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2 | Manoa Alcantara Jojola | January 27, 2000 | NM | Jojola was killed in the crash that occurred when another vehicle targeted in a high-speed police chase, driven by Samuel Gonzales, ran a red light and into the teen's truck at San Mateo Boulevard Northeast and the I-25 overpass, police said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Shafawntyra Hobb | March 13, 2000 | NM | The Hobbs and their infant were killed by Johnny Caballero who was fleeing police who were attempting to stop him for driving while drunk. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Christine Hobb | March 13, 2000 | NM | The Hobbs and their infant were killed by Johnny Caballero who was fleeing police who were attempting to stop him for driving while drunk. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Ray Hobb | March 13, 2000 | NM | The Hobbs and their infant were killed by Johnny Caballero who was fleeing police who were attempting to stop him for driving while drunk. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Thomas Poyer | April 29, 2000 | NM | A drunken-driving suspect, Poyer, was fleeing from police and was killed when he lost control of his pickup truck and was thrown from the vehicle. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Harold Brown | June 6, 2000 | NM | Deputies were called to the home when someone reported a family fight there. At some point, the man lunged at deputies with a knife. He was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Antonio Munoz | June 26, 2000 | NM | Bernalillo County sheriff's deputies chased a pickup into the southeast side of Albuquerque. Two deputies opened fire after the driver allegedly rammed into a patrol cruiser and tried to run one deputy down.The driver survived his gunshot wounds, but the passenger, later identified as 19-year-old Antonio Munoz, was killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | David Powell | June 28, 2000 | NM | The driver allegedly tried to hit the officer with a heavy steel club after he was stopped after running a stop sign. The officer believed the driver may have been drunk. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Enrique Jimenez | July 4, 2000 | NM | Bosque Farms police Officer John Derrick was stopping at a convenience store for a cup of coffee when he encountered 34-year-old Enrique Jimenez, who police say had just robbed the store. After Derrick issued oral warnings for Jimenez to drop his semiautomatic weapon, Derrick shot him twice, killing him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Benson Murphy | July 9, 2000 | NM | Albuquerque police Officers Jeff McDonald, Eugene Etheredge and Larry Bitsoih shot Murphy who was waving a butcher knife outside a northeast Albuquerque apartment. Officers first fired nonlethal beanbag rounds, then shot and killed him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Constantine Burt | September 12, 2000 | NM | On the run after an alleged bank robbery in Florida, police chased Burt for about two miles before getting his car stopped. He came out shooting. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Norman Varela | October 1, 2000 | NM | Officers responded to a suicide threat and after a standoff, shot and killed Varela when he pointed a gun at them. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Sophie Billie Martin | October 14, 2000 | NM | A crash occurred after a night Calvert Cayatineto spent drinking and partying with two other friends, according to court testimony. When the Plymouth led police on a high-speed chase in and around Crownpoint and Littlewater on the Navajo Reservation, Cayatineto testified, he was a passenger and a friend was driving the car. During the chase, the Plymouth ran several stop signs, traveled with its lights on and off, swerved to avoid police blockades and sped at more than 90 mph, hitting Sophie Billie Martin's vehicle at approximately 109 mph and killing her. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Johnny Joe "J.J." Vigil | October 25, 2000 | NM | Vigil, a retired corrections officer serving as a security guard at Las Campanas, was killed when his car was struck by a Jeep at the intersection of East Alameda Street and East Palace Avenue. The Jeep's driver, Leroy Roybal, was trying to outrun two officers, one of whom saw him speeding along Sandoval Street. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Daryl Lithgow | January 25, 2001 | NM | A firefighter and father despondent over being a suspect in a child abuse case may have called 911 hoping police officers would come and end his life. He pulled a gun when officers arrived. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Jeffrey Gardner | April 4, 2001 | NM | Jeffrey Gardner was killed after firing on an officer who was attempting to arrest him for writing a bad check, police said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Name withheld by police | April 12, 2001 | NM | An unidentified man being pursued by police was killed when he ran in front of a semi-truck on Interstate 40 near Moriarty, police said. A police officer attempted to stop the man's vehicle one mile west of Moriarty because he matched the description of an individual being sought by the Torrance County Sheriff's Department in connection with a burglary. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Philip Gonzalez | September 7, 2001 | NM | Gonzalez was wanted for a probation violation when he was shot and killed during a chase when he pointed a gun at police. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Vera Sue Cata | October 8, 2001 | NM | Cata had called 911 minutes earlier, threatening to kill herself and everybody at the convenience store if any police officers responded, police said. Cata's husband also had called 911 twice saying his wife had been drinking and was suicidal. When Lovato arrived at the convenience store, Cata jumped into an orange pickup truck and pointed a gun at Lovato and said she would kill him. Cata did not fire any shots before Lovato fired three shots from his service handgun. Cata's gun was fake. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Jessie Chavez | November 12, 2001 | NM | Chavez was shot and killed after he got into a deputy's car while the deputy was trying to arrest him on suspicion of stealing a car, police said. He was driving away when killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Lydell S. L'esperance | November 19, 2001 | NM | L'Esperance, 41, was shot and killed by an Albuquerque Police Department officer during the officer's response to a domestic violence call. Police say he was armed with a steak knife. Family members said he'd dropped it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Carlos Jovel Pinto | November 19, 2001 | NM | Pinto dressed as a woman when robbing banks. After a chase, he was shot and killed as he brandished a fake bomb. There is no media indication if Pinto was transgendered or using a disguise. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Brandon Charles Hough | December 30, 2001 | NM | Deputies were responding to residents' reports of a prowler in their neighborhood, police said. One resident discovered the man "trying to throw lawn furniture through his front window." When the deputy arrived, a fight broke out, and Hough was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Leon Casey Arthur | February 14, 2002 | NM | Two APD officers shot Leon Casey Arthur to death outside a motel when he allegedly make a “threatening approach,” brandishing what officers say they thought was a weapon. The item in Arthur’s hand was a hairbrush. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Raymond Corona | February 23, 2002 | NM | After a domestic disturbance, police spotted Corona walking down the street, a few blocks from where the disturbance took place. He allegedly pulled a gun and was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Gabriel Mendoza | March 6, 2002 | NM | Police said that a fleeing Mendoza shot an officer through the leg. A fellow officer then fatally shot Mendoza. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Fidel Benadivez | May 9, 2002 | NM | Benadivez had been following a female security guard as she patrolled New Mexico Highlands University campus, police said. She called for backup and returned to the campus police station. The man allegedly pulled a gun after being confronted by a male guard near the station. The unarmed guards retreated, and state police and city police moved in and killed Benadives. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Bill Martines aka Martinez | August 4, 2002 | NM | Police say James Pino was fleeing police in a stolen vehicle when he drove through a red light and killed Martines. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Harris Frangos | August 7, 2002 | NM | Harris Frangos stood up from his wheelchair fired a sawed-off shotgun at two police officers before he was shot numerous times in return.The family said it was his way of committing suicide. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Dominic Montoya | September 4, 2002 | NM | Dominic Montoya threatened his mother, neighbors, church members and police with a gun before he was shot and killed, police said. The BB gun he was holding resembled a semiautomatic pistol. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Kevin Binns | October 23, 2002 | NM | Binns fled a domestic disturbance. After police punctured his tires, there was a several hour standoff before he shot and killed himself. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Dennis "Joe" Childers | January 13, 2003 | NM | A family member reported Childers was arguing with his brother or his mother. After relatives opened the front door for officers, police said, Dennis Childers came at Nieto with a baseball bat. Officer Joe Nieto “felt endangered” and shot him in the hallway near the front door, police said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | David Sisneros | February 4, 2003 | NM | Sisneros, a 29-year-old architect, was shot and killed by a Santa Fe County sheriff's deputy responding to a domestic-disturbance call. Deputies arrived at a house where they had reason to believe a man, armed with a knife, was acting irrationally. When deputies Shawn Beck and Joe Corriz got to the Sisneros' home, he was alone in the house, and the deputies decided to enter with guns drawn. Sisneros allegedly had a knife when Deputy Shawn Beck killed him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Christopher Smith | March 16, 2003 | NM | According to police, a partially clothed man, Smith, went on a rampage, breaking car windows and vandalizing homes. Police pulled up and saw the suspect fighting with a resident. The man resisted officers' attempts to restrain him. Officers used pepper spray, a baton and a stun gun to subdue him, but he continued to damage property and fight. He died the next day. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | William Orthendahl | April 8, 2003 | NM | Officers were dispatched to Orthendahl's home after his mother, who did not live with him, requested police check on his welfare, police said. Orthendahl met two officers at the door and pointed a shotgun at them. One officer fired at Orthendahl, hitting him in the torso. The man then barricaded himself inside, and SWAT units were called to try and negotiate with the man. When police entered the home, Orthendahl met two SWAT officers in a hallway and pointed his shotgun toward them. He was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Karen Yontz | May 2, 2003 | NM | Karen Yontz was chased down in her car and shot to death by two Albuquerque Police Officers who suspected her of robbing a bank. Yontz was a longtime criminal investigator with both the Attorney General's Office and the District Attorney's Office in Santa Fe and a former Bernalillo County sheriff's deputy. At the time of her death, Yontz was building a case against Municipal Judge Charles Maestas, who was facing 28 criminal charges of trading judicial favors for sex with women who appeared before his court. She was also investigating the Russell Cage case (see above). | ||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Duc Minh Pham | July 9, 2003 | NM | Sgt. Carol Olesak was attempting to arrest Duc Mihn Pham when he shot her with her gun. Minutes later, fearing Pham might fire the gun again, police officers shot and killed him. Pham walked up to Oleksak's patrol car in the Walgreens parking lot and released a barrage of bullets. According to witnesses, the suspect then calmly walked up Central Avenue, firing his gun over his shoulder as other officers rushed to the scene. Additional officers confronted the unidentified suspect in front of Kelly's Brew Pub, where he was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Shane Holmes | September 8, 2003 | NM | Police responded to a call about a man threatening people on the sidewalk in front of the downtown Shell gas station. When the officer drove up, the man threw slabs of concrete at the police car, and in doing so dropped a knife he had been holding. The man ran around the corner to his house, went inside, and then ran out of the house toward officers. The man—later identified as Armijo—ran out of the house with a knife and failed to obey an officer's two or three commands to stop. The officer shot and killed Armijo. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | David Gonzales | October 18, 2003 | NM | Gonzales allegedly exchanged gunfire with police after barricading himself into the home of his girlfriend, police said. Several hours after the standoff started, police threw a canister of tear gas into the home. They then found Gonzales' body—with a head wound believed to have been self-inflicted—in the house. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Aaron Dominguez | November 2, 2003 | NM | Police were called to a domestic violence incident. Dominguez was shot and killed when he pointed a gun at police. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | Thomas Michael Cook | November 20, 2003 | NM | According to police, the two Carlsbad officers were pursuing Cook in a car. The chase went through the center of Carlsbad and ended near the Riverwalk Recreation Center. When police pulled the car over, a shootout began between Cook and the officers. Two officers were injured; Cook was killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Eric Lee Harrison | November 29, 2003 | NM | Eric Harrison was shot in the back by Officer Matthew Thompson outside the police training academy near Montaño and Second Street during an altercation between Harrison and then-54-year-old Cipriano Salazar. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Name withheld by police | January 16, 2004 | NM | A man near the city's Foothills threatened suicide in front of officers and then shot and killed himself. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Name withheld by police | January 18, 2004 | NM | A man shot and killed himself in front of officers after police say he and a second man robbed the Carniceria Chihuahua meat market and convenience store. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Name withheld by police | January 19, 2004 | NM | Police responded to reports of someone firing a gun in the neighborhood. They found a man running through the streets firing shots into the air, police said. As officers approached him, he shot himself in the head. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Abel Trujillo | April 2, 2004 | NM | Abel Trujillo was killed on 4/2/04 when a police car ran a stop sign and struck his car. APD said they could find no witnesses, but insist the officer had his lights and sirens on. However a PI found several witnesses who saw the crash and claim the lights and sirens were not on. The city will settle out of court. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Sergio Juaquez | June 7, 2004 | NM | Juaquez was pulled over on suspicion of DUI. He ran, and during a struggle, the officer shot him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Armando Quiones | June 16, 2004 | NM | Quiones was shot by a Las Cruces police officer after brandishing a shotgun. Quiones was stopped with spike strips driving a stolen car after a convenience store robbery. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Andrew Maldonado | September 4, 2004 | NM | A 16-year-old boy had likely been drinking or using drugs before he lost control of his car, killing one pedestrian, Maldonado, and injuring another. The unidentified boy was allegedly fleeing police. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Leo Lopez | September 22, 2004 | NM | Leo Lopez was fatally shot by an undercover State Police narcotics agent during a drug investigation. His family filed a wrongful death suit in October 2005 alleging that police failed to identify themselves, that the officer shot Lopez without provocation and that authorities then withheld medical treatment, causing his death. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Danny Montoya | December 16, 2004 | NM | Albuquerque police officer Joe Zitkus, a 13-year veteran of the force, fatally shot Danny Montoya, 21, after pulling Montoya over on a traffic stop near Estancia and Miami NW. Investigators ruled the shooting was justified. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Earl Lee Flippen | December 18, 2004 | NM | Deputies were called to a domestic disturbance. Flippen shot and killed Deputy Robert Hedman before he was shot and killed by Sgt. Billy Anders. Flippen was handcuffed on the ground. Anders received a year in jail. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Francisco T. Barva | January 19, 2005 | NM | Barva was riding a mini-bike on the streets. After being warned not to ride on the street, police found him riding again. He apparently pulled a gun, while trying to flee. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | John Loche | February 10, 2005 | NM | Torrance County Sheriff’s deputies tried to serve an eviction notice on Loche. After a 12-hour standoff, officers shot Loche multiple times, killing him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Aurelio Lopez | February 13, 2005 | NM | Police received a shots fired call, according to police. Officers were told a dark-colored pickup had been seen leaving the area. When police spotted the suspected vehicle, the driver refused to stop. The driver, Onofre Ortega, continued to evade the officers until he lost control of the vehicle. The sole passenger, Aurelio Lopez, was ejected from the truck and pronounced dead at the scene. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Dwayne Evans | February 28, 2005 | NM | Evans was shot by a Las Cruces police officer and a New Mexico State Police officer following an hour-long standoff after an attempted Santa Teresa bank robbery. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Scott McMyne | March 25, 2005 | NM | Scott McMyne was stopped for a traffic violation. Officers said that McMyne attempted to flee, and fired at officers. The officers returned fire, hitting McMyne twice. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Randy Martinez | May 20, 2005 | NM | Police officers were called to Martinez's mother's home after she complained that her son was out of control. Officers tasered Martinez several times because they said he was being uncooperative. He passed out and was taken to University of New Mexico Hospital. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Rudolfo "Rudy" Hernandez | June 8, 2005 | NM | Hernandez allegedly shot he wife before he was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Alvin Moore | July 25, 2005 | NM | Elder pedestrian Moore, crossing the street at 7 a.m. on the way to Denny's, was struck and killed by a mentally ill man in a stolen truck, who ran a red light while being chased by police. Moore's family sued the city for negligence and failure to company with the state's 2004 Safe Pursuit Act. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Bruce Edward Teschner | August 23, 2005 | NM | State District Judge Kevin Sweazea ordered former New Mexico Park Ranger Clyde Woods to wear an electronic ankle monitoring bracelet for a year before serving probation. Woods pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the death of Bruce Teschner, 58. Teschner - who according to testimony was drunk and had a history of mental illness - refused to pay a $14-a-night camping fee and refused to leave the park. Woods said he acted in self-defense. He said Teschner turned and made a motion as if he were pulling a weapon. Witnesses said Teschner was running away when he was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Vigil Cordova | August 27, 2005 | NM | Joyce Cordova, 46, was working her job behind the deli counter at the Wal-Mart Supercenter when her ex-husband, Felix Vigil, 54, came across the counter and stabbed her multiple times, police said. That's when Due Moore, 72, a volunteer with the Albuquerque Police Department cold case unit, intervened and shot Vigil dead, police say. It was the state's first fatal shooting by someone with a concealed-carry gun permit. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Brittany Nicole Wayne | November 20, 2005 | NM | Wayne was fatally shot by a Bernalillo County sheriff's deputy after her parents called 911, saying she had attempted suicide and was threatening family members, according to the sheriff's department. Wayne had tried to hang herself. Wayne's mother used CPR to revive her. Once revived, Wayne became hostile, grabbed at least two kitchen knives and chased her father with a knife before shutting herself in her bedroom. She threatened police with the knives and was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Manuel Arellanes | April 21, 2006 | NM | During a high-speed chase Arellanes crashed into a backhoe and was killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Flora Aragon | May 21, 2006 | NM | Officer swerved to avoid another vehicle, then hit a brick wall at 5208 Crestview Place S.W. The impact killed Flora Aragon and injured her daughter and a family friend. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Kirk D. Carroll | June 4, 2006 | NM | Kirk D. Carroll, 48, was killed when he and Officer Orlando Camacho were struggling for control of Camacho's service weapon during a fight over "life issues" when the handgun fired, striking Carroll in the torso. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | Clint John | June 10, 2006 | NM | Police were called to a domestic disturbance at a Walmart. John was shot when he grabbed an officer's baton, but witnesses disputed the official version of events. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | Jorge Bojorquez | August 4, 2006 | NM | A motorcylclist fled a police stop and crashed and died. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | Name withheld by police | August 22, 2006 | NM | An undercover Albuquerque vice squad officer shot and killed a man during a prostitution investigation, police said. The officer approached two women, one of whom was a known prostitute, when a man in his 20s came up and pulled an "edged weapon." The officer fired several shots, killing the man. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Robert J. Garcia | September 3, 2006 | NM | Garcia had cut his girlfriend on the knee with a knife and fired a gun outside before officers arrived on the scene. An officer used a stun gun on a 52-year-old man, then another officer shot him to death when the stun gun did not subdue him, police said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | John Hevener | November 22, 2006 | NM | Hevener was in court for a domestic violence complaint. He snuck knives in, and after he got in an argument, deputies were told to stop him. One tasered him before another shot and killed him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Michael Gray | December 2, 2006 | NM | Michael Gray was shot and killed as sheriff's deputies Ian Conway and Robert Hanson attempted to serve an arrest warrant on him at his home. According to New Mexico State Police, Gray was shot once each by two deputies, once with a shotgun and once with a .40 caliber rifle. He was holding a pellet gun. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Michael Molina | December 26, 2006 | NM | Molina was shot after he allegedly lunged at officers - responding to reports of a disorderly person - with a 7-inch kitchen knife. Molina had a blood-alcohol level of .164 and cocaine in his system. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | Brett Rosenau | December 31, 2006 | NM | Rosenau was shot by Deputy Donnie Hix, who stopped a compact car. As Hix approached the vehicle, the man fled on foot and jumped a wall. Hix killed Rosenau when he pointed a gun at him, police said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Carlos Larry Archuleta | January 29, 2007 | NM | Police say Archuleta was sitting in the driver's seat of a stolen vehicle that had been pulled over when he lunged at Lovato with a screwdriver. Police also said they found a handgun in the back seat of the stolen truck. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Jay Martin Murphy | June 5, 2007 | NM | Jay Martin Murphy, 42, was killed after barricading himself inside an Albuquerque home with his teenage daughter, authorities said. He was armed with a knife and at one point threw bottles at officers, police said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Levi Baca | June 18, 2007 | NM | Baca was killed when he was struck by Rio Arriba County sheriff's officers responding to an overdose report, according to Española police. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | Megan Dylan Causey | July 2, 2007 | NM | Causey was shot by a Doña Ana sheriff's deputy - responding to a report Causey attacked his parents - after Causey allegedly threatened the deputy with his van. The family was paid $575,000 for a wrongful death suit. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | Barbara Kendall | August 7, 2007 | NM | The 43-year-old driver, Anthony Cadavas, killed Kendall in a head-on crash as he fled a drunk-driving stop. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Joseph Blair | October 8, 2007 | NM | Blair was shot and killed by APD officer Morgen McBrayer. According to officers, Blair, who was suspected of armed robbery and auto theft, pointed a firearm at officers before he was shot dead. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Melissa Baker | October 12, 2007 | NM | After a jailbreak, a wreck and a chase, Melissa Baker was killed when her husband, the fleeing inmate, crashed while running from police. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Kyle Drake | October 19, 2007 | NM | Kyle Drake was killed after fleeing from law enforcement officers at speeds exceeding 80 mph when he was ejected from his pickup truck as it rolled over. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Tera Cordova Chavez | October 20, 2007 | NM | Levi Chavez was accused of murdering his wife. It was officially ruled a suicide. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Joseph Jaramillo | November 2, 2007 | NM | Joseph Jaramillo was shot and killed by APD K-9 officer Drew Bader during a traffic stop. Jaramillo was allegedly attempting to flee the scene when officers fired on him, killing him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Frederick "Fred" "Freddy" Armijo | November 2, 2007 | NM | Arnijo was fatally shot by a city police officer because he had allegedly wielded a knife while throwing rocks at passing cars and then attempted to stab someone on the sidewalk before he retrieved a second knife from his nearby home and charged at officers in the street. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Mary Sandoval | November 10, 2007 | NM | Justin Hatch led police on a brief chase, and in the process allegedly caused a fatal crash, killing Mary Sandoval. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | Jesse Saenz | November 18, 2007 | NM | Police responded to reports of a fight and found Saenz on all fours, pulling out grass, acting erratically. He was tasered and died less than an hour later. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | Luis Lugo | February 29, 2008 | NM | Deputies received a call about a dispute between neighbors that resulted in the shooting of Daniel Ramos, 21. A description of the shooter's truck was put out and city police spotted one that matched that description. A pursuit began and sheriff's deputies and state police joined in. Lugo allegedly began shooting at police. They shot and killed him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | Steven Drussell | March 5, 2008 | NM | A man was fatally shot by police after a 10-hour SWAT standoff at Deluxe Inns and Suites. Police initially reported the incident ended peacefully. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
91 | Javier Aguilar | March 6, 2008 | NM | Javier Aguilar died after he was tasered by police. He was unarmed during the incident. He became unresponsive after the shock and died at the hospital within 40 minutes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Lupe Fuentes Jr. | March 26, 2008 | NM | Shot to death after brandishing a shotgun at officers executing a narcotics warrant. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | Kurt Sohrbeck | March 26, 2008 | NM | Sohrbeck was wanted in the wounding of a Lincoln County sheriff's deputy. He was unarmed when he was shot by Sgt. Sean Jett. Rather, Sohrbeck failed to obey orders from Jett, who characterized Sohrbeck's behavior was aggressive and threatening, police said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | Vera "Tonie" Haskell | April 6, 2008 | NM | Off-duty Albuquerque officer Sgt. Andrew Gallegos was driving the truck that ran over and killed a woman in a bar parking lot. Vera "Tonie" Haskell, 47, was lying next to Gallegos' truck when she was run over in the parking lot of Sidewinders. After the incident, Gallegos drove off and did not call authorities, police said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Lawrence Anthony Trujillo | June 8, 2008 | NM | Deputies stopped Trujillo for erratic driving, just before he led them on a car chase in the East Mountains. Deputies said he was acting aggressively, ignoring commands to show his hands and approaching deputies in a "threatening manner" before he was shot and killed. No weapons were found on Trujillo, but deputies reported that he had one hand wrapped with a cloth that may have appeared to be a weapon. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | Fernando Ramirez | July 9, 2008 | NM | Ramirez was suspected in a fatal shooting at an Isleta casino. He killed himself after State Police tracked him to a Valencia County residence and chased him on foot. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | Cordell Dobey | August 22, 2008 | NM | Dobey was killed and another man severely injured, both shot by a state police officer defending himself in a three-on-one altercation that occurred west of the Four Corners Power Plant after an extended car chase, the FBI reported. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | Lorenzo Granillo | August 30, 2008 | NM | Lorenzo Granillo was killed after leading police on a chase and crashing into a freeway overpass when his truck burst into flames, although his passenger, 22-year-old Mario Vargas, was rescued by officers, police said. Granillo led police on a chase after hitting a woman standing in the parking lot of Fantasia, a club. Granillo also nearly hit a police officer trying to flag him down as he was leaving the parking lot. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | Leroy Henderson | September 20, 2008 | NM | Henderson was shot to death by Navajo tribal police after a car chase. He allegedly hit the officer with his car. The officer was uninjured. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | Javier Soto | October 11, 2008 | NM | Soto was shot by a Hatch police officer responding to a call of a disturbance after allegedly threatening the officer with a rock and failing to be stopped by a Taser. |