NEW YORK Citizens Death During Police Encounters 1/1/2000------

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2	Alan Zelencic	January 17, 2000	NY	A mentally ill Queens man who had slashed his mother in their apartment was fatally shot by a cop after allegedly lunging at the officer with a 15-inch knife yesterday, police said. Alan Zelencic, 28, was hit twice in the torso but kept advancing on the cop and his partner as they retreated into the hallway of the Long Island City building, police said. Afterward, Zelencic slammed the door, locked it and remained holed up inside for about 50 minutes until cops determined it was safe to go inside. He was taken to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead. A police spokesman said the victim's sister, Lisa, called 911 at about 12:20 a.
3	Donald Moore	February 5, 2000	NY	Two officers intercepted Moore in a Queens basement apartment reportedly assaulting his girlfriend with a 9-inch knife. The police stopped him with three shots, fatally striking his arm and right side. The shooting was ruled justified.
4	Malcolm Ferguson	March 1, 2000	NY	According to police reports, a group of plainclothes police officers entered into a building where Ferguson was allegedly selling heroin. Chased by a patrolman, Ferguson initially tried to run before engaging in a struggle with one officer, who during the fight withdrew his weapon and fired into Ferguson's head, killing him. Despite the officer being cleared of any wrongdoing, a jury awarded Ferguson's mother $10.5 million in damages in 2007 stemming from the shooting.
5	Maliki Yawmi-Deen Raymond	March 1, 2000	NY	New York Police say undercover officers witnessed Raymond buy cocaine, and then swallow it in an attempt to thwart arrest. He began complaining of stomach pains and had multiple seizures. Raymond was taken to the hospital where he died. When Raymond's mother identified her son's body, she claimed he had multiple bruises and looked beaten. A friend believes he was in New York to investigate police brutality for a paper.
6	Patrick Moses Dorismond	March 16, 2000	NY	Patrick, with a friend outside of the bar after work, was approached by 3 undercover cops who asked if he could help them purchase drugs. A witness claims the men/cops did not identify themselves(until after the situation was over), were overly aggressive, and started a fight with Patrick. NYPD claims the officers did identify themselves (during the scuffle), but Patrick started it, and went for one of their guns. It was at that point the gun went off, fatally wounding Patrick Dorismond.
7	Andre Fields	March 31, 2000	NY	Bourne and Fields were among a group of five men, three of whom appeared to wield semi-automatic handguns, who surrounded, threatened and robbed two Hispanics. The two happened to be undercover NYPD narcotics officers taking part in the "Operation Condor" drug crackdown. With weapons pressed against their heads and chests, the two officers opened fire with a barrage of 23 shots. Bourne and Fields were shot to death. The others fled. Their handguns had been toys wrapped in electrical tape.
8	Tysheen Bourne	March 31, 2000	NY	Bourne and Fields were among a group of five men, three of whom appeared to wield semi-automatic handguns, who surrounded, threatened and robbed two Hispanics. The two happened to be undercover NYPD narcotics officers taking part in the "Operation Condor" drug crackdown. With weapons pressed against their heads and chests, the two officers opened fire with a barrage of 23 shots. Bourne and Fields were shot to death. The others fled. Their handguns had been toys wrapped in electrical tape.
9	Malcolm Burno	April 12, 2000	NY	Off duty cop working as a security guard shot and killed suspect who was attempting to shoplift from a store. Shots were exchanged between the suspect and the off duty officer.
10	James Murphy Jr.	April 22, 2000	NY	After attacking his mother and slashing his wrists, the suspect charged police with a Luger pistol that may or may not have been operable (conflicting stories) as well as with a knife. Police fired 25 shots in total.
11	Mark Goca	May 19, 2000	NY	Goca was one of two undercover local detectives in a one-car crash at 2:30 a.m. Goca was fatally injured. The driver, his colleague, was intoxicated and charged with two misdemeanor counts of DWI, criminally negligent homicide, and vehicular manslaughter.
12	Jacques Lavache	May 28, 2000	NY	Truck driver Lavache was killed in an early-morning crash with a speeding police car in Bensonhurst. The police had been speeding to a shots fired call. One of the officers was also killed, and the other seriously wounded.
13	D'Andre Darnell Cisco	July 7, 2000	NY	Investigators were "baffled" by the actions of Cisco, a chef with no previous record of police contact, who jumped out of a car moving at 40 MPH on a major highway. Rolling on the pavement, accumulating some significant injuries, he then attacked two off-duty officers who had stopped to help him. Although unarmed Cisco mounted a severe assault. The officers fatally shot him four times.
14	Edward James Moore	August 3, 2000	NY	During the incident, police said Moore " tore off his clothes, rammed his head through his car windows and attacked his mother," before being pepper-sprayed into submission by responding officers. Moore went into cardiac arrest while being pepper-sprayed, and later died at a nearby hospital.
15	Arthur Alalouf	August 12, 2000	NY	Alaouf, a former corrections officer, apparently threatened to kill his parents, burn down their house and kill police after buying a small arsenal of weapons. During a prolonged gunfight, Alaouf fired and wounded a number of officers before being shot and killed himself. Interviews with neighbors revealed that Alaouf lived reclusively and may have suffered from mental illness.
16	Ismael Rodriguez	September 20, 2000	NY	An unmarked police car struck Rodriguez in the streets of Washington Heights, leaving him in a coma for two weeks before his death. Witness accounts did not square up with the police narrative, and people in the neighborhood were unhappy with police, among other things, apparently coming to dig up dirt about their victim.
17	Reynaldo Colon	October 20, 2000	NY	Colon attempted to rob three packages of heroin from a drug purchaser with a Leatherman tool; the purchaser was an undercover NYPD narcotics officer, who fatally shot Colon four times.
18	Carmen Valentine	October 23, 2000	NY	An off-duty police officer fatally shot a 21-year-old Brooklyn woman after she and her mother attacked him with a baseball bat and a pool cue, the police said.
19	Janyce L. Cuccio	November 2, 2000	NY	Port Authority police sergeant Rocco Cuccio pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of his wife, Janyce L. Cuccio. Rocco Cuccio, 47, originally was charged with second-degree murder, but psychiatrists for both sides agreed that he was under extreme emotional distress when he killed his wife of 25 years with his bare hands.
20	Luther Edwards	November 30, 2000	NY	On a Thursday evening local police responding to a domestic disturbance call were greeted by a woman with serious head wounds, then surprised by Edwards leaping out at them with a samurai-style long sword. Edwards was repeatedly ordered to put down the sword but did not. Other jurisdictions responded, including a state trooper, and Edwards was shot to death.
21	James Culberson	December 24, 2000	NY	Jonathan Lynch and James Culberson attempted to rob the Two Flag Deli Grocery with a gun and knife, a bodega that happened to be owned by the mother-in-law of an NYPD detective; that detective happened to be in the store during the robbery. Lynch was holding a knife against the neck of the detective's wife when both suspects were shot to death. Both had significant criminal records.
22	Jonathan Lynch	December 24, 2000	NY	Jonathan Lynch and James Culberson attempted to rob the Two Flag Deli Grocery with a gun and knife, a bodega that happened to be owned by the mother-in-law of an NYPD detective; that detective happened to be in the store during the robbery. Lynch was holding a knife against the neck of the detective's wife when both suspects were shot to death. Both had significant criminal records.
23	Vernard Davis	January 4, 2001	NY	Police admitted that the fatal shotgun blast to Davis's chest was an accident. In the course of a drug raid a local officer tripped or stumbled, and killed him. He'd been unarmed and compliant.
24	Juliette Alexander	January 16, 2001	NY	Alexander, estranged from the husband of her two children, an NYPD sergeant, was shot and killed in her own apartment. Her male friend was wounded as well. All were immigrants from Trinidad; she was a federal immigrant agent. Ultimately the sergeant was charged with second-degree murder, attempted murder and witness intimidation. He was convicted and sentenced to 43 years in prison.
25	Gary Baker	February 16, 2001	NY	Local officers shot and killed Baker at the residence of his estranged wife, who he had stabbed to death.
26	Joseph Fields	March 20, 2001	NY	An armed stand-off initiated by police coming to the Fields residence, with nine warrants for his arrest, ended 12 hours later with Fields shot to death. He'd answered the door with a shotgun, resisted three or four police attempts to storm his house, outwitted the remote-control siege robot, and earned those warrants with traffic violations.
27	Mark Van Kleeck	May 11, 2001	NY	An active-duty NYPD narcotics officer shot his estranged wife, their child, the wife's male friend Mark Van Kleeck, and then himself. The officer and Van Kleeck died.
28	Alfred Woelfle	May 25, 2001	NY	Reportedly Woelfle rushed out of his house on a Friday night and attacked state troopers with a 32-inch black metal rod. An eyewitness called that version "ridiculous" and said that Woelfle was only running out of the house during a heated argument, and that he hadn't even seen the police.
29	Juan Carlos Garcia	May 27, 2001	NY	Police Officer Sgt. William Miley rear ended a car with five men, two of whom died
30	Allan Duarte	May 27, 2001	NY	Police Officer Sgt. William Miley rear ended a car with five men, two of whom died
31	Curtis Merriwether	June 8, 2001	NY	After a street argument caused by Merriweather sitting on a car belonging to another man, Williamson, Merriweather left and returned with a handgun. Williamson produced a knife. The police arrived and ordered both men to freeze. Merriweather shot Williamson six times in the torso, then turned the gun on police; he was promptly shot to death. Williamson survived.
32	Roy Wright	June 13, 2001	NY	By reports "drunk, agitated and pointing a loaded shotgun at cops", Wright was shot dead by police in the parking lot of a Home Depot at 1:40 a.m. after he threatened police and gestured as if committing suicide.
33	Cuong Tran	June 30, 2001	NY	For reasons unknown Tran locked himself in his apartment on an evening with his wife gone to methodically stab his three young sons. Two of them were killed and the third gravely wounded with his throat cut. Neighbors were able to see him through the windows, completely bloodied. Local police shot him to death.
34	Charmene Pickering	July 26, 2001	NY	Slug grazed driver's shoulder when he bumped into a trooper who had drawn his 9-mm. weapon. The bullet then struck Charmene Pickering, 27, who was in the passenger seat, in her neck.
35	Andy Pena Herrera	August 4, 2001	NY	Around 9PM on August 4th, 2001 Herrera/Pena family were crossing 3rd Avenue on 46th Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, when all of them were struck by City of New York Police Department officer Joseph Gray who was driving a minivan, drunk, after 12 hours of drinking and hanging out in a strip club.
36	Dilcia Pena	August 4, 2001	NY	Around 9PM on August 4th, 2001 Herrera/Pena family were crossing 3rd Avenue on 46th Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, when all of them were struck by NYPD officer Joseph Gray who was driving a minivan, drunk, after 12 hours of drinking and hanging out in a strip club.
37	Maria Pena Herrera	August 4, 2001	NY	Around 9PM on August 4th, 2001 Herrera/Pena family were crossing 3rd Avenue on 46th Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, when all of them were struck by NYPD officer Joseph Gray who was driving a minivan, drunk, after 12 hours of drinking and hanging out in a strip club.
38	Gwendulina Brodie	September 20, 2001	NY	Brodie argued with a next-door neighbor and fellow NYPD officer about his extramarital affair with one of her family members. A half-hour after the argument was broken up by relatives, he charged back into her house and shot her five times, fatally, in front of her 8-year-old daughter. He was given 25 years to life.
39	Malik Mustafa	October 6, 2001	NY	By the time NYPD arrived at Mustafa's apartment at 7 a.m. he had shot his roommate in the arm, and was holding his firearm to his sister's head. Mustafa refused police commands to put down his gun and continued to threaten his sister and officers. He was fatally shot three times.
40	Donna Towe	October 8, 2001	NY	Off-duty cop Clayton Bullock charged in second-degree murder of Donna Towe, with whom he shared an apartment. Authorities believed that Bullock made sexual advances on Towe, Towe refused, and Bullock strangled her. Bullock was held in prison for one year then released for lack of evidence and a flawed autopsy. Bullock was acquitted of all charges and received back pay for time in jail. Towe's boyfriend, Charles Powell, has been accused by Bullock's attorney of the crime, but testified in exchange for immunity from the DA's office (according to the attorney).
41	Shannon Vinson	October 8, 2001	NY	Two NYPD officers intercepted Vinson on recognizing his nickname, Sataday, on the license plate of his Ford Probe. During the traffic stop Vinson allegedly went for a pistol, one of the officers reached in for the ignition, the car began moving, and the officer was dragged for a block. Both officers fatally shot Vinson a total of seven times.
42	Richard Hatcher	October 9, 2001	NY	NYPD officers spotted a stolen car near Shea Stadium. In a pursuit it failed to pull over, then stopped. Three suspects fled on foot. The third, Hatcher, emerged from behind a parked car with a handgun drawn, fired, and struck a police sergeant in the chest. The sergeant returned fire and shot Hatcher fatally.
43	Steven Michalacos	November 23, 2001	NY	Hit by a passing police car that was racing to another scene
44	Gerald Parry Irwin	January 3, 2002	NY	State police tried to serve a felony warrant on Gerald Parry Irwin, who fled. Beginning in the Beach Lake area on SR 652, the pursuit continued on various roads into New York State at which time the New York State Police took over the pursuit. Irwin lost control of his vehicle on New York State Route 42 and wrecked, killing Irwin, police said.
45	Georgy Louisgene	January 16, 2002	NY	Mr.Louisgene was allegedly armed with a knife and gardening tool and refused to put these items down, even after repeatedly being ordered to do so. In apparent fear for their lives, they fired eight bullets, hitting him five times.
46	Juan Mendez	January 23, 2002	NY	On reports of a man in the streets with a gun, police found Mendez carrying a sawed-off shotgun. When ordered to drop the weapon Mendez ran and tried to elude police instead. He was shot once, through the heart, by a plainclothes officer.
47	John O'Meara	February 11, 2002	NY	On reports of a man with a gun, county sheriff's deputies responded and found O'Meara armed. Reportedly he aimed the weapon at police and was subsequently shot to death.
48	Amanda Olcott	February 11, 2002	NY	Trooper Lawrence P. Gleason arrived at the rural Crown Point home where Amanda Olcott was staying. Olcott had earlier called police to say her ex-boyfriend had threatened her with a knife and then left the residence. Gleason was interviewing Olcott in her kitchen when James Scharpf returned to the home and fired three or more shots from a high-powered rifle from outside the house. Despite the fact that the trooper was wearing a standard-issue bulletproof vest, the shots inflicted from the 30-30 hunting rifle caused "massive" body wounds and he was killed instantly, police said. Scharpf then went into the house and killed Olcott before killing himself with another shot.
49	James Scharpf	February 11, 2002	NY	Trooper Lawrence P. Gleason arrived at the rural Crown Point home where Amanda Olcott was staying. Olcott had earlier called police to say her ex-boyfriend had threatened her with a knife and then left the residence. Gleason was interviewing Olcott in her kitchen when James Scharpf returned to the home and fired three or more shots from a high-powered rifle from outside the house. Despite the fact that the trooper was wearing a standard-issue bulletproof vest, the shots inflicted from the 30-30 hunting rifle caused "massive" body wounds and he was killed instantly, police said. Scharpf then went into the house and killed Olcott before killing himself with another shot.
50	John Clune	March 25, 2002	NY	A married insurance underwriter with two children, Clune robbed a bank with a toy gun and led police on a roughly 30-mile chase through upstate New York. At its close at a rural highway intersection he refused to cooperate with police and was fatally shot.
51	Cesar Mercado	March 30, 2002	NY	An NYPD plainclothes officer fatally shot an unarmed man, Mercado, attempting to steal a van. The officer, with two other police, had observed Mercado break into the van for several minutes. The officer claimed that the victim lunged at him; the other two claimed that they'd approached the other side of the vehicle and didn't witness the shooting.
52	Alex Fernandez	April 15, 2002	NY	Fernandez was killed by a local NYPD "Emergency Services Unit" as the result of a violence domestic dispute at an East Harlem pawn shop after hours. Fernandez had stalked and killed his pawn employee girlfriend, and planned to kill himself afterward.
53	Jose Colon	April 19, 2002	NY	Uninvolved bystander Colon was fatally shot in the head as a Suffolk County drug-raid team member tripped and fired his weapon. Officers acknowledged it as a tragic accident and proceeded with the raid. They uncovered eight ounces of marijuana.
54	Ricardo Carlon	April 21, 2002	NY	A 38-year-old retired NYPD officer walking alone around 4 a.m. encountered a group of six friends returning from a dance club. Carlon and another man approached the officer showing a knife. The officer ordered him to drop the knife, and Carlon did not. He was fatally shot three times.
55	Egbert Dewgard	May 1, 2002	NY	DEA agents and other jurisdictions had Dewgard under surveillance while he left for work, then (reportedly) picked up $250K of cocaine. An attempt to pull him over for apprehension failed. He fled, rammed a police vehicle, then continued on foot. Unarmed, he was fatally shot once in the back.
56	Michael J. Fisher	May 14, 2002	NY	Ex-convict and parolee Fisher, driving a stolen car near the NY/PA border, was nervous enough during a traffic stop to draw the close attention of state troopers. This developed into a firefight. One of the troopers was wounded. Fisher was fatally shot.
57	John Rasanen	May 17, 2002	NY	A 6 a.m. para-military drug raid on Rasanen's secluded rental house ended up with the accused mid-level drug dealer fatally shot in the chest at point-blank range as he either charged the police (according to the police) or simply sat up in bed (according to an eyewitness).
58	Craig Heard	June 10, 2002	NY	Heard, driving a stolen automobile, was cornered by two officers on a dead-end street adjacent to Park Avenue. The 14-year-old reportedly aimed the car at the police, who fatally shot him in response. His family reached a $300K wrongful-death settlement with the city.
59	Stefanos Kiladitis	June 22, 2002	NY	An off-duty and allegedly inebriated officer made a left turn through a red light and collided with Kiladitis on his motorcycle. Kiladitis was thrown 50 feet away from his bike and sustained grave head wounds. He was removed from life support three days later. The officer was indicted but acquitted.
60	Walter Washington	July 5, 2002	NY	In a controversial incident, local police and a state trooper intercepted Washington at his former girlfriend's house at her request. The three met on a path in the back of the house, two shots rang out, and Washington was dead. Initial statements issued by the Utica police and the DA were inconsistent with witness accounts and with each other, one of many disturbing discrepancies in the case.
61	William Partlow	July 6, 2002	NY	With an accomplice Partlow stole an SUV at gunpoint, robbed a Yonkers bank at gunpoint, and led police on a wild chase back into the city. Partlow was cornered and fatally shot in a small wooded area between two highways.
62	Keith Terrell McKissick	July 10, 2002	NY	Struck by the mirror of an undercover police van
63	Jack Retta	July 11, 2002	NY	Retta was connected to the knife slaying of a local couple. State troopers surrounded his "fortified" house where Retta held them off with a shotgun, until emerging briefly to shoot at a tree where snipers had taken cover. Hit by return fire, Retta retreated, called 911, then threatened officers again. He was shot to death. Prosecutors took the extraordinary measure of indicting him posthumously solely to inform a grand jury investigation into whether this killing was justified.
64	Michael Aldridge	July 16, 2002	NY	Aldridge was identified as a suspect in the armed robbery of a nearby liquor store around 9 a.m.. Officers from five agencies gave chase, cornered Aldridge, and shot him "an undetermined number of times." He was declared dead by 1 p.m.
65	Shawn Dukes	July 23, 2002	NY	Dukes, said to be under the influence of drugs, apparently called the police himself a half-hour after midnight. When the police arrived and made moves to subdue him, he dashed out of his house, then physically struggled with officers—while still calling for help from the police. He was pepper-sprayed twice, lost consciousness, and died. The family arrived at a $500K settlement with the city.
66	Kedrian Edwards	July 26, 2002	NY	Edwards was shot four times in the chest and arms by police on a Bronx subway train after he broke free and slashed a police lieutenant with a kitchen knife. Police defended the fatal shooting, saying cops followed procedure and tried everything short of lethal force to subdue him.
67	Willie Carter	August 15, 2002	NY	Carter was shot to death after threatening officers with the two knives he'd just used to fatally stab his wife.
68	Marcellus Graham	August 26, 2002	NY	Graham had only recently been released on bail for a previous assault charge against his estranged wife, after trying to drown her in a bathtub. He promptly returned to her fifth-story apartment and knifed her repeatedly. Police interrupted the bloody assault and shot him once, fatally. She survived. One of four fatal NYPD shootings within six days.
69	Ernest Prather	August 27, 2002	NY	Following a dispute at a soup kitchen where he worked, Prather was shot and killed in the street by NYPD while in possession of a toy gun. Witnesses dispute the police account. Arrested 15 times previously, Prather was the son of a narcotics officer. One of four fatal NYPD shootings within six days.
70	Paul Angel	August 31, 2002	NY	Angel—confused, disturbed—was flourishing a knife in the street, menacing two young women and then two customers of a corner store. The storekeeper called police. On arrival Angel approached the officer as he sat in the patrol car and stabbed him through the car window. The officer shot him to death. One of four fatal NYPD shootings within six days.
71	Lawrence Rogers	August 31, 2002	NY	Some 35 officers responded to an "officer down" call as police tried to subdue an irrational near-naked Rogers in a Wegmans parking lot. Rogers bit part of an officer's finger off; two Wegmans employees were arrested for obstructing the investigation; according to one witness Rogers was beaten to death. He died shortly after at the hospital, the fourth black man killed by Rochester police that summer. One officer filed a $2.5M suit against Wegmans and the victim's mother.
72	Jamil Moore	September 1, 2002	NY	Moore went into a "rampage" in his mother's house, breaking appliances etc., when his phone stopped working. Police arrived and shot him dead when he appeared at the top of the steps, supposedly holding a knife in a threatening way. One of four fatal NYPD shootings within six days.
73	Raymundo Guzman	September 16, 2002	NY	An off-duty NYPD officer and his father were approached on the street by Guzman, who attempted to mug them at gunpoint. The officer drew his weapon and fatally shot him.
74	Alfred Nelson	October 30, 2002	NY	Schizophrenic Nelson became violent in the emergency room of Bayley Seton hospital. A dozen police and medical staff were involved in a protracted effort to subdue him, which included injected medications, physical force, and pepper spray. His death was attributed to a combination of asphyxia and a heart condition.
75	Jason Mayo	December 24, 2002	NY	Police interrupted a mid-afternoon Christmas Eve drug deal involving Mayo. Mayo took off on foot before turning and producing a handgun from his waistband before he was shot—according to police. Family and local activists questioned whether he'd actually been armed and if he was shot in the back.
76	Jamal Nixon	January 1, 2003	NY	Officers patrolling the Seth Low housing project observed Nixon firing a handgun, possibly into the air for New Years Eve. According to the officers Nixon fired on them; they fired back and killed him. He'd been named in an officer-involved shooting three years prior.
77	Anthony Reid	January 1, 2003	NY	In line at a club for a New Years Eve celebration, Reid got into an argument with some other patrons; he chased and fired a handgun at them as they fled in a white car. This drew the attention of nearby NYPD, who traded fire with him. He was hit four times and died at the scene.
78	Allen Newsome	January 1, 2003	NY	An undercover cop shot a 17-year- old boy who was holding a realistic-looking toy gun to the head of an officer posing as a fast-food deliveryman in a Harlem robbery sting.
79	John Lagattuta	January 2, 2003	NY	Trapped in a stolen minivan in heavy traffic, Lagattuta rammed the van back and forth in an attempt to escape, while six NYPD officers surrounded hm and tried to extract him. The driver was shot, apparently accidentally, by one of the officers while hammering on the van window with his pistol. Lagattuta was then handcuffed, and the keys to the handcuffs then lost, which delayed medical attention. One of four fatal police shootings in the first two days of 2003.
80	Ana Lucia Rodriguez	January 4, 2003	NY	Rodriguez was a 63-year-old religiously devout widow struck and killed by speeding officers of the Brooklyn North Task Force. Their car was unmarked but reportedly using lights and siren.
81	Jason Kanally	February 9, 2003	NY	Kanally's shooting spree started at a city bar, where he fired shots at a romantic rival, and ended six hours later when police found him at a mobile home. He hospitalized two local officers with gunshot wounds, one in critical condition, one fair. He was fatally shot.
82	Rifka Goldenburg	March 4, 2003	NY	At 4:50 a.m. husband and wife bakers Anton and Rifka Goldenburg were on their way to work when their vehicle was struck by an NYPD officer who had just spent several hours at a local diner. The officer was also killed. Initial reports said there was no sign of alcohol involvement. In fact his blood-alcohol level was three times the legal limit.
83	Anton Goldenburg	March 4, 2003	NY	At 4:50 a.m. husband and wife bakers Anton and Rifka Goldenburg were on their way to work when their vehicle was struck by an NYPD officer who had just spent several hours at a local diner. The officer was also killed. Initial reports said there was no sign of alcohol involvement. In fact his blood-alcohol level was three times the legal limit.
84	Etzel Faulkner	April 16, 2003	NY	Faulkner confronted his former employer from seven years ago, demanding back pay on thin grounds. When refused, Faulkner smashed in the rear window of a BMW as revenge, and when the police arrived he confronted them with a pellet gun. He was fatally shot about six times.
85	Floyd Quinones	April 30, 2003	NY	The police shot and killed a 28-year-old man early yesterday morning in a housing project in Brooklyn after he fired 17 shots into the air in what apparently was celebratory gunfire to mark a friend's birthday
86	Carlos Lopez	May 1, 2003	NY	NYPD officers reported seeing Lopez shoot and kill another man, perhaps over a drug deal, and leave in a van. They chased Lopez, pulled him over, saw him turn towards them, and shot him to death. Together with the shooting of Floyd Quinones just a few days previously the event caused local protests and unrest.
87	Alberta Spruill	May 16, 2003	NY	New York City police conducted an early-morning no-knock SWAT-style raid on Spruill's apartment, based on bad information provided by a drug dealer, and in pursuit of a suspect who was already in custody. The shock of the raid caused the long-time city employee to have a fatal heart attack on the way to the hospital. The city paid her family $1.6M.
88	Ousmane Zongo	May 22, 2003	NY	Zongo encountered Officer Conroy, in plainclothes, on the third floor, guarding a room full of counterfeit compact discs after a raid. The encounter ended with Zongo shot four times.
89	Jose Mateo	June 4, 2003	NY	Mateo's girlfriend called 911 to report his violent, irrational behavior, hallucinating on drugs. By the time they arrived Mateo was attacking his own father and smashing furniture. He was pepper-sprayed, handcuffed, taken down two flights into an ambulance, and died of cardiac arrest.
90	Juan Carlos Sanchez	June 16, 2003	NY	Sanchez attempted to escape from a drug raid through a fourth-story window and fell to his death.
91	Calvin Washington	June 18, 2003	NY	Washington's home was invaded by NYPD officers, without warning or warrant, purportedly in hot pursuit of a suspect. Guns drawn, they kicked down the door, slapped a 7-year-old girl, ransacked the house, then provided no explanation. Washington suffered a heart attack and his family attributed his death, 10 days after, to the effects of the raid.
92	Joan McHugh	July 14, 2003	NY	McHugh was shot and killed by her boyfriend of 22 years, an active-duty NYPD lieutenant, who then turned the gun on himself. No motive was immediately apparent.
93	Othniel Askew	July 23, 2003	NY	Othniel Askew shot and killed New York City Councilman James E. Davis while council was in session. A plainclothes police officer returned Askew's fire striking Askew five times. Evidence showed Askew may have been planning suicide.
94	Melvin Sylvester	August 8, 2003	NY	A family feud between neighbors at the St. Nicholas Houses in Harlem developed into a confrontation between 65-year-old Sylvester, holding a six-inch knife and reportedly intoxicated, and an undercover vice cop, who fatally shot Sylvester when he refused to drop the weapon.
95	Stephen Seignious	September 19, 2003	NY	Stephen was gunned down on a Bronx street after he posed as a cop and then taunted police officers with a realistic toy gun. The officers repeatedly ordered Seignious to drop his weapon, but he refused, Instead, he took another step toward the officers, and they fired. He was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:13 a.
96	Antoine York	September 21, 2003	NY	With gloves, bandana and a pistol, York was interrupted by county police during the attempted armed robbery of a CVS Pharmacy. York retreated to the rear of the store while exchanging gunfire with police. He was found out back in a dry creek bed, dead of a gunshot, possibly a suicide.
97	Renardo Powell	October 29, 2003	NY	Powell was shot to death by NYPD in a running firefight down five city blocks, involving him and his accomplice, a drug dealer they'd just robbed, a livery cab driver, and multiple officers. Two officers were wounded, once seriously, and the cab driver wounded in the back.
98	Russell Wimbush	November 6, 2003	NY	Police responded to a call from a woman who'd sighted her former boyfriend and neighbor on the grounds of her rental property, contrary to an order of protection. That boyfriend was Wimbush, a 300-pound former convict, whose physical struggle with the officer included throwing him onto a glass table, which shattered, and stabbing him in the shoulder. The officer fired on Wimbush once, killing him.
99	Desean Cathcart	November 15, 2003	NY	Cathcart had just snatched a chain and medallion from a man in the barbershop. A confrontation occurred, and one cop fired a single round that struck Cathcart in the chest. He was taken to Brooklyn Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead at 7:25 p.
100	David R.A. Scaringe	December 31, 2003	NY	Bystander Scaringe was killed by errant police bullets as they pursued and fired ten shots at an apparent drunk driver. Another bystander was also shot but only lightly injured. Scaringe's family later settled with the city for $1.3M and a change in the city's use-of-force policies.