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1 | INFORMATION | PROVIDED...... | BY | http://www.fatalencounters.org/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Emmanuel "Eman" Matthew Trejo | January 1, 2014 | CA | Emmanuel "Eman" Matthew Trejo, 26, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for driving wrong way and died because of a crash. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Victor Salazar Ramirez | January 5, 2014 | CA | Victor Salazar Ramirez reportedly killed himself during a six-hour police standoff that started after he shot two people. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Jose Luis Navarro | January 9, 2014 | CA | Jose Luis Navarro was critically injured when officers shot him following a car chase. The pursuit began when a sergeant tried to stop him for talking on his cellphone while driving. Navarro died two days later in the hospital. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Arthur Joseph Taylor | January 10, 2014 | CA | Arthur Joseph Taylor, fresh from a 10-year prison stretch, and his brother Richard Brieger robbed a branch bank of $4,000 on a Friday afternoon. They escaped, but with the police in pursuit. Within 10 minutes they'd struck a light pole at full speed. Brieger died right away. Taylor died two days later. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Richard Brieger | January 10, 2014 | CA | Arthur Joseph Taylor, fresh from a 10-year prison stretch, and his brother Richard Brieger robbed a branch bank of $4,000 on a Friday afternoon. They escaped, but with the police in pursuit. Within 10 minutes they'd struck a light pole at full speed. Brieger died right away. Taylor died two days later. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Enrique Carlos Rodarte | January 12, 2014 | CA | After reports of a shooting, sheriff's deputies followed and engaged in a standoff with Rodarte for several hours. Rodarte was shot after he went to his front door and motioned as if he was pulling out a weapon. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Paul Smith | January 14, 2014 | CA | A man fled after a robbery. Officers found the suspect held up in a house. LAPD snipers shot and killed him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Raymond Roberts | January 16, 2014 | CA | An officer matched Roberts' vehicle to one connected in an earlier assault, and moved to surround the car. Roberts refused to exit the car and backed over an officer's foot, leading four officers to fire into the car and kill Roberts. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Robert Gutierrez | January 16, 2014 | CA | Robert Gutierrez, 49, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for running a stop sign 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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Joshua Lewis | January 17, 2014 | CA | Off-duty CDCR Correctional Sergeant Benny Diaz shot Joshua Lewis, who was reportedly randomly shooting and carjacking motorists, killing Nhia Lee and injuring others. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Drew Eldredge | January 18, 2014 | CA | An unidentified person, 21, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for DUI and died because of a crash. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Thomas A. Smith Jr. | January 21, 2014 | CA | During a search of a robbery suspect's apartment, Smith was accidentally shot in the chest by an accompanying police officer. No criminal charges were toward by the firing office. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Antonio V. Mestas | January 21, 2014 | CA | Mestas led officers on a chase in a stolen SUV through east Oakland after they attempted to pull him over. Officers fired and hit Mestas after he fled the vehicle while holding a loaded handgun. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Jose Munguia | January 21, 2014 | CA | Officers pulled over Munguia's SUV for not having license plates, leading the 21-year-old to flee with a loaded handgun. Officers with a police dog were able to catch up to Munguia, and shot him after he pointed his gun at them. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Kevin Shane McCoshum | January 24, 2014 | CA | McCoshum had a rifle and was not listen to the police. Police say he moved the rifle in a threatening manner and responded by shooting and killing McCoshum. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Praminder Singh Shergill | January 25, 2014 | CA | Victim suffered from PTSD. Family called police, they shot him 12 times. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Aaron DeVenere | January 26, 2014 | CA | DeVenere led police on a high-speed chase while holding the female driver of the car hostage. After being slowed with spike strips, the vehicle came to a stop and an officer fired and killed DeVenere. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Luis Morin | January 27, 2014 | CA | Morin was wanted on two two nonviolent felony warrants. He was visiting relatives and a deputy staked out the relative's house in order to serve arrest Morin. When Morin and his relatives returned home from dinner, the deputy attempted to arrest the unarmed Morin, a scuffle ensued, ending with the deputy shooting and killing Morin in front of his family. A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed against Riverside County on Aug. 26. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Steven Burke Pettersen | January 30, 2014 | CA | Police received a call that a man with a spear, Pettersen, was running wildly in and out of freeway traffic. Police first shot Pettersen after he struck a car with the "spear." Pettersen then approached them with a knife and police shot and killed him. Petersen, a veteran diagnosed with PTSD, was in his underwear and the "spear" turned out to be a hockey stick. In May 2014, Pettersen's son filed a civil rights lawsuit against Los Angeles County. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Mark Anthony Ayala | January 30, 2014 | CA | Ayala was parolee with a misdemeanor warrant. When authorities made contact, a shootout occurred. Ayala was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Michael Paul Napier | January 31, 2014 | CA | Michael Paul Napier was confronted in his parents garage about a drug-related arrest warrant. Two deputies opened fire after he reached for his waistband. He was unarmed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Ariel Levy | February 4, 2014 | CA | Ariel Levy was killed in an officer-involved shooting in after she reportedly threatened an officer with what later turned out to be a replica handgun. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Joshua Lewis | February 4, 2014 | CA | Joshua Lewis was killed and his teenage passenger suffered minor injuries after Lewis crashed his car during a police chase. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Joseph Ivan McIlhenny | February 5, 2014 | CA | Joseph Ivan McIlhenny, 64, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for DUI and died because of a crash. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Donald Haynes | February 9, 2014 | CA | Police were called to the scene of a domestic dispute. After stopping Haynes in a traffic stop, he refused to drop a 20-inch bayonet and was shot by police. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Robert Miguel Gutierrez Villa | February 10, 2014 | CA | Officers were called to the area of Red Hill Avenue and Nisson Road for a domestic disturbance. At the apartment building, officers confronted the man, who appeared to be holding a weapon. The man was armed with a knife. Multiple officers fired their weapons. Paramedics took him to Western Medical Center Santa Ana where he died from his injuries. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Robert Vuilla | February 10, 2014 | CA | Tustin Police Department received a call about a family disturbance. When officers arrived, they were confronted by Robert Villa, who was armed with a knife. He was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Javier Mendez | February 13, 2014 | CA | Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau Lt. Steve Jauch told reporters at the scene a man in the home reported the suspect had been inside the residence, demanding money from his mother. Jauch said that as deputies arrived at the scene, a black compact sedan driven by the suspect sped toward them. Jauch said the pursuit led deputies to the parking lot of the Bestway Supermarket in the 19000 block La Puente Road and ran through the market. Jauch said the suspect ran east through neighborhood backyards before encountering deputies at a residence on the corner of Elberland Street and Abelian Avenue. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Name withheld by police | February 14, 2014 | CA | An unnamed driver was killed after he crashed an allegedly stolen car in East Oakland while fleeing from the CHP. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | David Goins | February 18, 2014 | CA | Deputies responding to a paramedic dispute fatally shot Goins after he became combative with a baseball bat after they entered his home for a welfare check. Goins was apparently suffering a seizure at the time of the response. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Jesus Flores-Cruz | February 18, 2014 | CA | A Border Patrol agent followed Flores-Cruz through a ravine and up a hillside when he began throwing fist-sized rocks. Officials said the agent ordered Flores-Cruz to stop in English and in Spanish and used his hands to deflect some of the rocks. He was struck in the face. The agent, fearing for his safety, fired his duty weapon at the suspect, striking him. Investigators said the agent fired his weapon at least twice. The suspect died at the scene. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Antonio Guzman Lopez | February 21, 2014 | CA | Two officers responded to a call about a man carrying a knife. Lopez was carrying a drywall saw he used for his job. After approaching one officer and refusing to drop the saw, he was shot twice in the back. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Joseph Ma | February 23, 2014 | CA | Police pulled over a car for not having plates. Three suspects ran and officers pursued, fatally shooting one who was armed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | John Edward Chesney | February 26, 2014 | CA | John Edward Chesney, 62, was shot and killed by police in his apartment after an hour long standoff. Chesney was said to be suicidal at the time of his death. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Gabriella Monique Nevarez | March 2, 2014 | CA | Citrus Heights police spokesman Bryan Fritsch said officers had pulled over a suspected stolen vehicle at about 11:30 a.m. on the 7000 block Madison Avenue. The female occupant rammed one police vehicle and then drove away, leading to a pursuit at up to 70 mph. She subsequently rammed a second police vehicle on the 7500 block Sunset Avenue just east of San Juan Avenue. At that point, officers shot and killed her. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Ryan Matthew Shannon | March 2, 2014 | CA | Deputies were responding to a report of shots fired. When they approached Shannon, he fired on them. They shot and killed him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Kenny Clinton Walker | March 6, 2014 | CA | Walker was shot and killed by LAPD after officers were investigating a drive-by shooting. Officers were unsure if Walker was involved in the previous shooting. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Veronica Canter | March 7, 2014 | CA | Police were called after Carter entered an apartment of an acquaintance and started acting strange. The 49-year-old allegedly approached officers while holding a kitchen knife, and was fatally tasered before being shot. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | John Harmon | March 8, 2014 | CA | Harmon was allegedly threatening to commit suicide on a light-rail train in downtown Sacramento, then brandished a knife and implored responding officers to shoot him. Harmon was fatally shot after being tasered twice to little effect. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Stanley Preston Thompson | March 13, 2014 | CA | Police were called to Thompson's home after he allegedly threatened neighbors with a gun, and subsequently engaged gunfire with police intermittently for an hour before succumbing to fatal gunshot wounds. Neighbors said Thompson had shown signs of mental illness. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | Dillon Arcani | March 17, 2014 | CA | Dillon Arcani, 20, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for license plate missing and died because of a crash. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Ricardo Antonio Chaney | March 19, 2014 | CA | Chaney shot and killed a deputy before being shot and killed by another police officer according to news reports. However, forensic pathologist concluded that the kill shot to the head was self-inflicted. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Errol Chang | March 19, 2014 | CA | Officers found Chang in the backyard, but he refused to obey their commands and brandished the ax at them, Spanheimer said. He said officers were told by Chang's relatives that he may have had access to a rifle and ammunition hidden in the house, Spanheimer said... More than six hours after the standoff began, the SWAT team used a flash-bang grenade in hopes of getting Chang to come out of the home, then made their way inside, at which point Chang stabbed one of the officers with a knife, police said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Robert Moreno Jr. | March 20, 2014 | CA | Anaheim police was searching for suspects to search for three suspects. Two suspects took off running, but Moreno pulled a handgun out and shot a K-9. Police fired back, killing Moreno. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Frank John Rebagliati | March 20, 2014 | CA | Frank John Rebagliati reportedly shot himself after a high-speed chase. At about 10 p.m., deputies responded to a report of a shooting at a home in Castroville. Witnesses described the suspect as driving a grey minivan, and deputies saw his vehicle nearby. Rebagliati sped off and headed southbound on Highway 1, reaching speeds of nearly 120 mph. The minivan took the Fremont Street offramp in Seaside, where deputies and CHP officers performed a PIT manuever to stop Rebagliati. According to officials, Rebagliati shot himself in the head between the time the minivan stopped and officers surrounded the minivan. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Hector Chairez | March 20, 2014 | CA | Chairez was a parolee at-large who was wanted for multiple felonies. Deputies recognized Chairez's car and tried to pull him over, but he led them on a high-speed chase. During the high-speed chase, California Highway Patrol officers described Chairez as a burglary suspect. Chairez was killed after he bailed out of the car and was running on foot with a female passenger. The woman was captured and arrested. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Angel Ruiz | March 20, 2014 | CA | Ruiz went on a crime spree that allegedly included a hit and run accident in which he shot at a CHP motorcycle officer and the armed robbery of a restaurant. Police confronted Ruiz outside the restaurant. He attempted to go for his gun, and three officers shot and killed him. The weapon turned out to be an Aersoft pellet gun. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Monty Wayne Barker | March 21, 2014 | CA | When officers arrived on the scene, Barker walked from the rear of his Mecca Avenue residence to the front, still carrying a shotgun. He confronted the officers and was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Alejandro "Alex" Nieto | March 21, 2014 | CA | Police officers were investigating reports of a man with a gun at Bernal Heights Park, acting erratically and threatening passersby. Police said he appeared to reach for a weapon - friends and witnesses suggested it was a Taser stun gun - and officers shot and killed him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Alejandro Ramirez-Juarez | March 22, 2014 | CA | Jesus Godinez, 19, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for speeding, killing Alejandro Ramirez-Juarez upon crashing. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Robert Joseph Williams | March 23, 2014 | CA | Williams snatched two televisions worth a total of $500 out of the fire door of a Target store and hopped into a car driven by a female accomplice. Local police immediately gave pursuit on the highway. On an off-ramp she struck two other cars and lost control. Williams was thrown and killed; she was charged with his murder. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Angel Sauceda | March 24, 2014 | CA | Angel Sauceda, 37, was allegedly fleeing a police stop on a motorcycle for running a stop sign and died because of a crash. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Michael Valentino | March 24, 2014 | CA | Officers responded to a call for domestic violence and went to Valentino's home. Police says he opened fired, and officers returned fire. Valentino had a history of criminal convictions including forgery, battery and burglary. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Andrew Silva | March 25, 2014 | CA | Local police chased a suspect for acting belligerent and drunk at 1 a.m. at a Taco Bell. The suspect struck Marine lance corporal and Afghanistan veteran Silva on his motorcycle and killed him instantly. Silva's family filed suit, claiming wrongful death and complaining that police left his body in the street for more than 12 hours. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Christopher McDaniel | March 26, 2014 | CA | Deputies attempted to pull over McDaniel on a motorcycle for a vehicle code violation. He didn't stop, and there was a short pursuit in Oildale until he crashed his motorcycle. Witnesses say McDaniel put his hands in the air to surrender, but police shot him. He was struck at least once and was later pronounced dead at Kern Medical Center. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Jason Roy Wilson | March 28, 2014 | CA | Wilson broke into a house, and the owner confronted him. Wilson ran out of the house and charged at deputies. He was holding a gun and a knife. Wilson was shot to death by one of the deputies. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Darryl Brice Cunningham | March 29, 2014 | CA | Darryl Brice Cunningham drowned after he reportedly jumped off the Market Street Brige into the Sacramento river to avoid police as they pursued him regarding a domestic dispute. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Alec Deon Torres | March 30, 2014 | CA | Alec Deon Torres reportedly injured himself and died after running from roof to roof, then jumping through a skylight while trying to evade police trying to arrest him on a narcotics warrant in Azusa. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Anahi Barriga-Tovar | April 2, 2014 | CA | Jose Luis Barriga-Tovar, and his 14-year-old daughter Anahi Tovar were killed instantly when a pickup truck being chased by deputies crashed into their car. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Jose Luis Barriga-Tovar | April 2, 2014 | CA | Jose Luis Barriga-Tovar, and his 14-year-old daughter Anahi Tovar were killed instantly when a pickup truck being chased by deputies crashed into their car. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Miguel Angel Garcia-Morran | April 2, 2014 | CA | Miguel Angel Garcia reportedly shot himself after a 19-hour standoff with the Sonoma County sheriff's SWAT team, during which Garcia "confessed to several violent felonies, including a murder" before taking his own life. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Vivian Nguyen | April 3, 2014 | CA | Vivian Nguyen was killed after a car fleeing police broadsided her mother's minivan. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Jairo Armando Pedraza | April 4, 2014 | CA | Officers responding to a call of a man trying to kill himself arrived to find Pedraza attempting suicide with a knife. Pedraza was tasered to no effect and fatally shot after confronting police with a knife. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Walter James | April 5, 2014 | CA | Walter James was killed when a Santa Monica police officer's patrol car struck his scooter. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Wayne Hoffman | April 6, 2014 | CA | Hoffman, traveling on a bike, refused to stop for an officer attempting to pull him over and lead officers on a short chase that ended when he crashed. Hoffman initially resisted arrest but suffered some sort of medical emergency, and was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Daniel Christoph Yealu | April 7, 2014 | CA | Yealu was shooting a gun at officers in the lobby of LAPDs west traffic Division was shot by officers on April 7th. He died April 24th. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | Name withheld by police | April 7, 2014 | CA | Officers called to deal with a person sleeping on a bench near a harbor office found the man armed with a handgun. The victim, who police identified as a gang member, refused to drop his weapon and was fatally shot by police. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | Ever Ramon Martinez | April 9, 2014 | CA | Officers attempted to pull Martinez over for a traffic violation when the 29-year-old took off and lead police on a high speed chase. An officer fatally shot Martinez after he failed to get out of his vehicle and was speeding toward a civilian car. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | Robert James Vancamp | April 10, 2014 | CA | Officers responded to Vancamp's residence after receiving a call from his mother, who told police that he was armed and suicidal. Responding deputies fatally shot Vancamp outside the home after he turned towards them while holding a handgun. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | John Winkler | April 10, 2014 | CA | Shortly after 9:30 p.m., deputies say two men burst out of an apartment building and ran towards them. The first man who exited was bleeding profusely from the neck. Winkler followed close behind. The deputies on scene apparently were confused when they saw Winkler “lunging at the back of the fleeing victim,” LASD Chief Bill McSweeney told CBS2/KCAL9 reporter Serene Branson. Deputies shot Winkler four times and the other victim was shot once. Winkler died from his injuries at a hospital. The other victim survived. Investigators now say Winkler and the man who was bleeding were actually victims of a third man, Alexander McDonald, who lived inside the apartment building. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | Ferreol "Chato" Cardenas Jr. | April 10, 2014 | CA | Cardenas was pulled over for a missing license plate. He ran a block and then stopped. Police beat him while restraing him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Eddie "Dougie" Phongsavad | April 13, 2014 | CA | Victim went by the name of "Dougie." He got in an altercation about a shopping cart with employees of a 99 Cent Only store, who called 911. When police confronted Dougie outside the store, he brandished a knife. Police tasered Dougie to no effect. Officers then shot Dougie multiple times, killing him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Name withheld by police | April 13, 2014 | CA | Mentally ill woman, who remains unidentified in media accounts, called 911 and told the operator she was distraught, suicidal and if police were sent, she would goad them into killing her. When three officers arrived at her residence, the 5'5" woman greeted them at the door wielding an aluminium baseball bat. Two officers opened fire, killing her. Shooting caused public controversy over police treatment of mentally ill people. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | Adrian Parra | April 18, 2014 | CA | The Imperial County Sheriff's Department is releasing very little information on this officer involved shooting. It happened just before 6pm on Friday, April 18th. Parra was pulled over by deputies on Highway 86 near Salton City In the course of that traffic stop, he was shot and killed by deputies. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Francisco Alvarado-Cota | April 19, 2014 | CA | Police responded to a call about loud music coming from a vehicle near Whitesbridge, but the man drove away. After a high-speed chase, the man then exited the SUV and ran away. Aided by a search dog, three sheriff's deputies found the man hiding in a peach orchard. They opened fire when they saw a firearm pointed at them. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Robert DeLeon Jr. | April 21, 2014 | CA | Robert DeLeon Jr. reportedly shot himself during a five-hour standoff at a motel involving La Mesa police, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, and members of the US Marshal's fugitive apprehension unit. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Mickey Larragoitiy | April 21, 2014 | CA | Larragoitiy was well known in his retirement community as the local "neighborhood watch." He became suicidal after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. He called a neighbor and told her he was sitting in his garage with a gun to his head. She called 911, and three deputies arrived at the garage. Larragoitiy pointed a weapon at them, and they open fired, killing him. The weapon turned out to be a BB gun. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | Donovan King | April 24, 2014 | CA | Local police tried to pull Mariah Boucher over for a traffic infraction—they wouldn't say what—but she refused to pull over. The officer initiated a pursuit and learned the car was called in as stolen. The police said they then broke off the chase and promptly found the car, wrecked, in flames, with Boucher and passengers Kameron Jackson and Donovan King dead at the scene. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | Kameron Jackson | April 24, 2014 | CA | Local police tried to pull Mariah Boucher over for a traffic infraction—they wouldn't say what—but she refused to pull over. The officer initiated a pursuit and learned the car was called in as stolen. The police said they then broke off the chase and promptly found the car, wrecked, in flames, with Boucher and passengers Kameron Jackson and Donovan King dead at the scene. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Mariah Boucher | April 24, 2014 | CA | Local police tried to pull Mariah Boucher over for a traffic infraction—they wouldn't say what—but she refused to pull over. The officer initiated a pursuit and learned the car was called in as stolen. The police said they then broke off the chase and promptly found the car, wrecked, in flames, with Boucher and passengers Kameron Jackson and Donovan King dead at the scene. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Taylor Little | April 24, 2014 | CA | Demaria Christopher Harge, 23, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for driving recklessly, killing Taylor Little upon crashing. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Salvador Palencia-Cruz | April 25, 2014 | CA | Two deputies responded to a 911 "attempted suicide" report. Palencia-Cruz was allegedly in a kitchen holding a long metal knife-like object, and threatened them. Deputies say they repeatedly told him to drop it, that he refused and threw it near their heads. He then allegedly grabbed another long metal object that resembled a knife, pointed it at them and advanced toward them. They shot him an unspecified amount of times. Witness Jose Munoz states he heard arguing outside, then "a couple gunshots." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Kandice M. Honiker | April 26, 2014 | CA | Honiker pointed a gun at officers after committing a robbery. She was shot and killed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Jason Conoscenti | April 27, 2014 | CA | After allegedly shoplifting in Target and brandishing scissors at a security guard, Conoscenti led Sheriffs on a 30-minute slow speed pursuit to a dead end street with stairs leading to the beach. After sitting in the car approx.15 minutes he got out carrying a wooden stick and walked quickly to the stairs. Police shot beanbags and a K-9 chased him as he ran down the stairs. When he reached the bottom, police waiting at the side shot him several times. He died a short time later at a hospital. In June 2014 his family filed a $10m wrongful death suit. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Victor Coleman | April 28, 2014 | CA | Coleman's wife Lauri Coryell reported to 911 that Coleman, staying at a motel, had left a suicidal voicemail. Officers John Nickelson, Marcus Tennigkeit, Jared Cooley and Breck Wright, Sgt. Vanessa Purdy and Lt. Al Byers communicated with him through his door and via phone for several hours. When Beyers decided the suicide was imminent, Wright battered the door open and they went in with guns and a taser. Police state that Coleman was allegedly "wielding a knife and a bottle of Wild Turkey bourbon in a threatening manner, both of which he allegedly swung toward Tennigkeit, apparently connecting with the bottle." Tennigkeit, Nickelson and Cooley fired 18 shots, hitting Coleman 16 times and killing him. As of 10/14, Coryell and other victim families were fighting to have Tennigkeit, Nickelson, Cooley and other Oroville officers fired. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Derrell Eugene Love | April 29, 2014 | CA | Derrell Eugene Love was killed when he crashed his car during a short police chase in El Cajon. At around 3:30 a.m., an officer attempted stop Love in a Honda Accord for not having a front license plate. Love reportedly fled westbound on Madison, crossed Main and struck a parked car. He died at the scene. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | Daniel Ibarra | April 29, 2014 | CA | Ibarra allegedly shot a woman in the neck during a domestic dispute. When deputies arrived to the "gunshot victm" call, they took her away and Ibarra allegedly hiding, shot at them then confronted them in front of the home. After a 1.5 hour SWAT standoff with Ibarra holding a gun and cellphone, he "wielded the weapon in a threatening manner toward the deputies" and they fired at least three shots, killing him in the driveway. Some initial reports stated he was trying to reach the two children in the home and was shot as he began to move toward the house. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | Name withheld by police | April 29, 2014 | CA | An unidentified person, 25, was allegedly fleeing a police stop for following too closely and died because of a crash. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | Oscar Herrera | May 4, 2014 | CA | Police responded to a call that Herrera was having a mental breakdown and may have assaulted his mother. He opened the door holding a metal baseball bat. An officer pulled his gun and Herrera allegedly hit his hand. He then allegedly raised the bat over his head and the officer fired four times at him, killing him. Upstairs witness Shari Vernor says she heard a woman shout "Don't shoot him!" and then gunfire. In a similar incident in nearby Livermore the previous day, Herrera was tasered and arrested by officers after fighting with a friend and threatening officers with his bat. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
91 | Michael Lee Holden | May 6, 2014 | CA | Michael Lee Holden was killed in a high-speed crash while trying to elude police. Holden allegedly sped off on I-680 when an officer tried to stop him for driving recklessly and without headlights. Holden crashed near El Cerro Boulevard in Danville and died of his injuries three days later. In December 2014, coroner's inquiry found Holden died accidentally. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Christopher George Louk | May 6, 2014 | CA | A deputy spotted Louk, who was a suspect in several bank robberies, in a parking lot. Three law enforcement vehicles, one possibly Marysville Police Department, chased Louk's SUV at high speeds. Witnesses to the chase claim bullets were being fired and that they heard a crash as Louk's vehicle became stuck in a railroad track. Investigators claim that at that poing Louk refused to surrender, and that gunfire was exchanged. Two Yuba County deputies shot at Louk's truck, killing him. Investigators also claim the fatal injury was "possibly self-inflicted." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | Osman Hernandez | May 9, 2014 | CA | Hernandez drunk when he was chasing people with a knife. The police say as he was being arrested he grabbed for the knife again and that is when he was shot. The family of Hernandez, however, argued he was lying on the ground with no knife when he was shot. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | Jose Raul Herrera | May 10, 2014 | CA | Herrera appeared to be intoxicated. One officer shot and killed Herrera, it is unknown if there was a threat towards said officer. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Tommy J. Yancy Jr. | May 11, 2014 | CA | Pulled over for a missing front license plate. He was attcked by K9 unit, tasered, and then beaten to death. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | James Renee White Jr. | May 12, 2014 | CA | White allegedly had a gun in a large group. An officer saw that he had a gun and shot and killed him. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | Valeri Hawkins | May 15, 2014 | CA | A suicidal woman pointed a gun at officers. Officers then shot and killed her. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | Danny Christian Molina | May 17, 2014 | CA | Police responding to an assault call found Molina throwing rocks at people and police vehicles, and pulled out two kitchen knives when officers approached him. Officers shot Molina after he approached them with the knives. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | Martin Alfonso Lopez | May 17, 2014 | CA | Martin Alfonso Lopez, a 40-year-old Latino male, died Saturday, May 17, after being shot in Sun Valley, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | Cory Lee Bush | May 18, 2014 | CA | Bush was having a nervous breakdown and was 'tearing up the house'. Deputies responded and Bush was reportedly armed. Bush was ultimately shot and killed. |