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A large number of police officers from different agencies gathered to try to arrest Harrison Brown for warrants for previous incidents. Police allege that Brown tried to flee from them and had a gun. Police shot and killed him. No video or other evidence was provided by police.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2022/09/02/suspect-killed-by-us-marshals-task-force-members-in-shooting-at-apartment-complex-near-nrg-stadium-hpd/

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2022/09/06/man-killed-in-officer-involved-shooting-identified-by-houston-police/

Fayetteville PD were sent to a call of a man threatening suicide. He allegedly had a gun. Police arrived and claim that Justin Livesay approached them with knives. Police shot and killed him. No video or other evidence can be found to verify the official narrative.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/man-armed-with-knives-possibly-having-mental-break-shot-and-killed-by-fayetteville-officers-police/ar-AA11pOEh

https://www.wral.com/fayetteville-group-demands-mental-health-reform-for-city-s-police-force/20453110/

LASD Deputies arrived at a call alleging a man with a gun. Deputies claim Rushdee Anderson pointed a gun at them. They shot and killed him. No video or other evidence can be found to verify the official narrative.

https://2urbangirls.com/2022/09/2022-09-authorities-id-armed-man-killed-by-deputies-in-westmont-area/

https://lasd.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Transparency_090222_SLA_DIS_Anderson_Rushdee_Summary_110722.pdf

On 09/02/2022 at approximately 1:54 a.m., Casper Police Department officers on patrol at Lake McKenzie Park in Casper made contact with an adult male identified as Corey David Garriott. When officers attempted engagement, Garriott fled on foot. During the foot pursuit, Garriott produced and fired a weapon at officers. Officers returned fire and struck Garriott. He was transported to the Wyoming Medical Center and later pronounced deceased. The involved officers were placed on administrative leave and the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation was requested to conduct an impartial review.

https://county10.com/man-fatally-shot-by-casper-police-early-friday-morning-2nd-unrelated-friday-shooting-also-under-investigation/

Rockford PD were sent to a domestic disturbance call. Police claim they heard a woman screaming and they entered the home. Police claim that Peter Jaeger confronted them with a gun. Officer Alexander Stone shot and killed him. No bodycam other video or form of evidence was provided by police with this story. Officer Stone was cleared by the DA.

https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/crime/2022/09/02/peter-jaeger-identified-man-fatally-shot-by-rockford-police/65470955007/

https://www.wrex.com/news/crime/report-man-was-trying-to-break-down-bathroom-door-where-his-wife-was-hiding-before/article_db28f42a-2afa-11ed-8cb3-b35676d67129.html

Prince William County PD conducted an undercover operation targeting Jaiden Carter. He and another man appeared and police claim that they tried to rob the undercover police and then fled in a vehicle. Police shot into the car, killing him. No video or other objective evidence can be found to corroborate the police narrative.

https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/updated-undercover-officer-was-robbed-threatened-with-a-gun-before-police-shooting/article_a8ea5ab0-2a4d-11ed-a12d-c7d570c48cd9.html

https://wjla.com/news/local/19-year-old-jaiden-malik-carter-fatal-shooting-prince-william-county-police-involved-woodbridge-fentanyl-drug-undercover-operation-atf-fbi-justice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ2P3AHmcHY

https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/deadly-police-shooting-in-dale-city-ruled-justified/article_0519e478-4659-11ed-8f31-ff362a3e45aa.html

Rockwall PD were sent to a call for a possible mental health crisis and welfare check and possible kidnapping. Police arrived and claim that Jonathan May shot at them. Police shot and killed him.

https://www.rockwallheraldbanner.com/news/local_news/man-dies-after-exchange-of-gunfire-with-officers/article_d8a28250-3128-11ed-988c-b39171b74064.html

https://patch.com/texas/dallas-ftworth/kidnapping-suspect-killed-shootout-rockwall-officers-police-say

https://www.rockwallheraldbanner.com/news/local_news/update-suspect-dies-after-reportedly-exchanging-gunfire-with-officers-in-rockwall-overnight/article_752d2e62-2ab8-11ed-8215-63f7b30a4787.html

Pittsburgh PD were called to check on the welfare of a woman and claim that they found Brian Fisher with a gun. Police shot and killed him. No video or other evidence can be found to verify the police narrative.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-shot-killed-pittsburgh-police-confronting-officer-revolver

https://triblive.com/local/1-dead-in-officer-involved-shooting-in-pittsburgh/

https://www.wtae.com/article/pittsburgh-police-westwood-shooting/41060662#

On 09/01/2022, Belton Police Department officers responded around 12:45 p.m. to a reported disturbance at a residence in the 500 block of Hargis Lane involving a man who had a gun. A woman exited the residence before officers arrived and was secured by police. Officers encountered the man outside in the roadway and established a perimeter. Nearby Gladden Elementary School was placed on precautionary lockdown while officers negotiated with him for several hours. Shortly after 6:00 p.m., during the standoff, the man shot himself. He was transported to a hospital where he later died from his injury.

https://www.kctv5.com/2022/09/01/belton-police-ask-public-avoid-hargis-westover-area-they-work-critical-incident/
https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/belton-elementary-school-locked-down-due-to-nearby-armed-disturbance
https://fox4kc.com/news/belton-police-respond-to-armed-disturbance-near-elementary-school/

On 01/03/2022, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Officers Adam Earl and Matthew-Ryan Lerlo pursued a Jeep through north Charlotte during evening rush-hour traffic after initially focusing on the vehicle because its license plate was covered by a tinted or opaque cover. The Jeep eventually traveled the wrong way on Statesville Road and crashed head-on into a Honda carrying 29-year-old Brittany C. Webb and two other people. Webb suffered catastrophic injuries and died 18 days later, on 01/21/2022. Her family and the two survivors later sued Earl, Lerlo and the City of Charlotte, alleging that the officers conducted an unauthorized pursuit in direct violation of CMPD policy.
The case has changed substantially since the initial reporting. A 2024 lawsuit, followed by the 2025 public release of approximately five hours of body-camera and traffic-camera footage, provided evidence that challenged the characterization of the incident as simply a crash caused by a driver fleeing police. The recordings documented Earl and Lerlo's actions during the pursuit and captured other CMPD personnel questioning and criticizing their decision to chase.
According to the lawsuit, Earl and Lerlo had been following the Jeep through the Sugar Creek area before it entered Interstate 85. The officers ran the license plate and focused on an allegedly obscuring plate cover. The complaint alleges that there was no violent offense or other life-threatening crime that would have authorized a pursuit under CMPD's restrictive pursuit policy.
Earl and Lerlo attempted to stop the Jeep on I-85. When the driver continued driving away, the officers followed with emergency lights and sirens activated. Their in-car computer system repeatedly generated warnings telling them to watch their speed and slow down.
Police radio traffic is particularly significant. The later-released recordings indicate that a supervisor communicated that officers did not need to engage in a pursuit. According to the family's lawsuit and subsequent reporting, the officers nevertheless continued following the Jeep off I-85 and into residential streets.
The Jeep eventually reached a dead end on Julia Avenue and stopped. Earl and Lerlo got out of their police vehicle with their guns drawn. The Jeep then maneuvered away from them and drove back toward Statesville Road. The officers continued after it.
The family's attorney argues that this was the critical point at which police turned an alleged license-plate violation into a dangerous rush-hour pursuit. The lawsuit alleges that the officers knew or should have known CMPD policy did not permit a high-speed pursuit under these circumstances and that their continued pursuit created an unreasonable danger to motorists who had nothing to do with the attempted traffic stop.
As the pursuit reached Statesville Road, the Jeep traveled the wrong direction and collided head-on with the Honda in which Webb was a passenger. The impact severely injured all three people in the Honda.
Webb was unresponsive at the crash scene and suffered massive trauma, including a subdural hematoma with mass effect, rib and spinal fractures, a grade-four liver laceration, pelvic fractures and fractures to her arms and legs. Her condition was further complicated by strokes while she was hospitalized. She never recovered and died on 01/21/2022.
The other two people in the Honda survived but suffered serious injuries. Aaron Norward was placed in a medically induced coma and remained hospitalized for approximately a month. Whitney McKinney, who was driving the Honda, suffered extensive injuries and experienced a stroke the day after the collision. Both later joined Webb's estate in suing the officers and city.
Webb was a mother of two. Her family's later lawsuit emphasized that she had no connection whatsoever to the police encounter or the vehicle police were pursuing. She was simply a passenger traveling on Statesville Road when the pursuit entered her path.
On 01/17/2024, Webb's estate, represented by administrator Carol Willis, together with Norward and McKinney, filed suit in Mecklenburg County Superior Court against the City of Charlotte, Earl and Lerlo. The complaint alleges wrongful death, negligence and gross negligence and specifically characterizes the officers' actions as an unauthorized police chase.
The lawsuit quotes CMPD's own pursuit rules. Those rules permitted pursuits under limited circumstances involving crimes dangerous to life or specified serious offenses. The plaintiffs contend that an allegedly obscured license plate did not remotely satisfy those requirements.
The case became considerably stronger factually after video from the incident was released in June 2025. CMPD published 44 recordings from officer body cameras and nearby traffic cameras, amounting to roughly five hours of footage. The Charlotte Observer reviewed those recordings and found material that was not reflected in the department's initial public presentation of the crash.
One particularly revealing recording captured another CMPD officer arriving at the crash and reacting to what Earl and Lerlo had done. The officer called their actions "dumb" and referred to the Internal Affairs statements they would have to prepare. Another recording captured a supervisor questioning why the pursuit had occurred.
The recordings also provided direct evidence that Earl and Lerlo had actively attempted to stop the Jeep with emergency lights and sirens and followed it through multiple stages of the encounter, evidence relevant to the family's contention that this was a police pursuit rather than merely officers happening to travel behind the vehicle.
The lawsuit further alleges that CMPD internally disciplined both officers. The complaint states that Earl and Lerlo were suspended over their conduct in connection with the pursuit and related events.
The civil case remains active. Most recently, in July 2026, the City of Charlotte asked the court to dismiss or substantially restrict the claims before trial. Evidence discussed at the hearing included the officers' own statements, police radio traffic and the video recordings. The judge declined to immediately dispose of the case and allowed additional briefing, leaving Webb's family's claims alive.
The later evidence therefore materially changes the original framing of Webb's death. What began as an attempted police stop over an allegedly obscured license plate developed into a pursuit through rush-hour traffic; police recordings indicate supervisory concern about the chase; Earl and Lerlo continued after the Jeep through residential streets; the Jeep subsequently entered Statesville Road in the wrong direction and crashed head-on into the car carrying Webb. CMPD's own officers were recorded questioning the pursuit afterward, the department reportedly suspended Earl and Lerlo, and Webb's family is continuing to seek civil accountability from both officers and the city.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Adam Earl was a CMPD officer assigned to the encounter and pursuit that preceded Webb's fatal crash. Public City of Charlotte employment records show Earl working for the city beginning by 2020 and continuing through at least 2024. Webb's lawsuit alleges that CMPD suspended Earl following the pursuit. The later body-camera release documents Earl and Lerlo's participation and captures other CMPD personnel criticizing their actions immediately after the collision.
Matthew-Ryan Lerlo was Earl's partner during the pursuit and is likewise individually named as a defendant in Webb's wrongful-death lawsuit. The complaint alleges that CMPD suspended Lerlo over the pursuit and related conduct. Current professional records continue to associate Lerlo with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/crime/judge-allows-lawsuit-to-proceed-in-fatal-cmpd-pursuit-crash/275-e814f534-38e3-4ca6-bfdc-630f7a71c547
https://www.wbtv.com/2024/01/18/cmpd-officers-city-sued-after-2022-charlotte-chase-kills-mother-injures-2/
https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/lawsuit-filed-by-estate-woman-killed-by-cmpd-chase-suspect/S6ZOHKEBE5CDFNZHSDNZR5ZXP4/
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article308510320.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rogue-cmpd-pursuit-led-tragic-160848479.html
https://www.charlottealertsnews.com/news/woman-killed-in-head-on-collision-other-car-was-running-from-cops/
https://www.charlottealertsnews.com/news/video-woman-killed-in-head-on-collision-while-suspect-gets-in-chase-with-police/

On 08/31/2022, Omaha Police Department Officer Jennifer Turner shot and killed 39-year-old Jacob M. Jamrozy at his apartment at 10037 R Street while Turner and Officer Jason Martinez accompanied a Douglas County process server serving an immediate-removal domestic abuse protection order. Later-released body-camera images and a detailed police timeline show that only about two seconds elapsed between Jamrozy opening his apartment door and Turner shooting him. A Douglas County grand jury subsequently declined to bring charges.
The protection order had been obtained that same day by Jamrozy's former girlfriend, Alyssa Pesek, who also lived at the apartment. The order required Jamrozy to leave the residence. The process server requested police assistance because authorities had been told that Jamrozy kept hunting shotguns inside.
Turner and Martinez arrived at Fairway Apartments shortly before 3 p.m. and met with the process server outside. Turner approached Apartment 1 with the process server immediately behind her while Martinez accompanied them. Both officers were wearing body cameras.
The subsequent police timeline provides an unusually precise account of the encounter. At 2:59:28 p.m., Turner knocked seven times on Jamrozy's door. At exactly 3:00:00 p.m., Jamrozy opened it holding a Remington 11-87 12-gauge semiautomatic shotgun. Police later reported that the shotgun contained four shells in the magazine and one in the chamber.
Turner immediately drew her handgun and repeatedly ordered Jamrozy to drop the shotgun. According to Omaha police and their review of the body-camera recordings, Jamrozy raised or leveled the shotgun toward Turner while she was giving those commands. At 3:00:02 p.m. — approximately two seconds after Jamrozy opened the door — Turner fired one round into his chest.
Turner and Martinez moved to cover outside the doorway while the process server left the building. The officers then entered the apartment. Martinez cleared the residence while Turner called for medical assistance and checked Jamrozy for a pulse. Omaha Fire Department medics arrived and pronounced him dead. Jamrozy had been alone inside the apartment.
Police recovered the shotgun near the apartment doorway. Their investigation concluded that the statements Turner and Martinez gave investigators were consistent with the physical evidence and their body-camera recordings. Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer publicly announced shortly after the shooting that he considered Turner's gunfire consistent with department policy.
The department released still images from the officers' body cameras rather than relying solely on its initial narrative. Those images showed Jamrozy standing in the doorway holding the shotgun and documented the extremely compressed timeline between the door opening and Turner firing.
Jamrozy's former girlfriend and his family publicly expressed grief over his death. Pesek described the shooting as an extremely unfortunate event and said she was devastated. His father, Dan Jamrozy, described his son as a dedicated outdoorsman who loved being in nature. Photographs supplied by the family showed him fishing and spending time outdoors.
Consistent with Nebraska law governing deaths involving law enforcement, the case was subsequently presented to a Douglas County grand jury. The grand jury returned no indictment in Jamrozy's death. By the time that decision was announced, Turner and Martinez had already been returned to regular police duties after Omaha police cleared them internally.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Jennifer Turner was the officer who fired the single shot that killed Jamrozy. She had approximately seven years with the Omaha Police Department at the time. OPD's review concluded that her actions complied with department policy, and the subsequent Douglas County grand jury returned no indictment. Turner returned to regular duty.
Jason Martinez had approximately 20 years with Omaha police when Jamrozy was killed. Martinez accompanied Turner and the process server to the apartment but did not fire his weapon.

https://www.3newsnow.com/news/local-news/omaha-police-department-releases-body-cam-photos-details-of-officer-involved-shooting

https://www.ketv.com/article/omaha-police-body-camera-images-released-officer-deadly-shooting-timeline/41069025

https://www.wowt.com/2022/08/31/omaha-police-gives-updates-officer-involved-shooting/

https://www.3newsnow.com/news/local-news/omaha-police-department-releases-body-cam-photos-details-of-officer-involved-shooting

https://yorknewstimes.com/news/state-and-regional/crime-and-courts/omaha-man-shot-and-killed-by-officer-who-was-helping-serve-protection-order/article_03b079b7-7c86-5ac9-9398-128913c4cfc6.html

On 08/31/2022, Concord Police Department Officers Jeremy Howarth and Maria Westphal shot 23-year-old Dominic Jeter during a foot pursuit inside Concord Mills Mall after police responded to a report that credit cards had been stolen. Jeter was critically wounded and died several days later. The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation investigated the shooting, body-camera footage was subsequently released, and in January 2023 the Cabarrus County District Attorney's Office declined to charge either officer.
At approximately 12:30 p.m., someone at Concord Mills called 911 and reported that three men had stolen credit cards. The caller provided descriptions of the three men. Howarth and Westphal located three people matching those descriptions outside the mall and approached them. The three ran from the officers toward the mall, and the officers pursued them on foot.
Body-camera footage released later provides considerably more information than the original accounts. The footage shows the officers confronting the three men outside the mall and ordering them to stop. The officers did not appear to have their guns drawn at that point. Jeter and another man continued running into the mall and eventually entered an unfinished store or construction area.
Inside the construction area, the encounter escalated. Body-camera footage shows Jeter with a handgun and shows him pointing it toward Westphal. Howarth and Westphal repeatedly ordered him to drop the gun. One officer positioned himself behind available cover while Jeter was partially concealed behind construction equipment.
The recording then captures a gunshot, followed by the officers firing. WSOC's frame-by-frame review found that the first bullet ricocheted off the floor near Westphal before police opened fire. The Cabarrus County District Attorney's subsequent review concluded that Jeter fired first, approximately 22 seconds after drawing the handgun, and that Howarth and Westphal then returned fire.
Police gunfire struck Jeter. Officers then summoned emergency medical personnel and provided aid. Jeter was transported in critical condition to Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. No officer was struck by the gunfire.
Jeter survived initially but died from his wounds over the following weekend. Concord Police Chief Gary Gacek publicly announced his death on 09/06/2022 after receiving confirmation from the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner's Office.
The shooting caused Concord Mills to be locked down and closed for the remainder of the day while police searched the mall and investigators processed the scene. The other two men police had pursued were taken into custody outside the mall.
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation assumed responsibility for the independent investigation of the police shooting. Concord Police separately reviewed Howarth and Westphal's use of deadly force. Both officers were initially placed on administrative duty under department policy.
The later release of body-camera footage is particularly important because it permits more of the critical encounter to be evaluated independently of the initial police narrative. The video shows Jeter holding and pointing the handgun, records repeated commands to drop it, and captures the first shot and subsequent police gunfire. WSOC's review reported that a bullet can be seen striking or ricocheting from the floor near Westphal immediately before the officers fire.
By the time the body-camera footage became public in December 2022, Howarth and Westphal had both returned to duty.
On 01/10/2023, the Cabarrus County District Attorney's Office announced that neither officer would face criminal charges. Prosecutors concluded from the body-camera recordings and SBI investigation that Jeter fired first and that Howarth and Westphal reasonably believed they faced an imminent threat when they fired. The DA therefore determined that their use of deadly force was legally justified.
No subsequent civil wrongful-death lawsuit, settlement, disciplinary action against Howarth or Westphal, or later evidence materially contradicting the body-camera record was located during this update.

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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Maria Westphal had been a Concord Police Department officer for approximately two years when she shot Jeter. She was placed on administrative duty after the shooting, subsequently returned to work, and was cleared of criminal liability following the SBI and district attorney reviews.
Jeremy Howarth was an unusually new officer at the time of the killing. He had been with the Concord Police Department for only approximately two months when he and Westphal shot Jeter. He was placed on administrative duty after the shooting and later returned to work before the district attorney formally declined criminal charges.
No separate reliably documented prior fatal police shooting or substantiated serious misconduct finding involving Howarth or Westphal was located.

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/concord-mills-closes-amid-heavy-police-presence-outside-mall/YQUHZQN2LZF67FKSFZKOTCHLTU/
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article265140716.html
https://www.wbtv.com/2022/09/06/suspect-injured-during-officer-involved-shooting-concord-mills-dies-police-confirm/
https://www.wccbcharlotte.com/2022/08/31/police-concord-mills-mall-closed-following-officer-involved-shooting/
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2022/08/31/police-shooting-closes-concord-mills-mall
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2022/09/06/man-dies-6-days-after-exchanging-gunfire-with-police-at-concord-mills-mall
https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/exclusive-body-camera-video-released-man-shot-killed-by-police-concord-mills/GDBSJTQTHZHA3DFLZKCEYGE77I/
https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/no-criminal-charges-be-filed-against-officers-deadly-concord-mills-shooting-da-says/FXQJN5WFSRBE5CABYJZVHWIPEU/
https://www.wbtv.com/2023/01/11/officers-involved-fatal-concord-mills-mall-shooting-will-not-face-charges-das-office-confirms/

On 08/31/2022, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Deputies Jasen Tapia, Timothy Garcia, Julio Chavez-Ruiz and Raymond Romero-Soto shot and killed 41-year-old Agustin Flores Sanchez in the Florence-Firestone area of South Los Angeles. Four deputies fired a combined 58 rounds, producing 38 gunshot wound tracks in Flores Sanchez's body. His mother subsequently filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit challenging the police account and use of deadly force. Los Angeles County ultimately agreed to pay $250,000 to settle the case.
At approximately 6:40 a.m., an employee at ReConserve of California called 911 and reported a man with a machete threatening employees. Deputies located Flores Sanchez sitting inside a white pickup truck parked along Graham Avenue. LASD records indicate that Flores Sanchez spoke Spanish, and deputies gave commands to him in Spanish.
Deputies Jasen Tapia and Raymond Romero-Soto approached the driver's side of the truck with their guns drawn. According to the subsequent district attorney investigation, the deputies opened the driver's door and attempted to forcibly remove Flores Sanchez. Police reported that a physical struggle followed and alleged that Flores Sanchez punched and kicked the deputies. Tapia reported that Flores Sanchez struck him in the eye, fracturing his orbital socket and briefly causing him to black out.
The deputies backed away from the truck and additional LASD personnel arrived. Police reported that Flores Sanchez subsequently emerged holding a metal butane torch bottle and a large blade described in official records as a 26-inch machete or sword.
Rather than immediately firing live ammunition, deputies deployed several less-lethal weapons. One deputy fired a 40mm foam baton round that apparently struck Flores Sanchez in the chest. Another deputy fired a stun-bag shotgun. A second 40mm foam baton round was fired and apparently struck him in the chest, and a Taser was also deployed. Two Taser darts were later recovered from his clothing during the autopsy.
The district attorney's later reconstruction determined that only approximately five seconds elapsed between the first 40mm less-lethal round being fired and the beginning of the movement that police characterized as Flores Sanchez charging the deputies.
Police alleged that Flores Sanchez advanced toward the deputies while holding the blade. Tapia, Garcia, Chavez-Ruiz and Romero-Soto then simultaneously opened fire.
The scale of the gunfire was established conclusively by the later forensic investigation. The four deputies fired 58 rounds: Timothy Garcia fired 18; Raymond Romero-Soto fired 18; Jasen Tapia fired 16; and Julio Chavez-Ruiz fired six. Garcia emptied his magazine, reloaded and then held Flores Sanchez at gunpoint after he had fallen.
The autopsy documented 38 separate gunshot wound tracks — 21 through Flores Sanchez's torso and 17 through his extremities. Twenty projectiles were recovered from his body. The medical examiner determined that he died from multiple gunshot wounds.
Flores Sanchez's family strongly contested the official justification for the shooting. In December 2022, his mother, Gloria Sanchez Gallegos, sued Los Angeles County and Deputies Tapia, Romero-Soto, Garcia and Chavez-Ruiz, alleging civil-rights violations, assault and battery and negligence.
The family's version differed significantly from LASD's presentation of the encounter. The lawsuit alleged that although Flores Sanchez possessed a machete, he did not use it unlawfully and became frightened after approximately nine deputies surrounded him with guns drawn and began shouting commands. According to the complaint, he retreated into his truck rather than advancing aggressively toward police.
The lawsuit alleged that the passenger side of the truck was blocked by a chain-link fence, leaving Flores Sanchez effectively surrounded. His mother contended that he came out of the truck when deputies ordered him to do so and was then subjected to a barrage of gunfire that the complaint characterized as resembling a firing squad. The family argued that the number of deputies present and Flores Sanchez's position near the truck undermined the contention that firing dozens of rounds was necessary.
Body-worn cameras captured the encounter. The later criminal investigation also included surveillance video, 911 recordings, police radio traffic, witness interviews, crime-scene evidence, medical records, photographs and voluntary statements from the four deputies who fired.
A particularly significant development emerged from Los Angeles County's own later review of the case. In a corrective-action report prepared in connection with the family's lawsuit, the county identified as a departmental root cause the deputies' failure to recognize Flores Sanchez as an armed, barricaded person whose circumstances warranted notification of the Sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau.
That finding is important because it addresses police tactics before the final seconds of the encounter rather than limiting the review to whether deputies believed they were threatened at the instant they fired. The county's corrective-action plan called for continued tactical and use-of-force training and specifically discussed procedures concerning reaching into vehicles and critical calls for service.
On 05/20/2024, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Justice System Integrity Division completed its criminal review. Prosecutors concluded that Tapia, Garcia, Chavez-Ruiz and Romero-Soto reasonably believed deadly force was necessary to protect themselves and others from an imminent deadly threat and therefore declined to prosecute them.
The family's civil case produced a different kind of resolution. In May 2024, the Los Angeles County Claims Board recommended settling Gloria Sanchez Gallegos v. County of Los Angeles et al., Case No. 2:23-cv-00112, for $250,000, including attorneys' fees and costs. County Counsel stated that settlement would avoid the risks, uncertainties and additional costs of litigation. The payment came from the Sheriff's Department budget.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Jasen Tapia had already participated in another fatal LASD shooting years before Flores Sanchez was killed. On 12/12/2015, Tapia and Deputy Richard Ochoa-Garcia shot and killed 28-year-old Nicholas Robertson in Lynwood. Tapia had joined LASD in April 2007. An eyewitness video of the Robertson shooting showed deputies continuing to fire after Robertson fell and appeared to be crawling away.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney subsequently ruled Tapia and Ochoa-Garcia's killing of Robertson legally justified. Thus, Flores Sanchez was at least the second person Tapia is publicly documented as having shot and killed as an LASD deputy.
In the Flores Sanchez shooting, Tapia fired 16 of the 58 rounds. He reported that Flores Sanchez had fractured his orbital socket during their earlier physical struggle and said he fired when Flores Sanchez later advanced with the machete.
Timothy Garcia fired 18 rounds, tying Romero-Soto for the largest number fired by any of the four deputies. Garcia emptied his service pistol's magazine and reloaded during the shooting. No separate reliably documented prior fatal shooting involving Garcia was located.
Raymond Romero-Soto also fired 18 rounds. He reported injuries to his shoulders, wrists and lower back from the earlier struggle with Flores Sanchez. No separate reliably documented prior fatal shooting involving Romero-Soto was located.
Julio Chavez-Ruiz fired six rounds. No separate reliably documented prior fatal shooting involving Chavez-Ruiz was located.

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/man-with-machete-fatally-shot-deputies-florence-firestone/
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-31/sheriffs-deputies-shoot-and-kill-man-allegedly-armed-with-machete-in-south-los-angeles
https://lasd.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Transparency__083122_CEN_DIS_Flores_Agustin_Summary_10042.pdf
https://da.lacounty.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/JSID-OIS-05-20-24-Flores.pdf
https://da.lacounty.gov/reports/ois/2024
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/ca/california/public-safety/2022/12/25/woman-sues-la-county-over-fatal-shooting-of-son-by-deputies
https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/california/cacdce/2%3A2023cv00112/872172/14/0.pdf
https://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/supdocs/190864.pdf
https://homicide.latimes.com/post/agustin-sanchez/
https://homicide.latimes.com/post/sheriffs-department-deputies-identified-shootings/
https://da.lacounty.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/JSID_OIS_04_2017_Robertson.pdf

On 08/30/2022, 30-year-old Benjamin Todd Wilber was killed when his motorcycle collided with a Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office pickup positioned at an intersection to assist an Adair County deputy who was pursuing him. The pursuit began after what initially was a welfare check on Wilber, who had stopped his motorcycle on an Interstate 80 overpass and appeared to the deputy to be slumped over.
Shortly after midnight, an Adair County sheriff’s deputy was patrolling near Adair-Madison Avenue and the Interstate 80 interchange at mile marker 97 when the deputy saw a motorcycle parked on the shoulder of the overpass. Wilber was sitting on the motorcycle and appeared slumped over, prompting the deputy to stop to check on him.
Wilber told the deputy he was cold and had stopped to rest or warm up. There was no confrontation during the welfare check. The deputy returned to the patrol vehicle and ran the license plate displayed on the motorcycle. The check indicated that the 2013 Harley-Davidson had been reported stolen in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
By the time the deputy received that information, Wilber had returned to Interstate 80 and was traveling west. The deputy caught up and attempted a traffic stop using emergency lights and siren. Wilber continued driving west and exited Interstate 80 at Adair.
Police continued pursuing Wilber north from Adair into Guthrie County. Wilber subsequently traveled east toward Casey on White Pole Road. The publicly available reporting does not provide the pursuit's maximum speed, total duration, exact distance, or whether a supervisor evaluated whether it should continue.
Guthrie County Sheriff’s Deputy Todd Thorn was called to assist with the pursuit. Thorn positioned his department-issued 2021 Chevrolet Silverado at the intersection of White Pole Road and Juniper Avenue. According to the Iowa State Patrol crash account, Thorn's pickup was stopped on Juniper Avenue on the south side of the intersection and facing north.
At approximately 12:32 a.m., Wilber approached the intersection traveling east on White Pole Road. His motorcycle veered south and struck the rear driver's side of Thorn's sheriff's vehicle.
The collision threw Wilber from the motorcycle. He landed in the southeast ditch and died from his injuries. Thorn was not physically injured.
The Iowa State Patrol investigated the fatal collision. Its initial findings identified Wilber, documented the positioning of Thorn's sheriff's vehicle and established that the motorcycle physically struck the police vehicle while an Adair County deputy was pursuing Wilber.
Later information released by the Adair County Sheriff’s Office supplied important context missing from the first reports: police did not initially encounter Wilber because they were investigating a crime or conducting a traffic stop. The encounter began when a deputy stopped to check on a motorcyclist who appeared to be slumped over and potentially in need of assistance. The pursuit began only after the deputy subsequently checked the motorcycle's plate and received information that it had been reported stolen.
Wilber was from Mora, Minnesota. He was born 11/26/1991 and worked as a welder. His family described him as an avid fisherman and outdoorsman who enjoyed animals, gaming, bonfires and spending time with family and friends. He left behind his parents and two brothers.
Friends remembered Wilber for his humor and willingness to help people, describing him as someone who listened when others were struggling and tried to cheer them up. His family emphasized that his relationships with family and friends were central to his life.
No later civil lawsuit, settlement, disciplinary proceeding, publicly released pursuit-policy review or finding of wrongdoing by either sheriff's department was located in the subsequent public record. The available later reporting also does not identify the Adair County deputy who initiated and conducted the pursuit.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Guthrie County Sheriff’s Deputy Todd Thorn, 52, was identified by the Iowa State Patrol as the deputy positioned at White Pole Road and Juniper Avenue to assist with the pursuit. Thorn was sitting in the department's 2021 Chevrolet Silverado when Wilber's motorcycle struck the rear driver's side of the police vehicle.
The Adair County deputy who initiated the attempted stop and pursued Wilber has not been publicly identified in the records located for this update.

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On 08/30/2022, 19-year-old Walker James Porretto shot himself inside his vehicle as members of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office Violent Criminal Apprehension Team approached to arrest him in the parking lot of the Kroger Marketplace in Willis. Porretto was being sought in connection with a shooting the previous evening near Friendswood that killed 18-year-old Redha Sayed and critically wounded her 20-year-old sister, Mahenoor Sayed.
Harris County deputies had identified Porretto as the person they believed shot the sisters and began searching for him after he left the shooting scene in a gray vehicle. Investigators tracked him approximately 70 miles north into Montgomery County.
Members of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office Violent Criminal Apprehension Team located Porretto early the following morning sitting inside a vehicle parked outside the Kroger Marketplace in the 12600 block of Interstate 45 North in Willis. Rather than immediately confronting him, HCSO personnel conducted surveillance and coordinated the attempted arrest.
At approximately 6:50 a.m., Montgomery County sheriff’s deputies and Willis police were dispatched to the Kroger parking lot to assist the Harris County team. As Harris County deputies moved toward Porretto's vehicle to arrest him, Porretto shot himself inside the vehicle. The available accounts do not report that deputies fired their weapons.
Porretto was initially alive after the gunshot. Emergency personnel transported him to a nearby hospital in critical condition, where he subsequently died. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Homicide and Violent Crimes Unit and Crime Scene Investigators, together with the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office, investigated the death.
The events prompting the manhunt began at approximately 7:30 p.m. on 08/29/2022 in the 4700 block of Backenberry Drive at Constitution Lane in southeast Harris County. Harris County deputies found sisters Redha Sayed and Mahenoor Sayed suffering from gunshot wounds. Redha died at the scene and Mahenoor survived a gunshot wound to the neck.
According to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, investigators alleged that Porretto had been dating Redha. Gonzalez said investigators believed Porretto had made inappropriate comments toward Mahenoor and that the sisters met with him to discuss what had happened. Police alleged that Porretto then shot both women and drove away. A nearby surveillance system recorded portions of the encounter, and a witness described seeing the women approach a vehicle and an argument immediately before gunfire.
Porretto's full name was Walker James Porretto. He was born on 05/02/2003 in Webster, Texas, and was 19 when he died. His obituary identifies his mother, brother and grandparents among his surviving family members.
Later reporting and a Texas Council on Family Violence review confirmed that Porretto was under criminal-justice supervision when the shootings occurred. Because those circumstances relate directly to the events immediately preceding the deaths, the relevant point is that Porretto had been released from jail approximately four weeks earlier and was subject to conditions prohibiting him from possessing a firearm.
The later investigation therefore clarifies several points that were missing from the earliest account: Porretto's full identity was Walker James Porretto; the Harris County Sheriff’s Office Violent Criminal Apprehension Team tracked him to Willis; deputies conducted surveillance before attempting the arrest; Montgomery County deputies and Willis police were summoned to assist; and Porretto shot himself inside the vehicle as Harris County deputies approached to take him into custody. He was transported alive but subsequently died at the hospital.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office personnel who approached Porretto's vehicle have not been publicly identified in the records located for this update.

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On 08/27/2022, 37-year-old Hector “Tito” Ruiz-Diaz was killed when a vehicle Arlington Police Department officers were pursuing crashed into traffic at New York Avenue and East Arkansas Lane. Ruiz-Diaz had no involvement in the police encounter. He and a friend had gone out to find a cake for the friend’s daughter’s quinceañera when the pursuit reached the intersection and the pursued vehicle crashed into six vehicles. Later court proceedings identified Ruiz-Diaz by his full surname, established additional details about the pursuit, and ended in 2024 with the pursued driver receiving a 50-year prison sentence.
Arlington police were attempting to arrest a man who was wanted in connection with multiple armed robberies. According to a later search-warrant affidavit, officers located his vehicle and attempted to stop and arrest him. When he continued driving away at high speed, Arlington police pursued.
The pursuit continued into southeast Arlington toward the heavily traveled intersection of New York Avenue and East Arkansas Lane. Arlington police later emphasized that the pursuit had been relatively short, but its duration did not prevent it from ending in a major multi-vehicle collision involving people who had nothing to do with the police operation.
At New York Avenue and Arkansas Lane, the pursued vehicle entered the intersection against a red traffic signal and crashed into vehicles that were stopped there. The collision ultimately involved six other vehicles. Ruiz-Diaz’s vehicle overturned, and he was killed.
The scale of the crash was substantially greater than the earliest accounts of Ruiz-Diaz’s death conveyed. Later criminal proceedings established that 14 additional people were injured in the collision. Ruiz-Diaz was the only person killed.
Ruiz-Diaz was not simply an unidentified motorist caught in the collision. Friends knew him as “Tito.” He was born in Mexico and was one of 11 siblings. He worked at an Arlington collision center, where he had developed close relationships with his coworkers and regarded them as family. Friends and relatives remembered him as caring, helpful, playful and direct.
The circumstances of his final trip were especially ordinary. Ruiz-Diaz and his friend Flores were looking for a cake for Flores’s daughter’s quinceañera when the police pursuit entered their path. After Ruiz-Diaz was killed, his family faced significant financial difficulty, and his body was returned to Mexico for burial.
The case subsequently produced a much more substantial criminal record than was available when Ruiz-Diaz was killed. Prosecutors charged the pursued driver with murder, evading arrest causing serious bodily injury and offenses associated with the robberies that had prompted police to seek his arrest.
In August 2024, nearly two years after Ruiz-Diaz’s death, the pursued driver pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison for killing Ruiz-Diaz and injuring the other motorists. The guilty plea encompassed murder, robbery charges and evading arrest causing serious bodily injury.
The later prosecution therefore firmly established several details missing from the initial reporting: Ruiz-Diaz’s full name was Hector Ruiz-Diaz, rather than simply Hector or “Tito” Ruiz; he was 37; the pursuit occurred on 08/27/2022, not 08/30/2022 as some database entries have recorded; the pursued vehicle crashed into six vehicles; Ruiz-Diaz’s vehicle overturned; and 14 other people were injured.
Arlington Police Department’s own 2022 pursuit analysis provides additional context for the department’s pursuit practices that year. APD officers conducted 63 vehicle pursuits during 2022, 43 of them initiated for suspected felony offenses. Thirteen pursuits — 20.6% of all APD pursuits that year — ended in collisions. The department reported that each pursuit was required to be documented and reviewed by a supervisor under General Order 402.03.
The same report shows that supervisors ordered officers to terminate 18 pursuits during 2022, while officers independently terminated another 17. Those figures establish that terminating an active pursuit was an established and regularly used option within Arlington police operations that year.
No later civil wrongful-death lawsuit, settlement or publicly released disciplinary finding concerning the officers who pursued the vehicle was located during this update. The subsequent public record concentrates overwhelmingly on prosecuting the pursued driver rather than evaluating the police decision-making that preceded the fatal collision.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The Arlington Police Department officers who initiated and participated in the pursuit that preceded Ruiz-Diaz’s death have not been publicly identified in the records located for this update.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/loved-ones-remember-bystander-killed-in-arlington-police-chase/3060786/

On 08/30/2022, 59-year-old Derrick J. Harrell died after Kennett Police Department officers used a police dog to take him into custody inside a vacant residence. The K-9 bit Harrell severely enough that police summoned an ambulance to transport him to a hospital for treatment. During the approximately 30-mile trip from Kennett to Pemiscot Memorial Hospital in Hayti, police said Harrell suffered an unspecified medical event and died. The Missouri State Highway Patrol subsequently reviewed the arrest.
The encounter occurred late Tuesday evening when Kennett police attempted to arrest Harrell. Police reported that Harrell went into a vacant residence and officers sent a K-9 into the building to take him into custody. The available public accounts do not identify the officers involved, the police dog or the address of the vacant house.
The dog bit Harrell during the arrest. Police then contacted emergency medical personnel. The initial Kennett Police Department statement said EMS "cleared" Harrell for transportation to a hospital for treatment of the dog bite. Another contemporaneous report states more directly that an ambulance transported him to Pemiscot Memorial Hospital in Hayti.
While Harrell was being transported, he experienced what police described only as a "medical event." He died before or during arrival at the hospital. The initial reports did not disclose the nature or severity of the dog-bite injuries, what medical symptoms developed during transportation, whether resuscitation was attempted, or Harrell's ultimate medical cause of death.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol was brought in to review the arrest and Harrell's subsequent death. Despite searching for later reporting and official follow-up, no publicly accessible final Highway Patrol investigative report, autopsy findings, medical examiner determination, prosecutorial review, body-camera release, civil lawsuit or settlement concerning Harrell's death was located. The publicly available record therefore remains unusually thin more than three years after the initial announcement.
The available evidence does establish an important sequence that should not be lost in the original police description of a "medical event": Harrell was alive when Kennett police encountered him; officers used a police K-9 to apprehend him inside the vacant residence; the dog injured him sufficiently that medical treatment was required; Harrell was placed in an ambulance for transportation to a hospital; and he died during that medical transport. The public record located for this update does not establish whether the K-9 injuries, physical stress of the arrest, an underlying medical condition or some combination of factors caused or contributed to his death.

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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Kennett Police Department has not publicly identified the officers or K-9 handler involved in Harrell's arrest in the records located for this update.

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On 08/30/2022, Columbus Police K-9 Officer Ricky Anderson shot and killed 20-year-old Donovan Lewis while Lewis was in bed inside an apartment on Sullivant Avenue. Police had arrived around 2 a.m. to execute an arrest warrant. Body-camera footage showed Anderson opening Lewis's bedroom door and firing approximately one second later as Lewis began sitting up. Lewis was unarmed. A vape pen was found near him on the bed.
Officers Chance Knox, Harry Dorsey, Jack Randall and Justin Dodrill were also involved in the warrant operation. Police repeatedly knocked and announced themselves at the apartment door before two other men came out and were detained. Lewis remained inside a closed bedroom. Anderson brought his police dog, K-9 Boef, into the apartment as officers prepared to enter the room.
Body-camera footage provides the clearest account of the shooting. Anderson stood at the bedroom door holding the dog on a leash. An officer opened the door, illuminating Lewis in bed. As Lewis began to sit up, an officer yelled "hands." Anderson almost immediately fired one round into Lewis. Police Chief Elaine Bryant initially said Anderson fired when Lewis appeared to raise a hand while holding something. No firearm was subsequently found in the bedroom or apartment.
The shooting happened so rapidly that the family's attorneys later emphasized that Lewis had virtually no opportunity to understand what was happening, much less comply with the command being given as Anderson fired. The family's civil complaint described the interval between the bedroom door opening and Anderson shooting Lewis as less than one second.
After Anderson shot him, police handcuffed the critically wounded Lewis while he remained on the bed. The family's later lawsuit alleged that the officers then failed to provide him immediate medical assistance as required by Columbus's Andre's Law, enacted after Columbus police killed Andre Hill in 2020. Attorneys for Lewis's family alleged that officers instead spent critical time discussing whether Lewis was resisting and did not immediately provide lifesaving care.
Lewis was eventually carried from the apartment and transported to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center, where he died. The Franklin County Coroner determined that the single bullet entered his abdomen, damaged internal organs and lodged in his pelvis, and classified his death as a homicide.
Lewis's death produced immediate protests in Columbus. His mother, Rebecca Duran, and other relatives demanded Anderson be held accountable, while community activists challenged both the shooting itself and the police practice of executing warrants at private residences during the middle of the night.
Lewis was an aspiring musician who recorded under the name "Donovan Dior." His partner, LaTonya Lewis, was pregnant with their child when he was killed. She described him as funny and affectionate and said the two had talked about building a future together while he pursued music and she hoped to start a catering business. Their child would never meet his father.
The circumstances leading police to the apartment also became part of the public discussion because LaTonya Lewis had previously contacted police following an argument with Donovan. She later stressed that whatever had happened between them did not justify police killing him as he awoke in bed.
The killing produced an almost immediate change in Columbus police procedure. Within days, Chief Elaine Bryant ordered that pre-planned arrest warrants for misdemeanor offenses, including domestic violence, and nonviolent felonies generally could no longer be served at private residences between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. without approval from a lieutenant or higher-ranking officer. The policy change did not apply to SWAT or other tactical units and allowed exceptions for dangerous or exigent circumstances.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation conducted the criminal investigation and delivered its findings to prosecutors in December 2022.
In February 2023, Lewis's family filed a wrongful-death and civil-rights lawsuit against Anderson and Officers Knox, Dorsey, Randall and Dodrill. The complaint alleged excessive force and asserted that all five officers violated Andre's Law by failing to provide immediate medical assistance after Anderson shot Lewis.
Anderson left the Columbus Division of Police on 03/03/2023. Significantly, the department did not characterize his departure as an ordinary retirement. Columbus announced that Anderson had "retired in bad standing" because of the ongoing criminal and administrative investigations into Lewis's death. That designation prevented him from retaining his police badge and service firearm.
On 08/04/2023, a Franklin County grand jury indicted Anderson for murder and reckless homicide in Lewis's killing. Anderson pleaded not guilty. His defense maintains that he perceived a threat when Lewis moved as the officers entered the bedroom and that his use of deadly force must be evaluated based on what Anderson perceived during the brief encounter.
The criminal prosecution remains unresolved. Anderson's trial has been repeatedly postponed. By March 2026, his defense had requested an eighth continuance, partly because his attorneys were also representing former Franklin County Sheriff's Deputy Jason Meade in the prosecution over the killing of Casey Goodson Jr.
The Meade case concluded with a reckless-homicide conviction in May 2026, but Anderson's case was again delayed. As of the most recent court reporting located in June 2026, Anderson still had not gone to trial, nearly four years after killing Lewis and almost three years after his indictment. A further motion hearing was scheduled for October 2026. He therefore remains charged with murder and reckless homicide, with the charges unresolved as of this update.
The Lewis family also expanded its civil litigation. In April 2024, the family filed another federal action against the City of Columbus and Police Chief Elaine Bryant alleging that Lewis's killing resulted from broader failures within the department, including an alleged culture of excessive force and inadequate accountability.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Ricky Anderson's personnel history is particularly significant. He had been a Columbus police officer since 1991 and had approximately 30 years with the department when he killed Lewis. He worked as a K-9 officer and brought police dog Boef to Lewis's bedroom during the warrant operation.
Anderson had previously been fired by Columbus police in 2004. The firing followed a case in which Anderson was accused of accepting payment for private-duty security work at a bank when he was not actually working the assignment. He had been indicted in 2003 on a theft-in-office allegation, admitted the theft and completed a court diversion program that resulted in the record being cleared. Columbus subsequently terminated him. An arbitrator overturned the firing and reinstated Anderson, determining that a 30-day suspension would have been appropriate instead.
Anderson's disciplinary history extended considerably beyond that incident. His Internal Affairs history showed 10 formal complaints during his career, including a sustained complaint stemming from a 2019 incident. Records reported after Lewis's killing also showed that Anderson had been found out of policy nine times in 58 use-of-force investigations during his career. Those nine findings did not involve firearms.
Lewis's family's subsequent civil complaint described an even broader record, alleging that Anderson accumulated 58 complaints, including use-of-force complaints, during his career and had also been reprimanded for sexual harassment while working as a police officer.
Thus, Anderson's history before Lewis's killing included a theft-related case that resulted in his termination before an arbitrator returned him to the force, multiple internal complaints, repeated findings that his use of force violated policy, and a sexual-harassment reprimand. After shooting the unarmed Lewis in bed, Anderson retired in bad standing and was subsequently indicted for murder and reckless homicide. His criminal prosecution remains pending as of August 2026.
No comparable prior fatal shooting or significant substantiated misconduct record was located for Chance Knox, Harry Dorsey, Jack Randall or Justin Dodrill. None of those four officers fired the shot that killed Lewis.

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On 08/30/2022, Park County Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant Mark Hartman shot and killed 37-year-old Jack E. McGlothlin on a canal road between Powell and Cody after Hartman attempted to arrest McGlothlin on an active warrant and then pursued him by vehicle. The case was investigated by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation and eventually referred outside Park County for an independent prosecutorial review. That later investigation substantially expanded the sparse information released immediately after the killing.
Hartman encountered McGlothlin during the afternoon and confirmed over police radio that there was an active warrant for his arrest. According to Hartman’s account to investigators, McGlothlin recognized him and said that Hartman was not taking him to jail. Hartman said McGlothlin shoved him in the chest, got into his vehicle and drove away. Hartman then pursued him in his patrol truck along a canal road.
McGlothlin eventually stopped his vehicle. The sheriff’s office initially told the public that McGlothlin got out with a firearm pointed at Hartman and moved toward him. The later DCI investigation revealed that the encounter was considerably more complicated than that brief initial description.
According to Hartman, McGlothlin approached carrying a shotgun. Hartman got out of his patrol truck, went to the rear of the vehicle and retrieved his rifle. The two men then physically struggled. Hartman said he succeeded in taking McGlothlin’s shotgun away from him.
Hartman told investigators that after losing possession of the shotgun, McGlothlin attempted to take Hartman’s rifle. Hartman said he maintained control of the rifle with one hand while drawing his .40-caliber handgun with the other. According to Hartman’s account, he told McGlothlin that he did not want to kill him, and McGlothlin responded that Hartman would have to. Hartman did not provide DCI investigators with a more detailed account of precisely what occurred immediately before he fired.
Hartman shot McGlothlin twice in the chest at close range. Both bullets were fired from Hartman’s .40-caliber handgun. McGlothlin collapsed on the canal road.
The physical evidence provided some corroboration for a struggle between the two men. Investigators found DNA from both Hartman and McGlothlin on Hartman’s rifle and on McGlothlin’s shotgun. McGlothlin’s DNA was also found on Hartman’s neck. Investigators documented scuffing and disturbances in the sand and gravel where the confrontation occurred.
Other deputies were already responding while the confrontation was developing. Deputy Tyler Patterson and Undersheriff Andy Varian heard Hartman confirming McGlothlin’s warrant over the radio. Patterson abandoned a vehicle-identification-number inspection to respond, while Varian also headed toward Hartman because authorities knew McGlothlin could have access to firearms. Varian believed he heard Hartman call for help and subsequently heard Hartman report that a gun was being pointed at him.
Hartman then radioed that shots had been fired. Varian arrived first and found Hartman performing CPR on McGlothlin. Hartman had also placed a chest seal over one of McGlothlin’s wounds. Varian observed scratches on Hartman’s hand and discoloration around his neck. Patterson arrived shortly afterward and also observed redness on Hartman’s neck.
DCI Special Agent Jonathan Shane Reece documented McGlothlin lying partly on the canal road with at least one visible wound to the upper center of his chest. Investigators recovered two .40-caliber cartridge casings near his body. A 12-gauge shotgun was found near Hartman’s patrol truck along with a sleeve containing five additional shotgun shells.
Forensic pathologist Dr. Thomas Bennett performed the examination of McGlothlin on 09/04/2022 and determined that he died from two close-range gunshot wounds to the middle of his chest.
A significant limitation of the investigation was that there was no body-camera or dashboard-camera recording of the confrontation. Hartman was not wearing a body camera, and his patrol truck was not equipped with a dash camera. There was therefore no video recording independently showing the pursuit, the confrontation over the guns or the moment Hartman shot McGlothlin.
There was another important limitation: Hartman did not agree to provide DCI with a more formal interview about the shooting. Special prosecutor Dan Erramouspe later explicitly acknowledged that because no body or dash camera existed and Hartman did not sit for a more complete interview, his legal conclusion necessarily rested on Hartman’s statements to other officers at the scene, police radio traffic, the physical scene and forensic evidence.
DCI continued investigating for months. By November 2022, investigators were nearing completion of the case, and Park County officials announced that the investigation would be submitted to the county attorney and then to a special prosecutor for review.
Park County did not publicly identify either McGlothlin or Hartman until February 2023, approximately five months after the killing. The Park County Commission subsequently selected Sweetwater County Attorney Dan Erramouspe to independently determine whether Hartman’s use of deadly force was criminally justified.
On 06/07/2023, Erramouspe announced that Hartman would not face criminal charges. He concluded that the physical evidence corroborated enough of Hartman’s account to establish that Hartman reasonably used deadly force during the struggle. The decision specifically relied on the DNA evidence, physical evidence at the scene, injuries observed on Hartman, radio transmissions and the statements Hartman made immediately afterward.
The justification decision therefore did not rest on video evidence or an independent eyewitness account of the shooting. The fatal confrontation appears to have occurred with only Hartman and McGlothlin present, there was no body-camera or dashboard-camera footage, and Hartman declined a more extensive formal DCI interview. The prosecutor nevertheless concluded that the physical and circumstantial evidence sufficiently supported Hartman’s version to find the shooting legally justified.
No later wrongful-death lawsuit, settlement or subsequent official finding reversing the prosecutor’s justification decision was located during this update.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Mark Hartman was a lieutenant with the Park County Sheriff’s Office and remains identified by the department as the lieutenant overseeing its Patrol Division. He is assigned to the Powell district.
Hartman had previously been named personally as a defendant in a federal civil-rights lawsuit arising from Park County law-enforcement actions. In Wilcox v. Magill, members of the Wilcox family and Wilcox Livestock sued Hartman, another deputy, Sheriff Scott Steward, the Park County Sheriff’s Office and others under 42 U.S.C. §1983 over the seizure of horses pursuant to a writ of execution that was subsequently modified. The federal district court dismissed the claims, and in 2012 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed the dismissal. The case therefore documents a prior civil-rights allegation involving Hartman but did not result in a finding that he violated the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights.
No separate reliably documented prior fatal shooting by Hartman was located. In McGlothlin’s killing, Hartman was the only officer present for the fatal confrontation and the only officer who fired.

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https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca10/11-8021/11-8021-2012-03-14.html

On 08/28/2022, 50-year-old Jerome Bernard Mouzone died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after Florence Police Department officers responded to Sedgefield Apartments on Valparaiso Drive and police surrounded an apartment where Mouzone had barricaded himself. Police said Mouzone had just shot and killed 47-year-old Tamika McGray. The incident developed into a barricade involving the Florence Police Department Emergency Response Team and the Florence County Sheriff’s Office SWAT Team.
Police were called to the apartment complex at approximately 7 p.m. after McGray was shot. Officers found her suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, and she died at the scene. As police investigated, they identified Mouzone as the person they believed had shot her.
Mouzone went into a nearby apartment and barricaded himself as police established a perimeter. Florence police brought in their Emergency Response Team, while the Florence County Sheriff’s Office deployed its SWAT Team to assist. The available reporting does not establish that police fired any shots during the standoff.
Police eventually entered the apartment and found Mouzone dead from what authorities determined was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Florence County Coroner Keith von Lutcken subsequently identified both people and authorities classified the deaths as a murder-suicide, concluding that Mouzone intentionally shot McGray before killing himself.
The later identification corrected an important gap in the first reports, which had initially described both people without releasing their names. McGray was 47 and from Florence; Mouzone was 50 and also from Florence.
The date also warrants care in the database. The shooting and barricade occurred on Sunday, 08/28/2022. News reports published on August 29 described the incident as having occurred the previous evening, and the coroner released the identities on August 30.
I found no later public record materially expanding the case beyond the murder-suicide determination: no subsequent civil lawsuit, body-camera release, investigative report, or public account establishing a different sequence of events. The publicly available record also does not identify the individual Florence officers or Florence County deputies who participated in the barricade response.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The Florence Police Department and Florence County Sheriff’s Office personnel involved in surrounding and entering the apartment have not been publicly identified in the records located for this update.

https://abcnews4.com/news/crime-news/florence-apartment-shooting-confirmed-as-murder-suicide-victim-identified-by-coroner
https://www.wfxb.com/2022/08/29/two-dead-after-shooting-at-apartment-complex-in-florence/
https://www.wfxb.com/2022/08/30/coroner-identifies-two-left-dead-after-florence-shooting/
https://www.wmbfnews.com/video/2022/08/29/video-florence-murder-suicide-case/

On 08/29/2022, Maricopa Police Department officers shot and killed 38-year-old Brian Simmons outside his home in the 43900 block of West McCord Drive after responding to a noise complaint. The original reports left major questions unanswered, including whether police gunfire actually killed Simmons. Subsequent body-camera and drone releases, public-records reporting, officer interviews and extensive interviews with Simmons’s family established that two Maricopa officers fired 23 rounds at Simmons, six bullets struck him, and he died from those wounds. The later record also established that police already knew Simmons was experiencing a serious mental-health crisis and that his family had repeatedly sought police assistance to get him treatment.
Police arrived at about 10:30 a.m. because of loud music at Simmons’s house. The body-camera footage shows an initially strikingly friendly encounter. Officers knew Simmons by name. Simmons walked into the street with his dog, high-fived an officer, elbow-bumped another and hugged an officer. Police had dealt with him repeatedly before, and both officers who ultimately shot him had previous contact with him.
The later records provide crucial context for why police knew him so well. Simmons had 22 documented contacts with Maricopa police during the approximately 20 months he lived in the city, with 21 occurring during the final eight months of his life. Police reports repeatedly documented concerns about his mental condition. His family had also directly warned the department that he was deteriorating and needed psychiatric help.
The officer who held the rank of sergeant told investigators that he deliberately responded to the noise complaint because he believed he had developed a rapport with Simmons. Police had internally classified Simmons as a potential officer-safety risk, which meant a sergeant was supposed to become involved when officers dealt with him. The sergeant had been with Maricopa police since 2008. The second officer had encountered Simmons approximately one week earlier and knew he had access to numerous firearms.
The cordial interaction deteriorated after officers told Simmons to turn down the music and clean up belongings scattered around his property. Simmons walked back toward his driveway and picked up two handguns. The released video does not show him pointing those guns at police. Officers drew their weapons and repeatedly ordered him to put the guns down. Simmons eventually placed them on the driveway and raised his hands.
Simmons then picked up a hatchet. Officers continued ordering him to put it down and get on the ground. The sergeant later told investigators that although several officers had guns trained on Simmons, he initially chose not to shoot because he questioned whether the handguns Simmons had picked up were genuine.
Police escalated to less-lethal force. At the sergeant’s direction, officers fired beanbag rounds at Simmons. After the first impact produced little reaction, the sergeant ordered another round. Simmons then went inside his house while officers continued ordering him to stop.
The sergeant instructed the other officer to retrieve a rifle and obtained a rifle himself. Officers positioned themselves watching the garage entrance where Simmons had gone inside. Simmons instead emerged in the side yard behind a gate. A shotgun blast came from that area. The two officers said they then saw movement they interpreted as Simmons attempting to reload the shotgun and opened fire.
The volume of police gunfire was not disclosed in the earliest reports. The subsequent investigative records established that the sergeant fired 19 rounds and the patrol officer fired four, for a total of 23 police rounds. Six bullets struck Simmons.
After the shooting, police did not immediately approach Simmons. A prolonged standoff followed while the Pinal County Regional SWAT Team responded. Police eventually used drones to locate Simmons lying motionless in the side yard. At approximately 1:15 p.m., police deployed a flash-bang near his body in an apparent attempt to determine whether he would react. At approximately 1:30 p.m., SWAT officers approached and confirmed he was dead.
The subsequent release of body-camera footage was particularly important because the earliest public reports said only that Simmons had exchanged gunfire with police and was later found dead, leaving open whether he had been killed by police or had shot himself. The later evidence established that police shot Simmons six times.
The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office took over the shooting investigation because Maricopa officers had fired the fatal rounds. PCSO Sergeant Heath Rankin interviewed the two shooters on August 29 and 30 with their attorneys present. The public-records reporting based on those interviews identifies the shooters only by rank — a sergeant and a patrol officer — rather than by name.
The most substantial later development in this case was the emergence of extensive information about Simmons’s life and deteriorating condition before police killed him. He had grown up in Idaho Falls and had been athletic, outgoing and socially connected. His father described him as a talented basketball player, prankster and someone who quietly bought Christmas presents for families who could not afford them. He also enjoyed baseball, golf, snowmobiling, hunting and fishing.
Simmons later worked at the Idaho National Laboratory, initially as a security guard and subsequently as a Nuclear Facility Operator. On 11/08/2011, he and other workers were exposed to radioactive material during work involving a damaged plutonium plate. Simmons later sued Battelle Energy Alliance, alleging that workers had been knowingly exposed to radioactive dust containing plutonium. He received an undisclosed settlement.
His family and a former coworker said Simmons changed profoundly after the exposure. His father and brother described an increasingly severe deterioration in his behavior and mental state. A former coworker who had been exposed alongside Simmons recalled speaking with him shortly before his death and realizing that although it was Brian’s voice, the person he remembered seemed psychologically absent. The family believed the radiation exposure played a role in the deterioration, although the precise medical cause of Simmons’s mental condition was never established.
Most importantly for the police encounter, Maricopa police were already aware that Simmons was in crisis. His father had previously sought an involuntary 72-hour psychiatric evaluation for him. His brother Cory also contacted police seeking help. On August 13, only about two weeks before Simmons was killed, a crisis worker accompanied four officers to his home after his brother became alarmed by photographs involving firearms that Simmons had posted online. The effort did not result in sustained treatment.
Two days before the fatal encounter, police contacted Simmons again while he was behaving erratically in public. Officers followed him toward his house but deliberately decided not to confront him there because, according to their report, they were concerned about his agitated state and history.
Simmons’s brother later said police called him during this period asking whether the family was coming to get Brian. Cory told them the family was trying to help him and specifically pleaded with police not to kill his brother. According to Cory, officers themselves warned the family that an encounter with the wrong officer could result in Simmons being shot if he became sufficiently aggressive. Two days later, Maricopa officers killed him.
The later reporting therefore substantially changes the context of the original case. Police did not encounter an unknown armed man during an unexpected emergency. They went to the home of a man they knew by name, had contacted repeatedly, knew was deteriorating psychologically, knew possessed firearms, had previously handled cautiously because of that combination, and whose family had repeatedly sought help. The encounter nevertheless began over loud music and developed from friendly greetings into beanbag gunfire, Simmons retreating into his home, a shotgun blast from the side yard and 23 rounds of police gunfire that struck him six times.
No later civil wrongful-death lawsuit, publicly reported settlement or criminal prosecution of either officer was located during this update.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The two Maricopa Police Department officers who fired the fatal rounds remain unnamed in the public records and reporting located for this update. The investigative records establish that one was a sergeant who had worked for Maricopa police since 2008 and had dealt with Simmons previously; the second was a patrol officer who had encountered Simmons approximately one week before his death. The sergeant fired 19 rounds and the patrol officer fired four.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/pinal-breaking/2022/09/04/man-dies-after-exchanging-gunfire-maricopa-police-officers/7993663001/
https://www.inmaricopa.com/man-found-dead-after-shootout-with-police-identified/
https://www.azfamily.com/2022/08/31/maricopa-police-identify-man-found-dead-after-hours-long-standoff-with-officers/
https://www.abc15.com/news/region-central-southern-az/maricopa/man-dead-after-shooting-involving-maricopa-officers
https://inmaricopa.com/police-sheriff-release-body-camera-footage-of-fatal-shootout-in-august/
https://www.inmaricopa.com/maricopa-police-officers-in-simmons-shooting-say-their-hand-was-forced/
https://inmaricopa.com/unpacking-the-brian-simmons-story/
https://www.inmaricopa.com/we-were-trying-to-get-him-some-help/
https://www.inmaricopa.com/neighbor-brian-simmons-mental-state-had-been-alarming-for-some-time/

On 08/26/2022, 20-year-old Jeremy Scott Baumer Jr. was killed after an Iowa State Patrol pursuit of his motorcycle reached speeds exceeding 100 mph on West River Drive in Davenport and ended when Baumer's motorcycle crashed into the rear of a Ford Fusion near Fairmount Street. Baumer was transported to a Davenport hospital and pronounced dead.
The crash occurred at approximately 9:55 p.m. Baumer was riding eastbound on West River Drive while Iowa State Patrol troopers pursued him. State Patrol specifically acknowledged that speeds during the pursuit exceeded 100 mph.
Near Fairmount Street, Baumer's motorcycle struck the rear of a white Ford Fusion. The woman driving the Ford sustained minor injuries and declined medical treatment. She was the only person in the car. Baumer suffered fatal injuries and was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
One of the most significant unresolved facts is why Iowa State Patrol initiated or continued a pursuit exceeding 100 mph in the first place. In its report several days after Baumer's death, KWQC specifically stated that troopers had not disclosed why they were pursuing him and that the station had contacted State Patrol seeking additional information.
A search for later reporting, court records and other follow-up did not locate a subsequent public explanation establishing the initiating reason for the pursuit. I also did not locate a publicly released pursuit report identifying the trooper, the pursuit's total duration or distance, the maximum recorded speed beyond the acknowledgement that it exceeded 100 mph, whether a supervisor authorized or monitored it, or whether police considered terminating it before the fatal collision.
The date in the original source can also cause confusion because the identification story was published on August 29 and described the crash as having occurred the previous Friday. Baumer actually died on 08/26/2022, which is independently confirmed by his funeral-home record.Baumer had recently begun working at Deere & Company Davenport Works. Motorcycles were not merely incidental to the night he died; riding motorcycles was one of his principal interests, along with fishing. He also worked alongside his family at J&M Displays, helping with fireworks at community events.
He left behind his father and stepmother, mother, sister, half-brothers, step-siblings, grandfather and extended family. His family requested that memorial contributions be made to the Humane Society of Scott County. He was buried at Maysville Cemetery following his funeral on 09/06/2022.
No subsequent civil lawsuit, settlement, criminal prosecution, publicly disclosed disciplinary action or completed public investigation explaining the decision to pursue Baumer at more than 100 mph was located during this update. Consequently, the most important question left unanswered by the original reporting remains unanswered in the later public record: what prompted Iowa State Patrol to initiate and maintain the high-speed pursuit that preceded Baumer's death.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The Iowa State Patrol trooper or troopers who initiated and participated in the pursuit have not been publicly identified in the records located for this update.

https://www.kwqc.com/2022/08/29/troopers-identify-man-killed-after-vehicle-chase-ends-davenport-crash/
https://www.hmdfuneralhome.com/obituaries/jeremy-baumer-jr

On 08/29/2022, three members of a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force shot and killed 60-year-old Andrew T. Ainsworth following a vehicle pursuit that ended on the Fontaine Avenue ramp to the Route 29 Bypass in Albemarle County. The task force included an Albemarle County Police Department officer. Ainsworth was wanted on a federal probation violation stemming from Nebraska.
Shortly before 10 p.m., members of the multi-agency task force located Ainsworth driving a Toyota pickup eastbound in the Charlottesville area and attempted to stop him. Ainsworth continued driving away while police pursued. The pursuit was described by authorities as brief and ended when Ainsworth crashed the pickup on the ramp connecting Fontaine Avenue with the Route 29 Bypass.
Task-force officers approached the crashed pickup and ordered Ainsworth to get out and surrender. According to Virginia State Police, Ainsworth remained inside the vehicle and fired a handgun at the approaching officers. Three task-force officers then fired into the pickup.
Police-radio traffic recorded during the confrontation captured officers reporting that Ainsworth was not complying, followed almost immediately by reports of shots fired and that he was down. Ainsworth died at the scene. Police recovered a firearm from inside the Toyota.
The original investigation did not immediately establish which of the three officers fired the bullet or bullets that killed Ainsworth. One of the three shooters was confirmed to be an Albemarle County Police Department officer assigned to the federal task force. That officer was placed on administrative leave while Virginia State Police investigated the killing.
Ainsworth's body was transported to the Virginia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for autopsy. Virginia State Police assumed responsibility for the shooting investigation because an Albemarle County officer had participated in the gunfire.
The federal warrant was for a probation violation. Ainsworth's most recent known residence was Omaha, Nebraska. Federal court records showed a lengthy history of bank-robbery convictions involving Nebraska, Minnesota and New Mexico, as well as a prior escape conviction.
The case did receive later official review that was not available in the initial news coverage. A Commonwealth's Attorney report concerning Ainsworth's killing was subsequently obtained through a Virginia Freedom of Information Act request and preserved by OpenOversight Virginia. The existence of that later prosecutorial report confirms that the shooting underwent review beyond the initial Virginia State Police investigation.
No criminal prosecution of any of the three task-force officers resulted from the shooting. No later civil wrongful-death settlement or court judgment arising from Ainsworth's death was located during this update.
The case remains notable for the limited public identification of the shooters. Authorities acknowledged that three task-force officers fired at Ainsworth and specifically disclosed that one was an Albemarle County police officer, but the publicly accessible reporting and records located for this update do not provide reliable names for all three shooters.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Three U.S. Marshals fugitive-task-force members fired at Ainsworth, including an Albemarle County Police Department officer. Their identities have not been reliably established in the publicly accessible records located for this update.

https://www.nbc29.com/2022/08/30/vsp-investigating-officer-involved-shooting-along-fontaine-ave/
https://kfgo.com/2022/08/31/federal-fugitive-fatally-shot-by-police-in-virginia/
https://www.foxnews.com/us/federal-fugitive-andrew-ainsworth-fatally-shot-police-virginia
https://c-ville.com/in-brief-city-wants-brackney-lawsuit-dismissed/
https://openoversightva.org/documents?department=10&title=

On 08/28/2022, 24-year-old Isaiah Steven Williams died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after an extended mass shooting outside a Days Inn in north Phoenix and an exchange of gunfire with responding Phoenix Police Department officers. Williams killed two bystanders, wounded three other civilians and injured two police officers before killing himself.
The shooting began at approximately 8:30 p.m. at the motel near 26th Avenue and Deer Valley Road. Surveillance video later released by Phoenix police showed Williams leaving a motel room wearing extensive tactical equipment, including a ballistic vest with steel plates, ballistic helmet, gas mask and knee pads. He was armed with a semiautomatic rifle and a 9mm handgun and carried multiple rifle magazines and incendiary devices.
Williams began firing throughout the motel parking lot and toward vehicles and nearby buildings. Surveillance footage showed him firing at multiple vehicles without any apparent interaction with the people inside them. He also attempted to throw a Molotov cocktail toward a nearby Waffle House, but the device failed to ignite the building.
During the shooting, 36-year-old Misael Arevalo and 44-year-old Karla Garzona arrived in a vehicle and were caught in Williams's gunfire. Williams fired into their vehicle, killing both. Three additional civilians were wounded during the attack.
Phoenix police began arriving after receiving numerous emergency calls reporting an active shooter. Williams opened fire toward responding police vehicles. Four police SUVs were subsequently found riddled with bullets. One officer was struck by gunfire, while another officer, Kevin Lucas, was struck by shrapnel in multiple areas, including his face. Both survived.
The distinction between the two injured officers became important because early reports contained conflicting information about which officer returned fire. Phoenix police subsequently clarified that Lucas, the officer wounded by shrapnel, was the officer who fired at Williams. The other officer, who was directly struck by a bullet, did not fire.
Lucas returned fire as Williams continued shooting. The available evidence does not establish that Lucas struck Williams. After the exchange with police, Williams moved through the area before suffering a single gunshot wound to the head. Investigators determined that wound was consistent with Williams shooting himself.
Police did not immediately approach Williams because of the continuing danger and the possibility that he possessed additional weapons or explosives. After officers eventually secured the area, Williams was found dead. Investigators recovered the semiautomatic rifle, handgun, multiple magazines and incendiary devices associated with him.
The scale of the gunfire became clearer after investigators processed the scene and reviewed surveillance footage. Williams fired an extraordinary number of rounds throughout the motel complex, striking vehicles, buildings and responding police vehicles. The released surveillance footage documented much of his movement through the property and provided independent visual evidence of the attack rather than leaving the reconstruction dependent solely on police statements.
A later police incident report exceeding 300 pages provided additional information about Williams's condition before the shooting. His parents told investigators that they had become concerned about changes in his mental state during the preceding months and believed several events had taken a significant psychological toll on him. The reporting did not establish a definitive motive for the mass shooting.
The subsequent investigation established that Williams died from his own gunfire rather than from the shot or shots fired by Officer Lucas. Phoenix Police Department's official incident advisory lists Williams's death as a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. His death therefore belongs in the database as a suicide under police duress rather than a fatal police shooting.
The two people Williams killed, Misael Arevalo and Karla Garzona, were civilians who happened to enter the parking lot during the attack. They were not killed by police and therefore are not separate police-death entries in this incident.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Phoenix Police Officer Kevin Lucas was publicly identified as the officer injured by shrapnel who returned fire at Williams. The second officer who was struck by a bullet was not identified in the official material located for this update.
No reliably documented prior fatal shooting by Lucas or significant substantiated misconduct record involving him was located.

https://www.azfamily.com/2022/08/30/3-dead-2-police-officers-injured-after-shootout-outside-north-phoenix-hotel/
https://www.azfamily.com/2022/09/10/police-release-graphic-video-phoenix-mass-shooting-that-left-3-dead-2-officers-hurt/
https://www.azfamily.com/2022/09/13/police-report-sheds-new-light-phoenix-shooting-that-left-3-dead-2-officers-wounded/
https://www.azfamily.com/2022/09/03/second-officer-injured-mass-shooting-north-phoenix-motel-released-hospital/
https://www.phoenix.gov/policesite/Documents/OIS_Media_Advisory_Library/OIS_22-16_2600_W_Deer_Valley.pdf

On 08/28/2022, 36-year-old Misael Arevalo was killed when he and four other people drove into the parking lot of the Days Inn near 26th Avenue and Deer Valley Road while 24-year-old Isaiah Steven Williams was carrying out a mass shooting. Arevalo had no involvement in the violence and was one of two bystanders killed before Phoenix Police Department officers arrived and exchanged gunfire with Williams.
Surveillance video later released by Phoenix police provided a detailed reconstruction. Williams emerged from a motel room wearing tactical equipment, including a ballistic vest with steel plates, helmet, gas mask and knee pads, and carrying a semiautomatic rifle. He immediately began firing throughout the motel property and toward vehicles and buildings.
During the shooting, a white vehicle carrying five people entered the parking lot. Williams turned toward the vehicle and opened fire on it. Arevalo and 44-year-old Karla Garzona were struck and fatally wounded. The other three people escaped from the vehicle and ran from the parking lot. The released surveillance video documents the attack on the vehicle.
Williams continued firing after killing Arevalo and Garzona. He shot toward other people, vehicles and surrounding buildings and attempted to throw a Molotov cocktail through the window of a nearby Waffle House. The device struck the window but failed to ignite the building. Three additional civilians were wounded during the overall attack.
Phoenix police officers responding to the active shooting were then met with sustained gunfire. Williams fired repeatedly at police vehicles, striking four patrol SUVs. One officer was struck by a bullet and another, Officer Kevin Lucas, was wounded by shrapnel. Lucas returned fire, but the subsequent investigation determined that police gunfire did not kill Williams. Williams later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Investigators ultimately recovered approximately 200 spent rifle casings, five empty magazines, unused flash-bang devices and other tactical equipment from the scene, demonstrating the extraordinary volume of gunfire during the attack.
Arevalo and Garzona were civilians who happened to drive into the motel parking lot while the shooting was underway. Neither was involved in the events that precipitated the shooting, and neither was being pursued, investigated or confronted by police. Their deaths were caused by Williams's gunfire rather than police gunfire.
Because Arevalo was killed by Williams rather than by police, this case is materially different from a bystander killed by police gunfire or by a police pursuit. If retained in the police-death database because his death occurred within the same active police incident as Williams's suicide under police duress, the Event field should preserve that distinction rather than attributing Arevalo's death directly to police.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Phoenix Police Officer Kevin Lucas was the identified officer who returned fire during the subsequent exchange with Williams. Lucas did not shoot Arevalo; Arevalo had already been shot by Williams before the police gunfire.

https://www.azfamily.com/2022/08/30/3-dead-2-police-officers-injured-after-shootout-outside-north-phoenix-hotel/
https://www.azfamily.com/2022/09/10/police-release-graphic-video-phoenix-mass-shooting-that-left-3-dead-2-officers-hurt/
https://www.azfamily.com/2022/09/03/second-officer-injured-mass-shooting-north-phoenix-motel-released-hospital/
https://www.phoenix.gov/policesite/Documents/OIS_Media_Advisory_Library/OIS_22-16_2600_W_Deer_Valley.pdf

On 08/28/2022, 44-year-old Karla Garzona was killed alongside 36-year-old Misael Arevalo when the vehicle in which they were traveling entered the Days Inn parking lot near 26th Avenue and Deer Valley Road during an ongoing mass shooting. Garzona had no involvement in the violence and was one of two uninvolved people killed before Phoenix police arrived and exchanged gunfire with the shooter.
Surveillance footage subsequently released by Phoenix police showed 24-year-old Isaiah Steven Williams leaving a motel room wearing a ballistic vest, helmet, gas mask and knee pads and carrying a semiautomatic rifle. He began firing throughout the motel property, apparently selecting vehicles and buildings without any evident connection to the people inside them.
Garzona and Arevalo were inside a white vehicle carrying five people when it entered the parking lot. Surveillance footage showed Williams notice the approaching vehicle, aim his rifle toward it and fire. Garzona and Arevalo were struck and killed. Three other people escaped from the vehicle and ran toward safety.
Williams continued moving through the property and firing. He attempted to throw a Molotov cocktail into a nearby Waffle House, but it struck a window without breaking the glass or igniting the building. He continued shooting toward vehicles and buildings across Deer Valley Road, wounding additional civilians.
Phoenix police officers subsequently arrived and Williams fired extensively at their patrol vehicles. Four police SUVs were struck. One officer suffered a gunshot wound and Officer Kevin Lucas was injured by shrapnel. Lucas fired at Williams during the exchange.
The investigation determined that Lucas did not kill Williams. Williams ultimately sustained a single self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head and died at the scene. Police recovered his rifle, handgun, multiple magazines and incendiary devices.
The scale of the attack became clearer after investigators processed the scene. Approximately 200 spent rifle casings and five empty magazines were recovered, and three civilians in addition to Garzona and Arevalo were wounded. Both police officers survived their injuries.
The later evidence establishes that Garzona was an entirely uninvolved bystander. She was not the subject of a police investigation, pursuit or enforcement action and had no known connection to Williams. She was killed because the vehicle in which she was traveling entered the parking lot during his shooting rampage.
As with Arevalo, Garzona was killed by Williams rather than by police. If she remains in the database because her death forms part of the same police incident in which Williams exchanged gunfire with officers and subsequently died under police duress, her Event classification should preserve the distinction that she was a bystander killed by the mass shooter rather than someone killed directly by police action.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Phoenix Police Officer Kevin Lucas was the identified officer who returned fire during the later exchange with Williams. Lucas did not shoot Garzona; Williams had shot Garzona before police exchanged gunfire with him.

https://www.azfamily.com/2022/08/30/3-dead-2-police-officers-injured-after-shootout-outside-north-phoenix-hotel/
https://www.azfamily.com/2022/09/10/police-release-graphic-video-phoenix-mass-shooting-that-left-3-dead-2-officers-hurt/
https://www.azfamily.com/2022/09/03/second-officer-injured-mass-shooting-north-phoenix-motel-released-hospital/
https://www.phoenix.gov/policesite/Documents/OIS_Media_Advisory_Library/OIS_22-16_2600_W_Deer_Valley.pdf

On 08/29/2022, an unidentified driver was killed after Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety officers pursued a vehicle police believed had been stolen through Kalamazoo. The pursuit ended when the vehicle crashed with enough force to split a utility pole in half. Two passengers in the vehicle survived with injuries.
Kalamazoo police said officers encountered the vehicle and determined or believed that it had been stolen. Officers attempted to stop it, and when the driver continued driving away, police pursued. The publicly available reporting does not establish what circumstances led officers to locate the vehicle, how police determined it was stolen, or whether police were investigating any offense beyond possession of the allegedly stolen vehicle.
During the pursuit, the driver lost control and crashed into a utility pole. The impact broke the pole in half and caused extensive damage to the vehicle. The driver was killed, while two passengers were injured.
The original reporting did not disclose the speed of the police pursuit, its duration or distance, whether supervisors authorized or monitored it, whether officers considered terminating it, or how closely pursuing police vehicles were following immediately before the crash.
The identity of the person killed was not released in the original reporting. A search for subsequent reporting and later publicly indexed records did not locate a reliable later identification of the driver. Age, gender and race therefore remain Unknown rather than being inferred.
The two surviving passengers likewise were not identified in the reporting located for this update. Because they survived, they do not require separate fatality entries in the database.
The later public record remains extremely limited. No subsequent civil lawsuit, settlement, disciplinary proceeding, publicly released internal investigation, pursuit review, dash-camera footage or detailed reconstruction of the police pursuit was located. Most importantly, no later source located for this update identifies the driver or explains the police decision to continue the pursuit through Kalamazoo before the fatal crash.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety officers who initiated and participated in the pursuit have not been publicly identified in the records located for this update.

https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2022/08/one-dead-after-stolen-vehicle-crashes-into-police-during-kalamazoo-police-pursuit.html

On 08/29/2022, an unidentified man was killed when Newaygo County Undersheriff Chad Palmiter pursued a red Dodge Charger along East Baseline Road following a report of shots fired at a residence in Wilcox Township. The pursuit ended east of South Oak Avenue when the Charger crossed the centerline, left the roadway and crashed into a tree. The driver died at the scene.
Newaygo County sheriff’s deputies had initially been dispatched to a Wilcox Township residence for a report of shots fired. Police were given a description of a red Dodge Charger allegedly connected to the shooting. The publicly available accounts do not provide further details about the reported gunfire, including whether anyone was injured, what had occurred at the residence, or what evidence connected the Charger or its driver to the shooting.
Palmiter spotted a red Dodge Charger traveling east on Baseline Road. According to the sheriff’s office, he followed the vehicle and determined that it was the vehicle police were seeking. Palmiter then activated his emergency lights and siren in an attempt to stop the driver.
When the driver continued eastbound, Palmiter pursued. The available reports do not disclose the pursuit's speed, duration or total distance, how closely Palmiter followed the Charger, whether a supervisor monitored the pursuit, or whether termination of the pursuit was considered.
East of South Oak Avenue, the Charger crossed the centerline, traveled off the roadway and struck a tree. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. Michigan State Police subsequently said Palmiter’s patrol vehicle did not physically collide with the Charger.
The Michigan State Police Hart Post and a Sixth District accident reconstruction specialist were called to investigate the fatal crash.
The driver's identity was initially withheld pending notification of family. A search for subsequent reporting and later publicly indexed records did not locate a reliable later identification. His age and race likewise remain undocumented in the sources located and therefore are listed as Unknown.
The later public record remains extremely limited. No publicly accessible final accident-reconstruction report, pursuit review, dash-camera footage, civil lawsuit, settlement or disciplinary finding concerning Palmiter's decision to pursue was located. The original reporting also leaves unanswered the precise basis on which Palmiter determined that the Charger he encountered was the same vehicle associated with the shots-fired complaint.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Chad Palmiter was the Newaygo County undersheriff and was specifically identified as the officer who located the Charger, attempted the traffic stop and pursued the driver before the fatal crash.

https://www.woodtv.com/news/newaygo-county/car-chase-leads-to-crash-near-white-cloud/
https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/local/newaygo-police-chase-ends-in-deadly-crash/69-51fe2e0f-918b-4287-bf13-0bacc900fd7d
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On 08/28/2022, two Fort Worth Police Department officers shot and killed 38-year-old J’Quinnton Donye Hopson after a police pursuit of approximately 115 to 130 miles ended in a crash on Interstate 35W near Spur 280 in Fort Worth. Hopson was a passenger in a Toyota Prius driven by 31-year-old Shaelan Jazmanique Hill. During the pursuit, police learned that Hopson was armed and that Hill was being held against her will. Hopson shot Hill before Fort Worth officers approached the wrecked vehicle and killed him. Hill subsequently died at a hospital.
The incident began in Central Texas after authorities received reports of a vehicle being driven recklessly northbound on Interstate 35 between Belton and Temple. Troy Police Department officers encountered the Prius as it entered Troy at speeds exceeding 100 mph and passing other motorists by using the left shoulder. Troy police attempted to stop the vehicle and then pursued when it continued north.
The pursuit continued north on Interstate 35 for more than 100 miles. Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and Hill County sheriff’s deputies also became involved. During the pursuit, police learned that an armed male passenger was threatening the female driver. Fort Worth police were contacted at approximately 7:20 p.m. as the pursuit approached their jurisdiction.
The Prius continued onto Interstate 35W toward Fort Worth and eventually crashed near Spur 280. By then, Fort Worth officers had been advised that Hopson was armed and Hill was being held hostage. Police initially had difficulty seeing inside the wrecked vehicle because of deployed airbags, crash debris and obstructions around the rear window.
Police helicopter personnel reported seeing Hopson holding a gun against Hill. Officers ordered the people inside the vehicle to come out, but Hill did not emerge. Police said a struggle occurred inside the car and officers then heard a gunshot. Investigators determined that Hopson had shot Hill.
Because Hill had been shot and remained inside with Hopson, Fort Worth officers formed a rescue team and approached the wrecked Prius. Body-camera footage released several days later showed officers breaking through the rear window and confronting Hopson inside the vehicle. Hill was lying across Hopson, and police described him as using her body as a shield.
The footage shows Hopson holding a black handgun against Hill's midsection. Officers repeatedly ordered him to remove his hand from the weapon and drop the gun. One officer can be heard repeatedly telling him not to do it. Hopson spoke to officers and at one point asked them to get his mother on the phone.
Two Fort Worth officers then opened fire, striking Hopson. He died at the scene at approximately 7:51 p.m. Officers pulled Hill from the vehicle. Because traffic congestion was delaying an ambulance, police transported her directly to John Peter Smith Hospital in a patrol vehicle. She died at approximately 8:02 p.m.
The subsequent release of the body-camera footage revealed a significant fact that was not apparent to officers during the confrontation: Hopson's handgun apparently could not have fired at the moment police shot him. A magnified view showed that the pistol had no magazine inserted and its slide was locked or jammed to the rear.
Police Chief Neil Noakes acknowledged that the video showed the weapon in that condition but said the officers could not reasonably have been expected to recognize it during the rapidly unfolding confrontation. Body cameras were mounted below the officers' eye level, and police maintained that the officers saw Hopson holding what appeared to be a functional handgun against a woman whom they knew had just been shot.
The shooting was investigated by the Fort Worth Police Department's Major Case Unit and Internal Affairs Unit, with the evidence to be submitted to the Tarrant County District Attorney's Office for review. The publicly available records located for this update do not identify the two officers who fired at Hopson.
The incident is unusual because the police pursuit involved a person who was later determined to be a hostage rather than a voluntary participant. Hill was driving while Hopson was an armed passenger. A Texas Council on Family Violence review subsequently identified Hill as Hopson's girlfriend and classified her death as an intimate-partner homicide.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Two Fort Worth Police Department officers fired the shots that killed Hopson. Fort Worth police did not publicly identify either shooter in the records located for this update.

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On 08/28/2022, Selma Police Department officers responded to Baymont Inn in Selma regarding a shooting victim. Police identified Isaiah Guy Deweever, 33, as the suspected shooter after Kerry Dudley, 29, was shot multiple times. Deweever fled in a green Honda. The Dallas County Sheriff’s Office located the vehicle in the parking lot of Valley Grande Baptist Church. Deputies, Selma police officers, and Alabama Law Enforcement Agency officers observed Deweever inside the vehicle holding a pistol. Deputies backed away as he moved the firearm. Officers then heard a gunshot. When deputies returned to the vehicle, Deweever had shot himself in the chest. He died from the self-inflicted gunshot wound.

https://www.selmatimesjournal.com/2022/08/29/mobile-county-man-dies-of-gunshot-wound-in-valley-grande/

On 08/28/2022, Albuquerque Police Department officers Marcos Flores, Dustin Ketchum and Kenneth Skeens shot and killed 27-year-old Keshawn Thomas after responding to a welfare-check call concerning a man who had been sitting for several hours in a parked vehicle at a Valero gas station at 2721 Coors Boulevard NW. Thomas was initially asleep in the driver's seat, and police determined that the vehicle was not running and that they had no basis to arrest him for drunk driving.
The gas-station employee who called police reported that the vehicle had remained at a pump for several hours and that its dark-tinted windows made it difficult to see the driver. Officers arrived at approximately 11:32 p.m., ran the license plate and identified Thomas as the registered owner. They found him asleep inside.
Officers woke Thomas and told him to get out of the vehicle. They specifically told him that he was not in trouble. Officers believed Thomas was intoxicated after observing alcohol and an open container in the vehicle, but because the car was not running, they determined they did not have a drunk-driving case. Their plan was to have someone else retrieve Thomas and the car.
The encounter became increasingly argumentative. A third officer was summoned, and Thomas eventually moved away from the gas pumps while smoking cigarettes. Police checked for warrants and found none. Officers told Thomas that he could arrange for someone to pick up his vehicle rather than have police tow it.
Thomas then asked permission to retrieve his cellphone from the vehicle. Before allowing him back inside, officers asked whether he had any weapons. Thomas told them he had a gun in the trunk and voluntarily removed a loaded ammunition magazine from his pocket and handed it to an officer. Thomas was a lawful gun owner with a concealed-carry license, according to his family's attorney.
Police nevertheless permitted Thomas to return to the driver's seat to look for his phone. He sat with the driver's door open while officers stood nearby and repeatedly directed him to get the phone and come back out. Approximately 30 seconds later, one officer yelled that Thomas had a gun. Flores, Ketchum and Skeens all immediately opened fire.
All three officers subsequently told investigators that Thomas produced a handgun and began pointing it toward them. A loaded handgun was recovered from the driver's area afterward. Police also found a gun magazine on the driver's seat. However, investigators did not find the cellphone Thomas had told officers he was entering the vehicle to retrieve.
The body-camera footage released by APD did not clearly resolve the critical instant preceding the gunfire. Reporting reviewing the footage noted that it did not clearly show the position of Thomas's hands or the firearm immediately before officers fired. Thus, the police allegation that Thomas was beginning to point the gun at officers rests substantially on the accounts of the three officers who shot him rather than an unambiguous view from the released video.
The officers fired 16 rounds. Thomas was struck and killed.
Thomas's family sharply challenged APD's account and its handling of the evidence. His mother initially went to court seeking release of police video and other records, arguing that APD was withholding evidence necessary to determine what actually happened. Family attorneys emphasized that Thomas had voluntarily disclosed the firearm, surrendered a loaded magazine and had been allowed by police themselves to reenter the vehicle.
The family's description of Thomas also contrasted sharply with any suggestion that he habitually posed a danger to police. His attorney said Thomas routinely informed officers when he was carrying a firearm and had previously interacted respectfully with law enforcement.
Thomas was the father of a young daughter. His obituary described him as someone who loved music, dancing and spending time with his daughter and family.
The subsequent APD Internal Affairs Force Division investigation found significant problems with the officers' conduct leading up to the shooting. Although APD ultimately classified the actual gunfire as justified based on the officers' claimed perception of an imminent threat, investigators concluded that all three officers violated department policies during the encounter.
Investigators found that the officers failed to adequately de-escalate the encounter as their interaction with the intoxicated Thomas became increasingly confrontational. Kenneth Skeens was found to have violated APD's de-escalation policy and received an eight-hour suspension. Marcos Flores and Dustin Ketchum were found to have violated policies involving de-escalation, rendering medical aid and conducting the preliminary investigation; each received a written reprimand.
Thomas's family subsequently filed a federal wrongful-death and civil-rights lawsuit against Albuquerque, APD, Police Chief Harold Medina and the three officers. The litigation alleged that officers unnecessarily escalated an encounter that began simply because Thomas was asleep in his parked vehicle and that their actions culminated in his avoidable death.
The civil case ultimately produced a substantial later development. In 2025, Albuquerque agreed to pay Thomas's family $1 million to settle the wrongful-death case. Thomas's mother, Laura Thomas, continued to maintain after the settlement that her son had been killed without justification.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Marcos Flores joined APD on 03/27/2021 and had no previous police shooting documented by APD when he killed Thomas. APD's subsequent internal investigation found that Flores violated policies concerning de-escalation, rendering medical aid and conducting the preliminary investigation. He received a written reprimand.
Dustin Ketchum also joined APD on 03/27/2021 and had no prior police shooting documented by the department. The Internal Affairs Force Division likewise found that Ketchum violated APD policies concerning de-escalation, rendering aid and the preliminary investigation, resulting in a written reprimand.
Kenneth Skeens had been with APD since 06/09/2018. His subsequent history is substantially more significant. Only nine days before killing Thomas, Skeens was involved in the controversial arrest of a man with disabilities at an Albuquerque Target store. The man had been having difficulty using a self-checkout machine when store employees called police. That encounter later resulted in Skeens being fired and criminally prosecuted.
Prosecutors charged Skeens with false imprisonment and perjury, both felonies, as well as filing a false police report and battery arising from that Target arrest. The allegations included that Skeens unlawfully arrested the man and subsequently made false statements concerning the encounter.
APD's investigation of Thomas's killing separately found that Skeens violated the department's de-escalation policy during the encounter with Thomas. He received an eight-hour suspension for those violations.
Skeens was ultimately fired from APD in connection with the unrelated Target incident. His first criminal trial over that arrest ended in a mistrial after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict.
Thus, the officer-background investigation reveals an unusually important chronological connection: Skeens participated in the disputed arrest of a disabled man on 08/19/2022, then nine days later participated in the fatal shooting of Keshawn Thomas on 08/28/2022. APD later determined that Skeens violated policy during the Thomas encounter, while the earlier incident ultimately led to his termination and criminal prosecution.

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On 08/28/2022, two Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office deputies shot and killed 47-year-old Brian Underwood inside a home in the 6000 block of Tarawa Drive after deputies responded to a 911 call from his girlfriend reporting that Underwood had threatened her with a gun. Four deputies entered the house, and two opened fire after police alleged Underwood pulled a semiautomatic handgun from behind his back, chambered a round and raised the weapon toward them.
The 911 call was placed at approximately 9:06 a.m. Underwood’s girlfriend told the dispatcher that she and Underwood had argued the previous night and that she awoke that morning to Underwood holding a gun to her face. According to authorities, Underwood displayed the firearm again while she was still speaking with the 911 operator.
Deputies arrived within approximately five minutes. Underwood’s girlfriend barricaded herself in a bedroom and remained in communication with 911. Underwood’s mother was also initially inside the house but was able to leave. She left the front door open when she exited.
Rather than immediately entering, deputies attempted to persuade Underwood to come outside. He remained inside and communicated with them by telephone. Deputies could see him through a window and persuaded him to show his hands. According to Sheriff Kurt Hoffman, Underwood then told deputies they could enter the house to retrieve his girlfriend.
Four deputies entered through the open front door. Police said Underwood initially had his hands raised. According to the sheriff’s account, deputies were giving him commands when Underwood reached behind his back and produced a semiautomatic handgun from his waistband. Police alleged that he chambered a round and began raising the firearm toward the deputies. Two of the four deputies then fired, killing him.
The account that Underwood raised the firearm toward deputies comes from the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office. The publicly available sources located for this update do not contain body-camera footage or another independently recorded view of the shooting that would allow comparison with the officers’ account. The 911 recording provided additional evidence concerning the events preceding the deputies’ arrival, but it does not independently establish Underwood’s actions at the instant police fired.
Deputies had previously responded to the Tarawa Drive residence for reported family disturbances, although the sheriff’s office said those earlier calls did not result in arrests. The agency also reported that Underwood had a 2014 domestic-battery arrest in Citrus County.
The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office withheld the identities of all four deputies who entered the house, including the two who killed Underwood. The department classified the deputies as victims of an alleged aggravated assault and invoked Florida’s Marsy’s Law as the basis for withholding their names.
The timing is significant because this was the second fatal Sarasota County deputy shooting in ten days. On 08/18/2022, two Sarasota County deputies had shot and killed 29-year-old Tyler Casey Sweeney during an armed-burglary response after police alleged Sweeney struck another deputy with a machete. Sheriff Hoffman specifically referenced that earlier killing while discussing Underwood’s death.
The public record located for this update does not establish that the deputies who killed Underwood were the same deputies who killed Sweeney ten days earlier. Because Sarasota County withheld the shooters’ identities in the Underwood case, that possible overlap cannot be reliably determined from the available records.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Two of the four Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office deputies who entered the house fired the shots that killed Underwood. The agency withheld all four deputies’ identities under Marsy’s Law, preventing reliable identification of the shooters from the publicly available records located for this update.

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/sarasotacounty/911-call-sarasota-deputies-shoot-kill-man/67-6b6dd042-ccc2-46ff-93e0-230229e2faf6
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On 08/28/2022, Bay County Sheriff’s Deputy Christopher VanHorn shot and killed 18-year-old Lamar A. Davis inside an apartment at Bangor Downs Townhouses, 3325 Alarie Drive in Bangor Township. Deputies had been dispatched at approximately 3:25 a.m. after a 911 call reporting gunfire and a person shot inside the apartment.
When deputies entered, they found 27-year-old Bethany Taylor dead from a gunshot wound. Taylor lived in the apartment with her two sons, ages 2 and 3. Police subsequently alleged that Davis had shot Taylor in front of the children, although investigators initially said they were still working to determine the circumstances preceding her death and the nature of the relationship between Taylor and Davis.
Davis was still inside the apartment when deputies entered. According to Michigan State Police and Bay County Sheriff Troy Cunningham, Davis was armed with a handgun and allegedly presented a deadly threat to the deputies. The available reporting does not provide a detailed reconstruction of Davis’s movements immediately before VanHorn fired or specify whether Davis fired at deputies. VanHorn shot Davis, who was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead.
Michigan State Police investigated the shooting independently of the Bay County Sheriff’s Office. VanHorn was placed on paid administrative leave while the investigation and prosecutorial review were underway. Investigators collected forensic evidence and awaited medical-examiner findings while continuing to investigate both Taylor’s death and VanHorn’s shooting of Davis.
The later investigation identified VanHorn publicly, correcting the initial reports in which the sheriff’s office had withheld the shooter’s name. The Bay County Prosecutor’s Office reviewed the shooting and ruled VanHorn’s use of deadly force justified. VanHorn subsequently returned to duty on 10/03/2022.
Bethany Taylor’s death should be distinguished from Davis’s police killing. Investigators alleged that Davis killed Taylor before deputies arrived; she was not struck by police gunfire. Her two young children survived and were subsequently placed in the care of family members.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Christopher VanHorn was the Bay County Sheriff’s Office deputy who fired the fatal shots. The Bay County Prosecutor’s Office ruled his shooting of Davis justified, and VanHorn returned to duty after the decision.

https://www.ourmidland.com/news/police_and_courts/article/Investigation-continues-in-Bay-County-double-17455162.php
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https://www.wnem.com/2022/09/02/police-identifying-suspect-woman-found-dead-officer-involved-shooting/
https://www.ourmidland.com/news/police_and_courts/article/Midland-man-18-suspected-of-homicide-killed-by-17415577.php

On 08/28/2022, Tacoma Police Department officers Jose Figueras, Zachary Hobbs and Christopher Munn shot 40-year-old Peter Tyler Collins during an armed confrontation that developed after police responded to a reported domestic assault in South Tacoma. Collins was struck by police gunfire and also suffered what investigators described as an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. The Pierce County Medical Examiner determined that the fatal injury was a rifle wound to the chest and classified Collins's death as a homicide.
Police were dispatched at approximately 12:26 p.m. after Collins's nephew called 911 and reported that Collins had assaulted him. The nephew said Collins had not used a weapon during the alleged assault but warned dispatchers that Collins owned several firearms and might shoot at police. Officers later viewed home-surveillance footage of the alleged assault and said they developed probable cause to arrest Collins for fourth-degree domestic-violence assault.
Officers initially met Collins's nephew about half a block from the residence. While police were reviewing surveillance footage, Collins came outside. Figueras called to Collins and asked him to speak with police, but Collins returned to the house. Hobbs requested additional officers.
The encounter escalated shortly before 3 p.m. According to the Pierce County Force Investigation Team, Collins subsequently fired at police with rifles. Released body-camera and surveillance footage documented portions of the confrontation rather than leaving the sequence dependent solely on officer accounts. Investigators determined that Collins fired 15 rounds from two rifles during approximately four minutes of gunfire.
Figueras, Hobbs and Munn returned fire with department rifles, collectively firing nine rounds. Collins moved through the neighborhood during the exchange, and officers repeatedly broadcast his position and warned other officers that he had a long gun and was continuing to fire.
The final police shot was fired by Christopher Munn from a substantial distance. Munn positioned himself approximately 183 yards from Collins and fired a rifle round that struck him. Investigators subsequently determined that Collins had two gunshot wounds: one consistent with police rifle fire and another that appeared to have been self-inflicted.
Police approached Collins after the gunfire stopped and found him down with firearms nearby. Medical personnel were permitted to approach at approximately 3:08 p.m., and Collins was pronounced dead.
The Pierce County Force Investigation Team conducted the independent investigation. The investigation was ultimately completed, and the City of Tacoma's deadly-force case records identify all three involved officers as Figueras, Hobbs and Munn.
The later evidence significantly expanded the initial reporting. Early accounts did not disclose which officers fired, how many shots police fired or precisely how the gunfire unfolded. The subsequent video investigation established that all three identified officers fired their rifles, that police collectively fired nine rounds and that Collins fired 15 rounds.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Jose Figueras was 32 and had served approximately four years with the Tacoma Police Department when Collins was killed. Figueras was one of the three officers who fired during the confrontation.Zachary Hobbs was 27 and had served approximately three years with Tacoma police. Hobbs was also one of the three officers who fired at Collins. Hobbs later became a witness in the criminal trial of Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer because Hobbs had responded to Troyer's controversial January 2021 confrontation with Black newspaper carrier Sedrick Altheimer. Hobbs's body-camera footage became evidence in that case; Hobbs testified that Troyer did not tell him at the scene that Altheimer had threatened him or that Troyer was afraid, although Hobbs acknowledged that he had not specifically asked.
Christopher Munn was 38 and had served approximately six years with Tacoma police. Munn fired the long-distance rifle shot from approximately 183 yards that struck Collins. No reliably documented prior fatal police shooting involving Munn was located.

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https://cms.tacoma.gov/Police/PCFIT%20News%20Releases/PCFIT%20Press%20Release%20TPD%20January%2026%202023%20Final%20Update.pdf

On 08/28/2022, Houston Police Department Officer Scott Mills shot and killed 54-year-old Roy Cravin after police and firefighters responded to a fire and mass shooting at a multi-room rental property in southwest Houston. Police alleged that Cravin set fires at the property and shot residents as they fled, killing three men and wounding two others before his confrontation with police. Cravin’s identity and age were confirmed after the initial reporting, which had described him only as a Black man believed to be in his 40s.
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Police and firefighters began receiving calls shortly after 1 a.m. concerning a fire, gunfire and people down at the rental property at 8020 Dunlap Street. Houston Fire Department personnel arrived while gunfire was still occurring and took cover. Police Chief Troy Finner initially said it was unclear whether the gunfire was specifically directed at firefighters.
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According to police, Cravin had been a longtime tenant at the property and had recently been told he would be evicted. Police alleged that he deliberately set fire to portions of the property and then waited for residents to emerge before shooting at them with a shotgun. The property owner later said Cravin had lived there for approximately nine years and had not previously caused problems. The owner said Cravin had fallen behind on rent and was facing eviction.
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Three residents were killed. They were later identified as Dan Schupbach, Donald Lee Hall and Morris Washington. Schupbach died from a shotgun wound to the abdomen. At least two additional residents suffered gunshot wounds and survived. Another resident, Michael James, described being shot in the arm and back after seeing the fire and attempting to report it.
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Houston police arrived while the incident was still active. Officers located Cravin lying prone on the ground beside a building across the street from the burning property. Police ordered him to show his hands. According to HPD, Cravin instead pointed a shotgun toward officers. Officer Scott Mills then opened fire, striking Cravin.
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Cravin died at the scene. The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences subsequently determined that he died from multiple gunshot wounds, establishing that his death resulted from police gunfire rather than a self-inflicted wound or another cause.
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Investigators recovered a shotgun associated with Cravin, and a spent shell casing was reportedly found near his body. The available reporting does not establish that Cravin fired at Mills immediately before Mills shot him; HPD alleged that Cravin pointed the shotgun at officers. Earlier reporting likewise left uncertain whether Cravin had intentionally fired toward the firefighters or whether they were simply endangered by gunfire occurring as they arrived.
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The shooting was investigated by the Houston Police Department Special Investigations Unit and Internal Affairs Division, with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office also reviewing the incident. Mills was placed on administrative leave following the shooting.
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Scott Mills was a Houston Police Department officer assigned to the South Gessner Patrol Division. He had been sworn into HPD in December 2015 and had approximately seven years of service when he killed Cravin. Mills was specifically identified by HPD as the officer who fired the fatal shots.
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No reliably documented prior fatal police shooting or significant substantiated misconduct involving Mills was located.

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On 08/28/2022, 31-year-old Shaelan Jazmanique Hill was fatally shot by her boyfriend, 38-year-old J’Quinnton Donye Hopson, after police pursued the vehicle she was driving for more than 100 miles from Central Texas into Fort Worth. Later records established that Hill was being held hostage at gunpoint during the pursuit and was not voluntarily fleeing police.
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The incident began at approximately 6:20 p.m. after Troy Police Department received information about a vehicle being driven recklessly northbound on Interstate 35 between Belton and Temple. Troy officers observed the vehicle traveling more than 100 mph and passing other motorists on the left shoulder. Police attempted to stop it and then pursued when it continued north.
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As the pursuit continued, authorities learned that an armed male passenger was threatening Hill, who was driving. The pursuit continued north on Interstate 35 and Interstate 35W for more than 100 miles, with Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and Hill County sheriff’s deputies also participating. Fort Worth police were contacted for assistance as the pursuit approached the city.
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The vehicle eventually crashed on Interstate 35W near Spur 280 in Fort Worth. Police helicopter personnel reported seeing Hopson holding a handgun against Hill. Officers ordered the people inside the damaged vehicle to come out but reported that deployed airbags and crash debris obstructed their view.
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Police reported seeing a struggle inside the vehicle and then hearing a gunshot. Hopson had shot Hill. Fort Worth officers formed a rescue team and approached the vehicle because they knew Hill had been wounded and remained inside with an armed man.
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Body-camera footage subsequently showed Hill lying across Hopson while Hopson held a handgun against her abdomen. Police described Hopson as using Hill as a human shield. Officers repeatedly ordered him to take his hand off the gun and drop it. Two Fort Worth officers eventually opened fire and killed Hopson.
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The released body-camera footage later revealed that Hopson’s handgun had no magazine inserted and its slide was locked or jammed to the rear when police shot him. Fort Worth Police Chief Neil Noakes said the officers could not necessarily see the condition of the weapon from their positions during the confrontation.
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Police immediately removed Hill from the vehicle. Heavy traffic prevented an ambulance from reaching the scene quickly, so officers transported her to John Peter Smith Hospital in a patrol vehicle. Hill died at 8:02 p.m. from the gunshot wound inflicted by Hopson.
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Later reporting established an important correction to the early narrative surrounding the pursuit: Hill was not simply the driver of a vehicle voluntarily fleeing police. She was being held hostage by her armed boyfriend while driving. The Texas Council on Family Violence subsequently documented Hill’s death as an intimate-partner homicide and identified Hopson as her boyfriend.
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Hill was born on 08/04/1991. Her mother described her as sweet, funny and generous, deeply devoted to her family and protective of the people she loved. Hill also left behind pets for whom her family arranged continuing care after her death
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Two Fort Worth Police Department officers shot and killed Hopson while attempting to reach Hill. Their identities were not publicly disclosed in the records located. No police officer fired the shot that killed Hill.

https://www.kwtx.com/2022/08/29/high-speed-chase-i-35-central-texas-ends-with-hostage-gunman-dead-fort-worth-report/
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https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article265076454.html
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https://www.officer.com/on-the-street/body-cameras/video/21279518/bodycam-gunman-uses-hostage-as-human-shield-against-texas-police
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https://texasmetronews.com/39700/armed-man-killed-by-fort-worth-police-didnt-have-magazine-loaded-when-officers-approached%EF%BF%BC/
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https://tcfv.org/wp-content/uploads/TCFV_Honoring-TX-Victims_Narratives_2022.pdf
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https://www.gofundme.com/f/shaelan-j-hill

On 08/28/2022, 31-year-old Shaelan Jazmanique Hill was killed after law enforcement pursued the vehicle she was driving for more than 100 miles from Central Texas into Fort Worth. Subsequent investigation established that Hill was being held hostage at gunpoint by her boyfriend, 38-year-old J’Quinnton Donye Hopson, and was not voluntarily fleeing police. Hopson ultimately shot Hill after the pursuit ended in a crash.
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The pursuit began after Troy Police Department officers responded at approximately 6:20 p.m. to reports of a vehicle being driven recklessly northbound on Interstate 35 between Belton and Temple. Officers encountered the vehicle traveling more than 100 mph and passing traffic on the left shoulder. Troy police attempted to stop the vehicle and pursued when it continued north.
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The pursuit continued north for approximately 115 to 130 miles, eventually involving additional law-enforcement agencies. During the pursuit, police learned that an armed male passenger was threatening Hill and that she was being held against her will. Despite learning that the person driving the vehicle was a hostage, police continued the pursuit toward Fort Worth.
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The vehicle eventually crashed on Interstate 35W near Spur 280 in Fort Worth. Fort Worth officers ordered the people inside to come out but reported that deployed airbags and crash debris obstructed their view into the vehicle. A police helicopter crew reported seeing the armed passenger holding a gun against Hill.
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Police reported seeing a struggle inside the wrecked vehicle and hearing a gunshot. Hill had been shot in the abdomen. Knowing that Hill was wounded and remained inside the vehicle with an armed man, Fort Worth officers formed a rescue team and approached.
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Body-camera footage showed Hill lying across Hopson while he held a handgun against her midsection. Police described him as using Hill as a human shield. Officers repeatedly ordered him to take his hand off the weapon and drop it. Two Fort Worth officers then fired, killing Hopson.
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A magnified examination of the body-camera footage subsequently showed that Hopson's handgun had no magazine inserted and that its slide was locked or jammed to the rear when police shot him. Fort Worth Police Chief Neil Noakes maintained that officers could not reasonably have recognized the condition of the firearm during the confrontation.
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Officers removed Hill from the vehicle after shooting Hopson. Because traffic congestion delayed emergency medical personnel from reaching the scene, police transported Hill to John Peter Smith Hospital in a patrol vehicle. She died at 8:02 p.m. from the gunshot wound.
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Later records confirmed the important distinction obscured by some early descriptions of the incident as simply a high-speed police chase: Hill was the driver, but she was also a hostage. The Texas Council on Family Violence documented that Hopson was Hill's boyfriend, that he held her hostage in the vehicle while police pursued it from Troy to Fort Worth, and that he shot and killed her.
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Hill was born on 08/04/1991. Her mother described her as sweet, funny and generous and said she loved and fiercely protected her family. Hill also left behind pets for whom her family arranged continuing care after her death.
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Two Fort Worth Police Department officers fired the shots that killed Hopson during the attempt to reach Hill. Police Chief Neil Noakes did not publicly identify the officers in the records located. No police officer fired the gunshot that killed Hill.

https://www.kwtx.com/2022/08/29/high-speed-chase-i-35-central-texas-ends-with-hostage-gunman-dead-fort-worth-report/
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https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article265076454.html
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https://www.fox4news.com/news/chase-from-central-texas-ends-with-2-dead-in-fort-worth
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https://www.officer.com/on-the-street/body-cameras/video/21279518/bodycam-gunman-uses-hostage-as-shield-against-texas-police
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https://texasmetronews.com/39700/armed-man-killed-by-fort-worth-police-didnt-have-magazine-loaded-when-officers-approached%EF%BF%BC/
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https://tcfv.org/wp-content/uploads/TCFV_Honoring-TX-Victims_Narratives_2022.pdf
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https://www.gofundme.com/f/shaelan-j-hill

On 08/27/2022, Sacramento Police Department Officer Sean McDade shot and killed 43-year-old Brandy L. Simpson in an alley between Del Paso Boulevard and Rio Linda Boulevard after police approached her in connection with an alleged assault. Sacramento's police-records disclosure page identifies Simpson as a Black woman and identifies Sean McDade and William Boughton as the officers involved in the encounter.
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The encounter began shortly before 7:30 p.m. when a woman approached a Sacramento patrol officer in the 2500 block of Del Paso Boulevard and reported that another woman had assaulted her. The woman provided a description, and multiple officers began searching the surrounding area. Police subsequently located Simpson because they believed she matched that description.
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Simpson moved away from police on foot for several minutes while an officer followed her in a patrol vehicle. When another officer arrived in the alley near Del Paso and Rio Linda boulevards, police ordered Simpson to stop.
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According to Sacramento police, Simpson then approached McDade and stabbed him in the upper arm with a knife. McDade subsequently told investigators that Simpson was close to him when she stabbed him, that he immediately felt pain and saw blood, and that he pushed her to the ground.
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McDade's later statement to investigators provides substantially more detail about the critical moments preceding the shooting than the initial police announcement. McDade said that after he pushed Simpson down, she began getting back up. He said he feared that she could attack him again or attack Boughton, and he then opened fire from less than 10 feet away. McDade said he continued firing until he believed Simpson no longer posed a threat.
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The initial Sacramento Police Department account stated that Simpson fell to the ground after stabbing the officer but continued holding or displaying the knife toward officers before police fired. McDade's own subsequent interview more specifically described Simpson as beginning to get up when he decided to shoot.
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Police provided emergency medical aid after the shooting, but Simpson died at the scene. McDade was transported to UC Davis Medical Center and underwent treatment for the stab wound.
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The Sacramento County District Attorney's Office identified Simpson as Brandy L. Simpson, born 04/26/1979. The DA's investigative records identify McDade as the officer who fired the fatal shots and Boughton as the other officer directly involved in the encounter.
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Sacramento Police Department's public SB 1421/Police Officer Personnel Records page now contains records for the shooting, including investigative documents, crime-scene photographs and audio/video material. That disclosure identifies the case as SPD 22-240584 and lists McDade and Boughton as the involved officers.
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The shooting was investigated by Sacramento Police Department's Homicide Unit, Internal Affairs Division, Professional Standards Unit and Force Investigation Team, with oversight by the Office of Public Safety Accountability and Sacramento County District Attorney's Office.
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Sean McDade was the Sacramento Police Department officer who shot and killed Simpson. McDade was also the officer Simpson allegedly stabbed immediately before the shooting. His body-worn camera was collected as evidence, and he subsequently participated in multiple investigative interviews concerning his use of deadly force.
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William Boughton was present during the confrontation but the available official records identify McDade, rather than Boughton, as the officer who fired the fatal shots. Boughton's body-worn camera was also collected as evidence.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article265575141.html
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https://apps.sacpd.org/Releases/liveview.aspx?reference=20220828-071
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https://www.cityofsacramento.gov/police/police-transparency/release-of-police-officer-personnel-records--pc-832-7-b--
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https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/SIMPSON-BRANDI.pdf
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https://www.kcra.com/article/ois-del-paso-blvd/41008281
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https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/sacramento-police-respond-to-officer-involved-shooting-in-north-sacramento/

On 08/27/2022, Charleston Police Department officers Josh Clendenin and Ward Childress shot and killed 50-year-old Samuel Paul Ranson after police went to the 100 block of East Point Drive to arrest him on a felony malicious-wounding warrant. Ranson moved into a wooded area after officers arrived, and police deployed K-9 Axel to locate and apprehend him.
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The warrant stemmed from an incident five days earlier, on 08/22/2022. According to court documents, another man reported that Ranson had cut him on the arm and chest during an encounter near 177 East Point Drive. The injured man and witnesses identified Ranson, and police obtained the malicious-wounding warrant. These allegations had not been adjudicated when Ranson was killed.
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Charleston Police Chief James “Tyke” Hunt said officers were familiar with Ranson and anticipated that he might move into the woods when police attempted to arrest him. K-9 handler Josh Clendenin deployed Axel, who tracked Ranson into the wooded area. Ward Childress accompanied Clendenin.
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According to police, Axel located Ranson and a close-range struggle followed involving Ranson, the dog and the officers. Hunt said Clendenin noticed the confrontation after Axel alerted toward Ranson's location. Police alleged that during the struggle Ranson produced a handgun and fired, fatally wounding Axel.
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Hunt described the confrontation as occurring at approximately arm's reach from Clendenin and Childress. He acknowledged that police could not determine where or at whom the shot that killed Axel had been intended. Both Clendenin and Childress then opened fire on Ranson.
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Ranson was struck by the officers' gunfire and transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police recovered a firearm and maintained that Ranson was still armed and extremely close to the officers when they fired.
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K-9 Axel also died from the gunshot wound. Axel had worked with Clendenin for approximately one year. Charleston officials subsequently characterized the dog's actions as having protected Clendenin and Childress during the close-range encounter.
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Charleston Police Department investigated the shooting and announced that the completed investigation would be submitted to the Kanawha County Prosecutor's Office for independent review.
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Josh Clendenin was a Charleston Police Department patrol officer and Axel's handler. Clendenin and K-9 Axel had worked together for approximately one year when Ranson was killed. Clendenin was specifically identified as one of the two officers who fired at Ranson.
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Ward Childress was the second Charleston Police Department patrol officer directly involved in the wooded-area confrontation. Police confirmed that Childress and Clendenin both fired at Ranson after the gunshot that killed Axel.

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https://www.wsaz.com/2022/08/29/charleston-police-releases-name-man-shot-killed-during-officer-involved-shooting/
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https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/kanawha_valley/man-who-killed-police-k-9-was-wanted-for-malicious-wounding/article_3c70512c-27e2-11ed-9441-233f127e395d.html
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https://wvmetronews.com/2022/08/29/hunt-k-9-axel-saved-the-lives-of-2-patrol-officers/
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https://wvpublic.org/west-virginia-police-department-mourns-loss-of-k-9-axel/

On 08/27/2022, Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies shot and killed 39-year-old Christopher Alan Rudolph after responding to a reported disturbance at a residence on Highway 47 south of Richwoods. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported that deputies encountered Rudolph on the front porch holding a weapon.
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The Washington County Sheriff’s Office dispatched deputies to the residence at approximately 7 p.m. The publicly available reporting does not provide details about the original disturbance call, including who called police, what conduct was reported, whether anyone was alleged to have been injured or threatened, or what information deputies had received before arriving.
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According to Missouri State Highway Patrol Corporal Dallas Thompson, deputies arrived and encountered Rudolph standing on the front porch with a weapon in his hand. Deputies ordered Rudolph to put the weapon down. Police alleged that Rudolph did not comply with those commands, after which deputies opened fire and struck him. The available reporting does not specify what type of weapon Rudolph allegedly possessed, whether he pointed it at anyone, whether he advanced toward deputies, or whether he fired any shots.
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After shooting Rudolph, deputies provided first aid and requested emergency medical personnel. EMS personnel arrived and pronounced Rudolph dead at the scene. A woman was also present at the residence but was not physically injured during the encounter.
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Washington County Coroner Steve Hatfield reported that an autopsy was performed two days later. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office requested that the Missouri State Highway Patrol Division of Drug and Crime Control conduct the investigation into the deputies’ use of deadly force.
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Rudolph’s obituary confirms his full name as Christopher Alan Rudolph, his birth date as 04/12/1983 and his death on 08/27/2022 at age 39. He was born in Richwoods and was survived by his parents, wife, two daughters and two brothers. His obituary described him as a devoted father whose life centered around his daughters and who enjoyed riding dirt bikes.
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The publicly available record remains limited regarding the critical seconds before deputies fired. The reporting establishes that Rudolph allegedly had a weapon in his hand and did not put it down when commanded, but does not establish that he pointed the weapon at deputies, threatened them with it or fired it. No detailed reconstruction, body-camera footage, prosecutorial decision or subsequent civil litigation concerning the shooting was located in the records reviewed for this update.
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The Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies who shot Rudolph were not identified in the publicly available records located for this update.

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https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/25749181/christopher-alan-rudolph
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https://dailyjournalonline.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-dies-in-officer-involved-shooting-saturday-in-wash-co/article_4b2592fe-1079-58b7-b13e-d678e1a0636c.html
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https://www.moorefunerals.com/obituaries/rudolph-christopher