Unique ID | Name | Age | Gender | Race | Date | City | State | Latitude | Longitude | Agency involved | Cause of death | Intended use of force | Brief description | Supporting document link |
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21348 | Larry Crawford | 35 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/03/2012 | Detroit | MI | 42.3874753 | -83.184912 | Southfield Police Department, Detroit Police Department | Larry Crawford reportedly fatally shot Shawanda Spratling, 33, on July 2, then robbed three restaurants. Police said Crawford fled from officers in Southfield. Police pursued Crawford into Detroit. The chase ended on Freeland Street, where Crawford reportedly shot and killed himself while driving. | google.com | ||
11516 | Matthew Lyell Berg | 47 | Male | European-American/White | 07/02/2012 | Buellton | CA | 34.6132786 | -120.1900717 | Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office | Berg was shot to death on Hwy 101 following a pursuit down Hwy 246 that began with a 911 call about a burglary. After officers attempted to cut him off, Berg allegedly rammed into a deputy's car, and Deputy Jeremy Rogers opened fire and killed Berg. | lompocrecord.com | ||
11517 | Michael Deangelo Laney | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/02/2012 | Charlotte | NC | 35.2493832 | -80.8593818 | Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department | Police pursued Laney on a red scooter, on suspicion that it was the same vehicle seen in an earlier robbery and shooting. Laney fled to the porch of his house and reportedly pulled a weapon, causing officers to fatally shoot him. Witnesses disputed the police account. | qcitymetro.com | ||
21347 | Mark Jason Valentine | 39 | Male | European-American/White | 07/02/2012 | Coldwater | MI | 41.9562535 | -85.1010975 | Michigan State Police | Troopers responded to a reported shooting around 5 p.m. and found a woman and her young son had been shot and injured. The woman said Mark Jason Valentine had shot them and that he was still inside the house. Police surrounded the home. According to police, a negotiator tried unsuccessfully to contact Valentine before officers made a tactical entry into the residence and found Valentine dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. | mlive.com | ||
11509 | Richard Sandoval | 21 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/01/2012 | Junction City | KS | 39.030352 | -96.8372221 | Geary County Sheriff's Office | Fort Riley soldier Richard Sandoval died in a fiery crash after fleeing from a deputy. The deputy had attempted to stop Sandoval's Pontiac G5 at around 2:40 a.m. About a minute later, Sandoval's car went off the road, struck a tree and caught fire. According to police, the deputy and a Junction City officer tried unsuccessfully to pull Sandoval from the vehicle. After firefighters extinguished the blaze, the coroner pronounced Sandoval dead. | wibw.com | ||
11510 | Debra Gonzales | 30 | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 07/01/2012 | Hobbs | NM | 32.7107944 | -103.1448645 | Hobbs Police Department, Eunice Police Department, Lea County Sheriff's Office, New Mexico State Police | A blinking blue taillight, not an approved color, drew police attention to a borrowed 1989 Prelude. Gonzales was the passenger, her male friend the driver. The driver had warrants and led police on a reckless multi-agency 14-minute chase, with Gonzales frantically signalling inside the car. This ended with a crash that killed her. Her family settled a suit for $650,000 with the city. | abqjournal.com | ||
11511 | Jesus Antonio Castillo | 31 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 07/01/2012 | Moreno Valley | CA | 33.9271795 | -117.261153 | Riverside County Sheriff's Department | Jesus Antonio Castillo, 31, was killed, the Sheriff's Department said, after he put Deputy Fred Martinez in a leg lock, choked him and reached for Martinez's gun at Moreno Valley Community Park. Martinez freed himself from Castillo and shot him. | www.pe.com | ||
11512 | Bryant Michael Weiford | 26 | Male | European-American/White | 07/01/2012 | Hampton | VA | 37.0302304 | -76.345556 | Hampton Police Department | Because of his history with the local police, they were well aware of Weiford's psychiatric mental illness and bipolar disorder--one example was his crashing his Pontiac into a KMart to try on womens' shoes. This evening, after midnight, when police encountered him with a baseball bat, he beat on the police car. When he charged at the police with the bat, he was shot to death. | dailypress.com | ||
11513 | Charles Aaron Brousard | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/01/2012 | Greencastle | IN | 39.6342416 | -86.8566977 | Greencastle Police Department | Brousard was shot after aggressively pursuing Reserve Officer Jeremiah Jackson. Jackson had been called to the house of Brousard's father after Brousard had attacked his father, Charles Brousard Sr., and his cousin Krista Brousard. | bannergraphic.com | ||
11514 | Milton Hall | 49 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/01/2012 | Saginaw | MI | 43.4352241 | -83.9454174 | Saginaw Police Department | After refusing to pay for coffee, police were called and he was shot 46 times after refusing to put down a knife | newsone.com | ||
11515 | Harry "Beany" Smith | 59 | Male | Race unspecified | 07/01/2012 | Anchorage | AK | 61.137626 | -149.9472125 | Anchorage Police Department | Smith was shot to death by two officers after reportedly pointing an air gun at them. Police say he had threatened to kill family members and himself, and that the air gun was designed to look like a pistol. | adn.com | ||
18914 | Michael McKay | 24 | Male | European-American/White | 07/01/2012 | Hermon | ME | 44.7846755 | -68.9590302 | Maine State Police | Michael McKay, 24, died during an exchange of gunfire with police at his home on Buck Lane in Hermon. Police determined that he shot himself. The incident began when man at a house in Kenduskeag called police to say McKay was upset and shot his wife's vehicle three times as he left. | bangordailynews.com | ||
21826 | Michael Omar Wudtee | 38 | Male | African-American/Black | 07/01/2012 | Gwynn Oak | MD | 39.3314251 | -76.6957108 | Baltimore Police Department | Police tried to arrest Michael Omar Wudtee when they saw him assaulting a woman in a car. He ran and then fought with police when they caught up to him. He was shot and killed. | google.com | ||
11507 | Adam Raleigh Bergseth | 37 | Male | European-American/White | 06/30/2012 | Marionville | MO | 36.9897755 | -93.6410924 | Springfield Police Department | Officer responded to a call from someone reporting a woman was being held against her will. Officer encountered the subject, Adam R. Bergseth, who approached the officer in a threatening manner while wielding scissors. The officer shot and killed Bergseth. | monett-times.com | ||
11504 | Victor Duffy Jr. | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/30/2012 | Tukwila | WA | 47.4685328 | -122.2646416 | Tukwila Police Department | Duffy, a mentally ill man, made calls to 911 regarding an argument with his younger sister. When police arrived and came into the house, he jumped out a window to escape, breaking his ankle. He was tasered several times and died a short time later. | seattletimes.com | ||
11505 | Jonathan "Lil John" Stearns | 22 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/30/2012 | Valley | AL | 32.8017149 | -85.1785118 | Lee County Sheriff's Office | Officers shot and killed Jonathan Stearns after he allegedly threatened them with a gun. | wsfa.com | ||
11506 | Cyrus Deal | 38 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/30/2012 | Lantana | FL | 26.5873704 | -80.0703045 | Boynton Beach Police Department | Around 1 a.m. local officer recognized a silver Beetle from an earlier armed robbery report. Deal, the Beetle's driver, ignored the lights and siren and attempted traffic stop, and fled north on I-95. He lost control of the vehicle on an exit ramp, flipped several times, and died at the scene. | sun-sentinel.com | ||
11508 | Jared Huey | 17 | Male | European-American/White | 06/30/2012 | Vallejo | CA | 38.0890644 | -122.2404314 | Vallejo Police Department | Police were pursuing a suspected robber of a convenience store. The vehicle crashed into a fire hydrant. Officers pursued and shot when, they claim, the boy pointed a gun at them. Witnesses dispute this story, and a federal lawsuit was filed in Sacramento District Court. | timesheraldonline.com | ||
11502 | James Russell Moore | 64 | Male | European-American/White | 06/29/2012 | Roanoke Rapids | NC | 36.452675 | -77.78705 | North Carolina State Highway Patrol | Pillar of the community Moore had just collected rent from a strip-club owner when a state trooper pulled him over and detected alcohol on his breath. After an ambiguous altercation between the two, the trooper fatally shot Moore and said the elderly man had pulled a concealed handgun. | wral.com | ||
23443 | Name withheld by police | 28 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 06/29/2012 | Brooklyn | NY | 40.7043156 | -73.9212858 | City of New York Police Department | A sergeant and a police officer conducting routine patrol were approached by a victim who stated that a man with a firearm was trying to break into his house. The officers asked the man to get into their vehicle to let them know if he saw the man with the firearm. The officers took the man back to his home, where the attempted break-in had occurred, to complete their report. On the way back to the location, the victim spotted the subject and pointed him out to the officers. When the officers tried to approach the subject, he pointed a gun toward the officers while fleeing on foot. Two additional officers and a lieutenant responded to the area and began looking for the subject, who had carjacked a second victim. While approaching the vehicle, the lieutenant observed the subject again point the firearm at the officers and flee on foot. During the foot pursuit, an officer shot and killed him. | google.com | ||
11490 | Jose Luis Ortega | 22 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/28/2012 | Santa Maria | CA | 34.9632452 | -120.4357158 | Santa Maria Police Department, Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office | Two officers shot Jose Luis Ortega three times when he pulled a gun from his waistband and turned it toward officers during a foot chase. | countyofsb.org | ||
11491 | Adrian Jermaine Perales-Ramos | 35 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/28/2012 | Greeley | CO | 40.3881248 | -104.7082097 | Greeley Police Department | Perales was wanted on several gang-related issues, including a drive-by, he took a hostage and was killed by a police sniper. | weld.co.us | ||
11492 | Bobby E. King | 48 | Male | European-American/White | 06/28/2012 | St. Louis | MO | 38.6228958 | -90.3079595 | St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department | An officer shot Bobby E. King when King allegedly shot at him. Police had responded to a domestic disturbance after 7 p.m. King reportedly drew a gun and aimed it at the officers. According to police, both King and an officer fired their guns at each other. King was mortally wounded in the exchange; the officer was hit in the arm. | riverfronttimes.com | ||
11493 | Denny Gonzales | 35 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/28/2012 | Antioch | CA | 37.968147 | -121.758669 | Antioch Police Department | Gonzales was shot by seven different officers when he walked out of his house with a gun and allegedly fired at least one round at the police and SWAT team surrounding his home. He had reportedly called 911 claiming to be suicidal and making statements about killing police officers. | mercurynews.com | ||
11494 | Dilton Richard Myers aka "Fallacy" Myers | 43 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/28/2012 | Dayton | OH | 39.7572854 | -84.1681937 | U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation | Long-term, repeat, registered sex offender and self-described pagan priest Myers was shot to death by federal agents as they executed a search warrant on his residence, and he resisted. They'd been on site for several hours when he produced a knife, started stabbing himself, then turned the knife on the agents when they attempted to use a Taser on him. | daytondailynews.com | ||
11495 | Christopher Jerome Thomas | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/28/2012 | Dothan | AL | 31.2593524 | -85.4355716 | Dothan Police Department | He was shot to death after a short police pursuit where he crashed into an occupied parked vehicle, when officers suspected he was attempting to run over an officer. | dothaneagle.com | ||
11496 | Charles Herbert O'Hara | 59 | Male | European-American/White | 06/28/2012 | Cedar Park | TX | 30.514255 | -97.822692 | Cedar Park Police Department | Police were called O'Hara's home by his mother, who said he was destroying things in her home. Officers arrived to find O'Hara armed. Five officers and O'Hara exchanged fire and O'Hara was shot to death. | statesman.com | ||
11497 | Ross Edward Lambert | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 06/28/2012 | DeLeon Springs | FL | 29.2136905 | -81.3154877 | Volusia County Sheriff's Office | A coodinated SWAT raid at 5:45 a.m. entered Lambert's residence with a warrant seaching for goods stolen by an extensive property theft ring. During the room-by-room sweep Lambert appeared armed with a rifle, and was fatally shot. | wesh.com | ||
11498 | Carlos Joseph Charles | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/28/2012 | North Fort Myers | FL | 26.6824252 | -81.88032 | Lee County Sheriff's Office | Charles was pulled over on the interstate for speeding and for an illegal window tint. When a large amount of cocaine was found in the car, some kind of violent altercation ensued. The outcome: a female passenger and a child in the car were unhurt, a deputy was slightly wounded, and Charles had been shot dead. | abc-7.com | ||
11499 | David Lee Foreman | 31 | Male | European-American/White | 06/28/2012 | Dekalb | GA | 33.860907 | -84.310304 | DeKalb County Police Department | Officers responded to the home after receiving a call about an argument between a woman and an armed man, officials said. Once inside the apartment the subject appeared with a weapon initially pointed at his head. The officers then attempted to negotiate with the armed man. The subject supposedly pointed the weapon at officers,an officer discharged his weapon, striking the subject multiple times in the chest. | examiner.com | ||
11500 | Aaron Hunter | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/28/2012 | Tucson | AZ | 32.1846281 | -110.8285915 | Tucson Police Department | Hunter was shot to death by an officer after reaching for a gun that he had dropped while attempting to flee officers. | kvoa.com | ||
11501 | Benjamin David Whiteshield | 34 | Male | Native American/Alaskan | 06/28/2012 | Clinton | OK | 35.5157972 | -98.9648757 | Clinton Police Department | Police shot and killed Whiteshield outside of their police station. According to the Oklahoman, Whiteshield's family took him to the police station to get help for an alleged delusional episode. The report said that Whiteshield was armed with a crescent wrench, but nothing in the news report stated whether or not he threatened or attacked any police officers. | newsok.com | ||
11486 | Julian Marcus Begay | 27 | Male | Native American/Alaskan | 06/27/2012 | Lubbock | TX | 33.5506227 | -101.8553729 | Lubbock Police Department | Officer Curtis Fish tried to arrest Begay, suspected of attempted burglary. Begay ran away. Officer Fish tried to shoot him with a stun gun as he fled. Begay drew a gun and pointed it at Officer Fish, who fatally shot him. At the time, Fish was involved in a lawsuit filed by Willie Williams. They shot at each other weeks earlier when officers trying to intervene in a burglary went to the wrong address. | lubbockonline.com | ||
11485 | Christopher Calhoun | 38 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/27/2012 | Atlanta | GA | 33.7390938 | -84.4147756 | Atlanta Police Department | Christopher Calhoun was wanted for drug and car theft charges. Police said that Atlanta police got a tip that the fugitive they were looking for was parked in a Chevrolet Suburban at the Mall West End. During officers' attempt to arrest, the fugitive was shot and killed, police said. | ajc.com | ||
11487 | Patrick O'Neal Spurlock | 39 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/27/2012 | Houston | TX | 29.8478662 | -95.5015507 | Houston Police Department | Spurlock shot four people non-fatally near his apartment, then stole a car and drove away. In the process, he rammed several patrol cars and shot at officers, who shot back. He died after crashing into other vehicles, injuring five. | houstonpress.com | ||
11488 | Trevion Davis | 13 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/27/2012 | Bonanza | GA | 33.4697228 | -84.339462 | Clayton County Sheriff's Office | Clayton County police were responding to a burglary in progress when they shot and killed Davis. | news-daily.com | ||
11489 | Hernandez Dowdy | 36 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/27/2012 | Memphis | TN | 35.0544882 | -89.9096386 | Memphis Police Department | Shot to death. Police say Dowdy, who was black, was a carjacking suspect whom they chased, and that they killed him because they mistakenly thought he had a gun. The owner of the car, a white woman, had filed a false report. | commercialappeal.com | ||
11481 | Deshone Lamar Travis | 20 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/26/2012 | Port Wentworth | GA | 32.191735 | -81.2086999 | Port Wentworth Police Department | Shot after police said he backed a car in the direction of officers in the driveway of a friend's home. Officers had sought to question him about an armed robbery the day before at a local Wendy's. A grand jury declined to indict the officers on charges including murder. Source: Police reports | wsav.com | ||
11482 | Derek John Ternes | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 06/26/2012 | Fort Worth | TX | 32.748008 | -97.291234 | Fort Worth Police Department | North Dakotan Ternes took a laptop from the hotel room of an acquaintance, which developed into a shooting dispute in the parking lot. Ternes wounded the other man. Police responded, Ternes continued to fire his gun, and he was fatally shot. | bismarcktribune.com | ||
11483 | Elizabeth DeMaria | 46 | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 06/26/2012 | Las Vegas | NV | 36.1022507 | -115.1699679 | Nevada Secretary of State | Secretary of State's office/Securities Division investigators had tracked DeMaria to the MGM Grand. She jumped of the 35th floor to avoid escape. | nydailynews.com | ||
11484 | Corey McGinnis | 35 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/26/2012 | Cincinnati | OH | 39.2085256 | -84.5604261 | North College Hill Police Department | McGinnis, father of seven, was Tasered by police during a fight at a sports park. He went into cardiac arrest, into a coma, and died days later. Reports suggested that the device may have been improperly maintained or calibrated. The family eventually received a $650K wrongful-death settlement. | wlwt.com | ||
11478 | Karl "Wild" Watson | 47 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/25/2012 | Indio | CA | 33.7281499 | -116.2380451 | Indio Police Department | Police shot and killed Karl Watson as he reportedly beat an officer who arrived at the scene after Watson had murdered his ex-girlfriend. | www.pe.com | ||
11479 | Juan Serna | 30 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/25/2012 | Compton | CA | 33.9099374 | -118.2088778 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department | A deputy reported that they tried to apprehend Serna, but that he fled into a clothing store, and then left. The deputy and a security guard followed Serna, whom they allege had a handgun, and shot at them. Then both the deputy and security guard fired at Serna, killing him. | latimes.com | ||
11480 | Elip Cheatham | 27 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/25/2012 | Johnstown | PA | 40.351712 | -78.94368 | Johnstown Police Department | Three city police officers fired when Cheatham came upon another vehicle stopped by city police near the Greater Johnstown Middle School. Police said Cheatham ignored their orders to stop and accelerated his vehicle in the direction of the police and emergency vehicles. Witnesses heard him say he was rushing his cousin to the hospital. | tribune-democrat.com | ||
11477 | Ghulam Yahya Mujtaba | 62 | Male | Middle Eastern | 06/24/2012 | Gainesville | FL | 29.6430504 | -82.3336204 | Gainesville Police Department | A retired colonel in the Afghan army, also diagnosed as schizophrenic and clinically depressed, Mujtaba had an argument with a neighbor that developed into a police response, then a Tasering to no effect, then police warning him to stop being so aggressive. Reportedly at one point, he was speaking gibberish. He was fatally shot in the chest. | gainesville.com | ||
11474 | Kayla Lynn Mongold | 12 | Female | European-American/White | 06/24/2012 | Springfield | OH | 39.9293682 | -83.7990166 | Springfield Police Department | Joseph Thomson, 30, lost control of his SUV as he fled police, went off the road and hit and killed 12-year-old Kayla Mongold as she was walking with a friend. | springfieldnewssun.com | ||
11475 | Kendrick Bernard McDaniel | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/24/2012 | Dallas | TX | 32.6620326 | -96.8899817 | Dallas Police Department | Officer Cortenay Howard ate at a Taco Bell. McDaniel sat at a table near his, a blunt tucked behind his ear. Officer Howard repeatedly ordered McDaniel to approach him. McDaniel disobeyed. Officer Howard drew his pistol. McDaniel tried to flee, drawing a .380-caliber pistol as he fell over a rail. Officer Howard shot McDaniel. He died at Methodist Central Hospital. As officer-involved shootings were on the rise in Dallas, protesters used this incident and others to pressure police to explain their use of deadly force. | cbslocal.com | ||
11476 | Gerald John Wagner | 40 | Male | European-American/White | 06/24/2012 | Tupelo | MS | 34.2077823 | -88.7071529 | Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol, Tupelo Police Department | Wagner died in a shootout with troopers after a chase that began when he failed to pull over for a traffic stop. After the vehicle was stopped by stop sticks, Wagner reportedly fled on foot, ignored orders to stop and was fatally shot when he turned toward troopers brandishing a handgun. Wagner allegedly fired at least four shots at the officers during the pursuit. | wapt.com | ||
19931 | Danny R. Johnson | 59 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/24/2012 | Canoe | KY | 37.4814891 | -83.4863052 | Breathitt County Sheriff's Office, Kentucky State Police | Kentucky State Police in Hazard received a call that an individual on Rt. 30 West had fired shots from his residence at them as they were traveling on the roadway. Brenda Southwood and Larry Adams both received injuries from the gunshot. Troopers and Breathitt County Deputies responded to the scene. Contact was made with Danny R. Johnson, and he began shooting at the officers. Tpr. Joey King was struck in the face with buckshot and two Breathitt County Deputies also received minor injuries from buckshot. Johnson was shot and killed. | clayconews.com | ||
11469 | Michael Godawa | 21 | Male | European-American/White | 06/23/2012 | Elsmere | KY | 39.0084626 | -84.6111606 | Elsmere Police Department | Michael Godawa was stopped by Elsmere police officer David Byrd for a possible DUI. Godawa backed his car over Byrd's unattended patrol bicycle and attempted to flee in his car. Byrd shot him once in the chest and he later died in the hospital. The officer involved was said to have been justified, and the family's wrongful death suit was dismissed in 2014. However, the suit has been reinstated in federal court as of August 2015. | kypress.com | ||
11470 | Nathon Clayborn Miller | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 06/23/2012 | Marion | IL | 37.6403671 | -89.0104465 | Vienna Police Department | Nathon C. Miller died after he crashed during a police chase. At around 1:30 a.m., Miller was northbound on IL-148 when his vehicle left the road and struck a tree. A passenger in Miller's vehicle was reportedly hospitalized with major injuries. | thesouthern.com | ||
11471 | Adam L. Schillinger | 27 | Male | European-American/White | 06/23/2012 | Chambersburg | PA | 39.9666809 | -77.7867156 | Pennsylvania State Police | Police began getting reports of a suspicious man, in green camo and a backpack, possibly armed, wandering a residential neighborhood. On contact Schillinger refused to comply with orders, resisted taserings, and pointed an apparent weapon at officers. He was fatally shot. The weapon was a BB gun. He'd left a four-page handwritten will and suicide note. | herald-mail.com | ||
11472 | Robert Ramirez | 26 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/23/2012 | Oxnard | CA | 34.1900251 | -119.1916381 | Oxnard Police Department | A friend called 911 for an ambulance because Ramirez as "bouncing off the walls" and "almost borderline seizure." Seven officers responded. At least three pointed Tasers at Ramirez as he sat on the front porch, unresponsive to questions. He was stunned with Tasers several times. Police say they never used a Taser on him.When one officer told Ramirez to get on his stomach, he stood up and "approximately six" officers "descended" forcing him facedown on the concrete. Police have said they never struck Ramirez. Coroners found no evidence police hit or choked him. The lawsuit says Ramirez's nose was broken, his right arm appeared dislocated or broken and that he suffered bruises and cuts. | sanluisobispo.com | ||
11473 | Charles Robinson | 75 | Male | European-American/White | 06/23/2012 | Jackman | ME | 45.6235044 | -70.1038963 | U.S. Border Patrol | A drunken Robinson fell down in his home, when his girlfriend wanted to call an ambulance, he threatened to kill her. She left, and someone at the medical center called police, who went to the home, and entered. Robinson shot at them, and they returned fire and killed him. | maine.gov | ||
19315 | Name withheld by police | 54 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/23/2012 | Oklahoma City | OK | 35.4675602 | -97.5164276 | A 54-year-old Oklahoma City man died at the hospital from injuries sustained in an accident following a police pursuit. The manner of death was ruled homicide. | google.com | |||
19923 | Autumn Floree | 14 | Female | European-American/White | 06/23/2012 | La Grange | KY | 38.3828317 | -85.4417801 | Oldham County Sheriff's Office | Police said Michael Tanner Wheat, 15, was fleeing a stop for speeding when he lost control, hit parked cars and slammed into a utility pole, killing himself and Autumn Floree, 14. | wdrb.com | ||
19953 | Michael Tanner Wheat | 15 | Male | European-American/White | 06/23/2012 | La Grange | KY | 38.3828317 | -85.4417801 | Oldham County Sheriff's Office | Police said Michael Tanner Wheat, 15, was fleeing a stop for speeding when he lost control, hit parked cars and slammed into a utility pole, killing himself and Autumn Floree, 14. | wdrb.com | ||
22067 | Michael Moore | 56 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/23/2012 | Riverdale | IL | 41.6351884 | -87.6199067 | Riverdale Police Department | Moore had allegedly been involved in an armed dispute with his neighbor. When police arrived, Moore refused to drop his weapon. He was the only person shot during the incident. | google.com | ||
23242 | Peter George Biljak | 61 | Male | European-American/White | 06/23/2012 | Knoxville | TN | 35.89124 | -84.055071 | Knox County Sheriff's Office | Peter George Biljak was killed after he greeted two officers by waving a 12-gauge pump shotgun at the doorway of his home, police said. Deputies Michael Bartleson and Orlando Dixson had gone to the house just before 6 p.m. on a disturbance call. Biljak's wife had told police that Biljak had an alcohol and drug problem and was suicidal. | knoxnews.com | ||
23250 | Tommy McCoy Jr. | 22 | Male | European-American/White | 06/23/2012 | Maury City | TN | 35.8118377 | -89.2104772 | Crockett County Sheriff's Office | Tommy McCoy Jr. was shot and killed by police after a chase starting in Pemiscot County, Missouri, ended in Crockett County, Tennessee. He'd left the vehicle and was running when he was killed. | kfvs12.com | ||
11464 | Leo J. Driscoll | 85 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/22/2012 | Hurley | WI | 46.4496698 | -90.186564 | Vilas County Sheriff's Office, Hurley Police Department | Leo Driscoll approached the manager of his apartment building with a pistol. The apartment manager wrested it from his hands. SWAT officers arrived, entered Driscoll's apartment and shot him to death. Vilas County Board officials later (11/13/12) disallowed a civil claim against the Vilas County Sheriff's Department by Driscoll's daughter Anne. | jsonline.com | ||
11465 | Malcolm Jamal Smith | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/22/2012 | Mullins | SC | 34.2134061 | -79.2475763 | Mullins Police Department | Police responded to a domestic disturbance call at Smith's home. He fled down the street, firing at officers, and was shot and killed. | wmbfnews.com | ||
11467 | Scott Joseph Deen | 19 | Male | European-American/White | 06/22/2012 | Redding | CA | 40.4986219 | -122.3840264 | Redding Police Department | Law enforcement investigators say Deen and two other men were siphoning gasoline from cars parked in the neighborhood off Highway 273 near Win-River Casino. Officers used a stun gun at least twice on Deen after he came at them with a knife, according to the Shasta County Sheriff's Office, which handled the investigation into the shooting. Not fazed by the stun gun, Deen tried to stab an officer with a knife that was attached to his hand with an elastic bandage before Cpl. Jon Poletski fired two rounds, striking Deen once, police have said. | redding.com | ||
11468 | Cory James Ryan | 41 | Male | European-American/White | 06/22/2012 | Ionia | MI | 42.9812663 | -85.0788114 | Ionia County Sheriff's Office | Police shot and killed a man they said had wounded two people and fired at an officer in Ionia. | mlive.com | ||
21346 | Donald Larrel Smelser-Emerson | 21 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/22/2012 | Harrison Charter Township | MI | 42.5702355 | -82.85904479999999 | Macomb County Sheriff's Office | According to Macomb County Sheriff Anthony Wickersham, 19-year-old Gavin Enright's father reported his son was driving his 1999 GMC Yukon without a license. Deputies reportedly saw the SUV driving slowly without its lights on at Coleridge and North Pointe Parkway around 3 a.m. and tried to pull over Enright, who instead accelerated and lost control when he tried to access eastbound I-94 from 16 Mile. The Yukon rolled multiple times. Enright's passenger, Donald Larrel Smelser-Emerson, died at the scene. Enright pleaded guilty to driving while under the influence of drugs causing death and first-degree fleeing and eluding. He was sentenced to 50 months to 15 years in prison. | candgnews.com | ||
22066 | John Wayne Pinkston | 53 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/22/2012 | Houston | TX | 29.8624865 | -95.2044192 | Harris County Sheriff's Office | Police went to Pickston's residence to serve a warrant for aggravated assault and family violence. When they found him in the closet, he allegedly fired a weapon at them, and they shot and killed him. | abclocal.go.com | ||
11462 | Kenneth Rivera III | 27 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/21/2012 | Lynwood | CA | 33.9189114 | -118.1884558 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department | An officer shot Kenneth Rivera III when he put his right hand in his front pocket and charged a deputy responding to the reported kidnapping of a 15-year-old girl. | latimes.com | ||
11463 | Israel "Izzy" Andino | 20 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/21/2012 | Rochester | NY | 43.1743413 | -77.6388903 | Rochester Police Department | Andino was shot to death by seven officers called to his home when he called 911 and claimed that he had stabbed his mother (she was injured but later denied that she had been stabbed). Andino was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and had not taken medication that day, but according to family had never been violent before. His mother says she tried to explain his situation to officers. The 20-year-old was armed with a shotgun (described by other sources as a handgun or maybe even a BB gun), which officers say he fired but witnesses claim he did not. It was the young man's birthday. | twcnews.com | ||
11458 | Kuame Floyd | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/20/2012 | Jonesboro | GA | 33.5719549 | -84.3658685 | Clayton County Police Department, Clayton County Sheriff's Office | Shot after firing at officers who pulled over the car he was riding in for a traffic violation. A shot fired by Floyd wounded the driver of the car. Grainy nighttime dashcam footage shows Floyd slugging an officer, then being wrestled to the ground before allegedly firing and then being shot. | myajc.com | ||
11459 | Santiago Chavez | 20 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/20/2012 | Albuquerque | NM | 35.0753817 | -106.710349 | Albuquerque Police Department | Chavez shot and killed himself after a 15-hour SWAT situation at his grandmother's South Valley home during which Chavez shot at officers and APD officers fired bullets and tear gas at Chavez. | abqjournal.com | ||
11460 | Chester Joseph Crestwell Jr. | 44 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/20/2012 | Lanham | MD | 38.966612 | -76.890143 | Metro Transit Police Department | Transit officers from Washington, D.C., fatally shot Crestwell as he was being questioned, as one of two suspects in an attempted kidnapping at a Washington Metro station. Crestwell was described as uncooperative, and returned from a visit inside his house with a weapon. | washingtonpost.com | ||
11461 | Macadam Mason | 39 | Male | European-American/White | 06/20/2012 | Thetford | VT | 43.8579014 | -72.271918 | Vermont State Police | Macadam Mason died after police used a stun gun on him. Police say they were responding to a report that Mason was threatening to harm himself and others. They say Mason was struck in the chest after he went after the trooper. Mason was taken to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, where he later died. | vpr.net | ||
11453 | Pedro Alanis | 27 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/19/2012 | Fresno | CA | 36.7722962 | -119.7748218 | Fresno Police Department | A wanted parolee was shot by Fresno police after a car chase ended in a crash, and he tried to drive off as police attempted to pull him from the vehicle. | google.com | ||
11454 | Charles R. Wallace | 41 | Male | European-American/White | 06/19/2012 | Deer Park | WA | 47.9539871 | -117.488255 | Spokane County Sheriff's Office | A routine traffic stop on the Newport Highway became a gunfight that left two sheriff's deputies wounded and set off a chaotic crime spree that stretched across most of north Spokane County. The alleged gunman, 41-year-old Charles R. Wallace, fled the scene and led law enforcement on a high-speed chase in a sedan he carjacked after the shooting, firing repeatedly at pursuing cars before he shot and killed himself. | spokesman.com | ||
11455 | Robin Leander Howard | 54 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/19/2012 | Oklahoma City | OK | 35.4960081 | -97.4873752 | Oklahoma City Police Department | During a police pursuit, Howard crashed his car, then fled on foot. Officers caught up with him and restrained him, likely causing broken ribs, a punctured lung, and a broken arm. He was admitted to the hospital June 19, where he died of pneumonia brought on by his injuries June 23, 2012. | reddirtreport.com | ||
11456 | Jerry Lee McDonald | 33 | Male | European-American/White | 06/19/2012 | Albuquerque | NM | 35.0662896 | -106.6917723 | Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office | McDonald was wanted for murder, after a short chase and an exchange of gunfire, he was shot and killed. | abqjournal.com | ||
11457 | Dennis Jason Majewski | 36 | Male | European-American/White | 06/19/2012 | Quincy | CA | 39.9825481 | -120.9415724 | Plumas County Sheriff's Office | Majewski repeatedly refused to comply with Froggatt's demands that he put down his weapons. Majewski continued to come toward Froggatt, who retreated multiple times until he was cornered. Asked if, at the time of the shooting, he believed Majewski would kill or injure him or the man Froggatt had detained in his patrol car | countyofplumas.com | ||
19378 | John Phillip Grant | 52 | Male | European-American/White | 06/19/2012 | Corning | AR | 36.413628 | -90.590574 | Corning Police Department | Corning Police Department officer Jason Thompson shot John Grant when Grant charged at him with a knife after a dispute with his wife. | kait8.com | ||
21345 | Charles David Brown Jr. | 39 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/19/2012 | Woodhaven | MI | 42.1405207 | -83.2261223 | Woodhaven Police Department | Officers Dennis DeWeese and Frank Zdankiewicz arrived at the Allen Road Walmart after receiving a report that Charles David Brown Jr. and a woman were possibly shoplifting. According to police, say Brown was holding a screwdriver and refused to drop it. Brown allegedly got into an Oldsmobile, put it in reverse, tried to run over Zdankiewicz, struck a patrol unit, then put the car in drive and tried to run over DeWeese. The officers shot and killed Brown. | thenewsherald.com | ||
11452 | Anthony Craig Nichols | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 06/18/2012 | Lubbock | TX | 33.5147634 | -101.9336968 | Lubbock Police Department | Nichols called 911 around 10 p.m., threatening to begin shooting near Preston Smith Elementary School and demanding that officers confront him as soon as possible. When officers arrived, they found Nichols armed with a knife. He began to cross a street toward officers. Officers sent a police dog to subdue Nichols, and ordered him to surrender. Nichols dodged the dog, then rushed at officers. Officer Norris Roberson fatally shot him. | kcbd.com | ||
11447 | Armando "Cookie" Casillas | 38 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/17/2012 | Sylmar | CA | 34.2952177 | -118.4473023 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department | Detective Francisco "Frank" Gamez Sr. shot his neighbor Armando "Cookie" Casillas in a drive-by following an earlier verbal argument between Casillos and Gamez's adult son. | yahoo.com | ||
11448 | Tereso de Jesus Gutierrez | 24 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/17/2012 | Santa Paula | CA | 34.3586911 | -119.0476992 | Ventura County Sheriff's Office | Tereso de Jesus Gutierrez shot himself during a standoff with deputies. | kclu.org | ||
11449 | Ronald Earl Chante | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 06/17/2012 | Phoenix | AZ | 33.5214677 | -111.9588893 | Phoenix Police Department | Chante stole a car and was chased by police for 90 minutes in which he had rammed three police cars with the car he was driving before he was shot by an officer. | azcentral.com | ||
11450 | Larry Wayne Robards | 54 | Male | European-American/White | 06/17/2012 | Temple | TX | 31.0776442 | -97.3639788 | Temple Police Department | A man held three people hostage at a hospital at gunpoint. An officer on the scene tried negotiating with the man and as he did so, a hostage attempted to take the gun away from Robards. The officer determined that the hostages were in imminent danger and shot Robards. | kxxv.com | ||
11451 | Arvid "Junie" Nelson Jr. | 50 | Male | European-American/White | 06/17/2012 | Kotzebue | AK | 66.8805147 | -162.5404461 | Alaska State Troopers, Kotzebue Police Department | Nelson crashed a truck, and when troopers responded, he shot two. Eventually, either he shot himself, or a cop shot him. | adn.com | ||
22919 | Alan Dale Vernon | 55 | Male | European-American/White | 06/17/2012 | Fieldale | VA | 36.7056799 | -79.9328329 | Virginia State Police | Alan Dale Vernon was killed when his 1981 Chevrolet Camaro overturned and struck a tree on Virginia 57 during a high speed police chase, police said. | thefranklinnewspost.com | ||
11443 | Marlene Alatorre | 19 | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 06/16/2012 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.0492693 | -118.2133184 | California Highway Patrol | Bystanders Marlene Alatorre and Claudia Fernandez were killed when a car being chased by the CHP crashed into a crowd at a taco truck in Boyle Heights. | nbclosangeles.com | ||
11444 | Claudia Fernandez | 38 | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 06/16/2012 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.0492693 | -118.2133184 | California Highway Patrol | Bystanders Marlene Alatorre and Claudia Fernandez were killed when a car being chased by the CHP crashed into a crowd at a taco truck in Boyle Heights. | nbclosangeles.com | ||
11445 | Marcus Bell (Dupe) | 26 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/16/2012 | Morrow | GA | 33.5756732 | -84.3041926 | Clayton County Police Department | During a standoff Saturday at the Sandlewood Apartments in Morrow, police responded to a domestic disturbance call and said Bell locked himself inside his apartment. SWAT officers were called and after a 2 hour standoff police made their way into the apartment where the suspect was shot. | cbslocal.com | ||
11446 | Benjamin Mayoles Dykeman | 31 | Male | European-American/White | 06/16/2012 | Melbourne | FL | 28.1242448 | -80.6693136 | Brevard County Sheriff's Office | A 4 a.m. traffic stop with an uncooperative Dykeman in an Accord resulted in his speeding away, striking a patrol car, crashing into a power pole, receiving multiple gunshots from the threatened officer, driving off again and striking a tree, then fleeing on foot and onto the grounds of an apartment complex, where he was discovered by a tracking K-9. He died in the hospital of the gunshot wounds. | orlandosentinel.com | ||
11437 | Bernardo "Bernie" Gutierrez-Morales | 56 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/15/2012 | El Paso | TX | 31.7110995 | -106.3477194 | El Paso Police Department | Officers asked a man to look out for a fugitive. Days later, Morales, violating parole after a sexual assault conviction, received the man's permission to pick pecans from his grove. The man called police. The responding officer shot Morales fatally in the chest, saying that he attacked him with a knife. Two years later, private investigator Roy Davis Jr. helped Morales's family to make a case that Morales was unarmed when he was shot and that a knife not found at the scene was listed as evidence in the shooting, the first in El Paso that year. | elpasotimes.com | ||
11438 | David Michael Pedersen | 43 | Male | European-American/White | 06/15/2012 | Galveston | TX | 29.3025237 | -94.7903294 | Galveston Police Department | Pedersen, excited and irrational, asked officers for help. Officers assumed he was intoxicated and tried to calm him down. Pedersen became even more erratic. Officers handcuffed him. Pedersen resisted officers. Paramedics responded. Pedersen's condition worsened when he was put into the ambulance, and he was pronounced dead at a hospital. | google.com | ||
11439 | Douglas Dewayne Roof | 37 | Male | European-American/White | 06/15/2012 | Azle | TX | 32.8951262 | -97.5458565 | Azle Police Department | On June 15, 2012, Officer Lashbrook transported Roof to John Peter Smith Hospital for Mental Evaluation. Roof was handcuffed with his hands behind his back and seat belted in on the rear passenger side of the patrol vehicle. Within blocks of John Peter Smith Hospital Roof had some unknown medical episode. Upon arrival at John Peter Smith Hospital Paramedics outside the Emergency Room stated that Roof had a pulse and was breathing. Roof was taken inside the emergency room for medical treatment. Roof subsequently died on June 18, 2012. Roof tested positive for methamphetamines. | google.com | ||
11440 | Joseph Dewey Overstreet | 42 | Male | European-American/White | 06/15/2012 | Ozark | AL | 31.3997452 | -85.6711132 | Ozark Police Department | Joseph Dewey Overstreet was shot to death as he allegedly walked toward Ozark police carrying a machete in his hand. | wsfa.com | ||
11441 | James David Williford | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 06/15/2012 | Austin | TX | 30.2312649 | -97.7919734 | Austin Police Department | Williford died in a "ghastly collision" between his Mitsubishi and a stolen silver Ford F-250 recklessly driven by a suspect being chased by local police at speeds of up to 100 MPH. Williford's widow filed a million-dollar lawsuit against the city. | statesman.com | ||
11442 | Charles Salinas | 46 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/15/2012 | Sanger | CA | 36.7013156 | -119.5549072 | Sanger Police Department | 46-year-old Salinas called police saying he was armed and suicidal. Sanger police responded to the call and shot Salinas minutes later near his childhood home. | thesangerherald.com | ||
11433 | Khoa Anh Le | 36 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 06/14/2012 | El Monte | CA | 34.0532855 | -118.0163633 | El Monte Police Department | Khoa Anh Le died after he was allegedly tasered and beaten with a flashlight by two El Monte police officers in his home, said Hoang Huy Tu, the family's attorney. | sgvtribune.com | ||
11434 | Oscar Sermeno | 41 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/14/2012 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.1720883 | -118.3899916 | Los Angeles Police Department | Officers allege that Sermeno was involved in shooting two other men at a construction site where they were working, and fled in an automobile. When officers pursued and the chase ended, Sermeno reached for what the officers thought was a gun, and they shot him to death. | latimes.com | ||
11435 | Name withheld by police | Male | Race unspecified | 06/14/2012 | Philadelphia | PA | 40.0003373 | -75.1186708 | Philadelphia Police Department | Officers responded to report that a man had pointed a gun at mother and child. When officers arrived, the suspect fled in a vehicle. When the officers located the suspect a few blocks away, the suspect fired at the officers at least twice. The officers returned fire, killing him. | abclocal.go.com | |||
11436 | Shantel Davis | 23 | Female | African-American/Black | 06/14/2012 | Brooklyn | NY | 40.6511669 | -73.9418961 | City of New York Police Department | Davis was out on bail for attempted murder and kidnapping, and had a scheduled court appearance later in the day. She ran several red lights, pulled a "wild" U-turn in front of police, then crashed her carjacked vehicle into a minivan. The police describes a brief struggle in which she grabbed for an officer's gun and somehow shot herself in the chest. | nydailynews.com | ||
11428 | Christopher Dorais "Chris" Kline | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 06/13/2012 | San Clemente | CA | 33.4590162 | -117.5923068 | Orange County Sheriff's Department | Christopher Dorais "Chris" Kline was killed when he crashed into a commercial truck during a pursuit. | ocregister.com | ||
11429 | Pamela McCarthy | 35 | Female | European-American/White | 06/13/2012 | Munnsville | NY | 42.9789138 | -75.5902489 | New York State Police | Police intercepted McCarthy after her assault of her own 3-year-old, naked in an apartment parking lot and high on bath salts. She had a known history of drug use and police contact. Officers pepper-sprayed the violently combative McCarthy to no effect, then Tasered and handcuffed her. She went in cardiac arrest and died shortly thereafter. | nhregister.com | ||
11430 | Eric Alexander Gonzales | 19 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/13/2012 | Belleville | IL | 38.5627843 | -90.0476155 | Belleville Police Department | Gonzales and another man broke a window and were kicking cars. When officers arrived one of the officers felt threatened and shot Gonzales. | stltoday.com | ||
11431 | Rodney L. Wright | 40 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/13/2012 | Reno | NV | 39.5243625 | -119.8195945 | Court Operations Unit Marshals | Reno police have identified a man they say was crushed to death by a trash compactor while running from law enforcement yesterday morning. Municipal Court Marshals saw 37-year-old Rodney Wright on his bike around 11am Wednesday at First and Virginia Streets. He was wanted for a misdemeanor, and when marshals tried to stop him, Wright sped away, crashed his bike and then ran. Less than 30 minutes later an employee at a residential complex at First and Ralston told investigators someone had been found in the building's trash compactor. | guardianlv.com | ||
11432 | Christopher Brown | 17 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/13/2012 | Randallstown | MD | 39.3724836 | -76.7723763 | Baltimore County Police Department | Brown, in an act of vandalism evidently out of character, threw at rock that damaged the front door of the house of an off-duty county police officer. The officer chased Brown down. As a result of their encounter Brown was asphyxiated in a choke hold. The officer was indicted for both voluntary and involuntary manslaughter; in April 2014 "Christopher's Law" requiring police officers to be trained in CPR, cultural sensitivity, the proper use of force, and interacting with the physically and mentally disabled passed the MD General Assembly but was vetoed by the governor. | baltimoresun.com | ||
20775 | Odell W. Brown | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/13/2012 | Pittsburgh | PA | 40.4667585 | -79.9252767 | Allegheny County Sheriff's Office | Pittsburgh police were called by neighbors who reported seeing an agitated Odell Brown outside with a gun. He refused to drop the weapon when police arrived and was shot and killed. | post-gazette.com | ||
11422 | James Dortch Jr. | 52 | Male | European-American/White | 06/12/2012 | Manvel | TX | 29.4364988 | -95.3815772 | Brazoria County Sheriff's Office | Dortch, high on bath salts, attacked his niece and began to destroy the interior of her home. She called authorities. A neighbor, armed with a baseball bat, escorted her and her two children out of the residence. Deputies responded. Dortch resisted arrest. Deputies pepper-sprayed and handcuffed Dortch. Dortch's breathing became labored. Deputies called paramedics. Dortch died at Memorial Hermann Medical Center. | click2houston.com | ||
11423 | Andres "Andy" Gonzalez | 27 | Male | European-American/White | 06/12/2012 | Alliance | NE | 42.0971859 | -102.8708648 | Nebraska State Patrol, Alliance Police Department | Andres "Andy" Gonzalez reportedly entered Thiele Pharmacy and Gifts with guns, demanded drugs and barricaded himself inside. Gonzalez took the pharmacy's owner, Charles Lierk, hostage, and held police at bay for the next 14 hours. SWAT officers stormed an adjoining building and then exchanged 30-40 rounds with Gonzalez. Gonzalez was killed in the shootout. Lierk was shot in his right arm. APD officers Kirk Felker and Matt Shannon, and trooper Tim Flick were also wounded. Police later found the body of Gonzalez's father, Larry Gonzalez, 62, in his home. During the standoff, Gonzalez also reportedly confessed to murdering Josh Bullock the previous December | kearneyhub.com | ||
11424 | Bennett Lee "Benny" McKay Sr. | 49 | Male | European-American/White | 06/12/2012 | Cumberland | VA | 37.4460076 | -78.2075102 | Cumberland County Sheriff's Office | When a deputy arrived, officials said McKay confronted the deputy. Officials said the man refused to comply with the deputy's commands to put down his handgun. As a result, the deputy shot and killed him. | wric.com | ||
11425 | Calvin Wallace | 52 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/12/2012 | Boynton Beach | FL | 26.5345722 | -80.058767 | Boynton Beach Police Department | Police attempted to make a traffic stop of Wallace's vehicle, a red Lincoln Continental, because it matched a car used in an armed robbery earlier in the day. Wallace sped away from the traffic stop. He hit two other vehicles before colliding head-on into a third, which stopped him. He then started a firefight with two pursuing officers and was fatally shot. | sun-sentinel.com | ||
11426 | Scott James Chappell | 44 | Male | European-American/White | 06/12/2012 | Eagle Point | OR | 42.3489361 | -122.4242851 | Eagle Point Police Department | Army veteran of Kosovo and Afghanistan Chappell began acting erratically at home, attributed by family members to PTSD. A police visit to take him to a hospital developed into a confrontation, Chappell was tasered, and died in an ambulance. His mother called the police version of events "fabricated and corrupt". | mailtribune.com | ||
11427 | Christian Freeman | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/12/2012 | Memphis | TN | 35.1392981 | -90.0493975 | Memphis Police Department | Shot to death on downtown on Beale Street. Police alleged that Freeman threatened them with a knife. Family members said Freeman had mental health problems and that police knew this because they had arrested him in April for disorderly conduct. | commercialappeal.com | ||
23241 | Name withheld by police | Male | Race unspecified | 06/12/2012 | Munford | TN | 35.470048 | -89.77253 | Tipton County Sheriff's Office | A Tipton County Sheriff's deputy shot and killed a man armed with a knife, police said. The killing happened about 4:21 p.m. at 3373 Marshall in Munford. After getting a call about a possible suicidal man, deputies arrived and found the man, armed with the knife. According to the sheriff's department, deputies ordered the man to drop the knife. Instead, he charged and was shot and killed. | google.com | |||
11421 | Rodney Mitchell | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/11/2012 | Sarasota | FL | 27.3604737 | -82.5304661 | Sarasota County Sheriff's Office | He was pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt. Two deputies Adam Shaw and Troy Sasse shot at the car when he allegedly drove his car into one of them. | blacklikemoi.com | ||
11419 | Rusty Alan Edwards | 31 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/10/2012 | Irving | TX | 32.8617983 | -97.0115 | Irving Police Department | Edwards went to a pool party armed with a rifle. A man told him to leave it at home. Edwards shot him in the shoulder, then returned to his apartment. Partygoers told officers about Edwards and pointed to his residence. When officers approached, he shot at them. They shot back, then called for a SWAT team. SWAT officers found Edwards on a second-floor balcony, dead of multiple gunshot wounds. The fatal wound may have been self-inflicted. | dallasnews.com | ||
11420 | Jerry Saude | 40 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/10/2012 | Modesto | CA | 37.6618162 | -120.9870772 | Stanislaus County Sheriff's Office | Saude kidnapped his ex-girlfriend. Police pursued them at high speeds. After Saude was arressted, he had a medical emergency and died shortly after. | modestogov.com | ||
11414 | Randolph Bonvillian Jr. | 41 | Male | European-American/White | 06/09/2012 | Houma | LA | 29.5848717 | -90.692748 | Houma Police Department | Police stunned Randolph Bonvillian Jr. with a Taser while trying to subdue him during a scuffle at a Houma Walmart before he died moments later. An officer working a security detail at Walmart reportedly heard a man screaming shortly before midnight. When the officer approached Bonvillian, he allegedly began fighting and injured the officer's arm. The officer radioed for backup, and several officers arrived and were able to subdue Bonvillian. During the struggle, Bonvillian became unresponsive and was pronounced dead at the scene. Bonvillian's family said that a Taser was used. Police said Bonvillian had methamphetamine in his system. | houmatoday.com | ||
11415 | Derrick Allan Smith | 26 | Male | European-American/White | 06/09/2012 | San Antonio | TX | 29.5107616 | -98.5572227 | San Antonio Police Department | Smith's common-law wife called police to report that he injured himself and was suicidal. Officers responded. According to authorities, Smith hid in a bathroom with a screwdriver. Officers kicked the door in. Smith threatened officers with the screwdriver. An officer shot him with a stun gun. Smith pulled away the prongs and continued to approach officers. An officer fatally shot him with a gun. | mysanantonio.com | ||
11416 | Allen Keith Nelson | 44 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/09/2012 | Salt Lake City | UT | 40.753544 | -111.8834592 | Salt Lake City Police Department | On the basis of a witness account, Nelson's family was certain that officers used a Taser on him before he had a medical emergency and died while being arrested. The police were equally sure that Tasers were not used. Nelson had been released from jail only the previous day, and was detained on suspicion of breaking and entering. | deseretnews.com | ||
11417 | Michael Marino Jr. | 26 | Male | European-American/White | 06/09/2012 | Sellersville | PA | 40.35263 | -75.310449 | Perkasie Police Department | Michael Marino, who suffered from mental illness and drug problems, was acting erratically in the middle of the street. After detaining and handcuffing Marino, police struggled with and shot Marino in the chest. | buckscounty.org | ||
11418 | Shane Tasi | 26 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 06/09/2012 | Anchorage | AK | 61.229591 | -149.7990088 | Anchorage Police Department | Tasi was shot to death by an officer in the yard of an apartment complex, after refusing to drop the stick he was wielding. Officers had responded to reports of a man yelling at passing cars and attacking a dog. Tasi, 26, was pronounced dead at a hospital. The state of Alaska is conducting an independent investigation into the case. | alaskadispatch.com | ||
11412 | Monroe Curtis Smith | 42 | Male | European-American/White | 06/08/2012 | Henagar | AL | 34.676749 | -85.663155 | Alabama Department of Public Safety, DeKalb County Sheriff's Office | Officers shot and killed Monroe Curtis Smith when he allegedly pointed a gun at them following a chase. | blog.al.com | ||
11413 | Anthony Chambers | 38 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/08/2012 | Washington | DC | 38.8718795 | -77.0109607 | Washington Metropolitan Police Department | Purportedly Chambers had visited a city officer earlier in the day and complained about the electronic chip in his head. Police were dispatched to his mother's house to assist Department of Mental Health workers to bring him in. Chambers became combative, had a medical emergency, and died. His niece asserted that he'd been repeatedly struck on the head with a nightstick and, in her words, beaten to death. | mpdc.dc.gov | ||
23252 | Michael Dewayne Choate | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 06/08/2012 | Gatlinburg | TN | 35.734718 | -83.4645143 | Gatlinburg Police Department | Police said Michael Choate's mother called emergency dispatchers about a disturbance after Choate removed a pistol from a gun safe. Choate was outside when an officer arrived, and he was shot and killed by officers. | google.com | ||
11410 | John Marshall Hull | 31 | Male | European-American/White | 06/07/2012 | Spanaway | WA | 47.1055131 | -122.429241 | Pierce County Sheriff's Office | Deputies came upon a truck doing doughnuts late at night, rn the plate and found it it was stolen. The driver of the truck attempted to ram the deputies a number of times. They got out of the patrol car and fired, killing the suspect at the scene. | thenewstribune.com | ||
11411 | Victor Arango | 26 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/07/2012 | Boynton Beach | FL | 26.5537087 | -80.1211275 | Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office | Arango died as he attempted to break up a fight involving his girlfriend outside a bar and grill. The county deputy who fatally shot him had a checkered work history, and as Arango's family described the circumstances, he'd had a broken hand and a cast on his arm inconsistent with the police version of events. One of four police shootings in the county within a month. | wptv.com | ||
22565 | Timothy Gajdik | 33 | Male | European-American/White | 06/07/2012 | Valparaiso | IN | 41.5610532 | -87.123594 | Portage Police Department | A Portage police officer on patrol spotted a speeding motorcycle and began following it as the driver sped down Airport Road and then Robbins Road. The officer said Timothy Gajdik disregarded a number of stop signs and flew past two Porter County sheriff's officers who were wrapping up an unrelated traffic stop. Those county officers joined in the pursuit as the motorcycle crossed Ind. 149. Gajdik crashed and died about a quarter-mile east of Ind. 149. | nwitimes.com | ||
11407 | Jaime Reyes Jr. | 28 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/06/2012 | Fresno | CA | 36.7141749 | -119.7366164 | Fresno Police Department | Officer Juan Avila shot Jaime Reyes Jr. four times because he wouldn't stop running and had a gun wrapped in a plastic bag in his pocket. | documentcloud.org | ||
11408 | Michael Shawn Cooper | 35 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/06/2012 | Yuma | AZ | 32.6927715 | -114.6494463 | Yuma Police Department | Officers responded to a report of an alleged sexual abuse or assault. When officers arrived on scene to investigate the allegation, the suspect became uncooperative and barricaded himself and a 15-year-old male inside the apartment, where he armed himself with a knife and began making suicidal threats. He released the boy, but three hours later, when police entered, he threw a spear at them. He was shot and killed. | yumasun.com | ||
11409 | Charles Moore III | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/06/2012 | Dayton | OH | 39.761744 | -84.2314008 | Dayton Police Department | Police said they were "not actively pursuing" Moore, only following him, but somehow Moore knew to flee at high speed when an undercover officer spotted him. Moore directly ran at red light at an intersection, struck an Impala, and sustained fatal injuries. | mydaytondailynews.com | ||
22918 | Don Jeffrey Scott | 54 | Male | Race unspecified | 06/06/2012 | Danville | VA | 36.5917923 | -79.4634071 | Danville Police Department | Don Scott was facing child pornography charges when shot and killed himself while police were looking for him. His car was spotted just before 4 p.m. at a Danville cemetery. When officers pulled up behind his car, they heard a gunshot. | google.com | ||
11403 | Travis Lay | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 06/05/2012 | Loudon | TN | 35.7346731 | -84.4032271 | Loudon Police Department | An 1:30 a.m. police pursuit of a pickup truck with three men ended with a crash when the driver lost control. Two of the three were killed: Timothy Hardwick and passenger Travis Lay. The three were burglary suspects. | knoxnews.com | ||
11404 | Timothy Hardwick | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 06/05/2012 | Loudon | TN | 35.7346731 | -84.4032271 | Loudon Police Department | An 1:30 a.m. police pursuit of a pickup truck with three men ended with a crash when the driver lost control. Two of the three were killed: Timothy Hardwick and passenger Travis Lay. The three were burglary suspects. | knoxnews.com | ||
11405 | Derrick Louis-Lamar Gaines | 15 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/05/2012 | South San Francisco | CA | 37.6434883 | -122.4534337 | South San Francisco Police Department | Police say a South San Francisco police officer confronted the teenager and his buddy at a gas station parking lot Tuesday night because they were acting suspicous. They say Gaines refused to cooperate and, at some point, took off running and pulled out a gun. In turn, our officer in the protection of his own life discharged his weapon | nbcbayarea.com | ||
11406 | Alexzander Rye Coan | 23 | Male | European-American/White | 06/05/2012 | Arlington | TX | 32.7059436 | -97.1134399 | Arlington Police Department | Officers attempted to serve an arrest warrant for Coan who was wanted for at least five robberies. A shootout ensued which resulted in the injury to a SWAT officer and the death of Coan. | dallasnews.com | ||
11397 | Zachari Johnson | 21 | Male | European-American/White | 06/04/2012 | Offutt AFB | NE | 41.1346812 | -95.9263604 | Sarpy County Sheriff's Office, Offutt Air Force Base Security | Two Sarpy County sheriff's cruisers chased Zachari Johnson for allegedly stealing the Honda he was driving as well as a credit card. The pursuit started on NE-75, turned onto Capehart Road and continued through the main gate at Offutt Air Force Base. For the next five minutes, sheriff's deputies, Bellevue police officers and Offutt security tried to stop Johnson, who drove toward the Bellevue Gate, which was closed. Johnson made a U-turn and headed toward the Kenney Gate. Police were still in pursuit and other security personnel were rushing out to help. At about 3:30 p.m., Johnson reportedly began ramming the Honda into a barricade at the gate. Offutt security guard Douglas Bickal--a federal civilian employee--yelled at Johnson to surrender before firing three shots. Johnson died at a hospital. A federal grand jury found that Bickal did nothing wrong. The grand jury was convened in the case since Johnson's death was considered an in-custody death per state law. | kearneyhub.com | ||
11398 | Victor David Ortega | 31 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/04/2012 | San Diego | CA | 32.907573 | -117.1489341 | San Diego Police Department | Ortega died after being shot twice during a struggle with Officer Jonathan McCarthy after Ortega's wife called police to the couple's Flanders Drive home. | utsandiego.com | ||
11399 | Lawrence Alan Kitchen | 67 | Male | European-American/White | 06/04/2012 | Lompoc | CA | 34.636859 | -120.458836 | Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office | Lawrence Kitchen became involved in a dispute with a neighbor's visitor over parking in the multi-unit residential property. Kitchen armed himself with a shotgun and handgun. He confronted Michelle Velasquez and shot her with the shotgun, injuring her and killing a small dog she was holding. Kitchen then pointed his weapon at Eusebio Ruiz who was attempting to seek refuge in apartment #1. Kitchen shot Ruiz in the torso and leg. When confronted by officers and instructed to drop the weapon and get down, he pointed his weapon at Lompoc Police Officers Dan Sessions and Willie Francis. Both officers fired at Kitchen. They hit Kitchen twice. | edhat.com | ||
11400 | Armando Gonzalez Felipe | 40 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/04/2012 | West Palm Beach | FL | 26.6558164 | -80.1444583 | Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office | Felipe shot a woman several during a domestic dispute in a mobile home park, killing her, then attempted to flee during a fence along a nearby canal. Intercepted there by an officer and a K-9 unit, Felipe shot and wounded both the officer and the dog before being fatally shot himself. | sun-sentinel.com | ||
11401 | Timothy Sean O'Brien | 25 | Male | European-American/White | 06/04/2012 | Phoenix | AZ | 33.6547276 | -112.0997695 | Phoenix Police Department | O'Brien, 25, was allegedly threatening people, including children, with a baseball bat after being denied access to a swimming pool. When officers responded, O'Brien moved toward them while swinging the bat. After repeated warning to stop and drop the bat, the two officers shot and killed O'Brien. | abc15.com | ||
11402 | Kevin Ambrose | 56 | Male | European-American/White | 06/04/2012 | Springfield | MA | 42.1173665 | -72.5277374 | New York City Department of Correction | Charlene Mitchell reported that off-duty prison guard Shawn Bryan was near her apartment in violation of a restraining order. Officer Kevin Ambrose responded to the call and attempted to force entry to the apartment into which Bryan had taken Mitchell. Bryan shot Ambrose through the door, shot Mitchell, then shot himself. Ambrose and Bryan died of their wounds. | boston.com | ||
30213 | Vachel Howard Sr. | 56 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/04/2012 | Los Angeles | CA | 33.9702803 | -118.2779687 | Los Angeles Police Department | At approximately 11:49 a.m., Vachel Howard Sr. was pulled over by police after he was driving erratically. He was arrested for a DUI and was transported to the 77th Division jail. During transport, Howard was sweating profusely and became more agitated. Once at 77th, he was uncuffed and transferred to the dispensary for a medical evaluation. However, he was too agitated and nursing staff was unable to evaluate him. As he was being escorted from the dispensary, he allegedly made a move toward a nurse. Police and detention officers attempted to restrain him as he became combative. During the struggle, a police officer deployed a Taser several times, but it was ineffective. During the struggle, a detention officer applied a choke hold. Howard appeared to calm down and was restrained. Officers noticed he was dead and nursing staff began CPR. | latimes.com | ||
11395 | Ted Douglas Fitzgerald | 27 | Male | European-American/White | 06/03/2012 | Wright City | MO | 38.8229295 | -91.0740692 | Truesdale Police Department | Fitzgerald died in a high-speed crash after fleeing from police in Truesdale. Police said he died at the scene of the crash in Wright City. That area is about three miles from Truesdale. | stltoday.com | ||
11396 | Robert Kimball Fox | 52 | Male | European-American/White | 06/03/2012 | Aloha | OR | 45.4714219 | -122.861459 | Washington County Sheriff's Office | Fox had threatened suicide and came out on the lawn of his duplex apartment, rifle in hand. He ignored repeated commands of county officers to drop the weapon. He was fatally shot with a single bullet. | oregonlive.com | ||
20776 | Gregg Eugene "Zeb" Kisic | 52 | Male | European-American/White | 06/03/2012 | Middletown | PA | 40.1998059 | -76.7312808 | Steelton Borough Police Department | A motorist who struck and killed a Highspire motorcyclist in Middletown's square while he was fleeing police during a high-speed chase was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison and 16 years of probation. Steven Henderson, of Steelton, apologized to the widow, father and other family members of Gregg Kisic, the 51-year-old motorcyclist he killed in the chase. | pennlive.com | ||
11393 | John Robert Husband III | 21 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/02/2012 | Dallas | TX | 32.698689 | -96.8410842 | Dallas Police Department | According to a police report, Officer Leland Limbaugh pulled over a vehicle that smelled like marijuana. Officer Limbaugh told Husband to exit the vehicle and patted him down. Husband tried to draw a .40-caliber pistol, reported lost by the original owner. Officer Limbaugh, his gun in his left hand, shot Husband in the left side of the back, then disarmed and cuffed him. Husband died at Methodist Hospital. Husband's family, which conceded that Husband was armed, sued Dallas Police Department for wrongful death, saying that the officer shot Husband as he fled. | dallasobserver.com | ||
11394 | Trevon Keith Miller | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/02/2012 | Gainesville | FL | 29.6227969 | -82.3560529 | Gainesville Police Department, Alachua County Sheriff's Office | A female friend retrieving some personal belongings from Miller's apartment developed into a physical fight, then Miller's armed assault and wounding of the young woman. Police were called and Miller gave himself up after a relatively brief standoff. Taken into custody, he began to convulse, and soon after died of a medical emergency. | alligator.org | ||
11391 | Hernan Rubalcaba | 35 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 06/01/2012 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.0499971 | -118.2022627 | Los Angeles Police Department | Officers reported that they responded to a call about gunshots fired, and upon arriving confronted Rubalcaba who had a gun, and they shot him to death. | latimes.com | ||
11392 | Stanley L. Downen | 77 | Male | European-American/White | 06/01/2012 | Columbia Falls | MT | 48.3589311 | -114.2097748 | Columbia Falls Police Department | On his first full day in a state-run elder home, Korean vet Downen wandered away and reacted badly to people trying to retrieve him. Police were called, and tasered him. He fell face-first onto the pavement and died of his injuries three weeks later. Authorities at the home concealed the police involvement from the family for two days. | missoulian.com | ||
23442 | Stuart Fitzgerald | 44 | Male | African-American/Black | 06/01/2012 | Baltimore | MD | 39.2868707 | -76.5872967 | Baltimore Police Department | Stuart Fitzgerald was one of two men observed emerging from a row home, where police were called for a burglary in progress, police said. Officer Karen Crisafulli shot and killed him when he allegedly advanced toward her in a threatening manner. | baltimoresun.com | ||
11386 | Randulph Supnet Rodas | 35 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/31/2012 | Merced | CA | 37.2737244 | -120.487822 | Merced County Sheriff's Office, Merced Police Department | A deputy responded to the scene after reports of a man fighting with a homeowner in the neighborhood. Armed with a piece of wood or a stick, the man allegedly turned on the deputy, who then used his Taser. Soon after Rodas was arrested, he stopped breathing. | mercedsunstar.com | ||
11387 | Troy Wayne Epperley | 37 | Male | European-American/White | 05/31/2012 | Boise | ID | 43.6608339 | -116.3601262 | Boise Police Department | Officers were called to help a suicidal subject. He came out with a gun. From the police report: "Officer knew from his training and experience that action-versus-reaction dynamics meant that Officer and he were in no position to be able to react to Epperley if he decided to start shooting at officers. Officer made the decision that he felt that his life, as well as Officer were in danger so he pulled the trigger on the AR-15 patrol rifle that he was pointing at Epperley. This was done to stop the deadly threat they were confronted with. When the rifle failed to fire and function properly, Officer what he has been trained to do and that was a 'Tap-and-Rack' procedure to clear the weapon and make it functional." It is unclear from the report whether this officer was the one who shot and killed Epperley. | google.com | ||
11388 | Dontaylo De'Shon Wright | 20 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/31/2012 | Brooklyn Center | MN | 45.0511532 | -93.2953551 | Brooklyn Center Police Department | Moua responded to a report of a man carrying a rifle down the middle of a Brooklyn Center street. Police said Moua pointed his gun at Wright, a 20-year-old Brooklyn Academy student just days away from getting his diploma, and told him to drop the weapon. When he didn't, Moua fired. | startribune.com | ||
11389 | Thomas C. McMullen | 32 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/31/2012 | Jacksonville | FL | 30.3647769 | -81.7069519 | Jacksonville Sheriff's Office | McMullen was intercepted by police at an apartment complex after he'd fired several shots at suspected robbers of his girlfriend's place. When officers arrived, McMullen refused to drop his weapon, and was fatally shot. He'd served 15 years in prison in years past for his involvement in a 1993 shooting. | theledger.com | ||
11390 | Sam Mullane | 18 | Male | European-American/White | 05/31/2012 | Yachats | OR | 44.2992266 | -123.9693609 | Oregon State Police | Mullane was shot to death to death by SWAT team members in the driveway of a home. State troopers had been attempting to serve an arrest warrant. Mullane was armed and had moved to take cover when he was shot. | kval.com | ||
11383 | Chantel Ortiz | 16 | Female | European-American/White | 05/29/2012 | Pueblo | CO | 38.3156062 | -104.6606426 | Colorado State Patrol | Chantel Ortiz, 16, and Cameron Montoya, 18, were killed and three others were seriously injured when a stolen sport utility vehicle they were in crashed during a high-speed chase with a Colorado state trooper in Pueblo. | denverpost.com | ||
11384 | Cameron Mitchell Montoya | 18 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/29/2012 | Pueblo | CO | 38.3156062 | -104.6606426 | Colorado State Patrol | Chantel Ortiz, 16, and Cameron Montoya, 18, were killed and three others were seriously injured when a stolen sport utility vehicle they were in crashed during a high-speed chase with a Colorado state trooper in Pueblo. | denverpost.com | ||
11385 | Lee Dell Thomas Jr. | 44 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/29/2012 | Dallas | TX | 32.838462 | -96.780523 | Dallas Police Department | Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic and suspected carjacker, climbed into the cab of a crane to escape arrest. A SWAT team set up a perimeter around the area and tried to reason with Thomas, who threatened them using a radio found on site. Hours later, some officers climbed a ladder to the cab that Thomas occupied, 150 feet off the ground. Thomas, unarmed, sprayed officers with what they thought was a lubricant, then slipped, fell and died. | cbsnews.com | ||
19302 | Albert Couch Jr. | 38 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/29/2012 | Pickens | SC | 34.826659 | -82.783271 | Liberty Police Department, Anderson County Sheriff's Office | Albert Couch Jr. was wanted for robbing a Greenville CVS store, and shot and killed himself after fleeing police. | google.com | ||
11381 | Clancy Aaron Edwards | 37 | Male | European-American/White | 05/28/2012 | Houston | TX | 29.8011489 | -95.2212419 | Houston Police Department | Officers responded to a complaint that Edwards, wearing only socks and boxers, was running in and out of Wallisville Road. Paramedics had already responded. Officers helped them to restrain Edwards. He died at Pasadena Bayshore Hospital. | google.com | ||
11382 | Anton Barrett Sr. | 42 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/28/2012 | Vallejo | CA | 38.1120731 | -122.2648223 | Vallejo Police Department | After an attempt to stop a vehicle because of erratic driving, the police were led on a chase. When the vehicle stopped, police thought Barrett was pulling a gun, but it was a wallet. The shot and tasered him, and he died of the injuries. | sfgate.com | ||
11379 | Richard Edward LaTour | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 05/27/2012 | Dallas | TX | 32.8765425 | -96.7364031 | Dallas Police Department | Officers entered a residence in response to a report about a suicidal man. LaTour reached for a gun when he saw two officers approach him. Sergeant Joseph Adams and another officer shot him. He died at a hospital. | dallasnews.com | ||
11380 | John A. Sordetto | 25 | Male | European-American/White | 05/27/2012 | Buffalo | NY | 42.9478858 | -78.9033204 | Buffalo Police Department | Police on the lookout for a stolen cruiser around 5 a.m. on a Sunday discovered Sordetto, who fit the description. Although innocent of the car theft he resisted arrest. This resistance developed into a violent struggle between the two. Punched in the head repeatedly, the officer was only able to draw and fire on Sordetto once, killing him, before passing out on the street. | wgrz.com | ||
11377 | Rudy Eugene | 31 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/26/2012 | Miami | FL | 25.7870043 | -80.1879566 | Miami-Dade Police Department | In a nationally notorious incident, a naked Rudy attacked a homeless stranger on a public highway and assaulted him for 18 minutes. Responding police, horrified, fired at Rudy once. His only response was to growl and continue. He was shot three times more and died at the scene. Despite the linkage with "balt salts" no drugs were found on the scene or in Rudy's bloodstream. | wikipedia.org | ||
11378 | Raymond A. Smith | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/26/2012 | Kansas City | MO | 39.1064778 | -94.5556723 | Kansas City Police Department | Police were responding to a call about suspicious prostitution activity when a man fled on foot. Two officers pursued him and allege that he fired shots at them. Both officers shot the man to death. | kmbc.com | ||
11374 | Celia N. Ramirez | 26 | Female | Race unspecified | 05/25/2012 | Bristol | IN | 41.6975462 | -85.8170279 | Bristol Police Department | Motorcyclist Anthony Arroyo and his passenger Celia Ramirez were killed in a police chase when Arroyo fled from an attempted traffic stop, raced away, lost control of the bike, and crashed. | southbendtribune.com | ||
11375 | Anthony Arroyo | 25 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/25/2012 | Bristol | IN | 41.6975462 | -85.8170279 | Bristol Police Department | Motorcyclist Anthony Arroyo and his passenger Celia Ramirez were killed in a police chase when Arroyo fled from an attempted traffic stop, raced away, lost control of the bike, and crashed. | southbendtribune.com | ||
11376 | Timothy Clark Merrill | 44 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/25/2012 | Galveston | TX | 29.1222164 | -95.0685923 | Houston Police Department | Officers Kevin Smith and Carmen Martin went to their beach house to renovate it over Memorial Day weekend. They found it in disarray. Merrill, in the residence, asked them what they were doing there. Officer Smith said that the residence was theirs. According to authorities, Merrill tried to draw a pistol. Smith shot him fatally in the chest and arm. | chron.com | ||
22564 | Roy L. Ferguson | 48 | Male | European-American/White | 05/25/2012 | Valparaiso | IN | 41.491946 | -87.0467651 | Valparaiso Police Department | Roy Ferguson allegedly took hostages in a northwestern Indiana realty office and held police at bay for several hours before he was shot and killed by police. | sandiegouniontribune.com | ||
11369 | Kerry Hullet | 46 | Male | European-American/White | 05/24/2012 | Salina | KS | 38.80436 | -97.566451 | Salina Police Department | Kerry Hullett reportedly mixed household chemicals to create hydrogen sulfide and then shot himself inside his workshop. Police responded at around 8:45 a.m. to a report that Hullett was suicidal and had locked himself in a room with a label on the door warning of poisonous gas. The neighborhood was evacuated. Armed members of a hazardous materials team entered the house at about 10:45 a.m. and were inside for about 30 minutes. They found Hullett dead inside the room with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. | salinapost.com | ||
11370 | Troy Lynn Randle | 45 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/24/2012 | Houston | TX | 29.7016527 | -95.3698391 | Houston Police Department | On May 24, 2012, Officers Clopton and Harris observed a motorcycle being driven by a male (later identified as the decedent, Troy Lynn Randle) heading westbound in the 3400 block of Old Spanish Trail at a high rate of speed. Officers observed the decedent run two stop lights and enter the South Freeway, at which time the officers initiated a traffic stop. Officers then attempted to instruct the decedent to move the traffic stop from 7100 South Freeway to a side street. At that time, a truck struck the patrol vehicle and the motorcycle. The driver of the motorcycle (the decedent) was killed at the scene. The driver of the truck was charged with intoxication manslaughter. | houstontx.gov | ||
11371 | Kevin Bernard Hunter | 51 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/24/2012 | Houston | TX | 29.8823761 | -95.4484994 | Houston Police Department | Hunter attacked a vehicle and threatened to kill the officers inside with a box cutter. He wounded one officer as both fatally shot him. | abc13.com | ||
11372 | Michael Brandon | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 05/24/2012 | Billings | MT | 45.7849683 | -108.5098671 | Billings Police Department | Repeat violent offender Brandon was shot and killed after an early-morning running firefight with police in downtown Billings streets, including "two situations of close-quarters combat". Brandon escaped long enough to run and lock himself in a bathroom at the Dude Rancher Lodge, where officers cornered him and killed him. | billingsgazette.com | ||
11373 | Peter Mestler | 53 | Male | European-American/White | 05/24/2012 | Vallejo | CA | 38.1040762 | -122.2548931 | Vallejo Police Department | Upset over a divorce, Mestler threatened several people with his pellet gun before he pointed it at officers. They shot and killed him. | news10.net | ||
19323 | Chad Alan Woods | 33 | Male | European-American/White | 05/24/2012 | Tulsa | OK | 36.0891733 | -96.0306404 | Oklahoma Highway Patrol | A trooper tried to stop Woods' 2003 Honda for speeding on Interstate 44 near Admiral Boulevard, but the bike exited onto Cincinnati Avenue, ran a red light and re-entered the highway before crashing as Woods tried to exit onto 33rd West Avenue, police said. | tulsaworld.com | ||
11368 | Roydell Oneal Kennedy | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/23/2012 | Prichard | AL | 30.749333 | -88.126501 | Prichard Police Department | Roydell Oneal Kennedy was found unresponsive in the back of a police car after police chased him through the woods where a fence allegedly fell as he tried to jump over it. | blog.al.com | ||
19934 | Douglas Kenneth "Doug" Dyer | 55 | Male | European-American/White | 05/23/2012 | Olive Hill | KY | 38.3112334 | -83.1296226 | Kentucky State Police | Dispatchers at the Kentucky State Police received a call about a man wielding a firearm at his residence. Upon arrival, troopers saw Kenneth Doug Dyer sitting on a hill in a chair behind his residence. Dyer was holding a handgun. Troopers Kris Kirk and Joseph Vorbeck gave several commands to put down the firearm. Despite these orders, Dyer pointed the handgun in the direction of the troopers, who shot and killed him. | thelevisalazer.com | ||
11362 | Roy Axon | 58 | Male | European-American/White | 05/22/2012 | Thomson | GA | 33.4337979 | -82.436388 | McDuffie County Sheriff's Office | Fired a .22 rifle and .22 pistol at deputies and at a group of people, who included his ex-wife, whom he had taken hostage at his Thomson home. His ex said he had assaulted and threatened her and her grown daughter when she returned to the home to retrieve some of her belongings. | myajc.com | ||
11363 | Marshall M.K. Langford | 31 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 05/22/2012 | Kihei | HI | 20.7049284 | -156.4465766 | Maui Police Department | Langford was fatally shot when police responded to a report of a stolen vehicle at the parking lot of the Mana Kai Resort. When police arrived, they found Langford in the vehicle. Police say he attempted to flee, and while doing so, allegedly pulled out a handgun and pointed it at an officer. The officer shot and killed him. | mauinow.com | ||
11364 | Kevin S. Boozer | 28 | Male | European-American/White | 05/22/2012 | Columbus | OH | 39.9188212 | -83.1470429 | Columbus Division of Police | Boozer had a knife to his girlfriend's throat when he was shot and killed by police. | dispatch.com | ||
11365 | Charles Edward Murry Jr. | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/22/2012 | Little Rock | AR | 34.7490669 | -92.301295 | Little Rock Police Department | When officer Terry McDaniel, 24, arrived at the scene of a burglary with a murder, he saw a man fleeing. When he ordered him to stop, Charles Murry pointed a revolver at him, and McDaniel shot and killed him. | arktimes.com | ||
11366 | Andrais Darnell Smith | 32 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/22/2012 | Dallas | TX | 32.7363689 | -96.9228968 | Dallas Police Department | Smith and an associate sold drugs to two other individuals. After, they revealed a gun and tried to rob the buyers. The buyers, undercover officers, and a third officer, their backup, shot at the two dealers. Smith died. | dallasnews.com | ||
11367 | Joseph Ferrans II | 24 | Male | European-American/White | 05/22/2012 | West Palm Beach | FL | 26.7153424 | -80.0533746 | West Palm Beach Police Department | Motorcyclist Ferrans was being chased by a local police officer in an unmarked car at high speed when he lost control, struck a tree, and sustained fatal injuries. | palmbeachpost.com | ||
22917 | William Wingfield Jr. | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 05/22/2012 | Farmville | VA | 37.2697722 | -78.4551079 | Farmville Police Department | William Wingfield had recently been served a protective order from his estranged wife, which also made it illegal for him to possess a firearm. Police were looking for him for allegedly illegally firing a weapon, which led to a car chase. After he shot at police, Wingfield was shot and killed. | wset.com | ||
11360 | Alex Roman Quintanilla | 22 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/21/2012 | Barstow | CA | 34.8556337 | -117.0840667 | Barstow Police Department, California Highway Patrol | A CHP unit responded to a call of a man jumping from his girlfriend's vehicle on the freeway. Quintanilla's girlfriend told a dispatcher her boyfriend had jumped from her car while it was moving, was acting violently and running across the freeway. Officers stunned Quintanilla with a Taser or Tasers after he failed to comply with their commands. Quintanilla bit one of the officers on the arm during the fracas, the news release said. As the officers subdued Quintanilla and were putting handcuffs on him they noticed he wasn't breathing and had no pulse. | sbsun.com | ||
11361 | Robert Shirar | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 05/21/2012 | Indio | CA | 33.701506 | -116.192795 | California Highway Patrol | After crashing his vehicle on Interstate 10, Shirar threatened investigating CHP officers. They shot and killed him. | desertsun.com | ||
19291 | David Scott Hampton | 56 | Male | European-American/White | 05/21/2012 | Greenville | SC | 34.845624 | -82.432032 | Greenville County Sheriff's Office | Hampton took a female hostage inside her vehicle. A Greenville County deputy shot and killed him. | wyff4.com | ||
11359 | Elwood Nile Jihad James Edwards-White | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/20/2012 | Oceanside | CA | 33.2167225 | -117.2706157 | San Diego County Sheriff's Office | Police were responding to a report of a disturbance at a convenience store where a man had allegedly hit someone over the head with a glass bottle and thrown a brick through a car window. Officers found Edwards about half a mile from the store and tried to detain him. Deputy Mike Astorga shot Edwards to death when he lunged at the officers with a stick. | nbcsandiego.com | ||
11355 | Name withheld by police | 33 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/19/2012 | Wichita | KS | 37.7190098 | -97.454568 | Wichita Police Department | An unidentified 33-year-old man reportedly killed himself during a three-hour police standoff. Police had responded to a domestic violence call shortly after 8 p.m. The man allegedly fired one shot outside the house before barricading himself inside with three children. Police were reportedly inside the home talking with the man through a closed bedroom door when he fired another shot. The children were removed from the home. The man was pronounced dead at around 11 p.m. from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. | kansas.com | ||
11356 | Janko Sudicki | 23 | Male | European-American/White | 05/19/2012 | Wadsworth | OH | 41.0555373 | -81.7348308 | Wadsworth Police Department | Police tried to stop a motorcycle because it was missing a license plate. Sudicki fled, crashed and died. | fox8.com | ||
11357 | Bessie Louise Stovall | 68 | Female | African-American/Black | 05/19/2012 | Decatur | AL | 34.5699979 | -86.9998621 | Decatur Police Department | Bessie Louise Stovall died in a crash after her vehicle was hit by a car fleeing police. | blog.al.com | ||
11358 | Gray Alan Combs Jr. | 22 | Male | European-American/White | 05/19/2012 | Springfield | VA | 38.7961808 | -77.1860717 | Fairfax County Sheriff's Office | With seven outstanding warrants related to child pornography and other sex crimes, Combs had slipped away from the police the day before. This evening they found him hiding in the bathroom of a stranger's house. He threatened them with some kind of sword before he was shot to death. | nbcwashington.com | ||
21825 | Maurice Holloman aka Maurice Donald Johnson | 31 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/19/2012 | Baltimore | MD | 39.315558 | -76.5712412 | Baltimore Police Department | Marcella Holloman was hosting a birthday party for her 6-year-old granddaughter when she heard a crash upstairs. Her son Maurice Johnson, who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2009, had smashed his wall mirror and a 42-inch television, and Holloman decided he needed to go to the hospital. Johnson was upset by that decision, and when Officers Paul Markowski and Gregory Bragg arrived, he fought with them, eventually pinning Markowski and being shot and killed by Bragg. | baltimoresun.com | ||
11352 | Lucas Webb | 33 | Male | European-American/White | 05/18/2012 | Sacramento | CA | 38.5530284 | -121.5039284 | Sacramento Police Department | Officers say they tried to pull over the Chico resident after spotting him in what they believed to be a stolen car, but he fled at high speed, and they called off the pursuit over safety concerns. Police caught up with Webb and his passenger again in Land Park where Webb reportedly ran from them into the back yard of a house. Webb reportedly fired at officers and hit the K9, Bodie, several times. The K9's partner returned fire on Webb, and he died at the scene. | sanquentinblog.com | ||
11353 | Jason Aaron Pierce | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/18/2012 | Houston | TX | 29.65735 | -95.5100629 | Houston Police Department | According to the HPD Public Affairs Division, Pierce held a man at knifepoint after they argued on a bus. The bus stopped, other passengers fled, and officers set up a perimeter and tried to reason with Pierce. He lost patience with negotiations and tried to stab his hostage, Sergeant K. Johnson entered the bus and shot him. Pierce died at Ben Taub General Hospital. | houstontx.gov | ||
11354 | Jace Herndon | 41 | Male | European-American/White | 05/18/2012 | Reno | NV | 39.5227142 | -119.8162779 | Reno Police Department | Shot during a stolen vehicle stop. | google.com | ||
20777 | Robin Taneisha Williams | 21 | Female | African-American/Black | 05/18/2012 | Plymouth Meeting | PA | 40.1105924 | -75.2796822 | Pennsylvania State Police | Pennsylvania State Trooper Barry Searfoss was off duty and drunk behind the wheel and had a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit when he collided with a car driven by 21-year-old Robin Williams. The car exploded and she was killed. He was ordered to spend at least six months behind bars. | cbslocal.com | ||
22563 | Lucius D. Washington | 34 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/18/2012 | Fort Wayne | IN | 41.0786634 | -85.1568024 | Indiana State Police | Police said on-duty Trooper Seth W. Mann saw multiple people beating up a man outside a nightclub. The crowd scattered when he arrived, and Mann and Washington fought after a short chase. Mann shot and killed Washington. | natchezdemocrat.com | ||
11345 | Rod Dankers | 65 | Male | European-American/White | 05/17/2012 | Grass Valley | CA | 39.2164264 | -121.0612109 | Grass Valley Police Department | An officer shot and killed Rod Dankers when he shot at police after a high-speed chase ended next to the Bear River bridge. | theunion.com | ||
11346 | John Melo | 59 | Male | European-American/White | 05/17/2012 | San Jose | CA | 37.3503114 | -121.8583887 | California Highway Patrol | Bystander John Melo died hours after he was wedged between two cars during a series of crashes involving a car fleeing the CHP. | contracostatimes.com | ||
11347 | Craig Jarvis | 64 | Male | European-American/White | 05/17/2012 | Aiken | SC | 33.525249 | -81.758768 | Aiken Department of Public Safety | Aiken Department of Public Safety officials said Jarvis, 64, shot Lynn Carlisle, 68, in her home on Cherry Hills Drive. When officers arrived, he had already shot himself in the chest. Jarvis fired on officers, who returned fire, killing him. | augusta.com | ||
11348 | Parish Laconley Powell | 38 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/17/2012 | Bessemer | AL | 33.386375 | -86.955283 | Bessemer Police Department | Officer Gabriel Kinderknecht shot and killed Parish Laconley Powell when he allegedly lunged at and threw a knife at him. | blog.al.com | ||
11350 | Malcolm Gracia | 15 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/17/2012 | New Bedford | MA | 41.6359189 | -70.9357548 | New Bedford Police Department | Police shot Gracia after he stabbed a detective. The encounter started when a sergeant watching surveillance video saw Gracia, who had a history of mental illness, exchange a possible gang-related handshake on the Temple Landing basketball courts. | southcoasttoday.com | ||
11351 | Sergio Javier Azcuy | 46 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/17/2012 | Miami | FL | 25.6563428 | -80.4157062 | Miami-Dade Police Department | Azcuy was the passenger in a green Kia caught in a narcotics trafficking sting. The vehicle's occupants were ordered to show their hands. The driver complied, but Azcuy is said to have made an evasive move, and officers perceived a dark shiny object in his right hand. He was shot to death. Later it emerged that he'd been holding a cell phone. | nbcmiami.com | ||
11343 | Robert R. Luccari | 61 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/16/2012 | Nampa | ID | 43.5751861 | -116.5565885 | Nampa Police Department | Nampa police were called to the apartment building for a noise complaint. Three officers were at the door of the apartment trying to talk to Luccari when he came out armed with a handgun pointed at police, according to police. One of the officers fired several rounds at the man, who went back inside and locked the door. Police then evacuated several nearby apartments and set up a perimeter. More than two hours later, police sent a bomb robot through the front door and into the apartment and found him dead. | lyncmigration.com | ||
11344 | Clinton Hightower | 27 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/16/2012 | Stone Mountain | GA | 33.8068606 | -84.1859184 | DeKalb County Police Department | Hightower was headed to babysit for a family member and was hit and killed by a DeKalb County police officer who was headed to a homicide scene, police said. Officer Jason Cooper was fired on July 25. | ajc.com | ||
11349 | Seth Isaac Adams | 24 | Male | European-American/White | 05/16/2012 | Loxahatchee | FL | 26.705838 | -80.295364 | Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office | Undercover Sgt Michael Mario Custer trespassing on private property. Adams arrived, asked Custer his business. Custer shot Adams four times, and did not render aid or restrain. Seth opened the chained gate. Made it 300 feet, collapsed, called his brother for help. See Change.org Seth Adams | palmbeachpost.com | ||
21344 | Name withheld by police | 50 | Male | European-American/White | 05/16/2012 | Trenton | MI | 42.144232 | -83.186453 | Trenton Police Department | Police said they received a report that a man had robbed a gas station in Gibraltar at knifepoint at about 1:15 a.m. Police then got a call a few minutes later saying the man was at a Future Fuels at Fort Street. According to police, the Trenton K-9 unit was the closest to the station and when the officer pulled up, the man drove north on Fort at a high rate of speed. Police said the officer lost sight of the car momentarily and that the driver apparently lost control of his Ford Escort and crashed into Debacker Lawn Care. The man died at the scene. | thenewsherald.com | ||
11339 | Edward Fiad | 43 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/14/2012 | Bakersfield | CA | 35.4047026 | -119.0946728 | Bakersfield Police Department | Officer Deron Miller shot and killed Edward Fiad when he refused to drop a gun. | bakersfieldcity.us | ||
11340 | Abdelle Jean St. Ange | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/14/2012 | Poughkeepsie | NY | 41.655638 | -73.82969 | New York State Police | St. Ange was one of five suspects committing a suburban home invasion and armed robbery. Responding troopers went to the front and back of the house; St. Ange emerged from the rear with a sawed-off long gun. He was shot dead. The four other suspects fled but were soon located. | dailyfreeman.com | ||
11341 | Dominique Campbell | 41 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/14/2012 | Washington | DC | 38.8291712 | -76.9984976 | Washington Metropolitan Police Department | Officers were looking for a suspect involved in an earlier shooting. Campbell fired on the officers, injuring one. The officers returned fire, killing Campbell. | washingtonpost.com | ||
11342 | Brian Wesley King Jr. | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/14/2012 | Lawton | OK | 34.6079453 | -98.4265792 | Lawton Police Department, Comanche Nation Police Department | Comanche County Dispatch received a 911 call reporting a man breaking into the caller's home. Police responded and found a male victim in the street who had been physically assaulted. They also saw another man come out of the house. That man, Brian Wesley King Jr., fired several shots at officers and then fled the area in a van. Comanche County Deputies and Comanche Nation Officers located the van and began pursuit toward Lawton on U.S. Highway 62. Once inside the Lawton city limits, Lawton Police joined in pursuit. There, King rammed a Comanche Nation Police vehicle and a Comanche County Sheriff's vehicle. Four officers shot at the suspect, killing him. | kswo.com | ||
11337 | Carlos Salgado | 44 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/13/2012 | Des Plaines | IL | 42.0101852 | -87.8761555 | Des Plaines Police Department | Two officers shot and killed Carlos Salgado when he allegedly drove at them after they pulled him over in a strip mall parking lot shortly after 3 p.m. | patch.com | ||
11338 | Isabel Pablo | 57 | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 05/13/2012 | Riverside | CA | 33.9310938 | -117.4009856 | Riverside Police Department | An on-duty officer was driving north on Madison Street in his marked patrol unit. As he approached an intersection, a female pedestrian, later identified as Isabel Pablo, attempted to cross outside the crosswalk. The patrol unit collided with Ms. Pablo. She was transported to Riverside Community Hospital where she died of her injuries. | www.pe.com | ||
11333 | Glen Wayne Kyle | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 05/12/2012 | Yukon | OK | 35.5656742 | -97.7984001 | Canadian County Sheriff's Office, El Reno Police Department | Officers received a call about a driver firing a shot at another vehicle near SH-66 and Cemetery Road, police said. He said a Canadian County sheriff's deputy and El Reno police officer were sent to the location and found the suspect vehicle in the area. Officers tried to stop the vehicle, but the driver led them on a pursuit. The man then drove to his house. Police said the man got out of the vehicle with a pistol in hand and fired four shots at officers. He was killed when Deputy Sgt. Paul Reynolds fired one shot and struck Kyle in the chest, and El Reno officer Jarad Loggins fired and struck the man in the thigh. | newsok.com | ||
11334 | Xavier Gonzalez-Torres | 30 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/12/2012 | City of Industry | CA | 34.0286462 | -117.9638756 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department | Deputies reported that they followed a suspected carjacking perpetrator, and that when the chase ended, he left the car and pointed a gun at deputies. At that point, deputies shot him to death. | latimes.com | ||
11335 | Orestes Fernandez | 42 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/12/2012 | Miami | FL | 25.750999 | -80.3057369 | Miami-Dade Police Department | Fernandez was sought, along with a teenaged accomplice, as a suspect in the theft of a Rolex watch from a jewelry store. When found by police he attempted to flee twice, once threatening officers with his vehicle, and was eventually shot. Reporting was unclear on whether or not Fernandez had been armed. | local10.com | ||
11336 | DelShawn Crawford Sr. | 40 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/12/2012 | Minneapolis | MN | 44.94764 | -93.244521 | Minneapolis Police Department | Police said officers responded to reports of a domestic assault in a Minneapolis apartment building. They heard a woman screaming from a second-floor apartment, but were refused entry into the unit. After the officers forced their way in, Crawford confronted them with a knife, which, according to police, he refused to put down. The officers fired. | startribune.com | ||
23240 | Ernest Lynn France | 47 | Male | European-American/White | 05/12/2012 | Kingsport | TN | 36.5416745 | -82.5517775 | Kingsport Police Department | Ernest Lynn France was allegedly off his mental illness medication when he shot at a neighbor's vehicle and after a chase, pointed his gun at police, who shot and killed him. | heraldcourier.com | ||
11330 | James Paul Galladora | 43 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/11/2012 | Houston | TX | 29.9937965 | -95.5862601 | Harris County Constable's Office Precinct 4, Houston Police Department | Violating a protective order, James Galladora stabbed his wife, Jeanne, in the chest at her residence. Constable's deputies and HPD SWAT officers responded. James, barricaded in Jeanne's residence, shot at the responding officers periodically for six hours, then shot himself fatally in the head. Precinct Four constable's deputies had already confronted James for visiting Jeanne's residence on May 6. They did not arrest him. Jeanne survived her injuries. | abc13.com | ||
11331 | Douglas Smith | 25 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/11/2012 | Springfield | IL | 39.7498127 | -89.7077382 | Springfield Police Department | Douglas Smith reportedly shot himself in the head after police shot him in the leg. At around 3 p.m., police responded to a report of a suicidal person at the Comfort Inn. Officers found Smith, who allegedly pointed a handgun at them. According to police, an officer shot Smith in the lower leg, and Smith then turned the gun on himself. Smith was pronounced dead at a hospital. | sj-r.com | ||
11332 | Isaac Jackson Jr. | 45 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/11/2012 | Edgard | LA | 30.0452242 | -90.6631056 | Louisiana State Police, St. James Parish Sheriff's Office | Isaac Jackson Jr. died after his motorcycle crashed into a car during a police chase. A St. James Parish Sheriff's detective (another source says it was a state trooper) noticed a black 2003 Kawasaki motorcycle parked on the shoulder of the Veteran Memorial Bridge in Gramercy at about 8 p.m. When the officer approached to check if the driver needed assistance, Jackson reportedly sped off, then exited Louisiana 3213 and headed east on Louisiana 18 toward St. John Parish. The officer pursued Jackson as he headed east on Louisiana 18; police said the officer gave up the chase when he lost sight of him. Jackson came out of a slight right curve at a high rate of speed and crashed into the rear of a 2008 Chevrolet Impala stopped in the eastbound lane. Jackson was thrown off, and the motorcycle split in half. One half hit a pickup, while another part hit a school bus. Jackson was taken by ambulance to St. James Parish Hospital, where he died. No one else was hurt. | fox8live.com | ||
11317 | Dennis Hughes | 41 | Male | European-American/White | 05/10/2012 | San Francisco | CA | 37.7872594 | -122.4166652 | San Francisco Police Department, Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety | Hughes, 41, went on a shooting rampage Wednesday in San Francisco's Tenderloin, at Post and Hyde streets, using at least two handguns to fire shots at random. Hughes was gunned down by police snipers perched atop a nearby rooftop. | patch.com | ||
11321 | Jeremy Rivas | 24 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/10/2012 | Durango | CO | 37.061446 | -107.8718672 | Southern Ute Police Department, Ignacio Police Department | Rivas was pursued by Southern Ute and Ignacio police departments westbound on County Road 318 after he almost backed into another vehicle in Ignacio, according to a Colorado State Patrol report. Police stopped the pursuit at mile marker 13 and lost sight of Rivas when he was about two miles ahead of their vehicles. When they caught up with the vehicle, the 1996 blue Cadillac Eldorado was on fire with Rivas trapped inside trying to get out of the car. He was overcome by the fire and pronounced dead at the scene. The spot Rivas drove off the road was at mile marker 7. | durangoherald.com | ||
11322 | Paul Robert Saldivar | 33 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/10/2012 | Cedar Rapids | IA | 41.9787768 | -91.6665167 | Cedar Rapids Police Department | Paul Robert Saldivar was allegedly causing problems at the Hazzard County Bar and ran into an alley when officer Shannon Aguero confronted him shortly after 11 p.m. Officer Gabriel Hepke arrived and the officers arrested Saldivar for public intoxication. Saldivar allegedly resisted, so one officer struck Salvidar's thigh while another shielded Saldivar's head as they pushed him onto the back seat on his stomach. At 11:30 p.m., Aguero arrived at the jail, but reportedly had to wait for the sally port to become available. She said tried to speak with Saldivar, but he didn't respond. Five minutes later, a deputy opened the door and found Saldivar had no pulse. Saldivar never regained consciousness and was taken off of the ventilator on May 17, 2012. An autopsy said Saldivar died from positional asphyxia. Saldivar's death was ruled accidental. | state.ia.us | ||
11323 | Jeterious Moore | 17 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/10/2012 | Selma | AL | 32.4366278 | -87.0387788 | Selma Police Department | An officer shot and killed Jeterious Moore during an alleged altercation. | selmatimesjournal.com | ||
11324 | Damon "Poppo" Abraham | 33 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/10/2012 | Baldwin | LA | 29.8479891 | -91.5553916 | Baldwin Police Department | Damon "Poppo" Abraham died five hours after being tasered by Baldwin police while handcuffed. Abraham went to the police department to check on a restraining order filed against him, but was told that he had outstanding warrants. Abraham reportedly took off running and an officer shot him with a Taser. According to witnesses, Abraham was then handcuffed, tasered three more times and hit with a baton. The St. Mary Parish coroner's report ruled Abraham's death an accident and cited "excited delirium" as the cause of death. It said cocaine intoxication was involved in the "circumstances of death." | klfy.com | ||
11325 | Adam Christopher Mayes | 35 | Male | European-American/White | 05/10/2012 | Guntown | MS | 34.4999259 | -88.8242243 | Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol, Mississippi Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks | Adam Mayes reportedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound as officers approached him for kidnapping Alexandria Bain, 12, and Kyliyah Bain, 8, and murdering the girls' mother and sister. | cnn.com | ||
11326 | Aurelio Paul Ramos-Navarette | 22 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/10/2012 | Fullerton | CA | 33.877979 | -117.9672163 | Fullerton Police Department | Local police pursuing a stolen Dodge Ram pickup driven by Ramos-Navarette saw the vehicle roll into a concrete drainage channel and land on its roof. Suspected gang member Ramos-Navarette emerged from the vehicle and fired at officers. He was killed by return fire. | ocregister.com | ||
11327 | Name withheld by police | 33 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/10/2012 | Philadelphia | PA | 40.0037864 | -75.1453239 | Philadelphia Police Department | Officers responded to a report of a man with a gun. When officers arrived the man pointed the gun at the officers. When the suspect ignored orders to drop the weapon, he was shot multiple times. He died at a local hospital | philly.com | ||
11328 | Samuel Rivers | 50 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/10/2012 | Queens | NY | 40.7485065 | -73.7542142 | City of New York Police Department | Described as "enraged" Rivers critically injured his wife with a knife, and had stabbed himself as well. When police responded he refused to drop the weapon and was shot to death. | timesledger.com | ||
11329 | Erik Turnbull | 32 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/10/2012 | Newark | DE | 39.6866638 | -75.6858119 | New Castle County Police Department | As part of a drug investigation Turnbull was asked to pull over for questioning at an apartment complex. Instead Turnbull crashed his vehicle into a police car, drove toward a second cruiser, and was shot to death by two officers. | newarkpostonline.com | ||
11316 | Michael Holloway | 59 | Male | European-American/White | 05/09/2012 | Loganville | GA | 33.8244287 | -83.9076197 | Loganville Police Department, Walton County Sheriff's Office | Shot after he attempted to pick up a gun as officers tried to arrest him outside his estranged wife's home, where police said he had been firing shots outside. His wife told police he had been abusive, had previously threatened suicide and had been receiving mental health treatment. Vietnam veteran. | myajc.com | ||
11318 | Jimmie Lee Matthews | 31 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/09/2012 | Fort Myers | FL | 26.6718042 | -81.6960229 | Lee County Sheriff's Office | After a sheriff's deputy attempted an interstate highway traffic stop on a black Dodge Caravan, the driver, Matthews, evaded police and fled to rural surface streets. Eventually he stopped, his passengers fled on foot, and he shot and wounded the deputy. He was fatally shot in return. | sheriffleefl.org | ||
11319 | Davinian Darnell Williams | 36 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/09/2012 | Jacksonville | FL | 30.3277197 | -81.5890361 | Jacksonville Sheriff's Office | Williams was shot to death in a 2 a.m. traffic stop. Pulled over for driving suspiciously in an area known for drug activity, then attempting to elude officers, then running stop signs, he is said to have reached down into his vehicle as if for a weapon. Unarmed, he was shot six to eight times. | jacksonville.com | ||
11320 | Jesus Eduardo Hinojos-Maldonado | 22 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/09/2012 | Mesa | AZ | 33.415665 | -111.775116 | Mesa Police Department | Officers were responding to a report of a man with a gun and attempted to subdue Hinojos-Maldonado with a Taser. Two officers opened fire on Hinjos-Maldonado, killing him, after he allegedly reached toward his waistband. | azfamily.com | ||
11312 | Manuel Armenta | 30 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/08/2012 | Fresno | CA | 36.7574865 | -119.7183515 | Fresno Police Department | Officer Kent Pichardo shot and killed Manuel Armenta when he ran toward him with a screwdriver; witnesses said Armenta had his hands up. | kmph-kfre.com | ||
11314 | Bjorn Robert Larsen | 35 | Male | European-American/White | 05/08/2012 | Port Angeles | WA | 48.0162875 | -123.3203799 | Washington State Patrol | Motorcyclist Larsen was killed fleeing from a state trooper on a rural road leading from Port Angeles up into Olympic National Park. The trooper chased him for speeding, and the pursuit reached 90 MPH, before Larsen and his pursuer both went over an embankment. | peninsuladailynews.com | ||
11315 | Raymond Lee Brown | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/08/2012 | Philadelphia | PA | 40.0043511 | -75.1493108 | Philadelphia Police Department | Raymond Lee Brown was waving a gun in front of a hospital. When the officers commanded Brown to drop his weapon, he fired at them. Officer fired back, striking Brown once in the thigh. Brown died of his wound. | nbcphiladelphia.com | ||
19292 | Shahied N. Ladson | 34 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/08/2012 | Charleston | SC | 32.7326505 | -79.9627089 | Charleston County Sheriff's Office | Shahied N. Ladson and Toland B. Gathers fled a police traffic stop, hit a tree and were killed. | google.com | ||
19293 | Toland B. Gathers | 35 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/08/2012 | Charleston | SC | 32.7326505 | -79.9627089 | Charleston County Sheriff's Office | Shahied N. Ladson and Toland B. Gathers fled a police traffic stop, hit a tree and were killed. | google.com | ||
22064 | Dewayne Bailey | 38 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/08/2012 | Memphis | TN | 35.0381492 | -90.0693792 | Memphis Police Department | Bailey had been asleep in his car in a Safeway parking lot when police woke him. Police claim, when they woke him, he became belligerent and attempted to drive away. During his attempt to escape he allegedly dragged an officer and rammed two squad cars. Police fired 32 rounds to stop him. The family of Dewayne Bailey dispute the police version of Bailey's death. | google.com | ||
11311 | Richard Earl Davis | 26 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/07/2012 | Houston | TX | 29.9579312 | -95.5422688 | Houston Police Department | According to the HPD Public Affairs Division, Davis, unstable after losing his job, tried to threaten his girlfriend with a gun as his mother and brother intervened. His mother asked officers for help. Officers S.H. Nguyen and C.M. Oates fatally shot Richards as he turned the gun on them. | houstontx.gov | ||
11308 | Nathaniel Pruitt | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/06/2012 | Walthourville | GA | 31.7815246 | -81.6181232 | Liberty County Sheriff's Office | Shot outside a Walthourville nightclub by an off-duty police officer working security after wounding another man in the leg with a .380-caliber pistol. Witnesses said he'd just been asked to leave the club after a fight. | myajc.com | ||
11309 | Steven Bailey | 41 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/06/2012 | Lima | OH | 40.7301512 | -84.1084964 | Lima Police Department | Bailey was killed when he slammed into a parked pickup during a police chase. | toledoblade.com | ||
11310 | Alan Blueford | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/06/2012 | Oakland | CA | 37.7512415 | -122.168286 | Oakland Police Department | An Oakland police officer had chased Alan Blueford, 18, for three blocks through a darkened neighborhood before he tripped and fell along a home's chain-link fence. The officer shot Blueford three times in the chest, killing him. He said he believed Blueford had a gun, and one was recovered near the body. | oaklandnorth.net | ||
11305 | John W. Brown | 22 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/05/2012 | Burlington | WI | 42.65431 | -88.399483 | Walworth County Sheriff's Office | Brown was fatally shot within his mobile home. Prior to the shooting, Brown had locked himself in his bedroom, and was reportedly cutting himself. Deputy Wayne Blanchard kicked down Brown's door, and Brown allegedly came at him with the knife. Blanchard fired five shots and killed Brown. | lakegenevanews.net | ||
11306 | Charles Waid | 71 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/05/2012 | Alexander City | AL | 32.9002203 | -85.9397309 | Alexander City Police Department | An officer shot and killed Charles Waid after he allegedly pointed a gun at police. | wsfa.com | ||
11307 | Mark Salazar | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/05/2012 | Fayetteville | NC | 35.0734133 | -79.0570538 | Fayetteville Police Department | Reports of Salazar shooting into the air on May 5, 2012. Police responded. Claimed Salazar pointed his gun at them. They opened fire. | abc11.com | ||
11303 | Zbigniew Sapun | 58 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/04/2012 | Aurora | CO | 39.7549399 | -104.8239015 | Aurora Police Department | Sapun was wandering around a neighborhood shooting his gun. When police caught up with him, he pointed the gun at them and was shot and killed. | denverpost.com | ||
11304 | Gilbert Leeadam Luis | 24 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/04/2012 | San Antonio | TX | 29.4289655 | -98.4702448 | San Antonio Police Department | An 11-year-old girl called 911 because her mother and her mother's boyfriend were fighting. Two officers responded as Luis threatened a woman with a knife. The officers shot him fatally in the abdomen and leg. | mysanantonio.com | ||
22915 | Jared R. Toothman | 26 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/04/2012 | Winchester | VA | 39.2179476 | -78.1361825 | Virginia State Police | Jared R. Toothman, 26, and JenaLee C. McGrane, 21, fled a stop for speeding and crashed their 2002 Honda CBR600 motorcycle into a minivan and were killed. | nvdaily.com | ||
22916 | JenaLee C. McGrane | 21 | Female | European-American/White | 05/04/2012 | Winchester | VA | 39.2179476 | -78.1361825 | Virginia State Police | Jared R. Toothman, 26, and JenaLee C. McGrane, 21, fled a stop for speeding and crashed their 2002 Honda CBR600 motorcycle into a minivan and were killed. | nvdaily.com | ||
11300 | James Harold Jones | 48 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/03/2012 | Sonora | CA | 37.9845898 | -120.385515 | Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office | James Harold Jones died after he ingested a lethal amount of methamphetamine following an attempt to book him into the Tuolumne County Jail. 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. | modbee.com | ||
11301 | Gabriel Isaac Martinez | 24 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 05/03/2012 | Los Lunas | NM | 34.806166 | -106.7333599 | Valencia County Sheriff's Office | Martinez apparently threatened a deputy with a metal pipe before he was shot and killed. | pressreader.com | ||
11302 | Maria Tripp | 47 | Female | Race unspecified | 05/03/2012 | Brooklyn | NY | 40.6770246 | -73.9218339 | U.S. Secret Service | Tripp was crossing the street with several relatives--in a crosswalk but against a red light--when she was struck by an on-duty Secret Service agent's vehicle. She unfortunately attempted to duck into the path of where the driver swerved to avoid her. The agent was cooperative, tested negative for any drugs, had a clean driving record, and was not charged. | nydailynews.com | ||
23165 | William David Dumire | 55 | Male | European-American/White | 05/03/2012 | Elkins | WV | 38.8804423 | -79.8072963 | West Virginia State Police | William David Dumire allegedly shot state police Cpl. Andrew S. Loudin, who was interviewing Dumire as part of an Internet Crimes Against Children Unit investigation, around 4 p.m. in Elkins. According to police, Dumire carjacked a vehicle from a nearby Walmart, then got out of the car and took off running. Multiple police agencies searched for Dumire. Police said troopers found Dumire in a culvert about 4 hours later, and he allegedly started shooting at them. The troopers returned fire. Dumire was killed in the shootout; police later said he shot himself. Loudin recovered from his injuries. | hurherald.com | ||
11299 | Gregory Lance Duffy | 22 | Male | European-American/White | 05/02/2012 | Hindsville | AR | 36.240895 | -93.934201 | Madison County Sheriff's Office | Gregory Lance Duffy, 22, was the suspect in the shooting of a Rogers police officer. He shot and killed himself as two deputies tried to apprehend him. | google.com | ||
19937 | Gregory S. Evans | 41 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/02/2012 | Grayson | KY | 38.3397134 | -82.9344964 | Grayson Police Department | Gregory S. Evans apparently committed suicide while police were serving a search warrant at his home. Evans' family members said there was a brief standoff between Evans and the Grayson officers, and officers negotiated with Evans in an attempt to get him to put down his weapon. | dailyindependent.com | ||
11294 | Gregory Rachel | 42 | Male | European-American/White | 05/01/2012 | Mobile | AL | 30.620969 | -88.272521 | Mobile Police Department | Gregory "Greg" Rachel died after officers Christopher McCann and John Jackson tasered and allegedly beat him for resisting arrest, then hogtied him with help from officers Gerald Ripple and Edward Elia | blog.al.com | ||
11295 | Carnell Gaines Jr. | 30 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/01/2012 | Pearl | MS | 32.259325 | -90.1365772 | Pearl Police Department | Gaines was killed in a shootout with officers serving search and arrest warrants. | msnewsnow.com | ||
11296 | Name withheld by police | 21 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/01/2012 | Houston | TX | 29.8128334 | -95.4103285 | Houston Police Department | Officers chased a white Honda Accord at about 4:30 a.m., on suspicion of having stolen two tires. The Accord lost control, ended up going the wrong way on a major street, and slammed full-speed into two other vehicles. The suspect died at the scene. | houstongovnewsroom.org | ||
11297 | Kenneth Cullen | 48 | Male | Race unspecified | 05/01/2012 | Mesa | AZ | 33.4164014 | -111.7978599 | Mesa Police Department | Cullen was shot to death by a SWAT officer outside his home after pointing a handgun in their direction. Police said he had asked officers to kill him. | americanownews.com | ||
11298 | Andrew Messina | 16 | Male | European-American/White | 05/01/2012 | Towne Lake | GA | 34.1462017 | -84.5650161 | Cherokee County Sheriff's Office | Parents phoned police when Andrew Messina threatened suicide. An armored tank, deputies and a sniper arrived at the home. Police said they felt threatened and fatally shot the teen. | cbs46.com | ||
22063 | Anton Butler | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 05/01/2012 | Indianapolis | IN | 39.8122404 | -86.1258639 | Marion County Sheriff's Office | Anton Butler fled a drug bust and was shocked and killed by Marion County Sheriff's deputies. | google.com | ||
11289 | Danielle Weaver-Chisholm | 24 | Female | European-American/White | 04/30/2012 | Eureka | CA | 40.7793292 | -124.1869636 | Eureka Police Department | Danielle Weaver-Chisholm was killed when the car she was riding in was struck by a drunk driver fleeing police. Her husband, Bob Chisholm, was seriously injured. At around 8:30 p.m., officer Corrie Watson tried to stop Brooke Hames for rolling through a stop sign, but Hames reportedly fled and hit the Chisolms' car a little more than a minute later. Hames, who was driving at speeds of more than 90 mph with a blood alcohol level of 0.20 percent, was sentenced to 14 years in prison in August 2012. | humboldtbeacon.com | ||
11290 | David Raynell Strong | 27 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/30/2012 | Chicago | IL | 41.848241 | -87.685933 | Chicago Police Department | Officers responding to a burglary call at a Mike's Electronics store surrounded the building and identified themselves to the three men inside. The men drove away in the store owner's vehicle, hitting an officer and police car. Other officers fired at the vehicle as it moved toward them. One, Strong, died. | chicagotribune.com | ||
11291 | Elizabeth Agudelo | 21 | Female | Race unspecified | 04/30/2012 | Richmond | TX | 29.703247 | -95.743055 | Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office | Deputies fell in behind a speeding Infiniti sedan about 2 a.m. and gave chase. In the pursuit the Infiniti's driver lost control, left the roadway, struck a pole, and rolled some ten times. The driver Juan Carlos Cordero and the passenger Elizabeth Agudelo were both killed. | fortbendstar.com | ||
11292 | Juan Carlos Cordero | 25 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/30/2012 | Richmond | TX | 29.703247 | -95.743055 | Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office | Deputies fell in behind a speeding Infiniti sedan about 2 a.m. and gave chase. In the pursuit the Infiniti's driver lost control, left the roadway, struck a pole, and rolled some ten times. The driver, Juan Carlos Cordero, and the passenger, Elizabeth Agudelo, were both killed. | fortbendstar.com | ||
11293 | Jonathan Martel | 40 | Male | European-American/White | 04/30/2012 | Cambridge | VT | 44.5940784 | -72.8366808 | Vermont State Police | Martel was observed breaking into a home in Johnson, VT. After a high-speed chase police chased him into the woods in Cambridge, VT. Martel allegedly took a shooter's stance and pointed a metallic object at police; the object turned out to be a cellphone. | wcax.com | ||
11287 | John Wimberly Smith | 44 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/29/2012 | Portland | OR | 45.5187856 | -122.5273474 | Portland Police Bureau | A man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound during a Southeast Portland standoff, police said.Officers were called to a domestic disturbance. | kgw.com | ||
11288 | Carl Anthony Tatum | 48 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/29/2012 | Apple Valley | MN | 44.7471084 | -93.2343609 | Apple Valley Police Department | Police said Booth and Becker responded to a 911 call from Tatum's girlfriend, who told a dispatcher Tatum was assaulting and choking her. By the time the officers arrived, she had fled the home, leaving Tatum behind. Officers said they were able to calm Tatum, who was, according to the Pioneer Press, "in an agitated state." When they attempted to arrest him for domestic assault, he ran inside the house, grabbed a handgun and fired multiple shots at Booth, who returned fire. | twincities.com | ||
11284 | Keaira Byrd | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/28/2012 | Greenwood | MS | 33.5201067 | -90.1840067 | Mississippi Attorney General's Office | Byrd was shot and killed while allegedly trying to carry out a murder-for-hire on attorney Lee Abraham at Abraham's law office. | abajournal.com | ||
11285 | Walter Britt Phillips | 46 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/28/2012 | Cave Junction | OR | 42.139449 | -123.5337419 | Josephine County Sheriff's Office | Possibly Phillips fled from a traffic stop for his outstanding warrant on skipping a court date, or his court date the next week on meth-related charges, but he fled. With a couple of cruisers in pursuit his pickup truck skidded to a stop, then reversed to strike one of the police cars. He was fatally shot. | jocosheriff.us | ||
11286 | Donald Arthur Pederson | 79 | Male | European-American/White | 04/28/2012 | Stillwater | MN | 45.0585747 | -92.8103163 | Stillwater Police Department | According to the Star Tribune, Pederson suffered from dementia and refused to drop the Bic pen he had used to assault a nurse. After being tased, he fell, suffered an injury and later died. | strib.mn | ||
22191 | Michael Wood | 37 | Male | European-American/White | 04/28/2012 | Bellmawr | NJ | 39.8776141 | -75.1104347 | Bellmawr Police Department | Michael Wood had barricaded himself in an apartment where he was shot to death after apparently confronting police with knife. | www.nj.com | ||
11283 | Robert L. Willis | 58 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/27/2012 | DeRidder | LA | 30.8615236 | -93.2134202 | DeRidder Police Department | Robert L. Willis was killed in a crash while attempting to elude police on a 2008 Suzuki motorcycle. Willis was reportedly driving east on Louisiana 112 at a high rate of speed when he struck the rear of a 2011 GMC Yukon at around 4 p.m., about three miles east of DeRidder. The motorcycle traveled about 616 feet before coming to rest in the westbound side of the roadway. Willis was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the Yukon was not injured. | beauregarddailynews.net | ||
11282 | James Clark | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 04/26/2012 | Lawrenceville | GA | 33.9183528 | -84.0211539 | Gwinnett County Police Department | Was threatening suicide when a friend called 911. Officers said they shot Clark when he pointed a hunting rifle at them and said they found a hunting rifle at the scene near Clark's body. Clark's family says the item he pointed at police was a BB gun. Source: Police/media reports | google.com | ||
11279 | David Lopez | 33 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/25/2012 | Valley Center | CA | 33.2224358 | -117.0368088 | San Diego County Sheriff's Office | Passenger David Lopez was killed when the car he was in crashed while being pursued by deputy Nathan Rowley. At about 9 a.m., Rowley tried to stop a 2007 Ford Focus that had been reported stolen. The car reportedly fled west in the eastbound lanes of Valley Center Road. The deputy said the pursuit lasted less than 60 seconds before the Ford hit an oncoming 2003 Subaru Forest. Lopez died at a hospital shortly after the collision. Another passenger in the Ford survived the crash. A 76-year-old woman who was driving the Subaru was hospitalized. The Ford's driver, Jose Najara, 33, was hospitalized with major injuries. Najara was charged with murder in the crash. | sandiegoreader.com | ||
11280 | Donald Randall Crowell | 43 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/25/2012 | Addison | AL | 34.2023243 | -87.1814012 | Winston County Sheriff's Office | Donald Randal Crowell was shot and killed when he allegedly fired at deputies responding to a report of a suicidal man. | cullmantimes.com | ||
11281 | Christopher Karl Bullert | 48 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/25/2012 | Portland | OR | 45.552094 | -122.6157933 | Portland Police Bureau | On April 25, Christopher Karl Bullert, 48, supposedly shot himself after officers responded to a call that he was suicidal. KATU reported that the police fired 37mm plastic "less lethal" rounds into the man's home "to break windows in order to look into the house." There was no mention of whether the rounds may have hit Bullert. Officers entered the home hours later and found Bullert dead. | portlandcopwatch.org | ||
11277 | Steven Brandt | 39 | Male | European-American/White | 04/24/2012 | Phoenix | AZ | 33.6561376 | -112.0641621 | Phoenix Police Department | A man named Dan Ruble called police to say that Brandt, his girlfriend's estranged husband, was in his driveway with a gun. Ruble was at work when he learned that Brandt was at his home, and met police at a family member's house. The officer asked Ruble to accompany her to his home. When they arrived, Brandt opened fire on Ruble, killing him, and the officer shot and killed Brandt. | kpho.com | ||
11278 | Kevin Benglan | 26 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/24/2012 | Pocatello | ID | 42.8482854 | -112.4282438 | Pocatello Police Department | Benglan broke into a Pocatello home by diving through a glass window. He was destroying furniture and rolling in the glass when police tasered him four times. He died shortly later. | idahostatejournal.com | ||
11274 | Walter "Wayne" Folds | 53 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/23/2012 | Griffin | GA | 33.2589376 | -84.2673332 | Griffin Police Department | Shot in back of head while lying face down by a police officer who was on Folds' back. The officer said Folds cut him in the face with a boxcutter during a foot chase in a park. Had cut his wife across abdomen days before. Officer was later indicted, but prosecutors dropped the charges days later. | myajc.com | ||
11273 | Rene Francisco Najera | 40 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/23/2012 | Odessa | TX | 31.8672683 | -102.368709 | Odessa Police Department | At 12:28 p.m., Odessa police officers went to Najera's house to serve three felony and two misdemeanor warrants. Shots were fired inside the house. The officers retreated, evacuated nearby houses and blocked off nearby streets. Local law enforcement from multiple agencies responded. Negotiators tried to reason with Najera. At 5:15 p.m., Odessa SWAT gassed the house. Najera left the house and fatally shot himself. The Texas Ranger Division investigated. | odessapd.com | ||
11275 | David Andrew Curtiss | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 04/23/2012 | Booneville | MS | 34.6534803 | -88.5653839 | Booneville Police Department | Curtiss was shot during an altercation with officers outside the home of Curtiss' ex-wife in Booneville. A Prentiss County grand jury declined to indict the two officers involved. | djournal.com | ||
11276 | Robert J. McMullan | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 04/23/2012 | Fairfield | CA | 38.2745423 | -122.0246922 | Fairfield Police Department | Police got a report of a man who was seen following a girl home from an elementary school and taking pictures of her. Police said the parents later located a car matching the suspect car's description in the Gold Coast Drive area, which led police to question McMullan. McMullan became aggressive and started yelling at the officer then attacked him, spokesman said. The struggle between Ponce and McMullan became violent, knocking the front door off its hinges. The officer shot and killed McMullan. | dailyrepublic.com | ||
20778 | Thomas Wesley Borden | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 04/23/2012 | Jenkintown | PA | 40.0946498 | -75.1373268 | Cheltenham Township Police Department, Abington Police Department | Thomas Borden was being chased by police who wanted to talk to him about a murder. He jumped in front of a train as he tried to evade police and was killed. | huffingtonpost.com | ||
11268 | Algenone Williams | 39 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/22/2012 | Mound Bayou | MS | 33.8796179 | -90.7237139 | Mound Bayou Police Department | Investigators said gunfire was exchanged between three men outside the Elks Lounge on Martin Luther King Drive. Police arrived and ordered the men to drop their weapons, but Algenone Williams reportedly continued firing. An officer reportedly returned gunfire and struck Williams once in the neck. Williams was pronounced dead at the scene. | wapt.com | ||
11269 | Bruce Wayne Chrestensen | 52 | Male | European-American/White | 04/22/2012 | Grass Valley | CA | 39.2046283 | -121.0660719 | Grass Valley Police Department | Officers attempted to verbally engage the subject who failed to comply with their commands. The subject then approached a passing vehicle and, through an open driver side window, strike the driver. The subject was then tased to prevent further harm to him or others. He later died at the hospital. | kcra.com | ||
11270 | Kiarron Leshawn Parker | 29 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/22/2012 | Aurora | CO | 39.6622198 | -104.8641327 | Denver Police Department | A pastor took officer Antonio Milo and his mother to their church parking lot after Parker crashed his vehicle there, looking for injured people. Parker tried to shoot the pastor. His 9mm pistol did not fire. The officer identified himself, ordering Parker to surrender. They exchanged gunfire. Parker advanced, fatally shooting the pastor's mother. The officer retreated to the church, shouting, "Stay back!" He subdued Parker, whose pistol was empty, at the door. Parker was hit by gunfire and died. | denvergov.org | ||
11271 | Clifton McKinney | 40 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/22/2012 | Panama City | FL | 30.1605337 | -85.6251134 | Panama City Police Department | Local police were called to the scene of a man screaming, standing in the middle of the street, and wielding a machete. This was McKinney, with a history of mental illness and conflict with police. McKinney was tasered "several times" with no apparent effect. Continuing to threaten the officers with the knife, he was shot to death. | kcci.com | ||
11272 | Kenyado Newsuan | 33 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/22/2012 | Philadelphia | PA | 40.039848 | -75.123259 | Philadelphia Police Department | An officer responded to report of a naked man in the road, reported the man appeared to be on drugs and attempted to subdue him with a Taser. During a scuffle, the officer's gun holster was ripped from his pants. Officer fired five times, striking Newsuan three times. | google.com | ||
11260 | Richard Ferri | 41 | Male | European-American/White | 04/21/2012 | Loganville | GA | 33.840452 | -83.885561 | Walton County Sheriff's Office | Exchanged gunshots with police who came to his Loganville home to question him about an attempted homicide the previous day in North Carolina. Police said he had shot and wounded a man whom Ferri thought had been involved with his wife, then returned to Georgia. | myajc.com | ||
11261 | Bobby Joe Truelove | 28 | Male | European-American/White | 04/21/2012 | Oklahoma City | OK | 35.5249705 | -97.6112201 | Oklahoma City Police Department | Police received four calls from the area before the shooting, including a burglary, assault and battery, carjacking and disturbance. He said at least one caller reported a man breaking out car windows. An officer encountered Truelove in the Willow Cliff complex and the two started fighting. Zepeda used his Taser twice in an attempt to subdue Truelove, but shot and killed him when it was ineffective, police said. | newsok.com | ||
11262 | Joshua M. Jasso | 38 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/21/2012 | Normal | IL | 40.513924 | -88.9533604 | McLean County Sheriff's Office | Joshua M. Jasso died in an apparent suicide after a police chase. Officers had responded to a report of shots fired in the Colonial Meadows subdivision at around 10:20 p.m. and found that a man had been shot and that the suspect, later identified as Jasso, had fled the scene. A pickup truck matching the description of the one driven by Jasso was seen by a deputy traveling west on Empire Street. Jasso reportedly turned north on Veterans Parkway where he stopped in the center lane and fired a single gunshot. | pantagraph.com | ||
11263 | Christopher Wayne Snyder | 28 | Male | European-American/White | 04/21/2012 | Alma | AR | 35.4831875 | -94.226339 | Alma Police Department | An officer stopped Snyder for a speeding violation. Snyder fled on foot until he was caught by the officer. When the officer attempted to place handcuffs on Snyder, he attempted to choke the officer who then fatally shot him. | arktimes.com | ||
11264 | Archie Lee Chambers Jr. | 20 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/21/2012 | Calumet City | IL | 41.6142785 | -87.559035 | Calumet City Police Department | Archie Lee Chambers Jr. was running from a car show where his friend had been killed. Calumet City police shot him in the back as he fled. | courthousenews.com | ||
11265 | Sharmel Edwards | 49 | Female | African-American/Black | 04/21/2012 | Las Vegas | NV | 36.2023877 | -115.2236851 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | Sharmel Edwards was pulled over by Las Vegas police in the car of a male friend who had reported it stolen. Police tried to persuade Edwards to get out of the car and surrender for about half an hour, she exited holding a handgun in both hands, prompting five officers to shoot. | google.com | ||
11266 | Angel Luis Cajigas aka Paul Rosado | 36 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/21/2012 | Meriden | CT | 41.5388351 | -72.8074783 | Meriden Police Department | Police responding to a domestic disturbance call found Cajigas uncooperative and flourishing a pair of scissors. An attempt to Taser him did not work. They resolved the situation by fatally shooting him four times. | www.ct.gov | ||
11267 | Angel Hiraldo | 48 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/21/2012 | Meriden | CT | 41.543137 | -72.802992 | Meriden Police Department | Police responded to an early-morning disturbance call to find Hiraldo on the porch of a house with a hammer in hand, breaking things. The victim advanced on the officers and refused to drop the hammer. He was tasered, and immediately began having trouble breathing. He died within an hour. | www.ct.gov | ||
22190 | Rakeen L. Davis | 36 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/21/2012 | Vineland | NJ | 39.4754936 | -74.9778162 | Vineland Police Department | Details are unavailable, but police allegedly were trying to arrest Rakeen Davis for aggravated assault on law enforcement, resisting arrest, possession of controlled dangerous substance when he died in custody. | herokuapp.com | ||
11257 | Jimmy Lee Graves | 38 | Male | European-American/White | 04/20/2012 | Sacramento | CA | 38.6016961 | -121.4190603 | Sacramento County Sheriff's Office | Officers shot Jimmy Lee Graves, who'd barricaded himself and started a fire inside an apartment complex after a 14-hour saga that began shortly before 6 a.m. with a shooting at a West Sacramento machine shop and was followed by multiple carjackings, a car chase, a six-hour freeway closure and a manhunt involving nine law-enforcement agencies. | davisenterprise.com | ||
11258 | Tyre Leone | 21 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/20/2012 | Marrero | LA | 29.894186 | -90.113827 | Gretna Police Department | Terrence Ellis and Tyre Leone died after a robbery, shootout and chase involving four or five officers; Ellis, was shot and killed while in the car, and Leone allegedly jumped off the elevated expressway, falling 34 feet. | fox8live.com | ||
11259 | Terrence Ellis | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/20/2012 | Marrero | LA | 29.894186 | -90.113827 | Gretna Police Department | 5/2/2012: Terrence Ellis and Tyre Leone died after a robbery, shootout and chase involving four or five officers; Ellis, was shot and killed while in the car, and Leone allegedly jumped off the elevated expressway, falling 34 feet. At around 3:30 a.m, police said Leone walked into the Circle K at 929 Lafayette Street with a gun, demanded money and threatened the female cashier. When Leone fled the scene, the cashier immediately called 911. In about one minute, police responded and spotted the 1996 Ford Thunderbird driven by Ellis. A chase began on the Westbank Expressway with speeds exceeding 100 mph and ended in Marrero when the Thunderbird hit the guard rail. Police said Leone exited the vehicle with a semi-automatic handgun and started shooting at them. "It all happened so quickly, that they were unable to even got out of their vehicle. So they shot from within their vehicle to return gunshots," said Col. John Fortunato with the JPSO. Ellis died from a single gunshot wound. Leone jumped from the expressway, falling 34 feet to his death. http://www.fox8live.com/story/17625121/men-killed-after-gretna-high-speed-chase-were-both-felons?clienttype=printable http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/04/gretna_police_chief_praises_of.html | fox8live.com | ||
11255 | Dustin Russell Williamson | 32 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/19/2012 | Jacksonville | AR | 34.8522911 | -92.0959725 | Lonoke County Sheriff's Office | Police were told that a man standing there was "exhibiting erratic behavior and swinging a large piece of iron railing," police said. Upon the deputy's arrival at the scene, Dustin R. Williamson reportedly struck the side of the patrol car and window glass with a piece of metal believed to be the base of a vehicle lift used to change a flat tire. He was shot and killed. | google.com | ||
11253 | Thomas Franklin Truitt | 37 | Male | European-American/White | 04/19/2012 | Emerson | GA | 34.1182012 | -84.7664413 | Atlanta Police Department, U.S. Marshals Service, Fulton County Police Department | Shot while lying in bed in a rented home. A supposed gun in his hand turned out to be a cellphone, GBI said. A warrant had been issued for Truitt for hitting, killing a motorist on I-75 and not stopping. Officers fired 38 rounds, hit Truitt three times. Police had no search warrant for the house. Source: Police records | myajc.com | ||
11254 | Omer Gene Brown | 77 | Male | European-American/White | 04/19/2012 | Shady Shores | TX | 33.1651199 | -97.0294532 | Corinth Police Department, Denton County Sheriff's Office | Brown, terminally ill, shot at a home healthcare worker and barricaded himself into his house. Corinth Police Department responded. Denton County SWAT assisted. SWAT tried to negotiate with Brown for nine hours, then gassed his house and entered it. Brown was found in his yard, dead of a gunshot wound to the head. | google.com | ||
11256 | Anthony Harrison-Tall | 29 | Male | Native American/Alaskan | 04/19/2012 | Flint | MI | 43.0384937 | -83.732244 | Flint Police Department | Reportedly reaching 100 MPH on early-morning city streets while trying to evade police, Harrison ran a red light and smashed into the back end of a garbage truck. He died from the impact. | mlive.com | ||
22914 | Travis Williams | 38 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/19/2012 | Hampton | VA | 37.0206918 | -76.3743336 | Hampton Police Department | Travis Williams killed his wife's grandmother and daughter and stabbed and shot his wife before he was shot and killed by police as he stood on the burning roof of their home. | dailypress.com | ||
25906 | Bryan Hayden | 47 | Male | European-American/White | 04/19/2012 | Soper | OK | 34.026136 | -95.782072 | Choctaw Nation Tribal Police Department | Choctaw County Sheriff's Deputy Brian Hayden, 47, was killed when he collided with Choctaw Nation Tribal Officer, Josiah "Joe" Moore, 29. Moore was seriously injured. | justia.com | ||
11252 | Tantao Liang Pickron | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/18/2012 | Houston | TX | 29.7202086 | -95.3225411 | Houston Police Department | Pickron, wearing a bandana and gloves, ambushed three plainclothes officers with a pistol and told them to give him money. One officer tried to speak to Pickron. Pickron told the other two officers that the officer speaking would be shot if they did not back away. The other two officers, L. Bronikowski and C. Caton, fatally shot him. | chron.com | ||
11249 | Nathan Lee Trew | 19 | Male | European-American/White | 04/17/2012 | Ringgold | GA | 34.971557 | -85.100472 | Catoosa County Sheriff's Office | Shot after police said he waved a shotgun at them--and at his own head. Police said he had burglarized nearby homes. Family members told investigators he had serious drug problems. | myajc.com | ||
11250 | Bryan Keith Carnes | 44 | Male | European-American/White | 04/17/2012 | Conroe | TX | 30.1562711 | -95.4509547 | Montgomery County Sheriff's Office | An officer in Willis tried to pull Carnes over for running a red light. Carnes, paraplegic, fled by vehicle through multiple jurisdictions. Law enforcement stopped the vehicle by puncturing its tires with spike strips. Carnes crashed into a retaining wall. A Montgomery county deputy confronted him. Carnes asked to be shot and reached under the driver's seat. The deputy fatally shot him. | chron.com | ||
11251 | Julio Angel DeJesus | 35 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/17/2012 | Keene | NH | 42.9171826 | -72.2575126 | Keene Police Department | After a foot pursuit following a robbery DeJesus got into a car. Officer James Lamoureux was positioned at the driver's side door. DeJesus backed up the vehicle at which time Lamoureux positioned himself in front of the driver's side corning. The car started forward at which time Lamoureux started to fire at DeJesus. Lamoureux step out of the path of the car and continued to fire as it drove away from officers eventually striking DeJesus in the neck causing DeJesus to die at the scene. | doj.nh.gov | ||
11242 | Alejandro Hernandez | 19 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/16/2012 | Turlock | CA | 37.4969255 | -120.8717276 | Turlock Police Department | An officer shot Alejandro Hernandez when he pointed a gun at him. | tmcnet.com | ||
11243 | Shuaib Zaid Omar | 29 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/16/2012 | Suwanee | GA | 34.052606 | -84.076815 | Gwinnett County Police Department | After shooting two women, Omar fled to his mother's home in Suwanee where police tracked him. Officers made contact with Omar, but he shot himself in his head. He initially survived the shooting, but died a short time later. | wsbtv.com | ||
11244 | Robert Earl Fletcher | 29 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/16/2012 | Pleasant Grove | AL | 33.4696999 | -86.9753348 | Pleasant Grove Police Department | Driver Robert Fletcher and passenger Heather Parker died from injuries sustained when their car crashed while fleeing police. | blog.al.com | ||
11245 | Heather "Honey" Parker | 18 | Female | European-American/White | 04/16/2012 | Pleasant Grove | AL | 33.4696999 | -86.9753348 | Pleasant Grove Police Department | Driver Robert Fletcher and passenger Heather Parker died from injuries sustained when their car crashed while fleeing police. | blog.al.com | ||
11246 | O.B. Mitchell Jr. | 47 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/16/2012 | Cloutierville | LA | 31.5277264 | -92.9455553 | Louisiana State Police, DeSoto Parish Sheriff's Office, Natchitoches Parish Sheriff's Office | O.B. Mitchell Jr. reportedly fatally shot himself following an hour-long chase that began in Caddo Parish, continued through DeSoto Parish, and ended just outside of Alexandria in Natchitoches Parish. Mitchell was a suspect in the shooting of 32-year-old Lakesha Robinson, the mother of his child. Mitchell reportedly chased Robinson down and shot her before fleeing in a vehicle. The Shreveport Police Department notified other area law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for Mitchell. Mitchell's vehicle was spotted by DeSoto Parish Sheriff's Department on I-49 heading south. When deputies tried to stop Mitchell, a pursuit ensued. State police picked up the chase in DeSoto Parish. Officers were advised that Mitchell was armed and dangerous, and reported seeing him reaching under his seat as he headed southbound in a 2011 Nissan Altima on I-49 at speeds of 90 to 125 mph. Mitchell avoided the first set of spike strips deployed by officers. A second set was deployed near mile marker 119. At that point, investigators said the car slowed down to 55 mph and headed into the median. That's where officers said it appeared Mitchell took his own life. Robinson was taken to LSU Medical Center where she was listed in serious condition. | ksla.com | ||
11247 | Jorge Ramirez Jr. | 32 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/16/2012 | Keyes | CA | 37.5537854 | -120.9066891 | Stanislaus County Sheriff's Office | A family's call to get help for their depressed son was met with a deadly consequence Monday when he was shot and killed by a Stanislaus County Sheriff's deputy. | turlockjournal.com | ||
11248 | Ervin Jeff Dirnbaugh | 30 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/16/2012 | Portland | OR | 45.5255294 | -122.6753701 | Portland Police Bureau | Portland police said a man suspected in a domestic violence-related shooting on Sunday jumped off a building Monday morning after being spotted by an officer. Ervin Jeff Dirnbaugh, 30, was taken to a hospital and later died. | katu.com | ||
21824 | Jordasha Rollins | 22 | Female | African-American/Black | 04/16/2012 | Baltimore | MD | 39.3090939 | -76.6657668 | Baltimore Police Department | Jordasha Rollins was killed when Charles Jeffries, who was allegedly fleeing police, crashed into and killed her. | google.com | ||
19294 | Tommy Lee Etters | 59 | Male | European-American/White | 04/15/2012 | Clinton | SC | 34.4573521 | -81.8800977 | Clinton Police Department | Officers responded to a call of shots fired and heard more shots as they tried to determine the location. One officer located the shooter, Etters, and demanded he drop his weapon before firing a fatal shot. | google.com | ||
11238 | Darnell C. Robinson | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/14/2012 | Dolton | IL | 41.6371043 | -87.6075401 | Chicago Police Department | Police shot Darnell Robinson after they reportedly witnessed him shooting another man outside a nightclub. At about 2:25 a.m., police said they heard gunfire and saw Robinson shoot the man several times. The officers approached and Robinson allegedly shot at them and ran a half block. The officers returned fire. According to police, Robinson kept running until he encountered back-up officers and gunfire was again exchanged. Robinson was struck and killed. | chicagotribune.com | ||
11239 | Billy Charles Hyde | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 04/14/2012 | Paragould | AR | 36.0092176 | -90.5469683 | Arkansas State Police | According to Arkansas State Police, Billy Charles was shot and killed after he fired on two SWAT members with Arkansas State Police. The incident started when Hyde fled from an Arkansas State Trooper after being spotted in a suspected get-away vehicle. The vehicle was wanted in connection with the Bancorp South Bank robbery. | kait8.com | ||
11240 | Andrea M. Sheldon | 46 | Female | European-American/White | 04/14/2012 | St. Augustine | FL | 29.8619901 | -81.3897159 | St. Johns County Sheriff's Office | By reports Sheldon was a well-liked hospice nurse who cared for stray animals. Following an armed domestic dispute at her rural residence, four county officers faced Sheldon holding a shotgun at them, refusing to lower it. She was fatally shot. | jacksonville.com | ||
11241 | Dennis Allen Buzzell | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 04/14/2012 | McCammon | ID | 42.6534974 | -112.1946177 | Bannock County Sheriff's Office | According to the Bannock County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to a home following reports of gunshots fired. Deputies said Buzzell had a weapon when they arrived. Officials said that after several hours of negotiation, Buzzell left his home with a gun and began firing. Officers returned fire, hitting Buzzell. He died in a hospital three weeks later. | idahostatejournal.com | ||
11233 | Joe Faltesek | 41 | Male | European-American/White | 04/13/2012 | Houston | TX | 29.7795785 | -95.2354741 | Houston Police Department | Officer responded to an intentional overdose call at Faltesek's residence, where Faltesek was threatening his family and paramedics. He punched an officer, then was shot with a stun gun. He died of cardiac arrest as an ambulance took him to a hospital. | houstontx.gov | ||
11234 | Efrain Zarzoza | 20 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/13/2012 | Dallas | TX | 32.7570329 | -96.6419426 | Mesquite Police Department | Around midnight, Zarzoza and two others fled the scene of a burglary in a white van. Mesquite officers pursued the van, which crashed in Dallas. Two suspects were arrested. Zarzoza, the third, ran away. According to witnesses Sha Brewer and Jerden Woodhouse, Zarzoza severely beat the officer who pursued him. The officer shot Zarzoza in the abdomen. | google.com | ||
11235 | Christopher Machado | 40 | Male | European-American/White | 04/13/2012 | Clovis | CA | 36.8207499 | -119.7047837 | Clovis Police Department | Police fatally shot a man who would not stand down after he killed his elderly mother and neighbor. | abclocal.go.com | ||
11236 | Wesley Louis Skinner | 26 | Male | European-American/White | 04/13/2012 | Elko | NV | 40.792384 | -115.8184987 | Elko County Sheriff's Office | Deputies went to serve a warrant for stolen property. Skinner went into an RV, laid on a bed and committed suicide with a shotgun. | google.com | ||
11237 | Timothy Collins Jr. | 17 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/13/2012 | Wichita | KS | 37.6478165 | -97.3618072 | Wichita Police Department | Timothy was leaving out the back door where 3 others with him had gone to buy weed. The police were there and without identifying themselves, began shooting as soon as the three were leaving out the back door. Timothy was shot in the back of his head. He was unarmed and fleeing and was not a threat. | kansas.com | ||
21823 | Gary Petrie | 56 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/13/2012 | Gambrills | MD | 39.0624551 | -76.6908854 | Anne Arundel County Police Department | Officer Timothy Peek was responding to a domestic assault when he fought with Gary Petrie and then shot and killed him. | google.com | ||
11223 | James "Henry" Sando Madave Cooke | 57 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/12/2012 | Stockton | CA | 37.9976709 | -121.289016 | Stockton Police Department | James "Henry" Sando Madave Cooke died after he was struck with batons and put into a Safe Wrap after reportedly struggling with officers Jeremy Edens, Kevin Hess, James Manor, Gabriel Guerrero and Irshad Mohammed during a traffic stop. | recordnet.com | ||
11224 | Dennis Dean | 33 | Male | European-American/White | 04/12/2012 | Orangevale | CA | 38.6694971 | -121.2168004 | Sacramento County Sheriff's Office | Deputies shot Dennis Dean after he opened fire on narcotics officers serving a search warrant. | kcra.com | ||
11225 | Ronald David Andrews | 51 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/12/2012 | Birch Tree | MO | 36.9968767 | -91.5054077 | Birch Tree Police Department | An officer shot and killed Ronald David Andrews after an alleged struggle inside a moving police car caused a crash. According to police, the officer was transporting Andrews at around midnight in connection to an assault investigation. During the alleged struggle, the 2005 Crown Victoria lost control and then went off the right side of the road, down a steep embankment and through two fences before coming to rest in a field. The struggle reportedly continued until the officer shot Andrews just outside the car. | dps.mo.gov | ||
11226 | Eric Lee Davis | 46 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/12/2012 | Tucson | AZ | 32.2442888 | -111.009434 | Tucson Police Department | Davis' mother, whom he lived with, called police because she heard gunshots. After a five-hour standoff, a SWAT sniper shot and killed him. His wife, Samantha Davis, was dead within the home. | tucsonaz.gov | ||
11227 | Tamon Robinson | 27 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/12/2012 | Brooklyn | NY | 40.6362807 | -73.8859878 | City of New York Police Department | Robinson was collecting paving stones from a yard outside the Bayview House housing project, and a patrol car pulled up onto a nearby footpath. Accounts vary: he was either struck by the car, or ran into it, which caused him to fall backward and hit his head. He died days later. NYPD sent his mother a bill for $710 for damage to their automobile. In August 2014 the city settled with his family for $2M. | nydailynews.com | ||
11228 | James Richard Ferrario | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 04/12/2012 | Modesto | CA | 37.6782488 | -121.0313656 | Stanislaus County Sheriff's Office, Modesto Police Department | Ferrario shot and killed Deputy Robert Paris and locksmith Glendon Engert. The shooting spawned a standoff with law enforcement that lasted late into the evening, ending with Ferrario's Chrysler Drive apartment burning down and Ferrario dying inside.Ferrario took his own life during the shootout. | fox40.com | ||
11229 | Cullen Mutrie | 29 | Male | European-American/White | 04/12/2012 | Greenland | NH | 43.0164161 | -70.8375047 | Greenland Police Department | After a massive assault, the body of a man suspected of killing Greenland's police chief and wounding four other officers was found dead inside his home, police said. | wmur.com | ||
11230 | George Salgado | 21 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/12/2012 | Miami | FL | 25.749308 | -80.2896559 | West Miami Police Department, Miami-Dade Police Department | Salgado was naked and aggressive, and had reportedly tried to bite another man's neck, when local police arrived. Eight to ten officers subdued him using a Taser. Salgado's family reported that another factor in his death in hospital hours later was blood loss from a severe beating. | nbcmiami.com | ||
11231 | Thomas P. Hennelly III | 26 | Male | European-American/White | 04/12/2012 | Philadelphia | PA | 39.9758979 | -75.1697474 | Philadelphia Police Department | Man drove unto a sidewalk and struck a pedestrian, then struck at least two other vehicles. Officers shot at the vehicle, flattening its tires. Man fled on foot, threatened to shoot an officer. The officer shot the man twice | patch.com | ||
11232 | Rudolph Wyatt | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/12/2012 | New York City | NY | 40.7979325 | -73.9339971 | City of New York Police Department | Three NYPD officers and a fourth retired officer confronted Wyatt and another suspect fleeing from the armed robbery of a pharmacy. The retired officer, now working as a chauffeur for a hedge-fund manager, fired the shots that killed the armed Wyatt. His accomplice escaped. | nypost.com | ||
11210 | Timothy P. Florian | 36 | Male | European-American/White | 04/11/2012 | Castaic | CA | 34.495241 | -118.6241123 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, California Highway Patrol | Timothy P. Florian reportedly led deputies and the CHP on a chase before shooting himself on a Castaic street. | signalscv.com | ||
11211 | John Doe1 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/11/2012 | Palmview | TX | 26.2351813 | -98.3824824 | U.S. Border Patrol | Border Patrol agents stopped a minivan on U.S. 83. A man stepped out of the vehicle and ran. Smuggler Junior Benjamin Rodriguez, 15, sped away and crashed in Palmview. Three women and six men died. One woman may have been pregnant. Seven more were injured. Rodriguez was convicted of nine counts of manslaughter. The dead are not named in English-language media. | chron.com | |||
11212 | John Doe2 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/11/2012 | Palmview | TX | 26.2351813 | -98.3824824 | U.S. Border Patrol | Border Patrol agents stopped a minivan on U.S. 83. A man stepped out of the vehicle and ran. Smuggler Junior Benjamin Rodriguez, 15, sped away and crashed in Palmview. Three women and six men died. One woman may have been pregnant. Seven more were injured. Rodriguez was convicted of nine counts of manslaughter. The dead are not named in English-language media. | chron.com | |||
11213 | John Doe3 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/11/2012 | Palmview | TX | 26.2351813 | -98.3824824 | U.S. Border Patrol | Border Patrol agents stopped a minivan on U.S. 83. A man stepped out of the vehicle and ran. Smuggler Junior Benjamin Rodriguez, 15, sped away and crashed in Palmview. Three women and six men died. One woman may have been pregnant. Seven more were injured. Rodriguez was convicted of nine counts of manslaughter. The dead are not named in English-language media. | chron.com | |||
11214 | John Doe4 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/11/2012 | Palmview | TX | 26.2351813 | -98.3824824 | U.S. Border Patrol | Border Patrol agents stopped a minivan on U.S. 83. A man stepped out of the vehicle and ran. Smuggler Junior Benjamin Rodriguez, 15, sped away and crashed in Palmview. Three women and six men died. One woman may have been pregnant. Seven more were injured. Rodriguez was convicted of nine counts of manslaughter. The dead are not named in English-language media. | chron.com | |||
11215 | John Doe5 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/11/2012 | Palmview | TX | 26.2351813 | -98.3824824 | U.S. Border Patrol | Border Patrol agents stopped a minivan on U.S. 83. A man stepped out of the vehicle and ran. Smuggler Junior Benjamin Rodriguez, 15, sped away and crashed in Palmview. Three women and six men died. One woman may have been pregnant. Seven more were injured. Rodriguez was convicted of nine counts of manslaughter. The dead are not named in English-language media. | chron.com | |||
11216 | John Doe6 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/11/2012 | Palmview | TX | 26.2351813 | -98.3824824 | U.S. Border Patrol | Border Patrol agents stopped a minivan on U.S. 83. A man stepped out of the vehicle and ran. Smuggler Junior Benjamin Rodriguez, 15, sped away and crashed in Palmview. Three women and six men died. One woman may have been pregnant. Seven more were injured. Rodriguez was convicted of nine counts of manslaughter. The dead are not named in English-language media. | chron.com | |||
11217 | Jane Doe1 | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 04/11/2012 | Palmview | TX | 26.2351813 | -98.3824824 | U.S. Border Patrol | Border Patrol agents stopped a minivan on U.S. 83. A man stepped out of the vehicle and ran. Smuggler Junior Benjamin Rodriguez, 15, sped away and crashed in Palmview. Three women and six men died. One woman may have been pregnant. Seven more were injured. Rodriguez was convicted of nine counts of manslaughter. The dead are not named in English-language media. | chron.com | |||
11218 | Jane Doe 2 | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 04/11/2012 | Palmview | TX | 26.2351813 | -98.3824824 | U.S. Border Patrol | Border Patrol agents stopped a minivan on U.S. 83. A man stepped out of the vehicle and ran. Smuggler Junior Benjamin Rodriguez, 15, sped away and crashed in Palmview. Three women and six men died. One woman may have been pregnant. Seven more were injured. Rodriguez was convicted of nine counts of manslaughter. The dead are not named in English-language media. | chron.com | |||
11219 | Jane Doe3 | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 04/11/2012 | Palmview | TX | 26.2351813 | -98.3824824 | U.S. Border Patrol | Border Patrol agents stopped a minivan on U.S. 83. A man stepped out of the vehicle and ran. Smuggler Junior Benjamin Rodriguez, 15, sped away and crashed in Palmview. Three women and six men died. One woman may have been pregnant. Seven more were injured. Rodriguez was convicted of nine counts of manslaughter. The dead are not named in English-language media. | chron.com | |||
11220 | Mario Soto Jr. | 41 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 04/11/2012 | San Antonio | TX | 29.4053089 | -98.5110558 | San Antonio Police Department | Six detectives confronted Soto, named in multiple warrants, at a Days Inn parking lot. They identified themselves as officers. Soto drew a .40-caliber pistol and shot at the detectives. The detectives fatally shot Soto. | mysanantonio.com | ||
11221 | Abdul Arian | 19 | Male | European-American/White | 04/11/2012 | Woodland Hills | CA | 34.1862075 | -118.5968095 | Los Angeles Police Department | Abdul Arian was shot and killed by police. What began as a high-speed pursuit ended shortly before 10 p.m., when Arian got out of his car, began running and was shot by officers. Officers tried to stop Arian for driving erratically, but he did not pull over and a pursuit was initiated. | laweekly.com | ||
11222 | Kevin Allen | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 04/11/2012 | Brooklyn | OH | 41.4224869 | -81.760532 | Brooklyn Police Department | Kevin Allen, with a history of domestic violence, was informed by his wife, at a family outing that she was leaving. Kate Allen called 911 and informed police she her husband was circling the parking lot and she was afraid he may become violent. Allen entered the restaurant carrying a gun and began shooting his family. Police heard gunshots and encountered Allen leaving restaurant when they arrived. He refused demands to drop the weapon and officers opened fire. | thepostnewspapers.com | ||
11207 | James "Jimmy" William Weldon | Male | Race unspecified | 04/10/2012 | Burkeville | TX | 31.0923278 | -93.7379571 | Newton County Sheriff's Office | Weldon threatened family members and told neighbors that he had bombs and booby traps. Neighbors complained to law enforcement. Sheriff Joe Walker and Sergeant Matthews confronted Weldon at his residence. Weldon reportedly drew a weapon or weapons. Walker and Matthews fatally shot him. Walker asked the ATF to diffuse the explosives that Weldon claimed he had. | mobilitytechzone.com | |||
11205 | Wesley H. Collins | 33 | Male | European-American/White | 04/10/2012 | Bellingham | WA | 48.817198 | -122.548143 | Washington State Patrol | When a trooper tried to pull Collins over for speeding, he fled, and then shot himself. | kxly.com | ||
11206 | Jane Doe | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 04/10/2012 | La Joya | TX | 26.2471887 | -98.4721993 | La Joya Police Department, U.S. Border Patrol | Law enforcement pursued a white Chevrolet Tahoe that they believed to be transporting drugs. The driver tried to evade officers and crashed, killing one woman and injuring 16 other undocumented immigrants who were in the vehicle. The woman's name, age and country of origin do not appear in English-language media. | themonitor.com | |||
11208 | Roman Lee Drake | 26 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/10/2012 | Fayetteville | NC | 35.1000267 | -78.9210036 | Fayetteville Police Department | Local officers investigating 2:30 a.m. calls about gunshots at a party found Drake in his vehicle, trying to get away. Drake reportedly struck one officer's vehicle and tried to run another down, and he was fatally shot. Police found a gun in his car. | myfox8.com | ||
11209 | Andre Jones | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/10/2012 | Saginaw | MI | 43.4017539 | -83.93816 | Saginaw Police Department | Jones was suspected of trying to break into a home. Officers told him to come out from the porch and drop his weapon. Jones pointed the weapon at officers and was shot and killed. | mlive.com | ||
21342 | Bobby Louis "BJ" Merrill III | 38 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/10/2012 | Saginaw | MI | 43.397815 | -83.957044 | Saginaw Police Department | According to police, Bobby Louis "BJ" Merrill Jr. was acting strangely, walking in the street and jumping onto cars at around 4 p.m. Merrill allegedly became combative and officers tasered him, but said the Taser didn't have an effect. While handcuffed in the back of the cruiser, police said Merrill began to show "symptoms of going into (cardiac) arrest". Merrill died at a hospital. An autopsy report said Merrill had alcohol and high levels of cocaine in his system and that he died of cardiac arrest. | mlive.com | ||
21343 | Justin S. Sheldon | 23 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/10/2012 | Fowlerville | MI | 42.6852108 | -84.07473470000001 | Michigan State Police | Police said a chase began around 2 a.m. when officers tried to pull Justin Sheldon's 2008 Dodge Charger over after receiving reports he'd brandished a knife during an earlier altercation. Sheldon was killed when his car went off the road north of Fowlerville and hit a tree. | 927thevan.com | ||
11204 | Andre Leon | 20 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/09/2012 | Miami | FL | 25.8502275 | -80.2255195 | Miami-Dade Police Department | Miami narcotics police chased and fired on a black Cadillac CTS that had been stolen at gunpoint. During a high-speed pursuit the Cadillac crossed an intersection and slammed into a Dodge Neon, killing the driver Leon and critically injuring his 19-year-old female passenger. (Leon's last name was also reported as "Williams.") | miamidade.gov | ||
22062 | Michael "Dwayne" Anthony Bailey | 26 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/09/2012 | Landover | MD | 38.9140702 | -76.8663191 | Prince George's County Police Department | Prince George's County officers tried to investigate Bailey and friends as "suspicious persons." They fled, officer caught Bailey who allegedly resisted him. Police said they tasered him to no effect, and Bailey allegedly brandished a weapon. He was shot 32 times by Officer Terrence Garrett. Bailey's mother said the officer turned the ambulance away when her son was still alive. | wjla.com | ||
22562 | Marcus A. Hayden | 26 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/09/2012 | Fort Wayne | IN | 41.066125 | -85.1205198 | Indiana State Police | Marcus Hayden was wanted for failure to appear in federal court. When police came to arrest him, he wounded one, jumped out a window and was confronted by an officer on the ground who ordered him to drop his gun and then shot and killed him. | google.com | ||
11203 | Marland A. Anderson | 39 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/08/2012 | Reseda | CA | 34.2005819 | -118.536068 | Los Angeles Police Department | A 39-year-old adult film actor who died days after an April 8 confrontation with police and paramedics was stunned twice with a Taser during a struggle that began inside the back of an ambulance | nbclosangeles.com | ||
20779 | Ronald B. Covert | 53 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/08/2012 | New Galilee | PA | 40.91726 | -80.438858 | Pennsylvania State Police | North Beaver Township volunteer fire department was called to a burning home. When crews arrived, they found Ronald Covert outside the home, brandishing a shotgun. Fire Chief Paul Henry said Covert had threatened firefighters and would not let them near the burning home. State police were called and they, too, found Covert outside when they arrived. Troopers told Covert to drop his weapon, but he refused, then shot himself in the head, killing himself. | ncnewsonline.com | ||
12606 | Douglas Musto | 28 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/07/2012 | Westfield | MA | 42.1233145 | -72.7483262 | Westfield Police Department | After Musto stabbed an officer, the officer fired five shots at Musto after he ignored orders to drop a knife and after a stun gun was used several times. Four of those shots struck and killed him. | masslive.com | ||
11201 | Luther Brown Jr. | 32 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/06/2012 | Stockton | CA | 38.036109 | -121.3483634 | Stockton Police Department | Officer Wesley Grinder shot Luther Brown Jr. after he took officer Ryan Taiariol's baton and assaulted him after running away during a traffic stop. | abc10.com | ||
11202 | Leon Sahakian | 50 | Male | European-American/White | 04/06/2012 | West Palm Beach | FL | 26.8121458 | -80.091994 | Riviera Beach Police Department | Police fatally shot Sahakian after he lunged at them with some sort of weapon outside his residence. Earlier in the evening he'd been involved in the stabbing and serious wounding of a female victim around 9 p.m. at another location. | sun-sentinel.com | ||
11199 | Juan Montrice Lawrence | 40 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/05/2012 | Jacksonville | FL | 30.3628393 | -81.6096354 | Jacksonville Sheriff's Office | Undercover narcotics officers had been making drug buys in an apartment complex for six weeks. During the final sting, while arresting their primary contact, Lawrence appeared in a hallway with a gun. He reportedly refused to drop the weapon and was fatally shot. | jacksonville.com | ||
11200 | Ahmede Jabbar Bradley | 35 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/05/2012 | Austin | TX | 30.2970771 | -97.6849063 | Austin Police Department | Officer Eric Copeland pulled over Bradley's vehicle for playing music too loudly when he believed he smelled marijuana and prepared to search the vehicle. Bradley fled in his car and then on foot, where a series of struggles ensued and police say Bradley attempted to strangle the officer with his radio cord. Officer Copeland shot Bradley three times in the chest, killing him. | statesman.com | ||
11196 | Andrew L. May | 30 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/04/2012 | Joliet | IL | 41.5339214 | -88.0434146 | Will County Sheriff's Office | Andrew L. May died from injuries sustained three days earlier when he was hit by a deputy's squad car. The deputy was on patrol at about 11:15 p.m. when he struck May, who police said was in the roadway "about 4 or 5 feet from the shoulder." | chicagotribune.com | ||
11197 | Gregory Clark Miller | 52 | Male | European-American/White | 04/04/2012 | San Antonio | TX | 29.5453693 | -98.5026097 | San Antonio Police Department | Officer Joe Castaneda and another officer entered a residence related to a family disturbance. Miller walked down the stairs armed with a machete. He hacked at officers three times as they told him to surrender and backed away. Officer Castaneda shot Miller in the chest. He died at the scene. | mysanantonio.com | ||
11198 | Joel Benge | 48 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/04/2012 | Victorville | CA | 34.5429708 | -117.3470687 | California Highway Patrol | Benge lead CHP on a short police chase. Benge was caught and while being taken into custody he became unresponsive and died. | www.pe.com | ||
11193 | Lavon Peete | 15 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/03/2012 | St. Louis | MO | 38.7590366 | -90.1959887 | St. Louis County Police Department | An officer shot Lavon Peete when he allegedly pointed a gun at him. Police had responded at around 10:30 p.m. to a report of shots fired. According to police, the officer came upon three people with a rifle and the situation escalated. Peete reportedly pointed a sawed-off rifle at the officer, who then opened fire, killing the teen. | stltoday.com | ||
11194 | Brandon Gibbs | 27 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/03/2012 | Clinton | WI | 42.5047761 | -88.9436169 | Boone County (IL) Sheriff's Office, Rock County (WI) Sheriff's Office | Brandon Gibbs reportedly shot himself in the head during a police chase. According to police, Gibbs, who was wanted on a felony warrant, fled from Boone County (IL) deputies on his bike, crossing the state line and running into the woods. A Boone County deputy followed Gibbs and said he killed himself in front of him. The deputy said he fired a shot when Gibbs pulled the gun to shoot himself. Autopsy results reportedly showed the deputy's bullet did not contribute to Gibbs' death. | wifr.com | ||
11195 | Bobby Dale Sutton | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 04/03/2012 | Tulsa | OK | 36.0799978 | -95.9592132 | Tulsa Police Department | Sutton was suicidal, and despite officers and mental health professionals trying to talk him down, he lunged at officers with a knife, at which point they shot him to death. | ktul.com | ||
19295 | Nicholas "Nick" O'Neal Stanford | 18 | Male | European-American/White | 04/03/2012 | Buffalo | SC | 34.7689259 | -81.7151225 | Union County Sheriff's Office | Stanford was riding a 2003 Suzuki motorcycle on Gist Bridge Road when he came up behind the unmarked Dodge Charger of a Union County Sheriff's Office deputy. McDougald said Stanford passed the deputy and continued on Gist Bridge Road. The deputy lost sight of Stanford. Stanford ran off the left side of the road, crashed into a pole, and died. | goupstate.com | ||
19927 | Brice T. Horn | 46 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/03/2012 | Hardinsburg | KY | 37.7608984 | -86.4404041 | Kentucky State Police, Breckinridge County Sheriff's Office | Detective Scott McMichael, a Breckinridge County Sheriff's deputy, KSP Drug Enforcement Special Investigations Task Force were investigating a drug-related crime. Brice T. Horn fled, was tasered, fired at McMichael and was shot and killed by McMichael. | google.com | ||
11190 | Derrick Outten | 22 | Male | Race unspecified | 04/02/2012 | Manhattan | KS | 39.1993344 | -96.6150777 | Riley County Police Department, Junction City Police Department | Derrick Outten reportedly killed himself after a four-hour stand-off with police. According to police, a woman had called at about 7:15 p.m. saying that her husband was armed with a handgun and threatening to kill himself at her Plaza West apartment. Police said negotiators tried to convince Outten to surrender and get mental health care. The JCPD brought in an armored vehicle which they said allowed officers to move in closer to the building. Negotiators used a public address system to try to re-initiate communication with Outten, but weren't successful. Tactical officers fired tear gas into the apartment. A short time later, a shot was reportedly heard. Police entered the apartment and found Outten with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. | wibw.com | ||
11191 | Timothy Simpson | 34 | Male | European-American/White | 04/02/2012 | Fulton | MO | 38.8608003 | -91.9786814 | Callaway County Sheriff's Office, Missouri State Highway Patrol | Deputy Alan Lebel and MSHP Cpl Troy Stegeman shot and killed Timothy Simpson when he allegedly pointed a gun at them from the doorway of his cousin's trailer. At around 6 am., Lebel and Stegeman responded to a report that Simpson was firing a gun at Green Meadows Trailer Park. Simpson allegedly aimed the gun in the officers' direction, so they opened fire. Fifteen shell casings from Stegeman's M-16 rifle and five from Lebel's .40 caliber pistol were reportedly found at the scene. Several shots that missed Simpson struck a neighboring trailer. | komu.com | ||
11192 | Justin Plaza | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/02/2012 | Dade City | FL | 28.362103 | -82.180876 | Pasco County Sheriff's Office | Afghanistan veteran Plaza seemed OK when he came home, but his mother linked his increasing use of synthetic drugs with short temper, aggressiveness, hallucinations, and paranoid about the government. Police defused one incident with a gun but a week later in the early morning hours he pointed a weapon at officers and was shot to death. | tampabay.com | ||
11189 | Troy Lanning Jr. | 24 | Male | European-American/White | 04/01/2012 | Wichita | KS | 37.6298254 | -97.3672702 | Wichita Police Department | Officers were looking for a white vehicle after receiving a report of a drive-by shooting. They spotted a white car speeding and attempted a traffic stop, and a 7-minute chase ensued. The vehicle was disabled after driving over a curb, and four people fled on foot. One officer chased Lanning over a fence into a backyard. Lanning was carrying a bag and allegedly reaching into it and the officer shot him several times, killing him. No weapons were found in Lanning's belongings or in the vehicle. | kwch.com | ||
20780 | Lewis "Tudd" Moore Jr. | 25 | Male | African-American/Black | 04/01/2012 | Harrisburg | PA | 40.2717394 | -76.8487983 | Pennsylvania State Police | State police followed a speeding car that appeared to have a missing wheel or a flat tire, police said. Lewis Moore's car struck a parked car, swerved across the road and struck a tree in a residential neighborhood. Police said they were not pursuing the car, just following it. | pennlive.com | ||
22561 | Beecher "Billy" Hughes | 51 | Male | European-American/White | 04/01/2012 | Indianapolis | IN | 39.7243331 | -86.0583736 | Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department | Officers were called at 2 p.m. on a report of an armed, suicidal man. Family members said Beecher Hughes was arguing with relatives when he locked himself in a bedroom and threatened to kill himself. Officers removed family members from the home and shot and killed him, police said, when he rushed at them. Family members said he was disabled and could barely get out of bed. | theindychannel.com | ||
23239 | Albert Ray "Baby Ray" Finch | 70 | Male | European-American/White | 04/01/2012 | Kingston Springs | TN | 36.0872394 | -87.0990216 | Kingston Springs Police Department, Cheatham County Sheriff's Office | Deputy Ben Buselmeier shot and killed Albert Finch after Finch allegedly shot at police. Police were responding to a suicidal threat. | wsmv.com | ||
11186 | Jack Lee Young | 44 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/31/2012 | Dallas | TX | 32.7142936 | -96.6905393 | Dallas Police Department | Officers Dameon Sansom and Nicholas Martinez were working an off-duty job when they saw Young causing a disturbance. Officers Joshua Shipp and Robert Lyons responded. The four arrested Young. He died. | archive.org | ||
11187 | Clifton Lane Marsh aka Clifford Lane Marsh | 31 | Male | European-American/White | 03/31/2012 | Waveland | MS | 30.3033628 | -89.3845218 | Waveland Police Department | Waveland police received a call about a suspicious vehicle in the area of a Travel Express Inn located on US Highway 90. "When police got there a foot chase ensued, a weapon was displayed by the suspect and shots were fired," agent Warren Strain (MBI) said. It was Marsh's 31st birthday. | southeastsun.com | ||
11188 | George Wells | 29 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/31/2012 | Baltimore | MD | 39.3153247 | -76.6342678 | Baltimore Police Department | A Baltimore police officer investigating a domestic disturbance on Saturday morning in the Reservoir Hill neighborhood shot and killed a man armed with a knife, according to authorities. | baltimoresun.com | ||
11185 | Danny Irizarry Roman | 36 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/30/2012 | Philadelphia | PA | 40.0037864 | -75.1453239 | Philadelphia Police Department | A North Philly driver stopped for running a stop sign flashed a handgun and made a verbal threat ("No, but I have this for you"), all developing into a 20-minute police chase at speeds of over 100 MPH. The hotly pursued suspect crashed into a gold Honda, killing innocent motorist Roman and critically injuring Roman's girlfriend and her young son. | philly.com | ||
11183 | Edward Irons | 34 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/29/2012 | St. Louis | MO | 38.6667056 | -90.2757275 | St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department | Police shot Edward Irons as he fled a traffic stop on foot. Officers had attempted to stop Irons' car, which was reportedly driving the wrong way down a one-way street at 10:30 p.m. Irons lost control of his car and crashed into a fence. He allegedly jumped from the car, flashed a gun with an extended clip, then fired at police. Officers returned fire and Irons took off running. While fleeing, Irons was hit at least once by one of 5 officers who shot at him. Police found Irons in the street, where he was pronounced dead. | riverfronttimes.com | ||
11184 | Ryan John Sever | 28 | Male | European-American/White | 03/29/2012 | Chardon | OH | 41.5866134 | -81.2037623 | Chardon Police Department | Ryan Sever was shot and killed after Victoria Sever dialed 911 to report her son beating his girlfriend in the family's Chardon Avenue home. He reportedly threatened police with a knife. | cleveland.com | ||
21341 | Johnny L. Bentley | 74 | Male | European-American/White | 03/29/2012 | Newport | MI | 42.0024004 | -83.3165638 | Brownstown Police Department | Brownstown Township police were chasing Johnny L. Bentley's 2004 Saturn at around 9:30 a.m. after recieving a report from Trenton police about a potentially intoxicated motorist driving erratically on Fort Street. Police pursued Bentley onto southbound I-75 in Monroe County, where the Saturn crashed into a semi truck. Bentley died at the scene. People close to Bentley said he had Alzheimer's and diabetes, and that he'd get confused when he didn't take his medicine. | pressandguide.com | ||
11182 | Kevin Bolden | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/28/2012 | Washington | DC | 38.8999342 | -76.9278058 | Washington Metropolitan Police Department | Officers responded to report of drug activity and approached a group of people. One man ran and police pursued. The man drew a gun. Shots were exchanged and the man died at the scene. | washingtonpost.com | ||
11180 | Tendai Nhekairo | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/27/2012 | Atlanta | GA | 33.8978332 | -84.455471 | Atlanta Police Department | Officers were called to Nhekairo's apartment to investigate suspicious behavior. Nhekairo came out of his apartment naked and wielding two knives. Nhekairo allegedly attempted to attack one of the officers with the knives, that officers then shot and killed him. | patch.com | ||
11181 | Sheron Carter Jackson | 21 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/27/2012 | Baltimore | MD | 39.3408663 | -76.6617954 | Baltimore Police Department | Police responding to a mid-morning domestic disturbance confronted Jackson with a knife. Ordered to drop the knife, Jackson refused to do so, and was shot to death. | baltimoresun.com | ||
11179 | Name withheld by police | 19 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/26/2012 | Las Cruces | NM | 32.3239553 | -106.7767372 | Las Cruces Police Department | Reportedly, this unidentified man was despondent over an ongoing domestic dispute. During a standoff in which flash-bangs and tear gas were used, he shot and killed himself. | google.com | ||
11176 | Jose Sauceda | 41 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/25/2012 | Pasadena | TX | 29.7071862 | -95.1733799 | Pasadena Police Department | Sauceda was pulled over for suspected drunken driving and resisted field sobriety tests at a police station. Four officers hogtied Sauceda, violating department policy, and took him to Baytown Medical Center. Nurses, seeing that Sauceda was dying, tried to help him. Officers refused to let them intervene. Sauceda died. Two officers were suspended. Three had been disciplined for previous hogtyings. The City of Pasadena settled with Sauceda's family. | chron.com | ||
11177 | Raul Natividad Lara | 55 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/25/2012 | Odessa | TX | 31.8725972 | -102.376838 | Odessa Police Department | Lara threatened suicide. Corporals Joe Galindo, Shannon Davis and Ben Sorenson responded. Lara sat in the backyard of a house with a .22-caliber handgun. He asked corporals to get him in contact with his ex-girlfriend. They told them they would, and told him to put the gun down. Lara did not. Corporals fatally shot him. The Texas Ranger Division investigated. Corporal Smith was also present when Larry Neil White killed three officers in 2007. | oaoa.com | ||
11178 | Eric "Ricky" Bradley | 40 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/25/2012 | Chicago | IL | 41.860424 | -87.735125 | Chicago Police Department | Police responded to a call of a theft in progress. There they found Bradley with a bag of stolen items. During a 'protective pat down, Bradley allegedly reached for a gun, at which point the officers shot and killed him. | vice.com | ||
11173 | Benjamin Charles Bittner | 35 | Male | European-American/White | 03/24/2012 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.206632 | -118.368884 | Los Angeles Police Department | Officers reported that they responded to a call that Bittner had threatened family members and was drunk, and upon arriving that he pointed a gun at officers and they shot him to death. | latimes.com | ||
11174 | Jerome Keeonta Corley | 29 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/24/2012 | Laredo | TX | 27.606711 | -99.530977 | U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration | DEA agents posing as Los Zetas cartel members conducted a sting that implicated eight current and former U.S. servicemembers in a drug running, arms dealing and contract-killing scheme. The leader was so enthusiastic he bought a knife especially to carve a Z into his target's chest. When the trap was sprung at an unnamed warehouse on the north side of Laredo, Corley, a cousin of the leader, was the only casualty. The others received federal indictments. | chron.com | ||
11175 | Kendrec McDade | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/24/2012 | Pasadena | CA | 34.1577857 | -118.1510995 | Pasadena Police Department | In a case of mistaken identity, police attempted to subdue McDade. Officers mistook other officers' gunshots as coming from McDade, so they shot ad killed him. | latimes.com | ||
11166 | Kylan Burrell | 22 | Male | European-American/White | 03/23/2012 | Mediapolis | IA | 41.00547 | -91.169535 | Lee County Sheriff's Office | Deputy Rick Cook responded to a report of a reckless driver on US-61 north of Wapello just before 6:30 p.m. The driver allegedly fled when Cook tried to pull the car over. Cook said he reached a speed of 120 mph during the pursuit, and lost sight of the car as it rounded a corner. The car crashed just after entering town and landed upside-down in a ditch. The passenger, Kylan Burrell, died at the scene. The driver, Levi Swanson, 23, was hospitalized. Swanson was later found guilty of of vehicular homicide. | wqad.com | ||
11167 | Jeremy Rigg | 31 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/23/2012 | Tucson | AZ | 32.2575552 | -110.9468247 | Tucson Police Department | Rigg's estranged wife called 911 and told police officers he showed up at the home with a gun. Four people and a dog hid in a bathroom before officers snuck through a rear door of the home and got them out. The standoff lasted more than six hours before a SWAT officers shot the man. | tucsonaz.gov | ||
11168 | Reynard Osman | 16 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/23/2012 | Chevy Chase | MD | 38.9679501 | -77.0774536 | Montgomery County Sheriff's Office | Teen cousins Emanuel Nelson and Kyree Nelson snuck out of bed for an early-morning joy ride with two older teens in a stolen Toyota Echo. Police fell in behind then flipped on their lights and siren. The driver lost control and struck a tree at Chevy Chase Circle. The car burst into flames. Both cousins died in their seats; the driver Reynard Osman died five days later. | nbcwashington.com | ||
11169 | Keontae Zamarus Amerson | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/23/2012 | Saginaw | MI | 43.4083063 | -83.9254687 | Michigan State Police | The body of a man suspected of killing Greenland's police chief and wounding four other officers was found dead inside his home early Friday morning, police said. | abc12.com | ||
11170 | Kyree Nelson | 14 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/23/2012 | Chevy Chase | MD | 38.9676467 | -77.0776655 | Montgomery County Police Department | Teen cousins Emanuel Nelson and Kyree Nelson snuck out of bed for an early-morning joy ride with two older teens in a stolen Toyota Echo. Police fell in behind then flipped on their lights and siren. The driver lost control and struck a tree at Chevy Chase Circle. The car burst into flames. Both cousins died in their seats. | washingtonpost.com | ||
11171 | Emanuel Nelson | 16 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/23/2012 | Chevy Chase | MD | 38.9676467 | -77.0776655 | Montgomery County Police Department | Teen cousins Emanuel Nelson and Kyree Nelson snuck out of bed for an early-morning joy ride with two older teens in a stolen Toyota Echo. Police fell in behind then flipped on their lights and siren. The driver lost control and struck a tree at Chevy Chase Circle. The car burst into flames. Both cousins died in their seats. | washingtonpost.com | ||
11172 | William Ekasala | 35 | Male | European-American/White | 03/23/2012 | Malden | MA | 42.4380577 | -71.0342123 | Saugus Police Department | Ekasala and two accomplices fled an armed bank robbery in a stolen car, and carjacked another vehicle in an apartment parking lot before discovering it was a manual transmission, which they couldn't drive. Ekasala fired on pursuing police and the police killed him, with 15 to 20 rounds in the exchange of fire. | bostonglobe.com | ||
21340 | Name withheld by police | 79 | Race unspecified | 03/22/2012 | Detroit | MI | 42.3950262 | -83.1690467 | Police said they'd pursued Pontiac minivan as part of a narcotics investigation. The Pontiac T-boned a Honda near Meyers Road and Lyndon Street. The driver of the Honda was in critical condition at press time. Per a witness: "I was standing here setting my grill up and I seen a van come this way and a black police car come behind him with his light. They turned at this corner here on Meyers and shot toward Lyndon," he said. "I saw about six or seven other police cars coming down the street, flying this way." Listed in mlive.com's police chase database as a fatality, corroborated by crash report (#260170) which says a 79-year-old driver was killed. | mlive.com | ||||
22913 | Name withheld by police | 53 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/22/2012 | Winchester | VA | 39.1759109 | -78.1123098 | Virginia State Police | Police responded to a minor hit-and-run vehicle crash. A red Mazda had been struck and another vehicle fled, police said. Further investigation of the crash led Trooper J.W. Bennett to a home where he found the Ford Escape reported to have left the crash. Shortly after arriving at the residence at 7:20 p.m. the trooper heard a single gunshot from inside the home. Police found the deceased man inside the home. Virginia State Police do not release the identities of suicide victims, although this policy does not appear to be supported in public records laws. | google.com | ||
23441 | Roosevelt Toson | 22 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/22/2012 | Philadelphia | PA | 40.0131801 | -75.0704118 | Philadelphia Police Department | At approximately 12:42 a.m., uniformed officers responded to a radio call for a robbery in progress at a convenience store. Upon arrival, the officers were flagged down by someone, who pointed to a man and said that he had a gun. The man was running southbound on Torresdale Avenue. The officers pulled their police vehicle alongside the offender as he was running and saw him pull a black handgun from his waistband, turn and point the weapon toward the officers. One of the officers shot and killed him. One plastic air gun, loaded with 15 small plastic projectiles, was allegedly recovered. | gmnews.com | ||
11161 | Chomrean Meas | 19 | Male | Asian/Pacific Islander | 03/21/2012 | Stockton | CA | 38.0367667 | -121.3364762 | Stockton Police Department | Officer Tom Heslin shot and killed Chomrean Meas when he shot and wounded officer Keith Berry. | cbslocal.com | ||
11162 | Gary Atencio | 45 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/21/2012 | Paraje | NM | 35.040264 | -107.493674 | Albuquerque Police Department | Officer Russ Carter fatally shot Gary Atencio after Atencio led police on high-speed car chase for more than 50 miles followed by a half-mile foot chase after shooting at two female motorists on Albuquerque's West Side. | abqjournal.com | ||
11163 | Garmik Kirakosian | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 03/21/2012 | Los Angeles | CA | 34.2341062 | -118.3638415 | Los Angeles Police Department | Officers reported that Kirakosian was involved in a robbery in which he shot someone, then carried out a carjack with the woman still in the car, and hit a pole while being pursued. Then he fled with officers chasing him. They say he pointed a gun at them, and they shot him to death. | latimes.com | ||
11164 | Rekia Boyd | 22 | Female | African-American/Black | 03/21/2012 | Chicago | IL | 41.8602447 | -87.7029681 | Chicago Police Department | Off duty police detective in unmarked car pulled up next to group on street, got into "verbal altercation" and then opened fire. Boyd was shot in the head and died 24 hours later. Officer reportedly frustrated with neighborhood noise; charged with involuntary manslaughter in November 2013. Family settled with city for $4.5 million in 2013. | huffingtonpost.com | ||
11165 | Robert Dumas Jr. | 42 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/21/2012 | Cleveland | OH | 41.481255 | -81.6661858 | Newburgh Heights Police Department | Dumas was killed in a police chase as his car crashed into a concrete pole. Police said they were not pursuing closely; witnesses at a nearby bus stop said otherwise. | cleveland.com | ||
19316 | Name withheld by police | 42 | Male | European-American/White | 03/21/2012 | Yukon | OK | 35.5067215 | -97.7625441 | Yukon Police Department | Police were called to the Park on West Pointe Apartment Complex for a domestic disturbance. They found a woman outside the apartment who'd been stabbed. When they went inside, they found another man suffering from serious injuries in a bathroom. | news9.com | ||
22189 | Mariano Vargas | 52 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/21/2012 | Bayonne | NJ | 40.6693207 | -74.1267903 | Bayonne Police Department | Mariano Vargas was barricaded in a trailer, and Bayonne police broke in, police said. He was armed with a knife, and police shot and killed him. | www.nj.com | ||
11156 | Nina Roxanne Smith | 21 | Female | European-American/White | 03/20/2012 | Tucson | AZ | 32.1776268 | -110.9863544 | Pima County Sheriff's Department | Police were chasing burglary suspects. The car rolled over, killing two of four occupants. | tucson.com | ||
11157 | Caron Ramell Rivers | 30 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/20/2012 | Tucson | AZ | 32.1776268 | -110.9863544 | Pima County Sheriff's Department | Police were chasing burglary suspects. The car rolled over, killing two of four occupants. | tucson.com | ||
11158 | Kenneth Blomberg | 33 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/20/2012 | Hemet | CA | 33.7443556 | -116.9107667 | Riverside County Sheriff's Department | A Riverside County sheriffa's deputy shot and killed a Hemet-area man whose girlfriend said he had shot her. | www.pe.com | ||
11159 | Phillip Steven Doll | 25 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/20/2012 | Tulsa | OK | 36.1115487 | -95.9838945 | Tulsa Police Department | Doll was involved in a robbery and holding a hostage, and when he refused officers' orders to show his hands, they shot him to death. | newson6.com | ||
23164 | William Taft Harmon | 29 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/20/2012 | Weirton | WV | 40.3909008 | -80.5975498 | Weirton Police Department | Police responded to a robbery in progress at a downtown laundromat about 5:30 a.m. (Later reports say an officer saw a man breaking into an ATM.) An officer shot William Harmon, who allegedly charged at him while holding a pipe with one end crimped flat. According to police, the shot grazed Harmon's hip. The officer then shot Harmon in the torso as he allegedly threw the pipe at him. The second shot was fatal. | wtrf.com | ||
11153 | Annamaria Victoria Loza | 31 | Female | European-American/White | 03/19/2012 | Joshua Tree | CA | 34.1349828 | -116.3107509 | San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office | Annamaria Victoria Loza was struck by a San Bernardino County Sheriff patrol vehicle while crossing the highway in Joshua Tree. | hidesertstar.com | ||
11154 | Mauricio Rico-Lopez | 42 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/19/2012 | Ontario | CA | 34.0776266 | -117.6232329 | Ontario Police Department | Rico-Lopez stabbed someone during a robbery. When officers confronted Lopez, he lunged at them. An officer shot and killed him. | www.pe.com | ||
11155 | Daniel Tillison | 31 | Male | European-American/White | 03/19/2012 | Albuquerque | NM | 35.083652 | -106.5557516 | Albuquerque Police Department | Officer shot and killed 31-year-old Daniel Tillison outside of an apartment complex after Tillison crashed his car into Smith's cruiser after the officer responded to a call about someone selling a stolen stereo. | abqjournal.com | ||
22560 | Elmo Rogers Portee Jr. | 27 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/19/2012 | Fort Wayne | IN | 41.1791955 | -85.0940655 | Allen County Sheriff's Office | A deputy with the sheriff's department was eastbound on Dupont Road and was responding to a reported crash at the intersection of Tonkel and Hursh roads. Elmo Portee was driving a van that was northbound on Diebold Road that entered the intersection with Dupont and was struck by the cruiser, police said. Three people were inside the van. Portee was killed, a woman sustained serious injuries, and a girl suffered minor injuries. | news-sentinel.com | ||
11151 | Edward Lee Randolph | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/18/2012 | Elk Grove | CA | 38.4377125 | -121.4455975 | Sacramento Police Department, Elk Grove Police Department | Edward Lee Randoph reportedly committed suicide when police stopped his vehicle after he shot and killed his estranged wife and wounded her boyfriend. | blogspot.com | ||
11152 | Sean Aleister Morrison | 15 | Male | European-American/White | 03/18/2012 | Magna | UT | 40.6907545 | -112.0679444 | Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake | Morrison's mother called police after the teen raided his parents' gun collection. He went outside wearing a bullet-proof vest, a trench coat and a ski mask. He shot at Todd and Madsen, who returned fire, killing him. Morrison's family said he suffered from mental illness. | sltrib.com | ||
21339 | James Paul Carleton | 53 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/18/2012 | Roseville | MI | 42.5333127 | -82.928312 | Roseville Police Department | Police said they went to James Paul Carleton's home at about 4 a.m. after he told a crisis counselor that he was about to kill himself and would shoot any responding officers. According to police, officers encountered Carleton holding a gun on the front lawn. Three officers shot Carleton after one of the officers allegedly heard Carleton racking the gun. Carleton was pronounced dead at a hospital. | theoaklandpress.com | ||
22912 | Daryl Lee Beadles | 44 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/18/2012 | Gladys | VA | 37.159486 | -79.0758062 | Halifax County Sheriff's Office | Daryl Lee Beadles was killed and 25-year-old Halifax County Sheriff's Deputy T. H. Clarke was hospitalized following a deadly chase. Reports were opaque, but it appears Beadles hit a tree, then Clarke hit the same tree. | google.com | ||
23163 | Jody Aron Wilson | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 03/17/2012 | Lubeck | WV | 39.2332525 | -81.6405125 | Wood County Sheriff's Office | According to Jody Wilson's mother, she called 911 for help because he was acting paranoid, possibly due to bath salts. Deputies responded around 10:30 p.m. and said Wilson threatened to shoot. According to police, the deputies negotiated with Wilson, trying to get him to put the weapons down. Wilson came outside and allegedly started shooting at the deputies. Three of them returned fire, killing Wilson. A Wood County grand jury cleared the deputies, but Wilson's mother said: "What I saw was totally different from what the police stated, and I don't know if the grand jury even heard my side of the story." She contended her son wasn't aware the police were outside her home. | thenewscenter.tv | ||
11111 | Michael Carbone | 46 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/17/2012 | Tucson | AZ | 32.2645875 | -110.9102348 | Tucson Police Department | Officers were responding to a domestic disturbance. Carbone took off running to a Circle K. Police caught up, tasered and restrained him. He died at the scene. | kfvs12.com | ||
11149 | Jeremy McIntyre | 19 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/17/2012 | San Diego | CA | 32.6917388 | -117.1124283 | San Diego Police Department | Lopez saw some type of holster or sheath at McIntyre's waistband, so he told McIntyre to raise his hands and turn his back to the officer. Instead, McIntyre, who was three to four feet away, pulled a dagger with a 6-inch blade from his waistband and swung it at the officer, the report said. | utsandiego.com | ||
11150 | James Clifton Barnes | 38 | Male | European-American/White | 03/17/2012 | Dunedin | FL | 28.0603784 | -82.8228401 | Pinellas County Sheriff's Office | With a mental health history, Barnes fell into an argument with his aunt on the northern end of Honeymoon Island State Park. A park official approached him, then physically struggled with him. A deputy then arrived and tasered Barnes three times, which likely caused his death. His brother also reported severe facial injuries, with eye sockets and cheeks fractured. | 9news.com | ||
22911 | Daniel Guy Newcomb | 33 | Male | European-American/White | 03/17/2012 | Virginia Beach | VA | 36.8473168 | -76.1565419 | Virginia State Police | Police responding to a robbery call found Daniel Guy Newcomb at an auto accident site. Newcomb pointed a toy rifle at the officers, who fired 23 shots at Newcomb, all missing him. After a brief standoff, Newcomb again pointed the toy rifle at one of the officers, who shot and killed him.The three officers--Theodore Ziaja, James Edwards and Shaun Kelly were cleared. | pilotonline.com | ||
11145 | Jordan Walls | 19 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/16/2012 | St. Louis | MO | 38.6692356 | -90.2551361 | St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department | Police shot Jordan Walls when he allegedly pointed a weapon at them. Officers had responded to a reported shooting in the 4000 block of St. Louis Avenue. When they arrived, police said at least one person shot at the officers, as well as toward people on a nearby porch. A man on the porch was struck in the arm. The gunshots transitioned into a police chase that ended in the 4900 block of Maffitt Avenue, where police said Jordan and Tyrone Walls got out and pointed weapons at officers. Six officers fired; one of the bullets killed Jordan Walls. Tyrone Walls suffered a gunshot wound to the arm. | riverfronttimes.com | ||
11146 | Sammie Lee Clay | 56 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/16/2012 | Las Vegas | NV | 36.1908039 | -115.1594285 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | When an 8-year-old girl turned up at University Medical Center with a bullet graze wound to her cheek, Las Vegas police went to the house of Sammie Lee Clay to investigate. Outside they found blood and went inside, where they were met by gunfire from the 56-year-old. Clay fired seven shots, and police returned fire 29 times. One officer was grazed in the head before he and four other officers retreated and summoned SWAT. The standoff lasted more than two hours before police re-entered the house and found Clay dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. | reviewjournal.com | ||
11147 | Jacob Robert Newmaker | 26 | Male | European-American/White | 03/16/2012 | Fortuna | CA | 40.6006609 | -124.155562 | Fortuna Police Department | Officers responded and received further reports that the subject had left the area on a bicycle. Officers located the subject in the area of Vista Drive and 11th Street. The suspect first attempted to flee, then became physically combative toward the responding officer. The officer attempted to subdue the suspect with a Taser, which was ineffective. A secondary officer arrived on scene and the subject continued to be physically combative and resistive. Officers' utilized verbal commands, control holds, pepper spray and baton strikes, all of which were ineffective in subduing the subject. During the violent struggle, the subject gained control of one of the officer's batons. As the suspect was in the process of attempting to strike the officer with the baton, the other officer fired his weapon at the suspect to stop the attack on his fellow officer | lostcoastoutpost.com | ||
11148 | Robert Allan Cortes | 42 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/16/2012 | Lakeland | FL | 28.0391568 | -82.0035934 | Lakeland Police Department | Police responded to a call from Cortes' longtime girlfriend, Lisette Galarza. Cortes emerged from the single-wide mobile home carrying a .45-caliber handgun, which he placed on the ground near the door. Officers claim that he failed to obey officers' commands and "turned suddenly and reached out his hand toward where the gun had dropped," prompting the officers to fire multiple shots, including 6 times in the back. The girlfriend disputes these claims, asserting that Cortes was moving to get on the ground as ordered, and the family says he couldn't have made sudden moves, as he had back and neck problems. | theledger.com | ||
19780 | Corey Nesbitt | 17 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/16/2012 | Miramar | FL | 25.985034 | -80.250295 | Miramar Police Department | Around 9 p.m. two Miramar police officers were talking to man who had called 911 asking authorities for help in a dispute with a relative. Officers said that while they were talking outside an apartment 17-year-old Corey Nesbitt rushed up holding a knife and saying, "I am going to kill you." Nesbitt ignored commands to stop and drop the knife. Officers James Campo and Darcos Cruz opened fire, killing Nesbitt. | tampabay.com | ||
11140 | Noel Rodriguez Torres | 22 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/15/2012 | Sanger | CA | 36.7117974 | -119.5575528 | Fresno Police Department | Two undercover Fresno narcotics officers shot and killed Noel Rodriguez Torres after he displayed a gun, then tried to run away during a drug bust in Sanger. | stopthedrugwar.org | ||
11141 | Javier Torres | 50 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/15/2012 | San Antonio | TX | 29.5202321 | -98.573218 | San Antonio Police Department | Torres decided to commit suicide after a long struggle with drug addiction that he had concealed from his family. He called a suicide hotline, which told police to respond. Officers went to Torres's residence, then found him walking down a road with a .38-caliber revolver. Torres taunted officers, put the gun to his chest but did not shoot himself. He shot at officers. Officers fatally shot him. | mysanantonio.com | ||
11142 | Shereese Francis | 29 | Female | African-American/Black | 03/15/2012 | Queens | NY | 40.6713644 | -73.7826239 | City of New York Police Department | Family called for an ambulance to get help with Francis, a schizophrenic who was off her medication. NYPD officers arrived first. After some argument eventually four officers applied pressure to Francis's back, into her mother's bed, in an attempt to handcuff her. Francis was asphyxiated. | wsj.com | ||
11143 | Alexander Arthur Martin | 24 | Male | European-American/White | 03/15/2012 | Pine Valley | CA | 32.7637099 | -116.4928209 | U.S. Border Patrol | Martin died when Border Patrol agents attempted to apprehend him in his vehicle with a Taser, and the vehicle exploded. The border agent was also injured. Martin was unarmed. There is no explanation for the explosion. | utsandiego.com | ||
11144 | Kevin Charles Duey | 44 | Male | European-American/White | 03/15/2012 | Arnold | CA | 38.2556599 | -120.3309152 | Calaveras County Sheriff's Office | Officers were responding to a "shots fired" call. When they arrived on the scene Duey was shooting and refused orders to drop the weapon. Duey then pointed the weapon at officers and started to move toward some nearby houses. The officer shot once, fatally striking Duey. | mymotherlode.com | ||
11139 | Dane Garett Scott Jr. | 18 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/14/2012 | Oklahoma City | OK | 35.4524573 | -97.4889998 | Del City Police Department | High school student Scott led police on a 15- or 20-minute chase after they'd tried to pull him over on a traffic stop. He struck a semi at an intersection and emerged from the car. Police said he had a gun. Witnesses said he was shot in the back, unarmed, with his hands up. The shooter was found guilty of 1st-degree manslaughter and given four years in prison. One of the rare cases where an officer was indicted for a line-of-duty killing. | news9.com | ||
20781 | Samuel Lee Snyder | 57 | Male | European-American/White | 03/14/2012 | Annville | PA | 40.363964 | -76.547605 | Pennsylvania State Police | Samuel Snyder was fatally shot by police at the end of a 14-hour standoff that began when state troopers appeared at his North Annville Twp. home to involuntarily commit him for mental health treatment. Police said one officer was wounded and that Snyder fired 40 to 60 bullets during the standoff. | pennlive.com | ||
11138 | Willie Sudduth | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/13/2012 | Cleveland | OH | 41.4662514 | -81.6214702 | Cleveland Police Department | Four undercover vice detectives shot and killed Willie Sudduth of Cleveland. The officers said they saw two men running from a store at East 93rd Street, and Sudduth fired shots at an unknown target. The officers ordered Sudduth to drop his handgun. Instead, he fired at officers, who returned fire, striking and killing him. | cleveland.com | ||
20782 | Jermaine Alexander | 14 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/13/2012 | Philadelphia | PA | 40.0011798 | -75.0971772 | Philadelphia Police Department | Jermaine Alexander was riding a friend's dirt bike, a Honda CR500, in the city's Frankford section. At the intersection of Frankford Avenue and Butler Street, Alexander slammed into a southbound 2005 Kia Sportage, driven by Mitchell Butler. Witnesses said Alexander was fleeing from police. Police said they weren't. | phillytrib.com | ||
23238 | Randy Melvin Green | 56 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/12/2012 | Memphis | TN | 35.1208734 | -89.9361224 | Memphis Police Department | According to a family friend, Randy Green, who was blind, was pepper sprayed to death by Memphis police officers on the campus of the University of Memphis where Green had gone to use the library. | sfbayview.com | ||
11134 | Ryan Allen Blankenship | 21 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/12/2012 | Folkston | GA | 30.8103934 | -81.998145 | Ware County Sheriff's Office, Georgia State Patrol | Blankenship took a Mustang from a Waycross dealership showroom at gunpoint, led police on a high-speed chase and then fatally shot himself after the car ran out of gas in Folkston, police said. | jacksonville.com | ||
11135 | Joshua Adam Thomas | 38 | Male | European-American/White | 03/12/2012 | Farmington | AR | 36.031978 | -94.277362 | Washington County Sheriff's Office | A county detective went to the rural residence of Thomas to investigate allegations of sexual abuse of a minor. Quickly and over the detective's objections Thomas ducked into the house and re-emerged with a crowbar, threatening him. Thomas was shot to death. | 5newsonline.com | ||
11136 | Jersey K. Green | 37 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/12/2012 | Aurora | IL | 41.7482816 | -88.3020729 | Aurora Police Department | Just before 10 p.m. police found Green creating a disturbance, jumping on top of a parked SUV, then jumping on top of a responding squad car. Green was tasered. In the ambulance he became uncooperative, spit out a bag apparently containing crack cocaine, had a seizure, and lapsed into unconsciousness. | dailyherald.com | ||
11137 | Justin Earl Nicholas Todd | 33 | Male | European-American/White | 03/12/2012 | Hayden | ID | 47.7495205 | -116.8142775 | Post Falls Police Department, Idaho State Police | A Nissan Sentra passed through the regional License Plate Recognition system on Interstate 90. The LPR system alerted the Post Falls Police Department that the driver of the vehicle, a Justin Earl Todd, was wanted by the Kootenai County Violent Crime Task Force. The officers were notified that Mr. Todd was an officer safety concern and they should use caution in dealing with him. An Idaho State Police Trooper located the vehicle in Post Falls. The Trooper attempted to stop the vehicle, the driver refused to stop for the Trooper, and a pursuit ensued. The pursuit continued through Post Falls, Coeur d' Alene and into the City of Hayden. After several pit maneuvers to stop the vehicle, Mr. Todd skidded to a stop. Officers approached Todd's vehicle in an attempt to take him into custody. Todd backed up rapidly, and then accelerated forward, toward the ISP Trooper. Todd was shot and killed. | spokesman.com | ||
11132 | Christian John Valdez | 18 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/11/2012 | Paradise | CA | 39.7522595 | -121.6077546 | California Highway Patrol | CHP officer Shane Schilperoort shot Christian John Valdez, an escapee from a Colorado youth detention facility, when Valdez appeared to reach for a weapon after Valdez and a second escapee led police on a 24-mile high-speed chase from Oroville. | westword.com | ||
11133 | Ray Kent Puckett | 41 | Male | European-American/White | 03/11/2012 | Pauls Valley | OK | 34.767772 | -97.184055 | Oklahoma Highway Patrol | Garvin County Sheriff's Office called in troopers to check on a vehicle. Trooper Danny Long found a pickup truck sitting in the middle of a county road. As Long drove slowly by the vehicle, he saw a man in the driver's seat with a shotgun. Puckett took off when he saw Long. Long chased him and forced Puckett to pull over. Puckett got out of the truck and pointed a shotgun at Long who shot and killed him. | news9.com | ||
11125 | Michael D. Thomas | 26 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/10/2012 | New Madrid | MO | 36.7007529 | -89.5486513 | Missouri State Highway Patrol | Tonya Brown was stopped by a trooper for allegedly following another car too closely. During the stop, Corporal Stewart was called in to assist. Investigators say a passenger in Brown's car, Michael Thomas, started shooting at Stewart, hitting him in the throat. He was treated and released. That's when the trooper who made the initial stop returned fire, shooting and killing Thomas. | kfvs12.com | ||
11126 | Nancy Van Raes | 49 | Female | European-American/White | 03/10/2012 | Hickory Hills | IL | 41.733697 | -87.8234721 | Hickory Hills Police Department | Two officers shot Nancy Van Raes when she allegedly pointed a gun at them. According to police, the officers responded to a call for help at Van Raes' apartment around 11:30 p.m., and were "confronted by an agitated" Van Raes, who had a handgun. The officers backed out of the apartment and into a stairwell. Van Raes allegedly continued pointing the gun at the officers, who opened fire, killing her. | abc13.com | ||
11127 | Jose A. Sagastume-Morataya | 32 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/10/2012 | Kansas City | KS | 39.114818 | -94.649653 | Kansas City (KS) Police Department | Sagastume-Morataya approached officers with a knife and was shot. | kmbc.com | ||
11128 | Joann L. Beardsley | 49 | Female | European-American/White | 03/10/2012 | Orange Park | FL | 30.1768641 | -81.7443613 | Clay County Sheriff's Office | In an incident that was, according to her son, deeply out of character, Beardsley appeared in a police substation parking lot at 6 a.m. and provoked a confrontation with officers by showing an apparent firearm and shouting at them. She was fatally shot. | jacksonville.com | ||
11129 | Marquez Eugene Smart | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/10/2012 | Wichita | KS | 37.6879753 | -97.3275424 | Wichita Police Department | Officers began chasing Smart in Wichita's Old Town district after he allegedly fired at least two shots from a semi-automatic handgun. Officers fired at him when he refused to drop his weapon, and eventually shot him to death in an alley. Four other people were wounded by gunfire--one from Smart, the three others from officers. Smart was shot five times in the back. | kansas.com | ||
11130 | Kenneth C. Smith | 20 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/10/2012 | Cleveland | OH | 41.4990089 | -81.6856375 | Cleveland Police Department | Off-duty officer Roger Jones shot and killed Kenneth Smith, 20, of Euclid, who Jones said he had seen reach for a handgun. The shooting occurred following a fight in a bar parking lot on Bolivar Avenue. Jones said he saw Smith fire a gun, then flee. The driver and a passenger surrendered. But Jones said he saw Smith reach for a gun, so he shot him. Smith's family sued Jones, claiming the victim was unarmed and trying to surrender. This past April, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty ruled the shooting justified, and praised Jones for "correctly and heroically" taking action to protect the safety of the citizens of Cleveland. | cleveland.com | ||
11131 | William Howlett | 41 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/10/2012 | Memphis | TN | 35.1544529 | -89.904184 | Memphis Police Department | Became "unresponsive" after police chased and arrested him for allegedly attacking his girlfriend. | commercialappeal.com | ||
19944 | Jeffrey Anderson | 27 | Male | Race unspecified | 03/10/2012 | Elkton | KY | 36.8983939 | -87.154684 | Kentucky State Police, Todd County Sheriff's Office | State police and Todd County Sheriff's deputies went to a home after receiving a report of a domestic dispute. When officers arrived, Anderson allegedly went out to his front porch with a shotgun and a handgun. Anderson shot at police and was shot and killed. | kentuckynewera.com | ||
11124 | Alexandra Brooke Longoria | 16 | Female | Hispanic/Latino | 03/09/2012 | TX | 29.7751825 | -95.3102505 | Houston Police Department | Longoria crashed as she drove away from an officer who was trying to arrest her. | google.com | |||
26042 | Brandon Giordano | 15 | Male | European-American/White | 03/09/2012 | Oxford | CT | 41.4197025 | -73.1049991 | Seymour Police Department | Brandon Giordano was riding in the back seat of his friend's Ford Mustang when it crashed during a police chase that began in Seymour when Officer Anthony Renaldi saw Ramirez's illegal "ground effects" lights. | ctpost.com | ||
11123 | Andres Garcia | 44 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/08/2012 | Woodbridge | NJ | 40.55612 | -74.2970397 | Woodbridge Police Department | Garcia was shot and killed as he held a 62-year-old female hostage in a shopping mall. He'd been accused of shoplifting in a Hollister store, and he'd been armed with a knife. After the shooting police discovered his parole violations dating from 2011. | www.nj.com | ||
20783 | John F. Shick | 30 | Male | European-American/White | 03/08/2012 | Pittsburgh | PA | 40.4436261 | -79.9596871 | University of Pittsburgh - Main Campus Police | John F. Shick killed one person and shot several others before being shot dead at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic on the University of Pittsburgh campus. Shick had been committed to mental institutions in other states, but it has not been reported whether the officer or department knew this. | lehighvalleylive.com | ||
22188 | Diego Munoz-Colon | 46 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/08/2012 | Dover | NJ | 40.8856809 | -74.5589446 | Dover Police Department | Diego Munoz-Colon turned himself in at police headquarters about 7:30 a.m. and was placed in a holding cell, which is supposed to be monitored through a video feed by a staff member at the front desk, police said. At 11:50 a.m., a police officer brought lunch to Munoz-Colon and found him hanging by his shirt inside the cell. 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. | www.nj.com | ||
11118 | Luis Anthony Escalante aka Luis Antonio Escalante | 22 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/07/2012 | Dallas | TX | 32.866432 | -96.8753414 | Dallas Police Department | Escalante and Carlos James Cipriano used a pellet gun to steal car keys from an AME pastor. Officers tracked Escalante and Cipriano, finding them parked in the pastor's Nissan and speaking to a bystander. The officers told the two men to surrender. Escalante put the vehicle in reverse, nearly striking Officer Timothy Payovitch and Sergeant Roger Rudloff. They and a third officer shot at the vehicle multiple times, killing Escalante and wounding Cipriano. | dallasnews.com | ||
11119 | Arturo Cabrales | 22 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/07/2012 | Los Angeles | CA | 33.9424332 | -118.234848 | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department | The family of Cabrales settled for $1.5 million because it was alleged that the deputies involved shot him when he was at his home, running away, and unarmed. The deputies were alleged to be a part of a clique called The Regulators. Also, some of the officials involved were later fired for planting evidence at unrelated crime scene, and for trying to change the scene where they shot Cabrales by claiming that he had a gun that he didn't. | laweekly.com | ||
11120 | Michael Santana | 27 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/07/2012 | Miami Lakes | FL | 25.9071927 | -80.3119346 | Miami-Dade Police Department | Within about 10 seconds, 16 officers arrived at Santana's residence in two armored personnel carriers, "knocked" three times with a sledgehammer before immediately smashing the door down, and had shot the disoriented Santana down as he held a lawful weapon. Police claims, including a claim that they'd identified themselves, do not match home surveillance video of the incident. | miamiherald.com | ||
11121 | Wendell Allen | 20 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/07/2012 | New Orleans | LA | 30.0172133 | -90.0513133 | New Orleans Police Department | Unarmed 20-year-old Wendell Allen was shot in the chest and killed during a marijuana raid conducted by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office and New Orleans Police Department's 3rd District. | nola.com | ||
11122 | Michael Lembhard | 22 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/07/2012 | Newburgh | NY | 41.4966474 | -74.0112789 | Newburgh City Police Department | A four-member police unit tried to take Lembhard into custody on a warrant. Lembhard fled; police followed him into his sister's house. Officials said Lembhard got a 12 1⁄2-inch knife from the kitchen, threatened to kill himself and then lunged at police. Two officers fired their weapons, killing him. | midhudsonnews.com | ||
11115 | Felton N. Watson | 29 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/06/2012 | Lake Charles | LA | 30.2282673 | -93.2088 | Lake Charles Police Department, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office | Felton N. Watson reportedly died of a drug overdose while being questioned by police after a shooting and stabbing, foot chase, carjacking, and barricaded standoff. Officers had responded to a shooting and stabbing and found three victims (one victim succumbed to his injuries later). Watson, the suspect, reportedly fled and carjacked a 2006 GMC Envoy, abandoned it, and barricaded himself in a room at the Howard Johnson Express motel. During the ensuing standoff, Watson reportedly refused numerous requests by negotiators to come out of his room. The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office Special Response Team (SRT) arrived with an armored Bearcat and deployed tear gas which caused Watson to come out and surrender. Watson was transported to the LCPD Detective Division for processing, but began convulsing. Watson allegedly advised investigators that he ingested large amounts of illegal narcotics during the nearly three-hour standoff. Watson died at a local hospital. The Calcasieu Parish Coroner's Office reported Watson's cause of death was mixed drug intoxication and said there was no evidence of injury or trauma. | kplctv.com | ||
11116 | Timothy Johnson | 45 | Male | European-American/White | 03/06/2012 | Brandon | MS | 32.282438 | -89.908449 | Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol | At around 5:40 p.m., police got a report of a man who ran a gold Jaguar into the home of his estranged wife and fled. A pursuit began, but Johnson stopped on the I-20 bridge on Rankin Road. While sitting in the car, Johnson called the Sheriff's Office Dispatch Center, but then drove off resuming the chase. "While this pursuit was going on he actually called his attorney and shortly after the pursuit had restarted, as you can see he crashed into a tree down here, the car caught fire and the suspect passed away in the accident and fire," Sheriff Bailey said. | msnewsnow.com | ||
11117 | Martin Angel Hernandez | 21 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/06/2012 | Anaheim | CA | 33.799298 | -117.9064696 | Anaheim Police Department | Shot to death after turning toward an officer with a shotgun in hand. | ocweekly.com | ||
20784 | Daryl Jerome Berry | 45 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/06/2012 | Harrisonville | PA | 40.0389174 | -78.127795 | Pennsylvania State Police | Police said Daryl Berry had gotten into an accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike and was arguing with another driver when a trooper arrived. Berry allegedly set his two Rottweiler dogs after the trooper. As the trooper fought off the dogs, Berry attacked the officer, striking him in the face with a metal flashlight, according to police. The trooper then shot Berry three times and killed him. The dogs were not injured. | patch.com | ||
22910 | James R. Bass | 63 | Male | European-American/White | 03/06/2012 | Pulaski | VA | 37.0566746 | -80.7710181 | Pulaski Police Department | Police received a shots-fired call at 1:36 p.m. at Meadowview Apartments. The caller said that a woman had been injured and was lying on the ground. A patrol unit was nearby, and an officer determined that the shooter had fled to an apartment in the complex. Police set up a perimeter around the location, but were unable to make contact with him. Police said that the alleged shooter, James R. Bass, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. | google.com | ||
11112 | Kenneth Falcon Gomez | 27 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/05/2012 | Temple City | CA | 34.0983569 | -118.0436199 | Los Angeles Police Department | Officers reported that Gomez had been seen tampering with and unloading a U-Haul. When they attempted to confront him, he drove away, at one point almost hitting one officer, and the officers shot him to death when he was trapped in a cul-de-sac. | latimes.com | ||
11113 | Marcus Neloms III | 28 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/05/2012 | West Palm Beach | FL | 26.7589739 | -80.115604 | West Palm Beach Police Department | Police responding to reports of a man shot in the face easily attributed the crime to Neloms, still firing his weapon when they arrived. Neloms wounded one of the officers in the shoulder before he was fatally shot. | wpbf.com | ||
11114 | Nehemiah Lazar Dillard | 29 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/05/2012 | Gainesville | FL | 29.6132036 | -82.3418222 | Alachua County Sheriff's Office | Detained and taken to a hospital for acting strangely in a stranger's yard, Dillard became uncooperative. He was tasered twice, punched an officer, and was injected by medical staff with an unidentified drug. He collapsed and died shortly afterward. | gainesville.com | ||
20785 | Orin Chatman | 19 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/05/2012 | Wilkinsburg | PA | 40.4408215 | -79.8766838 | Pittsburgh Bureau of Police | Orin Chatman, 19, and Yvonne West, 19, his passenger, were killed in a crash when police gave chase when a license plate revealed the car had been stolen at gunpoint. | wpxi.com | ||
20786 | Yvonne West | 19 | Female | African-American/Black | 03/05/2012 | Wilkinsburg | PA | 40.4408215 | -79.8766838 | Pittsburgh Bureau of Police | Orin Chatman, 19, and Yvonne West, 19, his passenger, were killed in a crash when police gave chase when a license plate revealed the car had been stolen at gunpoint. | wpxi.com | ||
11109 | Lemuel Keith Wilson | 32 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/02/2012 | Pelham | GA | 31.1276849 | -84.1518466 | Pelham Police Department | Shot after he advanced toward an officer in the woods while completely naked, saying he had a gun. The officer thought Wilson, who was high on meth, had a weapon in his closed fist; he was holding a roll of more than $1,000 in cash. Residents had called 911 to report a naked man in the neighborhood. | myajc.com | ||
11110 | Julien Robert Gonzalez | 24 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/02/2012 | Los Angeles | CA | 33.7977518 | -118.2988624 | Los Angeles Police Department | Officers reported that they stopped Gonzalez for riding a bicycle at night without a light, and that he attempted to walk away from them and reached for a gun, and they shot him to death. Officers said they recovered a gun at the scene. | latimes.com | ||
11105 | Frank Eric Martinez | 27 | Male | Hispanic/Latino | 03/01/2012 | La Mirada | CA | 33.8908815 | -118.0115964 | Los Angeles Police Department, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation | Officials reported that they were searching for Martinez at a home, in connection with murders, and that he scrambled to a neighbor's roof and shot at them. Officials then shot him to death. However, later upon investigation, there was no evidence that he had a weapon. | latimes.com | ||
11107 | Justin Sipp | 20 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/01/2012 | New Orleans | LA | 29.9832504 | -90.1043726 | New Orleans Police Department | Two New Orleans policemen were shot early Thursday morning during a traffic stop. One suspect was dead at the scene, while another one was injured and in custody, according to Officer Garry Flot, a department spokesman. An officer conducted a "proactive" traffic stop at 5:30 a.m., Flot said. Backup arrived on the scene at 5:38 a.m. Seven minutes later the officers notified dispatchers about the gunplay. | nola.com | ||
11108 | Brandon James Dunbar | 26 | Male | African-American/Black | 03/01/2012 | Riverside | CA | 33.944248 | -117.3712357 | Riverside Police Department | Dunba was killed while fleeing police. As he ran into a backyard, he turned toward officers while holding a gun, the Police Department said at the time. Officers shot and killed him. | www.pe.com | ||
11101 | Freddie Burton Jr. | 24 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/29/2012 | Riverdale | GA | 33.5048491 | -84.396633 | Clayton County Police Department | Shot by SWAT officers after he fired at them at a relative's home. Police say he had held up a Jonesboro Jamaican restaurant, then carjacked a woman and threw her 2-year-old child out of the car, then led police on a high-speed chase and crashed the car into a house. | myajc.com | ||
11102 | Brian Michael Fuller | 23 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/29/2012 | Winfield | TX | 33.158642 | -95.117408 | Winfield Police Department | Officers pulled Fuller over for speeding, handcuffed him and put him in the back of a truck. Later, as officers took off their gun belts and prepared to search his vehicle more thoroughly, Fuller took a shotgun from a gun rack in the truck and pointed it at officers. An officer struggled with Fuller for the weapon. Sergeant Charlie Walker drew a Glock 22 from his holster and fatally shot Fuller. | dailytribune.net | ||
11103 | Anthony Paul Gilmore Jr. | 23 | Male | African-American/Black | 02/29/2012 | San Bernardino | CA | 34.1287623 | -117.2919128 | San Bernardino Police Department | A car in which Gilmore was a passenger allegedly ran a stop sign. Police detained the woman driver and Gilmore. When the officer asked Gilmore if he had a weapon, he attempted to flee but was grabbed by one of the other cops at the scene. Police say a "struggle" ensued and a gun fell from Mr. Gilmore's person. One of the cops, using the proverbial "feared for their lives," opened fire on the young man, killing him instantly | sbsun.com | ||
11104 | Michael Eugene Huff | 42 | Male | Race unspecified | 02/29/2012 | Pavillion | WY | 43.2411101 | -108.6920442 | Fremont County Sheriff's Office | Deputies forced their way into Huff's residence on reports that he was suicidal and had taken a lethal dose of pills. (He had.) Barricaded into a bedroom, flourishing a knife and threatening the officers, Huff was shot dead. | googleusercontent.com | ||
23236 | Michael Joseph Baker | 32 | Male | European-American/White | 02/29/2012 | Clinton | TN | 36.0424624 | -84.1830008 | Anderson County Sheriff's Office | Shanna Lee Richardson,25, and Michael Joseph Baker, 32, were killed during an incident that started when Richardson and Baker allegedly drove off without paying for gasoline in Lake City. The incident escalated to a high-speed chase as they reportedly fled from officers in a stolen pickup truck, shooting from the truck toward Deputy Jonathan "Adam" Bryant's pursuing patrol car. When the truck crashed near the Claxton Volunteer Fire Department, Baker reportedly fired at Bryant. Bryant got out of his patrol car and got a rifle out of the trunk and began shooting back. Cpl. James Daniel "J.D." Powell, who was off duty at the time, arrived and also began firing on the truck. Richardson and Baker were both killed. | oakridger.com | ||
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