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1 | INFORMATION | PROVIDED....... | BY | http://www.fatalencounters.org/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Daniel Ramirez | January 1, 2016 | CA | Daniel Ramirez reportedly died a day after stabbing and shooting himself following a carjacking, pursuit and standoff that ended in Long Beach. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Joshua Adam Sisson | January 1, 2016 | CA | Police were called on a domestic violence complaint. They caught up with the suspect a short time later, ordering him to drop the knife he was carrying. He was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Albert Thompson | January 5, 2016 | CA | Officers were patroling in the area of a small apartment complex because of past drug activity. Thompson ran, but it's uncertain what caused officers to shoot and kill him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Stephen John Bukwich | January 5, 2016 | CA | Redding police officers responded to multiple calls that said 6-8 gunshots had been fired at an apartment complex. Officers arrived and found Stephen John Bukwich, 52, inside apartment #A. Officers spoke with Bukwich via a patrol car PA system. Police said Bukwich would open the door to the apartment briefly and yell at officers. Police said that witnesses told them he was upset about recent legislation regarding gun laws passed by President Barack Obama. Officials said Bukwich was not cooperative when asked to come out of his apartment with his hands up. Less lethal methods were attempted, but eventually nine officers fired at Bukwich with handguns and rifles, striking him multiple times and killing him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Alan Paul Bartley | January 11, 2016 | CA | A man was shot to death by San Fernando police following a short chase that ended in a crash. According to San Fernando police, the pursuit lasted for about a block before the suspect crashed into another car. That's when the pursuing officer opened fire, and the suspect was killed. It has not been disclosed why the suspect was being chased. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Name withheld by police | January 12, 2016 | CA | Authorities responded to an apartment, where a distraught teen inside was threatening to hurt himself with a handgun. Police first spoke with the boy by phone, before he hung up on negotiators. They then used a loudspeaker, but the boy did not respond. Most of the officers had left the scene around noon when it was determined the boy was not a threat to himself or anyone else. A family member went inside the apartment and discovered the boy had killed himself. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Paul Giacomoni | January 14, 2016 | CA | Paul Giacomoni died when he jumped off an elevated East Bay highway and landed in a San Lorenzo cemetery in an apparent attempt to evade police. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Miguel Hernandez | January 14, 2016 | CA | A man shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy in Canyon Country was a known gang member in a vehicle believed used during a drive-by shooting earlier this week in Newhall, a Sheriff’s Department homicide detective said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Kelsey Rose Hauser | January 16, 2016 | CA | A woman riding in a stolen car with three men was shot and killed by a police officer in El Cajon following a high-speed pursuit early Saturday, officials confirmed. Apparently, the chase ended on a dead end road, and when the officer attempted to approach the car, it drove toward him, so he fired into the car, killing the woman in the passenger seat and a dog. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Alfred Longoria | January 16, 2016 | CA | Officers were dispatched about 2:15 p.m. Saturday to a home in the 1800 block of Courtney Terrace on a report of burglary, said Los Angeles police officer Rosario Herrera of the Media Relations Section. That street is in Nichols Canyon, a street just east of Laurel Canyon, and the shooting was about two blocks north of Hollywood Boulevard. “The resident confronted the suspect and the suspect fled,” Herrera said. A perimeter was set up and around 3:30 p.m. Saturday the armed suspect emerged from the perimeter. The suspect encountered two officers, she said, and an officer-involved shooting occurred. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Efrain Herrera Jr. | January 17, 2016 | CA | Officers responded about 5:50 p.m. on a report of a suspect, armed with a knife, in the middle of the street, according to Lt. Kirk Kelley of the Los Angeles Police Department’s West Valley Station, whose officers responded to the call even though it was in the Mission Station’s patrol area. They were confronted by the suspect and he was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Vasilios Alexander Katsouras | January 18, 2016 | CA | An older woman called 911 reporting that an unknown person was in her backyard pounding on a sliding glass door, police said. When two officers responded to the home they found the man in the backyard "armed with a claw-style garden tool that had three steel spikes." The officers ordered the man to drop the weapon, but he did not comply and instead charged the officers with the weapon. He was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Filberto Valencia | January 19, 2016 | CA | Officers responded to calls of a home intruder. Police said a man said someone was trying to kill him and ran off after failing to get into the house. The man then broke into a group home and was harming a girl inside. Upon arrival, police forced entry into the residence and found the suspect barricaded in the bathroom with four females. He had his arms wrapped around a 10-year-old girl's neck. The man fought with Stockton police officers who used tasers and batons. The man died on scene. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Stephen Schenck | January 25, 2016 | CA | Fleeing after a bungled home invasion robbery, Schenck was later located at a nearby home hiding under a bus. He became uncooperative as police tried to take him into custody, and he was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Phillip Chang | January 29, 2016 | CA | Phillip Chang reportedly attempted to avoid the CHP by driving more than 100 mph on a Buena Park freeway before crashing. Chang died in a hospital 12 hours later. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Joshua Bispo | January 31, 2016 | CA | Details are sketchy but, California Highway Patrol said there was a short pursuit, during which a man brandished a weapon. He was then shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Jeffry Graves | January 31, 2016 | CA | A woman called 911 to report that a 52-year-old man was threatening suicide. Officers responded and removed the woman from the home and then spent 40 minutes negotiating with the man, who was holding a handgun to his head inside the home, according to police. When the man eventually came out of the house, he continued talking with a crisis negotiator while pointing the gun at his head, chest and mouth. When the man pointed the gun at officers and nearby people, he was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Justin Prescott | February 2, 2016 | CA | Witnesses said Prescott shoplifted at Walmart, and when he threatened security guards with a knife, they waited for police. Police tried to subdue him with a Taser, but eventually shot and killed him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Wendell Celestine Jr. | February 5, 2016 | CA | Celestine and was wanted on suspicion of violating his parole. He had walked out of a hospital against doctors' orders two days earlier, police said. Police found Celestine sleeping in a car parked at the end of East Sixth Street with a friend. The officer attempted to arrest Celestine, who fought with officers. After restraining him, officers called for an ambulance to treat him for potential injuries sustained during the struggle. As the ambulance arrived, the man began having "some sort of medical distress." He then died. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Roland Rozay Zanie | February 6, 2016 | CA | CHP says an officer first spotted a white Chevy sedan doing donuts near 5th and Bryant Street. That officer followed them but the car sped off, blowing through red lights. According to the CHP, that's where the pursuit ended. But the driver didn't stop. The car slammed into a taxi and burst into flames, killing three, including Roland Zanie, Gene Mollique Jr. , and David Hamilton III. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Gene Mollique Jr. | February 6, 2016 | CA | Roland Zanie, Gene Mollique Jr. and David Hamilton III were killed when their car crashed into a taxi and burst into flames during a police chase near the NFL's Super Bowl City in San Francisco. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | David Hamilton III | February 6, 2016 | CA | Roland Zanie, Gene Mollique Jr. and David Hamilton III were killed when their car crashed into a taxi and burst into flames during a police chase near the NFL's Super Bowl City in San Francisco. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Jose Mendez | February 6, 2016 | CA | Details are sketchy, but officers were following a reported stolen vehicle in the area of Sixth and Lorena streets, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Mendez stopped the vehicle in the 3300 block of East Sixth Street and was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Gustavo Najera | February 9, 2016 | CA | Police were called about a suspicious person who was knocking on strangers' doors. Details have not been reported as to why Najera was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Corey Paul Kieffer | February 11, 2016 | CA | Details are sketchy, but deputies were pursuing a parolee. He was spotted in a shed, surrounded and then apparently shot himself, according to police. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Matthew Quinn | February 11, 2016 | CA | Police went to reported disturbance and found a man with an ax. He walked toward them, and they shot and killed him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Eduardo Rodriguez | February 14, 2016 | CA | A man became combative during a traffic stop, which deputies made in the course of a stolen-vehicle investigation, according to police. During the fight, deputies said they believed the man was reaching for a gun. He failed to obey orders and was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Rammy Jaradat | February 14, 2016 | CA | Officers responded abto a report of “unknown trouble." The call was subsequently upgraded to a report of a hot-prowl burglary and later to an assault with a deadly weapon. The officers arrived to find a male victim suffering from a stab wound. As they attempted to render aid and called for an ambulance, they were directed to a man who was armed with a knife, police said. He was subsequently shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Brandon Lee Witt | February 15, 2016 | CA | Deputies responded to a call of a suspicious-vehicle parked outside the Extended Stay America. When deputies, arrived they found Witt sitting in the vehicle. Police said a fight occurred between the deputy and a person in the car. Authorities have not released more details about what happened. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Dennis Solis | February 17, 2016 | CA | Dennis Solis reportedly shot himself during a 5-hour standoff with deputies. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Tiffini Kuuipo Tobe | February 18, 2016 | CA | Tiffini Kuuipo Tobe apparently suffered a heart attack when she was handcuffed by police after she'd reportedly jumped from a moving bus, leapt onto a car, then got into a confrontation with a few men before an off-duty police officer drove up to the scene and subdued her. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Jose Manuel Quintanilla | February 18, 2016 | CA | Officers responded after a report of a burglary. The officers made contact with four suspects and a confrontation ensued, police said. At some point, police opened fire. The spokesman did not know the specific circumstances that led to the shooting. Two people were killed by police and two arrested. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Oscar Reyes | February 18, 2016 | CA | Officers responded after a report of a burglary. The officers made contact with four suspects and a confrontation ensued, police said. At some point, police opened fire. The spokesman did not know the specific circumstances that led to the shooting. Two people were killed by police and two arrested. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Danny Rendon | February 20, 2016 | CA | A call of shots fired in the 900 block S. Roberts Street. Police said a male victim was shot in the leg by the suspect and is in stable condition. Police said the victim and suspect were related. Family members said one was a brother-in-law of the other, and the two were fighting before making their way to a second location where the fatal encounter took place. Rendon had apparently fired at a police helicopter. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Edward Shabbaz Currie | February 20, 2016 | CA | Edward Shabbaz Currie died in police custody after he reportedly appeared to suffer a seizure in the nurse’s station at the jail while undergoing medical clearance to be booked. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Kisha Michael | February 21, 2016 | CA | Officers said they received a call of a suspicious vehicle stopped. When they approached the car, they noticed the woman in the car had a gun and ordered her and a male occupant out of the vehicle, said Scott Collins, a spokesman for the Inglewood Police Department. Officers then took cover and opened fire, killing both people. The familiy believes the woman is Kisha Michael, the man is still unidentified. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Marquintan Sandlin | February 21, 2016 | CA | Officers said they received a call of a suspicious vehicle stopped. When they approached the car, they noticed the woman in the car had a gun and ordered her and a male occupant out of the vehicle, said Scott Collins, a spokesman for the Inglewood Police Department. Officers then took cover and opened fire, killing both people. The familiy believes the woman is Kisha Michael, the man is still unidentified. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Jamie Clark Long | February 22, 2016 | CA | Bakersfield Police Department received a report of a male brandishing a knife and threatening employees at the Amtrak Station. Several minutes later, a second call was received from an employee of Amtrak who stated this same suspect was now charging at employees with a knife. Within minutes of the second call, a Bakersfield police detective arrived and contacted the suspect. During the contact, the detective shot and killed him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Angel Alan Gleason | February 23, 2016 | CA | Police said Gleason was driving a stolen BMW when officers from the San Joaquin County Delta Regional Auto Theft Team spotted him. They gave chase, and at some point Manteca police got involved. It went south on Highway 99 and entered Ripon, where Gleason took the Jack Tone Road offramp. His car struck another car occupied by a woman and her young daughter, causing it to overturn. Gleason got out of the BMW armed with a handgun, jumped over a guard rail and onto an embankment above railroad tracks. Police shot and killed him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Francisco Garcia | February 24, 2016 | CA | A deputy was investigating a stolen car. He told the decedent to get out of the car, but the decedent hit the deputy with the car. The deputy shot and killed him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | George Biehs | March 3, 2016 | CA | Biehs was sitting inside a car outside the Livermore Police Department when he shot himself, which caused an officer to shoot at the car, police said. The officer fired his gun four times after arriving to the back parking lot of the station on Pacific Avenue around 3 a.m. after hearing a shotgun blast that shattered the car's glass. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Pedro Rocha | March 4, 2016 | CA | Police say a deputy was driving his patrol car through an intersection when he hit Rocha. He was pronounced dead at the scene. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Osvaldo Torres | March 6, 2016 | CA | Police said Torres led police on a car chase after refusing to pull over for a traffic stop. After crashing, he shot at police and was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Byron Rosas | March 7, 2016 | CA | Rosas apparently stabbed his estranged wife and another person before police shot and killed him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Abelino Cordova-Cuevas | March 7, 2016 | CA | Cordova-Cuevas was pulled over at El Dorado and Clay and ran from police. When police caught up to the suspect, he allegedly began physically fighting with the officers. Police said officers tased him an unknown number of times, and he became unresponsive, then died. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Cornelius "Corn" Holly | March 8, 2016 | CA | Cornelius “Corn” Holly was killed when an allegedly stolen car T-boned Holly's Honda Civic. The pursuit started at Baseline Street and Sierra Way when police reportedly spotted the stolen car and tried to pull it over. The driver instead sped off and drove onto the southbound 215 Freeway. Holly was driving through an intersection where the freeway exits onto 5th Street at about 4:45 a.m. when he was struck. Holly died at the scene. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Name withheld by police | March 9, 2016 | CA | A court services deputy went to serve an eviction notice and a person inside the home shot at the deputy, who called for backup from the the Chino Police Department. According to police, the man then allegedly shot multiple times at responding officers, engaging in a "gun battle" from the front of the home. The officers then deployed a non-incendiary chemical agent, but the residence became fully engulfed in flames, according to police. Investigators say the man set the fire himself. Police said was believed to have died inside the house, but it was uncertain whether he died of fire or gunshots. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Martin Rene Hurtado | March 10, 2016 | CA | Hurtado pointed a gun at police as he tried to run from a traffic stop. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Derek Todd Richardson | March 10, 2016 | CA | Derek Todd Richardson allegedly nearly hit an LAPD officer's patrol car while popping a wheelie and was killed after crashing into an SUV during a subsequent high-speed police chase in Leimert Park. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Teodoro (Teo) Valencia Jr. | March 11, 2016 | CA | Officers responded to a call of a male gunman holding up the restaurant. About three minutes later, the robbery suspect left through the kitchen where a police officer positioned outside the back of the restaurant ordered him to stop, police said. The man turned toward the officer and pointed a black semi-automatic handgun at him, police said. The officer shot and killed him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Gevork Alachadzhyan | March 13, 2016 | CA | Alachadzhyan stole a West Covina police car and after a chase was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Vincent Avila | March 16, 2016 | CA | An off-duty Fontana police officer shot and killed a suspected robber at the officer's home, according to police. The officer said he woke up and found a man—armed with a handgun—in his home, trying to steal property. The off-duty officer briefly struggled with the man, eventually holding him at gunpoint, but the man refused to comply with commands to show his hands or to lie down on the ground. When he reached for his waist, the officer shot and killed him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Cristian Rene Medina | March 16, 2016 | CA | Deputies responded to a false robbery report and found Medina, who held his hands as though he were holding a gun, pointing his finger at the deputies. He was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Michael Mallet aka Michael Mallett | March 18, 2016 | CA | Police went to arrest a man for child molestation. After an overnight standoff, police sent in tear gas. He came out with a gun and was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Raymond Gonzalez | March 23, 2016 | CA | Gonzalez was standing with another man in front of Scotty's Liquor Store when officers spotted him. A plainclothes officer thought he was acting "suspiciously" and tried to contact him, police said. Gonzalez dropped a backpack and fled, and as he ran he pulled a handgun out of his waistband.An officer fired one round and missed. Police said body cam video shows when Gonzalez raised himself up, he had a black object in his hand that the officer believed was a gun. The officer fired again, this time killing Gonzalez. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Sean Curtis | March 23, 2016 | CA | Police say Curtis shot himself when they arrived to question him about the molestation of two 10-year-old girls. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Andrew Bermudez aka Andrew Mike | March 24, 2016 | CA | A man abducted his ex-girlfriend from an Office Depot, holding her hostage for nearly three hours during a standoff with police before shooting her and being killed by police sharpshooters. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Alejandro "Alex" Peyro | March 28, 2016 | CA | Rudy Javier Vargas died instantly after the Honda Accord he was driving crashed into a Ford Mustang, killing Alejandro "Alex" Peyro, a passenger in the Mustang. According to officials, a deputy began chasing Vargas' Honda in Colton at around 5 a.m. but then backed off as the car hit speeds of up to 100 mph. A short time later, the Honda ran a stoplight and struck a Ford Mustang in San Bernardino. Both cars crashed through the fence of a nearby business and hit the building. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Rudy Javier Vargas | March 28, 2016 | CA | Rudy Javier Vargas died instantly after the Honda Accord he was driving crashed into a Ford Mustang, killing Alejandro "Alex" Peyro, a passenger in the Mustang. According to officials, a deputy began chasing Vargas' Honda in Colton at around 5 a.m. but then backed off as the car hit speeds of up to 100 mph. A short time later, the Honda ran a stoplight and struck a Ford Mustang in San Bernardino. Both cars crashed through the fence of a nearby business and hit the building. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Joseph Louis Melvin | March 29, 2016 | CA | Police responded to a burgary alarm and found Melvin. They fought and the officer eventually shot and killed Melvin. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Anthony Raymond Castillo | March 30, 2016 | CA | Driver Anthony Raymond Castillo and passenger Melissa Marie Miller were killed when their SUV crashed through a gate at the Naval Air Station Lemoore base and hit a parked FA-18E Super Hornet while leading the CHP on a high-speed chase. The chase reportedly began off base at around 11:30 p.m., when a CHP officer stopped to check on a Jeep Grand Cherokee parked on the roadside. Castillo allegedly sped off, driving erratically and going the wrong way at one point before leaving CA 198. Castillo eventually crashed into the fighter jet, which was parked about 7 miles inside the base, officials said. The chase lasted about 15 minutes. Miller died at the scene, and Castillo died at a hospital. Beither Miller or Castillo had any military affiliation, according to officials. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Melissa Marie Miller | March 30, 2016 | CA | Driver Anthony Raymond Castillo and passenger Melissa Marie Miller were killed when their SUV crashed through a gate at the Naval Air Station Lemoore base and hit a parked FA-18E Super Hornet while leading the CHP on a high-speed chase. The chase reportedly began off base at around 11:30 p.m., when a CHP officer stopped to check on a Jeep Grand Cherokee parked on the roadside. Castillo allegedly sped off, driving erratically and going the wrong way at one point before leaving CA 198. Castillo eventually crashed into the fighter jet, which was parked about 7 miles inside the base, officials said. The chase lasted about 15 minutes. Miller died at the scene, and Castillo died at a hospital. Beither Miller or Castillo had any military affiliation, according to officials. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Angel Montion | March 30, 2016 | CA | Deputies were investigating a kidnapping. A man came out of the home and threatened deputies with a handgun, police say. Deputies shot him several times in the upper torso, killing him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Cesar Frias | April 6, 2016 | CA | Officers made contact with the subject, known to be possibly mentally ill and armed with a kitchen knife. They attempted to subdue him with a Taser and a beanbag gun but the subject escaped into a nearby house. Officers fired gas shells into the home and the man walked out. They attempted to subdue him again with a Taser and bean bag gun but the man ran into the backyard of the house. Attempting to subdue him, the man allegedly attacked an officer with his knife. The officer fired his gun and the subject died later that night at a nearby hospital. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Luis Gongora | April 7, 2016 | CA | A homeless outreach team of the police department was called about a homeless man allegedly wielding a knife. They tried to subdue him with beanbag shots. Gongora allegedly got up and charged at police, who opened fire and killed him at the scene. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Dazion Flenaugh | April 8, 2016 | CA | Police received a report that there was a man wandering around the Parkway neighborhood acting suspicious and appearing drunk or perhaps drugged. A couple hours later, police had detained the man in the back of a patrol car while they tried to sort out if there was any crime to hold him on. He allegedly escaped on foot and a chase ensued. He had managed to grab an ax and/or knives of some sort and when he allegedly charged officers, they opened fire and killed him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | Arturo Yobani-Torrez Valdez | April 10, 2016 | CA | A man smashed the windows of a house where an 83-year-old man lived alone. The suspect forced his way inside and began ransacking the home, Beck said, then took the older man hostage. Some neighbors grabbed baseball bats and knives, police said, and were getting ready to try to rescue the resident when two officers from the LAPD’s Hollenbeck Division arrived at the scene. The officers ran inside and saw the man holding a knife to the victim’s neck. The suspect “began to do things that indicated that he was going to kill the victim.” One of the officers shot and killed the suspect. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | Lonnie Ball | April 10, 2016 | CA | Ball was shot and killed after a woman called Modesto police to report a man was at her door with a gun. When police arrived, Ball drove off. Police chased him through the area until he returned back to the house. Neighbors said they heard police ask Ball to get out of the car. Modesto Police said he did, and then shots were fired. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | Rodney Watts | April 13, 2016 | CA | Shot while attempting a carjacking. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Clemente Najera Aguirre | April 15, 2016 | CA | A Riverside County Sheriff's Department news release said an officer responded to multiple reports of a man breaking windows on South Poe Street. The officer encountered a man a few blocks away on West Heald Street who matched the description of witnesses and asked him to surrender, according to the release. Police said the suspect had used a piece of wood to break windows and a sliding glass door to a residence, which he attempted to enter and was confronted by the occupants, one of whom was struck by the suspect and sustained injuries. In an effort to subdue the suspect the officer used pepper spray, but the man did not appear to be affected, said police. The man came back at the officer armed with two baseball bats, and he was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | Linda Cochran | April 19, 2016 | CA | Aroldo Vela-Chavez, allegedly collided with a woman and then went crashing through a Pittsburg golf course’s fence after he fled when an officer tried to stop him for speeding, according to police. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Marion Jose Habana | April 30, 2016 | CA | Los Angeles police officers responded to a call of an assault of a woman, according to police. Authorities entered the apartment and found the suspect with a woman. Police said the suspect was armed with two knives. He was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Raymond Hopper | May 3, 2016 | CA | Hopper was armed with a steak knife when he approached a police officer. The officer fired three rounds and then attempted CPR. The man’s family watched from the lawn, and neighbors watched from their windows. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | Travis John Swol | May 4, 2016 | CA | Officers went to the residence to talk to a man. When he spotted the officers, the man went into the home and refused to come out. A one-block section of King Road was closed to traffic and homes in the immediate area were evacuated. Police negotiators responded and tried to make contact with the man. After several attempts failed to elicit a response, officers used a robot to enter the residence. The robot searched the residence and found the man dead. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Matthew Tucker | May 4, 2016 | CA | Tucker was shot by Temecula Police Officers after he advanced upon them wielding a knife. Police responded to a 9-1-1 call within a residence. As police arrived on scene, they were directed to the garage at the residence. During the contact, the male advanced towards the officers with the knife, and he was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Patrick Linggi | May 6, 2016 | CA | Deputies hoped to arrest Linggi on a felony warrant. He barricaded himself in the house, and when they broke in, they found him dead of a self-administered gunshot. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Lionel Gibson | May 7, 2016 | CA | Police received a call reporting a man with “an Uzi-style gun” speaking to three individuals inside a vehicle near 21st Street and Locust Avenue, Zabel said. Officers arrived within minutes and the shooting happened shortly after. The man had an airsoft toy gun. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | Name withheld by police | May 11, 2016 | CA | Sheriff’s Office received a call from a female victim stating her elderly husband was threatening to kill her. Upon arrival, deputies negotiated while reinforcements assembled. The man went inside and shot himself in the head. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | Thongsoune Vilaysane | May 11, 2016 | CA | After an attempted traffic stop, Vilaysane fled. Eventually, he was surrounded, and he responded by running into police cars with his. He was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Robert Mark Diaz | May 13, 2016 | CA | Police said the suspected gang member displayed a weapon as officers were conducting a pedestrian stop. There was an exchange of gunfire and the man was killed, LAPD said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Luke Sanders | May 17, 2016 | CA | Deputies received a called about an armed man acting irrationally with a severe injury. Deputies said Sanders had cut off his own hand. Officials explained they tried to help the man, but he resisted and a confrontation ensued, which escalated based on the threat he posed to deputies, a California Highway Patrol officer and citizens. Deputies said Sanders was armed with an ax and failed to follow commands. He was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Jaime Ide | May 19, 2016 | CA | Ide was shot and killed by Citrus Heights police after a standoff with police. Ide was shot and killed at an apartment complex after police said he threatened police with a knife in a narrow corridor. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Jessica Williams | May 19, 2016 | CA | Williams was shot and killed by a San Francisco police sergeant after she allegedly attempted to flee officers in a suspected stolen car. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Fernando Castro | May 26, 2016 | CA | Castro was wanted on an Amber Alert for kidnapping. After a chase and a carjacking, he was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Gerald Villabrille Jr. | June 2, 2016 | CA | The incident started with the shooting two officers during a traffic stop. Following a massive 14-hour search for the man, Villabrille took refuge in a nearby house. The house caught fire after police threw tear gas and flashbang grenades trying to force him out. A coroner's report showed that Villabrille died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, police reported. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Daniel Jonathan Shaham | June 4, 2016 | CA | Details are sketchy. A trooper shot and killed a man, but the events leading up to the killing have been withheld. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | Weston Sites | June 7, 2016 | CA | Officer Jim Gamble was apparently looking at his computer when he rear-ended a car, killing Sites. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | Omar Villagomez | June 7, 2016 | CA | Police were trying to arrest Villagomez when the vehicle he was driving collided with unmarked police vehicles. The Modesto officers fired, killing Villagomez. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | Keith Myron Bursey Jr. | June 10, 2016 | CA | Gang officers stopped a car. A man armed with a gun got out of the car, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said. A scuffle ensued, Beck said, and at some point, police opened fire, killing Bursey. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
91 | Jesus Duran | June 11, 2016 | CA | Deputies responded to a family disturbance call. Authorities said Duran's family called for help, saying Duran was threatening them. When deputies arrived, they found Duran armed with a home-made spear. Police said they attempted to use a Taser when Duran lunged at the deputies. One deputy shot and killed him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Fernando Geovanni Llanez | June 14, 2016 | CA | Police said a meeting between Homeland Security investigators and suspected high level drug dealers devolved into a violent struggle and the fatal shooting of Llanez, police said | ||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | Sergey Makarenko | June 18, 2016 | CA | Deputies tried to stop Makarenko because he was driving erratically through neighborhoods in Carmichael, according to police. When he turned onto a street with a dead end, deputies got out of their cars and ordered him to get out of his car. Instead, Makarenko put his car in reverse and accelerated. A deputy shot and killed him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | Lee Edward Denney | June 24, 2016 | CA | Denney was causing a disturbance in McDonalds. When police arrived, they removed employees. Denney pointed his gun at them, and they shot him multiple times, at which point, he jumped out the window and shot and killed himself. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Dylan Noble | June 25, 2016 | CA | Fresno Police said officers tried pulling the man over for speeding. When the driver pulled over at the Chevron gas station, police said he didn't comply with officers' commands to show his hands. Officers felt the man was reaching for a weapon, so they shot and killed him. No weapon was found on the suspect. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | Edgar Rodriguez | June 27, 2016 | CA | Edgar Rodriguez, 30, was walking in the slow lane of the freeway when Officer Keith Daril Schlech hit him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | Barry Prak | June 28, 2016 | CA | Prak allegedly charged at officers while holding a knife, police said. He was shot and killed. A police dog, named Credo, was also shot and killed by gunfire from an officer’s weapon. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | Fermin Vincent Valenzuela III | July 2, 2016 | CA | Anaheim police officers responded July 2 to a call about a suspicious man who had followed a woman to her home, police said. Somehow, he got from the home at the 2600 block W. Broadway Ave. to the 7-Eleven at 240 S Magnolia Ave, where police say he fought them. He was tasered, and after a few days in a coma, he died on July 10. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | Pedro Villanueva | July 4, 2016 | CA | Undercover California Highway Patrol officers followed a truck containing which eventually made it into a residential area in Fullerton. The officers attempted a traffic stop, but the suspects did not stop. Authorities said the driver turned the truck around and drove toward the officers. The officers feared for their safety and shot and killed Villanueva. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | Anthony Nunez | July 4, 2016 | CA | Officers were called to check on the welfare of a possibly suicidal man with a gun. But police have provided no details about the circumstances that led to the fatal shooting. |