David L. Johnson was killed by being ejected from his car while being pursued by a Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement officer for an apparent speeding violation.

Abernathy was in car wreck, he was observed hitting himself in the head with a car jack. He got involved in an altercation with the officers and he ended up shot 15 times.

After a bank robbery and an attempted bank robbery with a chase, and unidentified man shot and killed himself as police closed in.

Officer Lorhn Frazier, who is white, shot and killed a black man, Tyrone Clayton Jr. 22, after a traffic stop. Clayton fled and then returned to a car. Frazier alleged Clayton drove at him, witnesses said the car never moved.

Lexington Police detective Chris White was working off-duty as a security guard at a mall when James Miller, who was also in uniform from a security job, pointed a gun at him.

Lewis's minivan was stopped in a liquor store parking lot by police likely looking for his wanted cousin, who'd attacked an officer days earlier. The unarmed Lewis was fatally shot five times by Detective Johann Steimle, claiming both that he'd used the vehicle as a weapon, and then appeared to reach for a gun.

Two undercover officers in an unmarked pickup pulled over a 1985 Cutlass for running a stop sign. The driver, according to police, threw the car in reverse, knocking down and running over one of the cops. The other officer fired on the Cutlass as it fled. Police found the car later with passenger Bryant dead in the back seat. He'd never been accused of any crime.

A clerk at the E-Z Cash and Pawn Shop contacted police about 3:45 p.m., saying two women were attempting to pawn stolen jewelry and other items. When police arrived, two men who had been waiting outside the shop ran around the corner, down the block and into Cobb's Radiator Shop. After a standoff at the mechanics shop, Maynard allegedly shot and killed himself.

Police were called to a domestic disturbance. After a standoff, and the use of less-lethal methods to subdue Sexton, he was shot and killed as he threatened police with a knife. Sexton was shot twice at the end of a standoff with police in a cemetery near the Jackhorn Old Regular Baptist Church, about one mile north of Fleming-Neon on Ky. 317

Luke Thorpe was drunk and randomly firing a shotgun when he pointed the gun at responding police and was shot and killed.

Following a high-speed chase, Elizabethtown Police Officer William Bland accidentally fired a shot that killed a passenger in the car, Harold G. "Jay" Lee. Randall Babb, the driver of the vehicle, fled the scene after the vehicle was stopped and was apprehended a short time later. Babb was indicted in Hardin County on 11 charges, including complicity to commit manufacturing in methamphetamine.

Larry Johnson shot and killed the mother of his 7-year-old child, Donna Sue Newcomer, when they were doing a custody exchange. He was shot and killed by two Bell County Sheriff's deputies.

Larry Johnson shot and killed the mother of his 7-year-old child, Donna Sue Newcomer, when they were doing a custody exchange. He was shot and killed by two Bell County Sheriff's deputies.

Mays was in a stolen car when he was approached by police in a rest area off I-75. He pulled a pellet gun and was shot and killed.

A 20-year-old man killed himself in front of his mother when Southgate police came to question him about a car a woman said he'd borrowed without permission.

Katrina Schaber called 911 to report that she had a problem with James Vittitow, 21, and that he was at her home. She gave police a description of him and his vehicle. When police officers Brian Crosley and Jeremy Henry arrived at the Schaber residence, Vittitow led them in a chase on foot. As Crosley approached Vittitow during the pursuit, he fired a handgun at the officer, police said. Both officers took cover but didn't return fire. Vittitow then turned the gun on himself. Officers recovered a Glock 9-mm handgun at the scene.

Three deputies climbed aboard Walker's drydocked houseboat to serve a warrant for "misdemeanor terroristic threatening," assuring the older man that it was no big deal. Walker, sick with cancer, sitting on his bed, calmly explained that he'd been drinking. He pulled out a rifle in a case then a 30-caliber M1 Carbine. He killed two of the deputies and seriously wounded the third before being shot to death.

David Michael Borreson, 34, died after crashing a stolen car while running from police at speeds up to 110 mph, police said. The chase started after state police got several reports of a reckless driver on Interstate 75.

James Kirk, whom police say robbed a bank in central Kentucky and then led them on a five-hour chase, driving a stolen truck to Alexandria, shot and killed himself as police closed in.

A fugitive who eluded police for four days near Morehead killed himself. Checking on a tip, Morehead police caught up with Jason E. Clark, 23, in an abandoned car 300 yards from Ky. 32. The two officers told the Clearfield man to drop his rifle and give himself up, but he refused, said Morehead Police Lt. Mike Adams. "He just turned the rifle on himself and fired a single shot. That was it."

Harlan County Sheriff's Office Deputy Roger D. Hall was convicted of facilitation to murder Paul L. Browning. Browning was killed because Hall was worried he'd lose his job if Browning won the office of sheriff.

Monroe County Sheriff Jerry Gee shot and killed Don Mark Wilson when he reportedly reached for a nearby rifle as the sheriff approached him.

A car carrying three people suspected of robbing a Maysville bank slammed into a roadblock of police cruisers and a coal truck in Fleming County, minutes before Jeffery Craig White fired one fatal shot into his own head, police said.

Several Louisville City police officers went to Terry L. Hines's residence to arrest him pursuant to bench warrants relating to several felony and misdemeanor charges. Hines refused to grant the officers entry and armed himself with a butcher knife and a frying pan. After a standoff, police rushed into the house, and Hines stabbed a police dog and threatened the dog handler when he was shot and killed.

Kentucky State Police Trooper Todd Holder was shot while checking on the welfare of a Butler County resident. Later, KSP's special response team entered the residence on Leonard Oak Road and found the man inside dead.

Warsaw Police Officer Brent Caldwell was on patrol at Gallatin County Park when he noticed an unoccupied car at the park, then found the 60-year-old Sample outside a restroom. He told Sample to show his hands, and Sample shot at him. They had a gunfight, and Sample was shot and killed.

Marbly was homeless, living in his vehicle, and plainly mad, a fact known to officers called out to reports of a man standing in the street pointing at cars. Confronted Marbly returned to his car and refused to get out. Officers smashed out the windows while Marbly talked about Jesus Christ, tractor beams and phasers. When Marbly produced what the police thought was a gun, he was fatally shot.

Cravens was ordered by county officers to drop the rifle he'd been carrying outside his apartment. He refused by retreating back into the apartment, and police shot at him. When he finally emerged he'd been fatally gut-shot.

He was handcuffed behind his back and the police claimed he had a box cutter, so they felt that he was threatening their lives.

Officer Aaron Kidd was answering a call concerning a man breaking into a residence. James Salyers ran, but Kidd found him in the backyard of another residence where the gunfire exchange occurred, and Salyers was shot and killed.

Aaron Tacy was fatally shot after charging police with a knife. The officers who shot Tacy—Muhlenberg County Sheriff's Deputy Wade Griggs and Greenville Assistant Police Chief Darren Harvey—were placed on administrative leave with pay.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A deputy spotted a car speeding. As he approached the 1995 Honda, the driver lost control, and the car rolled several times. All three occupants were thrown from the vehicle. Billie Jo Mize was killed.

Jaggers was one of two perpetrators of a midnight home invasion, assaulting two residents and holding a gun to the head of one when police arrived. Officers fatally shot him. The homeowners went unharmed. The officer later won a medal for his handling of the incident.

John Hinkle was shot and killed after he fired shots at troopers Earl Whitaker and Joe Lucas. The troopers were serving an emergency protection order filed a few hours earlier by his wife.

Charles Ervin Jr. was allegedly an accomplice in a bank robbery. He and bystander motorist Robert McFadden were killed when Ervin and driver Dwaine Thomas Edwards crashed into McFadden as they fled police.

Charles Ervin Jr. was allegedly an accomplice in a bank robbery. He and bystander motorist Robert McFadden were killed when Ervin and driver Dwaine Thomas Edwards crashed into McFadden as they fled police.

Newby was shot by an undercover narcotics officer near midnight during a drug buy. The victim was shot five times, and the fact that three of those shots were in the back triggered local protests and an FBI probe. Ultimately the officer was indicted for murder.

James E. Alexander, was shot and killed with an automatic rifle by Trooper Sgt. Bobby Day during a drug investigation using undercover officers at a Jenkins house. There were reports that Alexander was shot when he reached under his jacket for a cell phone.

Robert Daniel Payne shot and killed his wife, Cindy Walker Payne, during a standoff with police before shooting and killing himself as police entered the home.

Robert Daniel Payne shot and killed his wife, Cindy Walker Payne, during a standoff with police before shooting and killing himself as police entered the home.

After a six-hour standoff, Jimmy Blakey came out of a trailer with a gun and was shot and killed by a Kentucky State Police sniper.

Deputies were called for a domestic disturbance. After a standoff, Murphy pointed a gun at an unidentified deputy, who shot and killed him.

Jeffery D. McKinley allegedly was threatening people inside a house with a large knife. When Trooper William Braden arrived, McKinley threatened him, and Braden shot and killed him.

Police responded to a person making threats against a relative who lived nearby. They found Paris Withrow with a shotgun. He did not put it down, pointed it at police and was shot and killed by Troopers James Ryland and Jim Goble.

Carlos Saturno took his girlfriend hostage after a traffic stop. When she escaped, he tried to get into a house and threatened Trooper Sonny Dunaway with a knife before he was shot and killed.

James F. Hammons Sr. allegedly took his ex-girlfriend hostage and had a knife to her throat when he was shot and killed by police.

Kentucky State Police Capt. Tom Porter, Sgt. Lafe Owens and Taylorsville police officer Gordon Miles shot William J. Eldridge Jr., after he pointed a weapon at them during a three-hour confrontation, Kentucky State Police said. They were responding to a domestic violence complaint.

Metro police were called to a Bob Evans restaurant because of suspicious activity in the parking lot. Police said Joshua Rucker fired on them as they arrested two people. He was shot and killed.

Randall Allen King abducted his 9-month-old son, Landon R. King, in Harlan County and then killed the infant and himself while fleeing police on U.S. 23 in Pike County, state police said.

Randall Allen King abducted his 9-month-old son, Landon R. King, in Harlan County and then killed the infant and himself while fleeing police on U.S. 23 in Pike County, state police said.

Police found Jeremy Scott Glenn dead in an upstairs bedroom, after officers fired tear gas canisters into the home, police said. Officers had been seeking Glenn for several weeks to serve him with six arrest warrants, including two for trafficking in a controlled substance while armed.

Police said they responded to a complaint that Jonathan Patrick Flynn was intoxicated, damaging property and arguing with his father. He was shot and killed by Trooper Adam Hall.

Henry Reeves was shot and killed when police came to his house to check on a suicidal man. When police asked him to show his hands, he pointed a shotgun at them and was shot and killed.

Officer Peter Grignon was investigating a hit-and-run. When he was talking to two teenagers, Travis Ballard shot and killed him before shooting and killing himself.

Police attempted to serve arrest warrants to James Allen Coomer. He was wanted for assault, burglary and violation of a protection order. He wounded an officer with a rifle before he was shot and killed. His father Albert Coomer wounded two officers before he was shot and wounded.

Deputy Sheriff Roger Lynch, 51, responding to a domestic complaint, and Joseph Calender, 48, armed with a semiautomatic rifle, handgun and magazines of ammunition were killed in Calender's home.

Charles A. Blandford and James R. Bright were killed when they hit a tree and a telephone pole as they fled a police stop for driving erratically. Blandford was driving.

Charles A. Blandford and James R. Bright were killed when they hit a tree and a telephone pole as they fled a police stop for driving erratically. Blandford was driving.

Ricky Dale Biggs and David Wayne Perry, bank robbery suspects from Tennessee, shot themselves to death, after leading police on a high-speed chase from Indiana into western Kentucky.

Ricky Dale Biggs and David Wayne Perry, bank robbery suspects from Tennessee, shot themselves to death, after leading police on a high-speed chase from Indiana into western Kentucky.

Trooper Joel Huff was looking for a suspect involved in a non-injury accident about nine miles north, police said. A man was headed for the welcome center at a rest area when Huff tried to restrain him. Huff shot and killed him when he pulled out a gun. Ricky Dale Biggs was a fugitive wanted for armed robbery in Tennessee.

A Scott County deputy sheriff attempted to pull a car over, because it had its headlights turned off, police said. The car kept going and spun out of control near the county line Saturday night. The two men were ejected from the vehicle, a 1992 Honda Accord, and one man became pinned between the vehicle and a cement garage. Driver Zeiler Ortiz-Velazquez was killed.

Jeff Jones was shot and killed by a Kentucky State Trooper after a standoff at a coal processing center. Kentucky State Police said Jeff Jones of Floyd County threatened multiple people with a handgun at the Beverly Ann Coal Tipple.

Police received a report of a suicidal man who was possibly homicidal. Troopers located the man on Cane Ridge Road and followed him to 2600 Cane Ridge. On the long driveway to the farmhouse, Thornberry backed into a trooper's car. Thornberry ran into the house. Trooper Dennis Mabry, 31, followed and came to the doorway, where he saw Thornberry raise and point a shotgun at him. Mabry shot and killed Thornberry.

Randolph Scott Wallace walked away from a halfway house in Covington. He killed himself during a standoff with police. Lexington Police Lt. Douglas Pape said police received a tip Randolph Scott Wallace was in the area. When Wallace was approached, he walked into a nearby home and barricaded himself in. Pape said Wallace, 35, shot himself six hours later.

Arrested for domestic abuse, Reilley escaped and stole a State Police cruiser. He was chased by State Trooper Dave Roberts and Carroll County Deputy Sheriff Jim Hamilton, crashing into a barn 1 mile south of Ghent, Kentucky. The officers left their vehicle and shot Reilley who was trying to put his car in reverse, allegedly endangering the officers. Early reports couldn't say who fired the single fatal shot.

Police say Noles had been causing a disturbance inside a White Castle restaurant, and an off-duty officer working across the street tried unsuccessfully to subdue him. He was tasered three times before he died.

Lebanon Junction police officer and three Bullitt County Sheriff's deputies went to Cothern's house to serve two felony warrants. Troopers say Cothern was uncooperative and was sprayed with pepper spray. Police say Cothern came out of his house swinging a large pane of glass at the officers, but witnesses disputed this. He was shot and killed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ronnie Reese tried to rob a Burger King, and when police caught up with him outside, he pointed a gun and was shot and killed.

Harlow was one of two youths spotted burglarizing a house in the evening. The other fled; an officer chased Harlow into the woods where—according to the police account—Harlow produced a handgun and the officer was forced to shoot him to death.

Ryan A. Smith, 25, was shot by Officer Eric Culver after Smith robbed Freddie's Liquor Outlet. Police said Smith fired several shots at both Culver and Officer Brian Peters.

Darrell Schagene, 50, was suspected of killing Kelly Sue Gaddie, 49, whose body was found at her Marion County home, police said. Police began a search for Schagene and received a report that he had returned to the house where the shooting took place. They surrounded it and tried to make contact with Schagene, but got no response. They later found Schagene dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

A special deputy fired his gun while trying to break up a lakeside crowd, fatally shot Cox in the head, and maintained that he'd been justified. Many witnesses disputed his story and there were suggestions of a personal grudge. The shooter was charged with manslaughter, one of the rare cases with an officer indicted for a line-of-duty killing. After much legal maneuvering the shooter was acquitted in 2010.

Officers responded to a call of shots fired on McKenna Street. Nathan Bybee, 47, of Glasgow, was discovered fatally wounded upon arrival. GPD officer J.D. Walden exchanged gunfire with the alleged shooter, Brandon S. Ryan, 31, of Glasgow when checking the victim. Following the firefight, the suspect barricaded himself in his home. Walden was struck by a bullet in the back. He was treated for minor injuries and released. Ryan eventually shot and killed himself.