Fatal Encounters

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

Trevor Doering

Name: Trevor Doering
Age: 9
Gender: Male
Race: European-American/White
Date: 06/14/2007
Location: 269th Street
Bridgewater, South Dakota, 57319
County: McCook
Agency: Hanson County Sheriff's Office, South Dakota Highway Patrol
Cause of Death: Vehicle
Intended Use of Force: Vehic/Purs
Media summary: The father of Deanna Mogck and Trevor Doering had taken them, at knifepoint, away from their grandmother's house along with a third 17-year-old sibling. He tied up the grandmother and took her vehicle. With multiple jurisdictions in hot pursuit, the vehicle hit stop-strips in the road, went out of control, and crashed into roadside trees. The father and the two younger children died. The 17-year-old was sent to a hospital via helicopter.
Unique ID: 6254

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