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1 | INFORMATION | PROVIDED..... | BY | http://www.fatalencounters.org/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Arnesto Ramos | May 7, 2014 | TX | Police responded to a domestic violence call and found Ramos barricaded in his home with two knives. Police negotiated for an hour but eventually Ramos advanced toward police with his knives. Police shot Ramos with bean bag rounds which did not stop his advance. Police open fired with lethal rounds, killing Ramos. Ramos had previously threatened to commit suicide. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Francisco Hernandez | May 8, 2014 | TX | Caught at a traffic stop with over 50 pounds of marijuana, a suspect fled to a vacant house in Dublin. A SWAT team fatally shot him. His partner, Jason Karl Groneman of Nevada, was arrested. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Leonard Benjamin Glover | May 11, 2014 | TX | Glover had a medical emergency. Paramedics responded. Off-duty officers working extra jobs restrained Glover while paramedics gave him medical assistance. Glover was pronounced dead at St. Joseph's Medical Center. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Charles Brandon Knowles | May 11, 2014 | TX | Motorcyclist Knowles fled from local police near three a.m. when they tried to stop him for speeding. Maneuvering back onto the interstate, he lost control, crashed, and sustained fatal injuries. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Joshua Powell | May 14, 2014 | TX | Powell reportedly had a weapon. An officer shot and killed him after Powell refused to drop the weapon. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sheila Vawter | May 18, 2014 | TX | Vawter advanced toward an officer with a knife, resulting in the officer shooting and killing her. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Tiffany Morton | May 20, 2014 | TX | Morton was high on meth and threatening to shoot her mother and two children before setting her mobile home on fire as deputies arrived. Morton was armed with a rifle and refused to drop, causing officers to fatally shoot the 27-year-old. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Name withheld by police | May 24, 2014 | TX | An unidentified person, 31, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for an undisclosed reason and died because of a crash. Since Fatal Encounters could not find a supporting media internet link, this information comes from USA Today's December 1, 2016, Fatal Pursuits project, which uses police-reported data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Hers Ngirarois | May 28, 2014 | TX | Ngirarois shot and wounded his two roommates, then barricaded himself into the apartment they shared. Sergeant B. Blunt and Officer P. Forniss called SWAT. Negotiators tried to reason with Ngirarois, who responded by openly contemplating suicide by cop. SWAT breached the apartment doot and shot at Ngirarois twice with pepper-spray rounds. He shot himself fatally in the head. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Humberto Placencia | May 30, 2014 | TX | Deputies Mykel Andalaros and Valdez arrested Placencia for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. He died of an aneurism shortly afterward. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Craig W. Harris Jr. | June 8, 2014 | TX | Craig W. Harris Jr., 31, was allegedly fleeing a police stop on a motorcycle for driving recklessly and died because of a crash. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Jony Oneli Pastor-Gonzalez | June 10, 2014 | TX | Four men—Jose Luis Leal, Jony Oneli Pastor-Gonzalez, Armando Rangel-Godinez and Agustin Perez-Machi—were allegedly fleeing a Border Patrol stop and died because of a crash. Since Fatal Encounters could not find a supporting media internet link, this information comes from USA Today's December 1, 2016, Fatal Pursuits project, which uses police-reported data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Jose Luis Leal | June 10, 2014 | TX | Four men—Jose Luis Leal, Jony Oneli Pastor-Gonzalez, Armando Rangel-Godinez and Agustin Perez-Machi—were allegedly fleeing a Border Patrol stop and died because of a crash. Since Fatal Encounters could not find a supporting media internet link, this information comes from USA Today's December 1, 2016, Fatal Pursuits project, which uses police-reported data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Agustin Perez-Machi | June 10, 2014 | TX | Four men—Jose Luis Leal, Jony Oneli Pastor-Gonzalez, Armando Rangel-Godinez and Agustin Perez-Machi—were allegedly fleeing a Border Patrol stop and died because of a crash. Since Fatal Encounters could not find a supporting media internet link, this information comes from USA Today's December 1, 2016, Fatal Pursuits project, which uses police-reported data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Armando Rangel-Godinez | June 10, 2014 | TX | Four men—Jose Luis Leal, Jony Oneli Pastor-Gonzalez, Armando Rangel-Godinez and Agustin Perez-Machi—were allegedly fleeing a Border Patrol stop and died because of a crash. Since Fatal Encounters could not find a supporting media internet link, this information comes from USA Today's December 1, 2016, Fatal Pursuits project, which uses police-reported data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Jeremiah Lamar Farris | June 11, 2014 | TX | Officers noticed Farris in a parking lot in the early hours of the morning. As soon as they approached him, he entered a white Chevy Camaro and drove away. Officers arrested Farris after a convoluted chase by vehicle and on foot. Immediately after his arrest, Farris had a medical emergency. Paramedics failed to revive him. Farris had overdosed on methamphetamine. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Joe David Hernandez | June 13, 2014 | TX | Hernandez was a burglary suspect and he pointed a gun at officers. Hernandez was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Terryl Glen Jones | June 13, 2014 | TX | Terryl Glen Jones, 30, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for speeding and died because of a crash. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Jason Harrison | June 14, 2014 | TX | Mother of mentally ill man called 911. When police arrived, Harrison answered door holding a screwdriver. The two responding officers said they fired at the him when he refused to drop the screwdriver despite orders to do so and then charged at them. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Carlos Mendoza Hernandez | June 19, 2014 | TX | Officers Joseph Gorena and Juan Hernandez responded to a call from Fidencio Soto, 39, who stated that Hernandez had shot him in the head (non-lethal injury). Police say that when they arrived, Hernandez, wheelchair bound from being shot by police at 16, refused to put his hands up and pointed his loaded, cocked handgun at them. They shot him several times in the torso. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Sadiq A. Ismail | June 20, 2014 | TX | According to GPD, an officer went to Hiep Thai Plaza to investigate a weapon-related disturbance. There, Sadiq attacked the officer with a knife. The officer fatally shot him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Ernest Wayne Rials | June 20, 2014 | TX | Rials's ex-wife called police after he tried and failed to shoot her at her place of employment. Police found Rials at his home and briefly exchanged gunfire with the 70-year-old before fatally shooting him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Juan May | June 22, 2014 | TX | May was shot by an off-duty police sergeant after the two got in an argument and then a fight in the parking lot of a restaurant. The shooting is still under investigation, but the sergeant has returned to work. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Balkrishna Jamaal Booker | June 23, 2014 | TX | A deputy conducted a traffic stop on Booker for unspecified suspicious behavior. Booker stepped out of the vehicle. The deputy tried to handcuff him. Booker ran away. The deputy tasered him in the back. Booker collapsed, causing a taser probe to work lose. He regained his footing and jumped into Carpenter's Bayou. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Fabian Dionicio Hernandez | June 23, 2014 | TX | The driver and passenger in a 3 a.m. high-speed chase with police ended with the car crashing into a roundabout and dramatically bursting into flames. Dead at the scene: Fabian Dionicio Hernandez and Charles Lee Crayton. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Charles Lee Crayton | June 23, 2014 | TX | The driver and passenger in a 3 a.m. high-speed chase with police ended with the car crashing into a roundabout and dramatically bursting into flames. Dead at the scene: Fabian Dionicio Hernandez and Charles Lee Crayton. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Stanley James Leger | June 24, 2014 | TX | Landlord and taxidermist Leger had filed a complaint against destructive tenants, and in return received death threats. Police investigating a report that he'd filed a .22 rifle at one tenant found Leger—according to their narrative—leveling the same rifle at them. He was shot to death. Witnesses disputed police accounts; the police confiscated private video of the event. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Michael Berry | June 26, 2014 | TX | Police investigating a felony theft investigation ended up in a standoff with Berry after he emerged from his home with a gun. Berry, who may have suffered from a mental illness, was fatally shot by a SWAT team after exchanging gunfire with police. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Austin Russell Moon | June 26, 2014 | TX | Officer Jonathan Meachum tried to conduct a traffic stop on Moon, who was riding a 2011 Suzuki GSX. Moon tried to pass Officer Meachum. Instead, Moon struck the left rear of Officer Meachum's 2013 Chevrolet Tahoe, and died in the resulting crash. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Rodney Hodge | June 27, 2014 | TX | Unresponsive to police attempts at conversation, Hodge had been walking in the neighborhood with a gun, shooting it, pointing it at others. He'd had frequent although relatively minor prior contacts with police. When he moved towards officers he was fatally shot. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Nyocomus Jerome Garnett | June 27, 2014 | TX | Garnett was robbing a restaurant. An off-duty detective confronted Garnett. Garnett pointed a gun at the detective, prompting him to shoot Garnett. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Renee Briggs Hightower | June 28, 2014 | TX | Renee Briggs Hightower, 53, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for DUI and died because of a crash. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Elmore Segura Jr. | July 2, 2014 | TX | Segura took a lethal dose of cocaine during a traffic stop. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | George Willis Hales | July 2, 2014 | TX | Armed with a rifle, Hales left his sister's residence and threatened himself. Corporal B. Haynes, Sergeant E. Lehr, and Deputies S. Lange and C. Bill searched for him. Deputy Bill found Hales in the bottom of a brushy draw. Hales hid behind a tree and fired three shots. Responders climbed out of the draw to regroup. Hales, who had shot himself in the face, was later found by helicopter. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Jerald Bruton | July 4, 2014 | TX | Jerald Bruton, 58, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for driving a stolen vehicle and died because of a crash. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Osiel Figueroa | July 5, 2014 | TX | Osiel Figueroa, 21, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for speeding and died because of a crash. Passenger Pamela Marie Mariscal also died in the crash. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Pamela Marie Mariscal | July 5, 2014 | TX | Osiel Figueroa, 21, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for speeding and died because of a crash. Passenger Pamela Marie Mariscal also died in the crash. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Jose Franco | July 8, 2014 | TX | Franco was in a store allegedly committing fraud or stealing a phone and ran into a parking lot when confronted by police. Officer Robert Mount tasered, pepper sprayed and hit him with a baton. Mount and Officer Roland Pacheco arresteed and tried to subdue Franco, who was "generally being difficult" while handcuffed and being taken to the hospital for a fast heart rate. While unloading him, police said he "appeared to be faking unresponsiveness". The officers threatened to intubate him if he did not respond, and when the staff did this, his pulse stopped. The death was ruled a homicide and is currently under investigation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Charles Kevin Goodridge | July 9, 2014 | TX | Off-duty deputy constable Francisco Ruiz was working security for his apartment complex and encountered Goodridge, unarmed and allegedly trespassing the property on which he had lived for nine years until recently evicted. Ruiz says he attempted to arrest Goodridge. Witness David Hall says that Goodridge pushed Ruiz away. The deputy says he chased him and there was a scuffle. He then shot Goodridge twice in the stomach. Ruiz suffered either scratches on his back, a back injury or a concussion. The District Attorney's Civil Rights Division is currently investigating. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Christopher Alexander Stone | July 9, 2014 | TX | Stone allegedly called police and threatened to start shooting people. After police arrived, Stone was fatally shot after pointing a handgun at arriving officers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | Joseph K. Greer | July 11, 2014 | TX | Greer pulled out a knife on officers. Officers then shot and killed Greer. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Armando Noeh Aleman | July 14, 2014 | TX | Aleman reportedly assaulted someone with a handgun. The officer was in a foot chase with Aleman. Aleman then allegedly pointed a gun at the officer, prompting the officer to shoot and kill Aleman. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Joachim Adam Gonzales | July 16, 2014 | TX | Nick Gonzales, 42, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for driving stolen vehicle and died because of a crash. Passenger Joachim Adam Gonzales was also killed in the crash. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Nick Gonzales | July 16, 2014 | TX | Nick Gonzales, 42, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for driving a stolen vehicle and died because of a crash. Passenger Joachim Adam Gonzales was also killed in the crash. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Allen Jay Foste | July 17, 2014 | TX | Bell County sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a man with a shotgun Thursday evening after a 911 caller said the man was threatening to kill himself, sheriff’s spokesman Donnie Adams said. After arriving, the deputies encountered Allen Jay Foste, 49, and fired their weapons after he pointed the shotgun at them, Adams said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Joaquin Cibrian | July 22, 2014 | TX | Cibrian was barricaded in a house firing at officers. Cibrian was wanted on capital murder charges. Officers rammed the door down and shot and killed Cibrian. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Michael James Garcia | July 23, 2014 | TX | Michael James Garcia, 18, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for driving stolen vehicle and died because of a crash. Since Fatal Encounters could not find a supporting media internet link, this information comes from USA Today's December 1, 2016, Fatal Pursuits project, which uses police-reported data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Timothy Donald Rice | July 25, 2014 | TX | Responding to a call of an attempted suicide, police arrived at an apartment complex in the 2200 block Willow Creek Drive in Southeast Austin at 9 a.m. July 24 to find Timothy Rice with what appeared to be self-inflicted wounds, police said. When the officers confronted Rice, he threatened them with a tomahawk, police said. One officer shot him with a bean-bag shotgun, they said, and a Taser was later used on him during a struggle with officers. Austin-Travis County EMS took Rice to University Medical Center Brackenridge, where he was pronounced dead the following afternoon, police said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Charles Alver Jones Jr. | July 27, 2014 | TX | Jones was being served felony warrants for his arrest. It is unreported why the shooting took place. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Emilio Solis | July 28, 2014 | TX | Seventeen shots were exchanged between Officer Andra M. Gibson and Solis in a firefight after a traffic stop. The police chief credited the officer's killing of Solis to God being on his side. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Donn Ralph Eastman | July 31, 2014 | TX | Eastman tried to break into a car. When officers approached Eastman, he fired a gun at them. Officers then shot and killed Eastman. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Jeffrey Todd Campbell | August 1, 2014 | TX | Officer L. Conneely arrested Campbell for theft, put him in a holding cell at department headquarters, then left to respond to an unrelated complaint. When Officer Conneely returned to the cell, Campbell had hanged himself with his shirt. He had not been booked. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Vincent Lee Heims | August 3, 2014 | TX | An alleged bank robber died Sunday after being shot multiple times by a Harris County sheriff's deputy, ending a 2½-hour standoff in the Cypress area. The man, described as a white male in his 30s, was shot at least three times after becoming increasing belligerent with deputies, including firing five shots into the ground, threatening to kill himself and deputies, and ultimately raising his pistol toward deputies, authorities said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Rudolph Farias | August 6, 2014 | TX | Farias, a local officer, was one of four under investigation for a small-time corruption scandal involving rigging speeding tickets. The 21-year veteran was shown to have written himself up in official documents as being in two places at once. He attended a scheduled court meeting, then shot himself to death in a city-owned parking garage. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Dulce Maria Arias Rosello | August 6, 2014 | TX | Luis Carlos Velasco, 20, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for fleeing Border Patrol, killing Dulce Maria Arias Rosello upon crashing. Since Fatal Encounters could not find a supporting media internet link, this information comes from USA Today's December 1, 2016, Fatal Pursuits project, which uses police-reported data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Regan Marshall Wagner | August 8, 2014 | TX | He was pulled over in a traffic stop at about 3:50 p.m. near Akin Park, where police said gunfire was exchanged. Wagner was taken to Longview Regional Medical Center after the shooting. He had a history of terroristic threats and silent or abusive calls to 911 service. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Andrew Scott Gaynier | August 10, 2014 | TX | A few blocks away, in the 400 block S. Rosemont Avenue, police said Hudson witnessed the man stop a passing van and try to climb in, alongside the family inside. "For the safety of the family, the officer gave loud verbal commands, but the suspect refused to comply," said Maj. Jeff Cotner. "The suspect moved toward the officer in a manner perceived to be dangerous to the officer. The officer shot the suspect." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Luis Angel Guerrero | August 10, 2014 | TX | Two suspects (Ahuezoteco and Molina) in a Dodge Durango fled a traffic stop by local officers, setting off a brief vehicle chase at speeds around 100 MPH. After a swerving minor crash the suspects rammed into four members of the Guerrero family in an Accord. All six were killed by the violent impact. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Juan Garcia Ahuezoteco | August 10, 2014 | TX | Two suspects (Ahuezoteco and Molina) in a Dodge Durango fled a traffic stop by local officers, setting off a brief vehicle chase at speeds around 100 MPH. After a swerving minor crash the suspects rammed into four members of the Guerrero family in an Accord. All six were killed by the violent impact. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Gilberto Ortega Jr. | August 10, 2014 | TX | Two suspects (Ahuezoteco and Molina) in a Dodge Durango fled a traffic stop by local officers, setting off a brief vehicle chase at speeds around 100 MPH. After a swerving minor crash the suspects rammed into four members of the Guerrero family in an Accord. All six were killed by the violent impact. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Alejandra Guerrero | August 10, 2014 | TX | Two suspects (Ahuezoteco and Molina) in a Dodge Durango fled a traffic stop by local officers, setting off a brief vehicle chase at speeds around 100 MPH. After a swerving minor crash the suspects rammed into four members of the Guerrero family in an Accord. All six were killed by the violent impact. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Rafael Guererro | August 10, 2014 | TX | Two suspects (Ahuezoteco and Molina) in a Dodge Durango fled a traffic stop by local officers, setting off a brief vehicle chase at speeds around 100 MPH. After a swerving minor crash the suspects rammed into four members of the Guerrero family in an Accord. All six were killed by the violent impact. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Alejandro Molina | August 10, 2014 | TX | Two suspects (Ahuezoteco and Molina) in a Dodge Durango fled a traffic stop by local officers, setting off a brief vehicle chase at speeds around 100 MPH. After a swerving minor crash the suspects rammed into four members of the Guerrero family in an Accord. All six were killed by the violent impact. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | John Gregory Schlenker | August 10, 2014 | TX | John Gregory Schlenker, 51, was allegedly fleeing a police stop on a motorcycle for DUI and died because of a crash. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Jose Manuel Gonzalez | August 11, 2014 | TX | Responding to a report that Gonzalez had stabbed his parents and grandmother, Senior Cpl. Kevin Gladden found him outside his home with two knives. When he was told to drop the knives and didn't, Gladden shot him. Gonzalez tried to get up and was tasered. He died on the way to the hospital. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Eddie Davis | August 11, 2014 | TX | Officers called to scene of disturbance. Man inside house fired at officers who returned fire, killing suspect. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | Kelly Sue Hunckler | August 13, 2014 | TX | Hunckler, driving a reportedly stolen 2010 Nissan Sentra, ignored deputies who tried to conduct a traffic stop on the vehicle. Deputies pursued. Hunckler crashed into a 2014 Freightliner. Hunckler died. Hunckler's passenger and the driver of the truck were injured. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | Reuben Lujano | August 13, 2014 | TX | Officers approached Lujano, who fit the description of an armed man described in a complaint. He ran away. Officer J. Calhoun grabbed him. They fought. Lujano drew a pistol and shot Calhoun, the bullet striking his vest. A female officer grabbed Lujano, and all three fell to the ground. The female officer struggled with Lujano for his weapon as Officer Calhoun fatally shot him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | Michael Louis Vargas | August 13, 2014 | TX | Two officers pulled a truck over that they believed was stolen. The driver, Vargas, drew a gun on the officers. Officer Alton Baker fatally shot him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Morgan Lee | August 13, 2014 | TX | Student Lee was killed in a head-on collision with a marked local police vehicle. A police investigation held that the vehicles were traveling in opposite directions and both had a green traffic signal. Lee's parents filed a wrongful death suit against the city. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | Levon Leroy Love | August 17, 2014 | TX | Love was found passed out in a car on a highway. When EMTs began to administer first aid he resisted, drove away, crashed into a truck, then fled on foot. Officers caught him and tasered him twice. He was given a dose of Versed by EMTs because he was resistant to their second attempt at treatment. "A few moments" after his legs were shackled to a gurney, he died. In Sept. 2014 police were awaiting a toxicology report from the medical examiner. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Terence Michael Groessel | August 20, 2014 | TX | An officer tapped Groessel's truck window and Groessel then pointed a gun in the officer's direction. The officers began shooting. Groessel then fired one shot - presumably killing himself. He also had two gunshot wounds in his back. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Raymond Villarreal | August 23, 2014 | TX | County deputies responded to a man-with-a-gun call. They found Villarreal on his own property, in a pickup, agitated and freshly informed that his wife filed for divorce. At some point Villarreal left the vehicle with a handgun and reportedly fired a shot. Officers returned fire and killed him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | Steven Lashone Douglas | August 25, 2014 | TX | An officer shot Douglas as he ran from police this morning in Pleasant Grove. Douglas was a kidnapping suspect who snatched his two children from their mother after ramming her car. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Guadalupe Esquivel | August 25, 2014 | TX | Local police pursued Esquivel multiple times in the same evening as he threatened an estranged girlfriend and her children. When confronted at the laundromat where she worked, Esquivel appeared to reach for his gun, and was killed with eleven shots within the officer's first 15 seconds of contact. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Jack David Press | August 26, 2014 | TX | Officers M. M. McCardell and J. Hill responded to a suicide call at Fox Hall Apartments. When officers entered Press's living room, he shot himself in the head with a revolver. Dying of cancer, Press had made the suicide call to emergency responders himself. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Donald Martin White | August 26, 2014 | TX | Deputies arrested White for possession of a controlled substance, then took him to Harris Methodist Hospital for medical treatment. He died of a heart attack caused by methamphetamine use. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | Sergio Ramos | August 27, 2014 | TX | Ramos attempted to rob an acquaintance at a gas station, then shot and killed him. An off-duty local officer just finishing up a private security shift at the adjacent Wal-Mart approached Ramos, saw his handgun, and fatally shot him as Ramos went for the weapon. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | Enebelio Garcia | August 29, 2014 | TX | County officers on a domestic dispute call were confronted with Garcia and a carpenter's hatchet in his hand. Pepper-sprayed, Garcia refused to back down, and was fatally shot. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Brady Allan Dustman | August 30, 2014 | TX | Driving erratically, Dustman struck three vehicles and came to a stop. Paramedics responded. Dustman attacked paramedics, convincing them by his demeanor that he was intoxicated. Officers subdued him for treatment. Dustman died five days later of complications related to small bowel ischemia. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Jose Walter Garza | August 30, 2014 | TX | Garza pulled a pellet gun, a replica of a semiautomatic weapon, on officers at a truck stop at 2 a.m. Six officers killed him with over 80 rounds. Garza had a history of schizophrenia. His grandmother was forced to change burial plans because the 80 shots had essentially removed his face. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Mitch Allen Thompson | August 31, 2014 | TX | Mitch Thompson, 52, was shot and killed after Thompson attacked Sheriff J.R. Walker, Potter-Randall Special Crimes Unit Lt. Erick Bohannon told the Globe-News. Earlier, Thompson was drinking and threatening his wife. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Larry Earl Johnson | September 3, 2014 | TX | Patrick Carter, a security guard, woke Johnson and told him that he was trespassing. Johnson refused to leave. Officer Thomas Hensley responded. Johnson stood up and started urinating in public. Officer Hensley grabbed Johnson. Johnson struck Officer Hensley and Carter. Carter shot Johnson in the belly. Note: It is unknown whether Carter stood before a grand jury. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Beth Brown Willock | September 6, 2014 | TX | Beth Brown Willock, 47, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for driving a stolen police car and died because of a crash. Since Fatal Encounters could not find a supporting media internet link, this information comes from USA Today's December 1, 2016, Fatal Pursuits project, which uses police-reported data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Allen Joel | September 7, 2014 | TX | Officers searching for a fugitive saw Joel participating in what they thought was drug-related activity. Officer Michael DeWilde approached Joel. Joel struck Officer DeWilde with a vehicle. Officer DeWilde shot at Joel, then was thrown from the vehicle as Joel drove away. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Joel Allen | September 8, 2014 | TX | Officer Michael DeWilde, investigating an unrelated incident and possibly not in uniform, saw Allen participating in what he thought was a drug deal and approached Allen's vehicle as he got in. Allen pulled away, hitting DeWilde, who landed on the hood of the moving vehicle. From the hood, DeWilde shot Allen and was then thrown off. Allen soon hit another vehicle on a highway. He died in the hospital a week later. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | Shawn Renee LaRochelle | September 8, 2014 | TX | Deputies restrained LaRochelle to prevent her from throwing bricks at passing cars. LaRochelle resisted arrest, damaging the interior of deputies' patrol vehicle, and had a heart attack. Paramedics took LaRochelle to Cypress-Fairbanks Hospital, where she died three days later. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | Tyler Caraway | September 8, 2014 | TX | Two PD officers and the FBI were serving a warrant on Caraway, who was in his car with Jessica Schoonover. Police claim that when they approached the car, Caraway jumped out, pulled a gun and opened fired at them. Round Rock Police Detective Shawn Scott and APD detectives Scott Glasgow and Phillip Hogue shot and killed him. Schoonover claims Caraway did not have a gun and did not get out of the car. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | Benito Gonzalez | September 8, 2014 | TX | Gonzalez rammed his truck into the county sheriff's office building, jumped out, and shot at several windows. He pointed his gun at a deputy, who shot him in the chest and head. Niece Vanessa Jo Deleon commented that he had just discovered he had cancer. Sheriff Leroy Moody stated that he thought Gonzalez wanted somebody to kill him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
91 | Merced Flores | September 8, 2014 | TX | A Nolan County deputy confronted Flores, who was driving a reportedly-stolen 2000 Chevrolet Camaro. Flores drove away. Sweetwater officers pursued, but pulled away as Flores accelerated to over 100 mph. Flores lost control on Avenue A and crashed fatally into a tree. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Gerald Stephen Cole | September 11, 2014 | TX | Officers responded to a domestic violence call and spotted Cole circling the area in his truck. He reportedly led them on a brief low-speed chase and "was stopped." Cole allegedly exited his vehicle with a handgun and was shot at least once. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | James Nicholas | September 11, 2014 | TX | Nicholas and Kimberly Cormier, suspected in 4 homicides, led officers on a high-speed chase and crashed their vehicle. Nicholas then allegedly "exchanged a hail of gunfire" with the officers, who shot and killed him. Cormier was uninjured and arrested. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | Jeffrey Scott Johnson | September 12, 2014 | TX | Officers responded to a check welfare call at the Best Western Hotel. The caller indicated a known person was possibly suicidal and requested patrol officers make contact with him at the hotel. Upon arrival, officers contacted Jeffrey Johnson. Johnson fled, was chased by police, and arrived at a cemetery. Johnson charged his vehicle towards a K9 unit and reached for a gun. An officer then shot and killed Johnson. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Michael Steven Wilburn | September 13, 2014 | TX | Michael Steven Wilburn, 37, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for speeding and died because of a crash. Since Fatal Encounters could not find a supporting media internet link, this information comes from USA Today's December 1, 2016, Fatal Pursuits project, which uses police-reported data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | Juan Jose Del Toro | September 16, 2014 | TX | Del Toro left the scene of an accident on foot. Officers pursued him. Del Toro jumped into the San Antonio River and drowned. San Marcos Area Recovery Team found Del Toro's body the next day. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | Kenneth Neil Schlanker | September 20, 2014 | TX | Schlanker kicked in the front door of a residence, then passed out on the front lawn. The family that occupied the residence called 911. Paramedics responded. Officers took Schlanker to a hospital, where he died of a methamphetamine overdose. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | Alfredo Valentine Tovar | September 21, 2014 | TX | Tovar, riding a motorcycle that had been reported stolen, popped wheelies and taunted Houston officers at a traffic stop, then rode away. Tovar fatally crashed in Montgomery County during a pursuit by Harris County constable's deputies. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | Jose Manuel Camacho Jr. | September 23, 2014 | TX | Camacho accused a woman of having an affair. Her associate, armed with a handgun, confronted Camacho. Camacho and the associate struggled over the gun. In the process, the woman was shot once in the arm. Camacho gained control of the gun and died of a self-inflicted wound in the presence of responding SWAT officers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | Thomas E. Klessig | September 23, 2014 | TX | Police said Klessig was uncooperative when a University Park officer found him and attempted to talk with him. Four other officers were called to the scene. Police said Klessig again became physically confrontational when officers attempted to restrain him. During the scuffle, officers used pepper spray. Klessig became unresponsive and was given CPR. He was transported to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. |