Fatal Encounters

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

Aaron Torres

Name: Aaron Torres
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Race: Hispanic/Latino
Date: 02/12/2012
Location: Kaukai Road
Nanakuli, Hawaii, 96792
County: Honolulu
Agency: Honolulu Police Department
Cause of Death: Asphyxiated/Restrained
Intended Use of Force: Less-than-lethal force
Media summary: Aaron Torres, a Teamsters Union supervisor on the "Hawaii Five-0" television production was asphyxiated by police at his Nanakuli home in February and was in a "cocaine-induced excited delirium" when he died, according to the City Medical Examiner's office. Aaron "Spydah" Torres, 37, died of "mechanical asphyxia during police restraint" Feb. 20 and his body showed a "history of cocaine abuse," the office said. The Medical Examiner said the manner of Torres' death was "homicide."
Unique ID: 11058

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