backup. Mayhew reportedly tried to carjack another vehicle, hit a state police cruiser and sped past a barricade before police disabled his vehicle in Lewisburg. Police said they believed Mayhew shot McKibben and himself as officers, with guns drawn, yelled for him to exit the car. "We couldn't hear the gunshots because a lot of stuff was going on," state police Sgt. Jay Powers said. "We believe the time he shot his daughter was the time we had him stopped." Police said they felt certain none of the shots fired by officers had struck McKibben. McKibben died en route to the hospital. Mayhew survived.

wave3.com
2709Michael Whatley34MaleRace unspecified08/09/2003ClevelandOH41.500545-81.648435Cleveland Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Two police heard a broadcast about a stolen Jeep and within seconds saw the vehicle heading east on Cedar Avenue. The driver initially pulled over and shut off the engine, but then started the vehicle again and drove off, police said. The driver turned onto Ashland Avenue, where the Jeep jumped the curb and hit Michael Whatley, killing him.

google.com
2712Sonya Dora Nitcuk Ivanoff19FemaleNative American/Alaskan08/11/2003NomeAK64.4973893-165.3899886Nome Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Ivanoff disappeared from downtown Nome and was found days later at an abandoned gold mine three miles north of town, dead, naked except for one sock, shot in the back of the head and physically battered. Suspicion fell on an on-duty Nome officer. His two murder trials resulted in a 101-year sentence, a state Sonya Ivanoff Act mandating at least 99 years for similar incidents, and attention to the many other disappeared Alaskans.

adn.com
2710Jimmy Heyward43MaleRace unspecified08/11/2003BarnwellSC33.2448733-81.3587177Barnwell Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Heyward was shot during a struggle with Barnwell police Patrolman Drayton Gantt, police said. Heyward ran from police after a traffic stop.

google.com
2711David Jeffrey Freeman32MaleEuropean-American/White08/11/2003Las VegasNV36.0200211-115.1187258Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

David Jeffrey Freeman, 32, who resigned from the Las Vegas police because of a prescription drug dependency, kidnapped a doctor at gunpoint and took him to a pharmacy to get more pills in southeast Las Vegas. After a standoff in which Freemon pointed a gun at the doctor, who was handcuffed in the passenger seat, Freeman was shot and killed by Las Vegas police.

google.com
2713Elvis Wayne Wilson38MaleRace unspecified08/12/2003YakimaWA46.5779575-120.5186744Yakima County Sheriff's Office, Yakima Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Elvis Wayne Wilson was shot once with a 12-gauge shotgun during a standoff in the front yard of his brother-in-law's home. He was armed with a knife.

google.com
20989Michael A. Norman40MaleEuropean-American/White08/12/2003Dearborn HeightsMI42.2972984-83.2567235Dearborn Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

According to police, Michael Norman entered a 7-Eleven in Dearborn at around 5 a.m. and stole cigarettes. Officer Michael McNamara followed Norman's Ford Ranger pickup truck and tried to pull it over, but Norman reportedly kept going and a three mile pursuit ensued. Officer James Ford joined the chase. Norman struck a fence on a dead end street near Summer-Stevens Park. McNamara and Ford got out as officers Edward Doulette and David Truell arrived. Doulette intentionally collided with Norman's truck to prevent him from fleeing, police said. Norman allegedly accelerated toward the officers. Ford and Truell fired at least 17 shots, though it wasn't clear if they hit Norman. Another three mile chase ensued. Doulette's car hit Norman's truck on a residential street in Dearborn Heights. Truell exited the police car and approached Norman's truck. Truell claimed he saw Norman backing toward him and the car with Doulette inside, so he fired four shots at the truck. Norman was pronounced dead at the scene.

google.com
2714Maria Valenzuela32FemaleRace unspecified08/12/2003MontclairCA34.0558238-117.7068378Montclair Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

Maria and Sergio Valenzuela were killed when their truck was hit by a van fleeing police.

highbeam.com
2715Sergio Valenzuela35MaleRace unspecified08/12/2003MontclairCA34.0558238-117.7068378Montclair Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

Maria and Sergio Valenzuela were killed when their truck was hit by a van fleeing police.

highbeam.com
2716Alvaro Solis-Roman21MaleRace unspecified08/13/2003PhoenixAZ33.4796364-112.0690845Phoenix Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

An officer was struggling with a DUI suspect who was trying to take his gun when Officer Jason Scarpati fatally shot the man. Several bullets from Scarpati's gun also ripped into Hancock. The suspect, Alvaro Solis-Roman, 21, was killed in the struggle.

acuraworld.com
2717Stephanie DouganFemaleRace unspecified08/13/2003FresnoCA36.8229322-119.7814098California Highway Patrol
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

Stephanie Dougan was a passenger killed in a crash during a high-speed police chase.

courts.ca.gov
2718Ditania E. Kane28MaleRace unspecified08/14/2003BaltimoreMD39.28793-76.656605Baltimore Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Finding his former girlfriend with another man, Kane fatally stabbed her with a kitchen knife on the sidewalk. A city police officer coincidentally passing in a patrol car shot and killed him immediately afterwards.

baltimoresun.com
2721Aaron M. Keller33MaleRace unspecified08/15/2003Los AngelesCA34.0944446-118.3592044California Highway Patrol
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

Aaron M. Keller and Jacob S. Bertucci were killed when their 2002 Nissan collided with another car after being struck by an allegedly stolen 2001 Volkswagen being chased by the CHP.

latimes.com
2722Jacob S. BertucciMaleRace unspecified08/15/2003Los AngelesCA34.0944446-118.3592044California Highway Patrol
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

Aaron M. Keller and Jacob S. Bertucci were killed when their 2002 Nissan collided with another car after being struck by an allegedly stolen 2001 Volkswagen being chased by the CHP.

latimes.com
2719Cherie Lynn Wallace52FemaleRace unspecified08/15/2003San RamonCA37.7401721-121.9542905Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Officer John Gardenier shot and killed Cherie Lynn Wallace when she allegedly pointed a gun at officers as they tried to commit her for psychiatric evaluation.

sfgate.com
18834William Ben Cooper44MaleRace unspecified08/15/2003AsherOK34.9920626-96.9283302Asher Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Police Chief James Brand was responding to a domestic dispute between William Ben Cooper and his wife when Cooper barricaded himself inside. Cooper was found in the living room of his home with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, police said.

google.com
2720Name withheld by policeMaleRace unspecified08/15/2003Los AngelesCA34.0494266-118.3780967Los Angeles Police Department, Orange County Sheriff's Department,
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

A man reportedly shot his girlfriend near Lake Elsinore and led police on a freeway chase from Corona to Los Angeles where he used the same gun to kill himself.

google.com
19589Timothy R. Wright22MaleRace unspecified08/15/2003Ocean TownshipNJ40.2501025-74.0563357New Jersey State Police, Monmouth County Sheriff's Office, Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office, New Jersey Department of Corrections, Neptune Township Police Department, Asbury Park Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Timothy R. Wright, an escapee from a halfway house, was shot and killed after a two-hour chase through Monmouth and Middlesex Counties by members of a fugitive task force, police said.

google.com
2723Karl "Buck" Koch24MaleRace unspecified08/17/2003HoustonTX29.9459458-95.4551959Harris County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Koch, high on cocaine, drove away from deputies who tried to conduct a traffic stop on his Suburban. Officers pursued him through his neighborhood as he sped and waved at friends. After two law enforcement vehicles crashed during the pursuit, Deputy Marcus Staudt pulled up to the Suburban and fatally shot Koch. The Suburban crashed into a drainage ditch.

chron.com
2724Cary James Grime47MaleEuropean-American/White08/17/2003NovatoCA38.0667221-122.5387659Marin County Sheriff's Office
  • Beaten/Bludgeoned with instrument
  • Less-than-lethal force

Cary James Grime died after a struggle with deputies.

sfgate.com
2725Gordon Benjamin Rauch39MaleEuropean-American/White08/17/2003Citrus HeightsCA38.6680704-121.2923215Sacramento County Sheriff's Office
  • Tasered
  • Less-than-lethal force

Gordon Rauch died after deputies tasered him at least twice during an altercation.

google.com
18833John Henry Steiner41MaleEuropean-American/White08/18/2003PadenOK35.5112609-96.5686978Oklahoma City Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

John Henry Steiner was shot by Sheriff James C. Fox after Steiner walked outside his house holding a shotgun, police said. The shooting ended about two hours of negotiations stemming from a domestic disturbance call.

newsok.com
2732Jay A. Vestal36MaleEuropean-American/White08/18/2003TempletonCA35.5508769-120.7024325San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office
  • Asphyxiated/Restrained
  • Less-than-lethal force

Jay A. Vestal died of asphyxiation during his arrest by deputies in northern San Luis Obispo County.

slocourts.net
2728Robert Simon25MaleEuropean-American/White08/18/2003St. LouisMO38.5087246-90.3739762St. Louis County Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Two officers shot and killed Robert Simon when he allegedly drove toward them in a Dierbergs parking lot. The officers responded at around 3:45 a.m. to a report that Simon had assaulted his girlfriend, then took her Ford Expedition. Both officers opened fire after Simon reportedly backed toward one officer, then reversed direction toward the second officer, who moved out of the way just before the SUV struck the squad car.

callnewspapers.com
2731Cornelius Ware20MaleRace unspecified08/18/2003ChicagoIL41.740254-87.6579579Chicago Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Four officers approached Ware in his car. He'd run a stop sign; the police thought they'd chased that same car earlier in the evening. The unarmed, blameless, paraplegic Ware was shot fatally six times, and (according to the subsequent lawsuit) police planted a gun in the car. The family reached a $5M settlement with the city.

chicagotribune.com
2730Russell R. Clark25MaleEuropean-American/White08/18/2003OremUT40.282751-111.693855Orem Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Clark, on parole from California, had fled from a traffic stop in a stolen vehicle earlier in the day. Caught again snooping around cars in a retail parking lot, Clark conducted an armed standoff with police for more than 45 minutes before he was killed in the final firefight. The coroner said his fatal wound was self-inflicted.

deseretnews.com
2729Everett Francis Davisson33MaleRace unspecified08/18/2003CharlotteNC35.270828-80.852271Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, Belmont Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Davisson fled from a traffic stop while driving in a vehicle with a stolen license plate, and also with four outstanding warrants. He led officers from two towns on a chase that ended in Charlotte. Said to have struck police twice with his vehicle, he was shot to death.

wsoctv.com
2727Christopher Mark Herring19MaleEuropean-American/White08/18/2003BereaSC34.885395-82.4559571Greenville County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Herring was being sought in the killing of a Greenville County Sheriff's Deputy Andrew Mazur. He was recognized at a warehouse. When deputies arrived, Herring fired at least two shots. Deputies returned fire, but an autopsy showed that he had killed himself with the Mazur's gun.

google.com
2726James Thomas Williams29MaleRace unspecified08/18/2003LithoniaGA33.7048512-84.1174526DeKalb County Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

After a bank robbery, chase and standoff, Williams was shot and killed when he pointed his gun toward police.

google.com
2734Sarah Gumbert26FemaleRace unspecified08/19/2003HighlandCA34.1165213-117.1731508San Bernardino Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Veteran San Bernardino police officer Paul Gumbert shot and killed his wife, Sarah Gumbert, before killing himself at the couple's home in Highland at about 4:30 a.m.

latimes.com
2733Adam Joseph Doblar15MaleEuropean-American/White08/19/2003WinonaMN44.0461118-91.659663Winona Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Doblar stole a car and ran from police at speeds approaching 80 mph through residential neighborhoods until he crashed and died.

winonapost.com
2736Edgar Arnold Zelaya18MaleHispanic/Latino08/20/2003PalmdaleCA34.5611868-118.0667172Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Edgar Arnold Zelaya, 18, died after being shot in Palmdale, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

latimes.com
2738Mark James Casillas32MaleHispanic/Latino08/20/2003EscondidoCA33.1975608-117.1270497California Highway Patrol
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Mark James Casillas reportedly shot himself after a four-hour standoff with police on I-15 in Escondido.

utsandiego.com
2735Lillian Jeanne Stafford61FemaleRace unspecified08/20/2003HutchinsonKS38.0608445-97.9297743Reno County Sheriff's Office, Harvey County Sheriff's Office, McPherson County Sheriff's Office, Hutchinson Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Lillian Jeanne Stafford, a psychology teacher at Hutchinson Community College, reportedly shot herself as officers closed in to question her about the shooting death of her husband. Dr. Robert Stafford, 60, was shot and killed the night before at a medical office building across from the Hutchinson Clinic. Officers found Lillian Stafford's SUV parked in a cul-de-sac northwest of Hutchinson at around 1:20 p.m. According to police, the officers heard a gunshot coming from behind a sand dune 50-75 feet off the road, and found Stafford, suffering from a single gunshot wound to the chest. She died at a hospital.

ljworld.com
2737Mark Benson46MaleRace unspecified08/20/2003HighlandCA34.1358273-117.2000974San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

According to officials, Mark Benson was killed when he apparently crashed intentionally into a light pole during a high-speed pursuit in Highland.

google.com
20990Leon Dewone Dandredge35MaleRace unspecified08/20/2003MuskegonMI43.2318769-86.2405374U.S. Marshals Service
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

U.S. marshals Mark Hessler and Ken Groenveld went to Leon Dewon Dandredge's girlfriend's home to arrest him on a fugitive warrant. According to police, Dandredge was hiding in the basement. Hessler shot Dandredge in the face when he allegedly emerged from underneath a blanket and lunged at him. Dandredge was unarmed.

google.com
19603Eddie Vega36MaleRace unspecified08/21/2003MocanaquaPA41.1383805-76.1404355Pennsylvania State Police
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Eddie Vega fought with troopers who were attempting to arrest him for violating a protection order. He was shot and killed by Trooper Garry Bat while swinging a rake at them. At least one witness said he'd dropped the rake before he was shot.

google.com
2739Ronald Eduardo Guzman19MaleHispanic/Latino08/22/2003Los AngelesCA34.0522342-118.2436849Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Ronald Eduardo Guzman, 19, died after being shot by police.

latimes.com
2740Name withheld by police18MaleRace unspecified08/23/2003St. LouisMO38.6384191-90.2592898St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

An 18-year-old driver trying to elude police in an allegedly stolen SUV crashed head-on into a Metro transit agency bus and was killed. The bus driver and three bus passengers were treated and released.

highbeam.com
2743Elias Cabarera aka Elias Cabrera22MaleHispanic/Latino08/24/2003PhoenixAZ33.4810205-112.167781Phoenix Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Phoenix police shot and killed Elias Cabarera, 22, after he shot and wounded two other people at a home.

azcentral.com
2741Juan Gonzalez20MaleRace unspecified08/24/2003ChicagoIL41.8551414-87.6301522Chicago Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Juan Gonzalez was killed when off-duty officer, John Krass, 28, ran a red light and hit Gonzalez's car while driving under the influence. According to reports, Kass' BAC was more than twice the legal limit. According to prosecutors, Krass sideswiped a CTA bus before the fatal collision, though Krass claimed to have no recollection of hitting the bus. Krass was convicted of reckless homicide and two counts of aggravated DUI.

chicagotribune.com
2744Omar Medina Mendez25MaleRace unspecified08/24/2003Yorba LindaCA33.880783-117.7357248Brea Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

Omar Medina Mendez died during a high-speed police chase after hitting a pole.

latimes.com
2742Deondre "Trey" Brunston24MaleAfrican-American/Black08/24/2003ComptonCA33.9175079-118.2301313Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

After Brunston fled police attempts to apprehend him on domestic abuse allegations, he was cornered in a doorway near his residence and circled by officers. He claimed to have a pistol, and to be wanted for murder (both of which were false). After abortive negotiations Brunston died in a hail of 81 bullets, 22 of which hit him, and which also fatally wounded a police dog. The dog received medical evaluation by helicopter while Brunston bled to death in the street. In March 2006 the family settled a wrongful death suit with the county for $340,000.

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2746Efraim Gutierrez aka Ephraim Gutierrez33MaleHispanic/Latino08/25/2003San BernardinoCA34.1346048-117.3123579Rialto Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

SWAT officer Rodney Topping shot Efrain Gutierrez after allegedly finding Gutierrez cutting his 2-year-old niece during a 90-minute hostage standoff

latimes.com
2745Mario Albert Madrigal15MaleHispanic/Latino08/25/2003MesaAZ33.3775416-111.8686458Mesa Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Mario Albert Madrigal, Jr. was shot multiple times at his Mesa home after police said he came toward them in a threatening manner while bearing a knife. After a four-minute standoff, the 15-year-old boy lay dying from 10 gunshot wounds.

azcentral.com
2749Jon Edward Hill aka John Elijah Rocks46MaleRace unspecified08/26/2003CamarilloCA34.2250557-119.0439276Ventura County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Deputies Michael Rowland and John Hajducko shot and killed Jon Edward Hill after he allegedly confronted them during a 3-hour standoff.

latimes.com
2747Judith K. Vellucci56FemaleRace unspecified08/26/2003LawrenceKS38.928042-95.2625159Lawrence Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Judith K. Vellucci was killed when a vehicle being chased by police struck her car. During the chase, police allege, Nam Ouk Cho, 19, sped through business areas and neighborhoods at speeds of up to 80 mph for five miles before the crash. Vellucci was pronounced dead at a hospital. Cho was treated for minor facial injuries before being booked into the county jail for second-degree murder. Police Chief Ron Olin said, "The policy was followed," when asked whether officers followed department procedures in the chase.

cjonline.com
2748James Carol Faulkner Jr.32MaleRace unspecified08/26/2003StanardsvilleVA38.3132593-78.4368459Greene County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Deputies arrived at Faulkner's residence at 11 p.m. to serve him a warrant on drug-related charges. His mother said he wasn't there, but he was hiding in a back bedroom, armed. Faulkner fired on and killed a sergeant. He was fatally shot in return.

whsv.com
2750Salvador Tapia36MaleHispanic/Latino08/27/2003ChicagoIL41.8231854-87.641042Chicago Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Salvador Tapia, who was fired from his job at Windy City Core Supply six months earlier, returned with a handgun and shot six former co-workers, killing them all. Tapia then reportedly waged a gunbattle with police before a member of the city's Hostage-Barricade-Terrorist team fatally shot him.

orlandosentinel.com
2751Clinton Grandy62MaleAfrican-American/Black08/27/2003OaklandCA37.8156129-122.2839454Oakland Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Pursuit

Clinton Grandy was killed when his Ford Escort was struck by an allegedly stolen Buick being chased by police.

sfgate.com
22824Alreco D. Ayers35MaleAfrican-American/Black08/27/2003MemphisTN35.072909-89.9253561Memphis Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Alreco Ayers shot Memphis police patrolman Anthony Woods, shot his girlfriend twice, and then, as other officers converged on the scene, committed suicide. Police were called on a domestic violence call.

wmcactionnews5.com
2754Kyle A. Wasson24MaleEuropean-American/White08/28/2003CoralvilleIA41.7062683-91.5762891North Liberty Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Wasson was on a motorcycle chased for miles by the police chief of a nearby town. He stopped or was stopped near the playground of an elementary school where the police cruiser collided with the bike. Both men exchanged in a struggle, both armed, and Wasson was fatally shot by the chief.

wcfcourier.com
2753Shelvin Rowmane Williams22MaleAfrican-American/Black08/28/2003HoustonTX29.9512327-95.395391Houston Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Barefoot and shirtless, Williams tried to kidnap a 16-year-old female. Unsuccessful, he stole a vehicle, drove about six blocks, then abandoned it to escape on foot. Officer Donald Kankel pursued Williams to a wooded area, then tried to handcuff him. Williams punched him. Officer Kankel fell to the ground, then drew his pistol and fatally shot Williams in the chest.

chron.com
2756Anthony Maurice Williams28MaleAfrican-American/Black08/28/2003MinneapolisMN44.9799661-93.3080078Minneapolis Police Department
  • Asphyxiated/Restrained
  • Less-than-lethal force

According to the Star Tribune, responding to a call of shots fired, police tried to pull over Williams. He hit a curb, got out of his van and ran. Officers used pepper spray to subdue him, triggering "respiratory arrest."

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2755Name withheld by policeMaleRace unspecified08/28/2003MinneapolisMN44.9826503-93.3083073Minneapolis Police Department
  • Medical emergency
  • Less-than-lethal force

Officers responding to a 911 call about shots being fired saw a van that the 911 caller said may have been involved, said the Hennepin County Sheriff's spokeswoman. The officers put on flashing lights, but the driver didn't stop. He drove less than two blocks before his van hit a curb and stopped, police said. Officers caught him after a short foot chase, but he resisted arrest. He died a short time later.

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2752Gregory J. Isobaker Jr.21MaleRace unspecified08/28/2003CabotAR34.9464927-92.0662977Lonoke County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Deputy Vernon Williams stopped a car for bearing a false license tag. After pulling over the car, Williams asked the driver, an unidentified woman, as well as Isobaker and two other women to get out of the car so he could search the vehicle. Isobaker and Williams fought, and Isobaker pulled out a .25-caliber pistol and started shooting. Both men then got to their feet and started firing at each other.Isobaker was killed; Williams sustained six gunshot wounds.

google.com
2757Troy A. Clark41MaleRace unspecified08/29/2003Lake TownshipOH41.5467102-83.5285787Lake Township Police Department, Perrysburg Township Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Lake Township police investigating a domestic violence complaint arrived at Clark's residence and talked to his wife. The woman told officers her husband had just left in a van and had a gun, police said. A Lake Township officer saw the van and followed, joined by an officer from neighboring Perrysburg Township. The van pulled over. The officers ordered Clark out of the van; he did not comply. About 30 seconds later, officers heard a gunshot and found Clark in the van with a gunshot wound in his face.

google.com
2759Justin Michael McGuire31MaleEuropean-American/White08/31/2003QuartzsiteAZ33.6619656-114.2363135Quartzsite Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

A suspect in an armed robbery at the Flying J Travel Plaza on the outskirts of Joplin, MO, Justin M. McGuire, 31, whose last address was Fayetteville, Ark., was killed in a shootout with police after an armed robbery at a Flying J truck stop near Quartzsite, AZ, police said.

joplinglobe.com
2758Jesse C. Hembree48MaleEuropean-American/White08/31/2003CartervilleMO37.1490068-94.4422679Carterville Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Sgt. Sara Gerber shot Jesse C. Hembree four times during a struggle in an alley. At around 10:30 a.m., Gerber had responded to a 911 call from a clerk at the Self Serv Convenient Store, who said Hembree was shoplifting beer and cigarettes. According to police, Gerber approached Hembree in an alley about 50 yards east of the store, and a struggle ensued. Gerber reportedly used mace and nunchucks in an attempt to subdue Hembree before she fired six shots from her 9 mm sidearm while on her stomach with Hembree standing over her. Four of the shots struck Hembree in the torso, killing him. In 2006, the city agreed to pay $99,000 to Hembree's family to settle a lawsuit.

semissourian.com
2760Joseph "Joey" Robinson Jr.35MaleRace unspecified08/31/2003RialtoCA34.106762-117.3794079Rialto Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Sgt. Robert Cross shot and killed Joseph Robinson as he allegedly rolled over to face Cross with a gun.

google.com
2761Brian K. Frenzl40MaleRace unspecified09/01/2003Great BendKS38.3671994-98.7559425Barton County Sheriff's Office
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Brian K. Frenzl was killed when deputy David Paden made a U-turn and crashed into his motorcycle as Paden headed to join a pursuit of another vehicle. Frenzl's Harley-Davidson hit the left front of Paden's patrol car, and Frenzl cartwheeled 168 feet before coming to rest on the opposite shoulder of the road. Paden was involved in four on-duty crashes within two years. In January 2002, Adam Mayers, 16, was killed when he struck a telephone pole while Paden chased him. In March 2002, Paden "bumped" motorcyclist Brian Case, 27, and ran him over in what was ruled a "legal intervention." The fourth crash happened not long after Frenzl's death. After killing Frenzl, Paden was charged with misdemeanor vehicular homicide, making an unlawful U-turn and operating a vehicle with unlawful tinting. Paden was acquitted of vehicular homicide in November 2004 by Senior Judge William Lyle during a bench trial. Lyle found Paden guilty of the other two charges.

cjonline.com
2763James Glidden35MaleEuropean-American/White09/01/2003PlymouthMA41.9441943-70.6924113Plymouth Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Glidden had a long history of depression, episodes of rage, and a prior suicide attempt in front of officers the previous December; he and his family and the local police were well aware of it. In the late morning, after an attempt to pull him over and after a brief high-speed chase and minor crash, Glidden threatened officers with a 12-inch fighting knife. He was shot three times. A note and items in his car suggest a planned suicide.

boston.com
2762Peter M. Luckel Sr.58MaleEuropean-American/White09/01/2003BradentonFL27.4885591-82.4309191Manatee County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Deputies responding to a domestic dispute call found Luckel armed and firing at them. They returned fire and killed him, finding his dead wife in another room shortly after.

heraldtribune.com
21495Melvin Clark III22MaleAfrican-American/Black09/01/2003EssexMD39.2951577-76.4575838Baltimore County Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Melvin Clark III shot and killed Na'Kia Shenelle Drake then shot and killed himself as police approached.

google.com
2765Natalio Molano41MaleAsian/Pacific Islander09/02/2003Baldwin ParkCA34.0900698-117.9577506Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Natalio Molano, 41, died after being shot in Baldwin Park, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

latimes.com
2764Mary Beasely47FemaleEuropean-American/White09/02/2003HoustonTX29.849578-95.515564Houston Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Beasley barricaded herself at the residence of a disabled man for whom she was a live-in health-care provider. SWAT Officers P.J. Straker and R.V. Pinkerton entered the residence. She pointed a revolver at them. They fatally shot her.

chron.com
2766Felipe Taximaroa Barajas19MaleHispanic/Latino09/03/2003NorthridgeCA34.2269965-118.5494241Los Angeles Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Police allege Barajas was acting like a drug dealer and pulled a weapon. Police shot him to death.

lapdonline.org
22014Charles Otter37MaleEuropean-American/White09/03/2003South BendIN41.6589738-86.2411936St. Joseph County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Two deputies from the warrants division of the St. Joseph County police were issuing an arrest warrant for a resident. The subject of the warrant, Charles Otter allegedly drew a handgun and was shot and killed by one of the deputies.

google.com
2769Rafael Ramos14MaleRace unspecified09/04/2003Los AngelesCA33.9573789-118.2782352Los Angeles Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehicle

A LAPD police car on routine patrol struck two 14-year-old boys crossing a South Los Angeles street, killing Rafael Ramos and injuring Riccardo Avalos.

latimes.com
2767Maranda Leigh "Mandy" Williams24FemaleRace unspecified09/04/2003GreenvilleSC34.8703365-82.3554525Greenville Police Department, Greenville County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Greenville County police said a Bi-Lo manager called 911 to report that a man had entered the supermarket with a shotgun. Sheriff's deputies and Greenville city police arrived minutes later, surrounding the supermarket with guns drawn and assisting in the evacuation of employees and customers. Maranda Leigh "Mandy" Williams was shotgunned to death after being held hostage for almost two hours.

goupstate.com
2768Garland King59MaleEuropean-American/White09/04/2003FresnoCA36.7436135-119.8044188Fresno Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

On September 4, 2003, Fresno police officers were called to the area of H and Divisadero Streets in Fresno in response to reports that a man was standing in the roadway waving a handgun and shouting at motorists. The incident ended when the individual, Garland King, was fatally shot by Fresno police officers.

gpo.gov
2770James Elvin Hill44MaleRace unspecified09/05/2003Lacey's SpringAL34.53108-86.6465709Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Morgan County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

James Elvin Hill was reportedly killed during a shootout with a game warden and sheriff's deputies.

decaturdaily.com
2771Isaias Sifuentes17MaleHispanic/Latino09/05/2003SarasotaFL27.3437752-82.5309963Sarasota Police Department
  • Vehicle
  • Vehic/Purs

Young Mexican immigrant construction worker Sifuentes was struck and killed by a local police cruiser speeding to a SWAT standoff.

heraldtribune.com
2775Ray Falgout52MaleEuropean-American/White09/06/2003HoumaLA29.6062343-90.6603373Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Ray Falgout was shot by police following a 20-mile chase as he reportedly tried to drag his abducted, estranged wife into their former home at gunpoint.

dailycomet.com
2772John H. Lewis36MaleAfrican-American/Black09/06/2003Kansas CityMO39.1811499-94.5767138Kansas City Police Department
  • Medical emergency
  • Less-than-lethal force

John Lewis reportedly collapsed and died shortly after struggling with police. At about 12:10 a.m., officers found Lewis staggering in the street near a busy intersection. According to police, Lewis ignored their instructions, tried to get into a patrol car and became violent. The officers handcuffed Lewis and called paramedics. Lewis collapsed as paramedics were examining him, police said.

ljworld.com
2773Pamela Jones33FemaleRace unspecified09/06/2003BirminghamAL33.5570499-86.8914865Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, Birmingham Police Department, Alabama Department of Public Safety
  • Gunshot
  • No

Terry Thomas shot and killed his girlfriend, Pamela Jones, and wounded Deputy Jeff Cooper after deputies responded to a domestic disturbance.

google.com
2774Terry Thomas28MaleRace unspecified09/06/2003BirminghamAL33.5570499-86.8914865Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, Birmingham Police Department, Alabama Department of Public Safety
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Terry Thomas shot and killed his girlfriend, Pamela Jones, and wounded Deputy Jeff Cooper after deputies responded to a domestic disturbance.

google.com
20991Michael D. Murray20MaleEuropean-American/White09/06/2003HaslettMI42.781482-84.3860474Shiawassee County Sheriff's Office
  • Gunshot
  • Deadly force

Michael D. Murray and a teenager were dropped off at Murray's truck, which was parked at a local bar,at around 3 a.m. Murray had offered to drive the teen home after a party they'd both attended. Murray saw a police cruiser, pulled into an alley, shut off his engine and lights, and ducked down, as did his passenger. Deputies Thomas Passinault and Jason Jenkins had noticed Murray's attempt to elude them and began searching the area around the truck on foot. Murray started his engine and tried to drive away. Passinault fired 12 shots at the truck, killing Murray.

google.com
2776Russell Graham28MaleEuropean-American/White09/07/2003ColumbusKS37.1766366-94.8441762Columbus Police Department
  • Gunshot
  • Suicide

Russell Graham reportedly shot himself outside his house as police responded to a call that he was threatening to kill himself and his 8-year-old son Zeus Graham. According to reports, "When officers arrived they began to approach the residence. (Russell) Graham observed that the officers were on scene, he took the .12-gauge shotgun, which he was carrying, turned the gun on himself, and instantly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head." The officers found Zeus dead of a single gunshot wound inside.

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