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On 08/29/2021, at approximately 2:42 p.m., Atlanta Police Department officers, Georgia State Patrol troopers and Georgia Tech Police Department officers responded to the Home Park neighborhood near Georgia Tech after receiving a report of a man with a gun who was possibly suicidal and intended to harm himself. Police identified the man as 40-year-old Gray Bell of Roswell. Georgia Tech issued an emergency alert directing students living in Home Park to remain indoors while police converged on the area.
Georgia Tech police and Georgia State Patrol troopers arrived before Atlanta police negotiators. Atlanta Police Department personnel subsequently responded in an effort to de-escalate the crisis and communicate with Bell. The encounter centered near State Street and Home Park Avenue, close to 10th Street and the Georgia Tech campus.
During the encounter, Bell attempted to drive away. Georgia State Patrol troopers used their patrol vehicles to box Bell's vehicle in and prevent him from leaving. Officers then began approaching the immobilized vehicle.
The GBI alleged that Bell got out of his vehicle holding a handgun. Police alleged that officers repeatedly ordered Bell to put the weapon down and that Bell instead manipulated the handgun and chambered a round. The publicly released GBI account does not allege that Bell fired the weapon at police before officers opened fire.
An Atlanta Police Department officer and multiple Georgia State Patrol troopers opened fire on Bell. Bell suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was transported to a hospital, where he died. Georgia Tech Police Department officers were present during the encounter, but the GBI identified the fatal gunfire as coming from Atlanta police and Georgia State Patrol personnel.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation conducted the independent investigation into Bell's killing. The GBI subsequently listed the case among its 2021 fatal police shooting investigations and identified the Georgia State Patrol as the primary agency associated with the fatal use of force. The completed investigative file was to be submitted to the Fulton County District Attorney's Office for review.

https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/man-shot-killed-by-police-in-home-park-area-of-atlanta/
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/man-shot-killed-by-police-home-park-neighborhood/
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/gsp-apd-officer-involved-shooting-home-park-atlanta
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/man-killed-officer-involved-shooting-home-park-atlanta/
https://www.wsbradio.com/news/local/atlanta/gbi-investigating-deadly-officer-involved-shooting-near-georgia-tech-campus/A5MKIFE32VFFXLI3X3YNJ2VCDQ/

https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-gbi-investigates-shooting-involving-atlanta-police-officer-in-midtown/OJWYYDU7YZFUZFT6XR4K77SLGQ/

On 08/29/2021, at approximately 5:34 a.m., an Atlanta Police Department officer was flagged down by a person in Midtown Atlanta who reported that a man armed with a metal pipe was walking along Peachtree Street and striking passing vehicles. Police identified the man as 43-year-old Kevin Louis Fuller. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation later confirmed Fuller's identity in its official compilation of 2021 police shootings.
Before the officer encountered Fuller, police alleged that Fuller struck another man on Peachtree Street with the pipe and smashed the man's cellphone. The man suffered injuries that authorities described as not life-threatening. The officer subsequently located Fuller, who was still carrying the metal pipe.
According to the GBI, the officer repeatedly ordered Fuller to stop and put down the pipe. Police alleged that Fuller instead continued moving toward the officer while holding it. The officer initially deployed a Taser, but authorities said the Taser did not incapacitate Fuller.
Police alleged that Fuller continued advancing toward the officer after the Taser deployment. The officer then fired his service handgun, striking Fuller. Police recovered the metal pipe from the scene. Fuller was transported to an Atlanta hospital in critical condition.
Fuller subsequently died from the injuries inflicted by the Atlanta police officer, making the encounter a fatal police shooting. The GBI's official 2021 shooting database identifies Fuller as the person involved in the 08/29/2021 Peachtree Street Atlanta Police Department shooting.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation conducted the independent investigation into the officer's use of deadly force, with the completed investigation designated for submission to the Fulton County District Attorney's Office for prosecutorial review.
SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/atlanta-police-shoot-kill-man-on-peachtree-street/
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/man-shot-killed-by-atlanta-police-peachtree-street/
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/atlanta-police-shooting-peachtree-street/
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/atlanta-police-involved-in-shooting-gbi-investigating/85-42e88357-27c0-4e42-b235-fd09173a12f1

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/gbi-investigates-officer-involved-shooting-on-peachtree-street

On 08/29/2021, shortly before noon, 26-year-old Lyft driver Isabella Lewis was found shot on Forest Gate Drive in Garland. Garland Police alleged that 32-year-old Imran Ali Rasheed had hired Lewis for a ride, shot and killed her and then took her vehicle. Lewis died at the scene. Her vehicle was subsequently found outside Plano Police Department headquarters at 909 14th Street.
Later that day, Plano Police received a report of a man behaving erratically outside police headquarters. Police alleged that Rasheed, who was wearing a black shirt and mask, entered the department's public lobby, left, and then returned carrying a handgun.
According to Plano Police, a civilian department employee was assisting a visitor inside the lobby when Rasheed allegedly raised the handgun and fired in their direction. The employee and visitor escaped into a secure room. Neither was struck. Two Plano police officers inside the building responded to the gunfire.
Police alleged that Rasheed exchanged gunfire with the responding officers. The two officers fired at Rasheed, striking him multiple times. Plano Fire-Rescue transported Rasheed to a hospital, where he subsequently died from the police gunshot wounds.
The investigation subsequently connected Rasheed to Lewis's killing after investigators determined that the vehicle outside Plano Police headquarters belonged to her. Garland Police, Plano Police and the FBI worked jointly to investigate the sequence of events.
The FBI also opened a terrorism investigation after investigators recovered a note that authorities said suggested Rasheed might have been inspired by a foreign terrorist organization. Federal investigators stated that they had no evidence that Rasheed was acting under the direction of, or had been in contact with, a specific terrorist organization. Rasheed had previously been investigated by federal authorities between approximately 2010 and 2013, but that earlier investigation was closed after authorities concluded at the time that he did not pose a threat.
Rasheed's family, through attorney Edwin King, said they were blindsided by what happened and had observed no warning signs that he would commit violence. King said Rasheed had multiple sclerosis, had recently lost his job and might have been experiencing depression.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/plano-police-shoot-kill-man-after-shooting-inside-police-headquarters/2729153/
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2021/08/29/plano-police-shoot-and-kill-man-after-shooting-inside-police-headquarters/
https://www.cbsnews.com/dfw/news/plano-police-shooting-headquarters-man-killed/
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/fbi-continues-probe-in-garland-plano-shootings-attorney-for-suspects-family-speaks-out/2731654/

https://nypost.com/2021/08/31/man-kills-texas-lyft-driver-in-possible-terror-related-slaying/

On 08/29/2021, Missoula County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the Southside Road area west of Missoula after receiving a report of a man with a machete who was allegedly swinging it and making threats. Deputies encountered 31-year-old Johnny Lee Perry II near the Deep Creek Fishing Access area.
Deputies attempted to communicate with Perry for an extended period while he remained near his vehicle. Body-camera and dashboard-camera recordings later played publicly during a coroner’s inquest documented much of the encounter. Deputy Justin White testified that he saw Perry swinging the machete, while Perry’s family disputed the characterization of his behavior as threatening.
Deputies decided against using a Taser. Deputy Sean Evans, a department Taser instructor, later testified that officers believed Perry could use the machete to cut the Taser wires and that Perry’s loose clothing could interfere with the probes. Instead, deputies deployed less-lethal impact rounds. Perry was struck by three foam projectiles at close range.
Police alleged that after being struck by the less-lethal rounds, Perry swung the machete and began running toward a nearby trailer. Deputies said they were concerned about people who might be inside the trailer. However, video evidence later reviewed during the coroner’s inquest showed that Perry was running away from the deputies and had not approached or attempted to injure them when Deputy Sean Evans fired the fatal shot.
Evans shot Perry in the upper back near his right shoulder. The bullet traveled through his back, fractured two ribs, punctured a lung and exited near his right collarbone. Perry suffered massive internal bleeding, losing approximately two liters of blood. Deputies provided medical treatment before Perry was transported to a hospital, where he died.
The autopsy determined that Perry died from the police gunshot wound to his back. Toxicology testing detected methamphetamine and marijuana. The medical examiner testified that Perry’s methamphetamine concentration was high enough to be lethal in some people but could be tolerated by a habitual user; the gunshot wound, not intoxication, was determined to be the cause of death.
The Montana Division of Criminal Investigation conducted an independent investigation, while the Ravalli County Coroner’s Office handled the death investigation because Missoula County Sheriff’s personnel were involved in Perry’s death. The completed investigation was forwarded for a coroner’s inquest.
On 04/28/2022, a coroner’s inquest was held in Missoula County District Court. Jurors viewed body-camera and dashboard-camera recordings and heard testimony from Evans, White, senior responding officer Troy Rexin, DCI investigators, the medical examiner and other witnesses. After approximately 30 minutes of deliberation, the jury determined that Evans was not criminally responsible for Perry’s death.
Perry’s killing generated public criticism and protests. Supporters appeared outside the courthouse with Black Lives Matter signs during the inquest. Perry’s family questioned the deputies’ characterization of his actions as threatening, and the Montana Racial Equity Project publicly called for transparency and accountability following the killing.

1. https://www.krtv.com/news/crime-and-courts/not-guilty-verdict-in-the-deadly-shooting-of-a-suspect-by-sheriffs-deputy
2. https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/missoula-deputy-cleared-in-killing-of-man-with-machete
3. https://www.kpax.com/missoula-coroners-inquest-jury-returns-verdict-in-fatal-officer-involved-shooting
4. https://apnews.com/article/shootings-race-and-ethnicity-montana-missoula-259f7c7f7f408b05f6047164e590268b
5. https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/coroners-inquest-fatal-officer-involved-shooting-justified

On 08/28/2021, Newton County Sheriff’s Office deputies pursued a reportedly stolen vehicle through Newton County. The pursuit continued at high speed on Highway 81 as deputies followed the vehicle toward the Covington area.
Thirty-year-old Brittany Michelle Ingram, who was pregnant, was traveling in an uninvolved vehicle when the police pursuit approached her location. The pursued vehicle crossed into opposing traffic and collided with Ingram’s vehicle.
The impact severely damaged Ingram’s vehicle and left her critically injured. Emergency personnel transported her to Piedmont Newton Hospital, where she died from injuries sustained in the collision. Her unborn child also died.
The Georgia State Patrol investigated the fatal collision. The crash was a direct consequence of the vehicle pursuit initiated by the Newton County Sheriff’s Office over a reportedly stolen vehicle.

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/1-dead-following-police-pursuit-of-stolen-vehicle/85-c53057e3-db64-44d2-b2ea-04db2b236520
https://www.covnews.com/news/crime/pregnant-woman-dies-crash-after-pursuit/
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/newton-county/pregnant-woman-dies-after-suspect-leading-police-chase-crashes-into-car/N5NLFZZRYZGHXJS2W3VWVFKJBE/
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/innocent-bystander-killed-in-newton-county-crash-following-police-pursuit
https://www.wgxa.tv/news/local/pregnant-woman-killed-in-newton-county-crash-after-police-chase-of-stolen-car

On 08/28/2021, at approximately 9:00 p.m., Fort Smith Police Department officers pursued a reportedly stolen box truck carrying a man and woman from Fort Smith, Arkansas, across the state line into Arkoma, Oklahoma. The encounter ultimately reached Echols Street in Arkoma.
According to Le Flore County Sheriff Rodney Derryberry, police alleged that the driver rammed a police vehicle on Echols Street. Officers attempted to block the box truck, but authorities alleged that the driver continued moving the truck onto the police vehicle. A witness described seeing the box truck climb on top of a female officer's police car and crush down onto it.
Police then used another vehicle to ram the box truck. Gunfire followed. A witness at the scene reported hearing two shots while the box truck was on top of the police vehicle. The man driving the truck was killed. Early reporting initially left unclear whether the collision or police gunfire caused his death, but subsequent national police-death data records the cause of death as gunshot and identifies the encounter as a fatal police shooting.
The FBI investigated the fatal encounter because the pursuit crossed the Arkansas-Oklahoma state line. Contemporary reporting also identified the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation as involved in investigating the shooting.

https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/man-dead-following-police-pursuit-starting-in-fort-smith/527-b031bb1c-8b5a-4f60-8a84-cf9e566d97c8?utm_
https://www.4029tv.com/article/one-man-is-dead-following-a-police-pursuit-and-shooting-in-arkoma/37424445
https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/suspect-dead-following-police-pursuit-starting-in-fort-smith/527-b031bb1c-8b5a-4f60-8a84-cf9e566d97c8 

On 08/28/2021, at approximately 9:00 a.m., California Highway Patrol officers responded to the interchange of the Glendale Freeway (CA-2) and Ventura Freeway (CA-134) in Glendale after receiving reports of a white sedan stopped and blocking lanes on the transition road from southbound CA-2 to eastbound CA-134. The disabled or stopped vehicle caused authorities to close the transition road.
CHP officers encountered an unidentified woman outside or near the white sedan. According to CHP, the woman allegedly had a handgun in each hand. Police alleged that officers ordered her to drop the weapons and that she did not comply.
CHP officers then opened fire, striking the woman. After she was shot, she went over the side of the freeway overpass and fell onto the westbound CA-134 below. CHP Officer Chris Baldonado said investigators had not yet determined precisely why or how she went over the overpass following the gunfire. Officers went to the freeway below and provided medical aid.
The woman was transported to a hospital, where she died. The shooting and subsequent fall resulted in an extensive closure of the westbound CA-134 near Harvey Drive and the CA-2 interchange while investigators processed the scene.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-28/police-pursuit-crash-glendale
https://abc7.com/glendale-police-chase-crash
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/deadly-crash-following-police-pursuit
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/armed-woman-shot-glendale-134-freeway/
https://www.foxla.com/video/972050

On 08/27/2021, at approximately 10:30 p.m., the Nye County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call concerning an altercation in Tonopah involving 30-year-old Las Vegas resident Ingmar Von Strandberg. According to information subsequently released by the Sheriff’s Office, the caller alleged that Strandberg had threatened to kill himself and other people and had left the area traveling south on U.S. Highway 95 in a white van.
An Esmeralda County Sheriff’s Office deputy located the van stopped along U.S. 95 near mile marker 37 in Esmeralda County. The deputy found Strandberg inside the van and began attempting to negotiate with him. Nye County Sheriff’s Deputy Jonathan Justice arrived and joined the response.
According to the Nye County Sheriff’s Office, Strandberg allegedly told the deputies that they were going to have to kill him and that he intended to come out of the van with a gun. After several minutes of negotiations, police alleged that Strandberg emerged carrying what appeared to be a handgun and pointed it toward Justice. Justice and the unidentified Esmeralda County deputy opened fire, striking Strandberg.
Police alleged that after being shot, Strandberg sat back up and again pointed the object toward the deputies. Both deputies fired a second time. Justice fired approximately 13 rounds during the encounter. Strandberg died from the police gunfire.
After the shooting, investigators determined that the weapon was not a firearm. It was a Sig Sauer P365 replica pellet gun designed to closely resemble the corresponding semiautomatic handgun.
Justice was equipped with a body-worn camera, but the Sheriff’s Office reported that its battery died immediately before the shooting. His patrol vehicle’s dashboard camera remained operational and recorded the encounter. Justice had been employed by the Nye County Sheriff’s Office for approximately eight months and was assigned to the northern command patrol division at the time he killed Strandberg. He was placed on paid administrative leave following the shooting.
The Nevada Department of Public Safety investigated the fatal shooting. The killing was the Nye County Sheriff’s Office’s first fatal police shooting of 2021.
Justice remained employed by the Nye County Sheriff’s Office after the shooting. County records show him continuing to serve as a deputy in subsequent years, including receiving ownership of a retiring Sheriff’s Office K-9 in 2022. Nye County records in 2026 recognized Justice for five years of county

SOURCE LINKS :
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/shootings/nye-esmeralda-county-deputies-shoot-kill-man-on-u-s-95-2428612/
https://www.ktnv.com/news/crime/man-shot-killed-after-confrontation-with-deputies-on-u-s-95
https://mynews4.com/news/local/deputies-involved-in-fatal-shooting-along-us-95-in-esmeralda-county
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/shootings/police-shooting-just-south-of-tonopah-leaves-1-dead-2429121/

On 08/27/2021, New York State Police Investigator Brian Kozemko saw 53-year-old David G. Wandell walking toward Eldridge Park in Elmira and requested uniformed officers to assist in arresting him on a parole-violation warrant. Six days earlier, Elmira Police Sgt. Christopher Zelko had circulated a countywide officer-safety bulletin concerning Wandell.
Elmira Police Officer Amari Hadlock encountered Wandell in Eldridge Park at approximately 11:36 a.m. According to Hadlock, Wandell removed a bandana covering his hands and pointed what appeared to be a black handgun at her. Hadlock fired seven rounds while backing away. Investigators subsequently found no evidence that any of Hadlock's rounds struck Wandell. Hadlock tripped over a parking barrier as Wandell ran away.
The incident created an important piece of misinformation during the developing police response. Elmira Police Sgt. Frank Hillman saw Wandell allegedly point the object at Hadlock, heard Hadlock's gunfire and then saw Hadlock fall. Hillman mistakenly believed Wandell had shot her and radioed that Wandell had fired at police. Dispatch subsequently broadcast a countywide call reporting shots fired at officers. Wandell had not fired at Hadlock.
Officers from the Elmira Police Department, New York State Police, Chemung County Sheriff's Office, Elmira Heights Police Department, West Elmira Police Department, Horseheads Police Department and state parole converged on the area. Wandell continued approximately one mile from Eldridge Park toward Woodlawn Cemetery while police pursued him on foot and established a perimeter.
Inside Woodlawn Cemetery, police surrounded Wandell as he took cover near a tree. The five officers who ultimately opened fire were Elmira Police Investigator William Goodwin, Chemung County Sheriff's Deputy Zachary Hugg, Sgt. Charles Kennedy, state Parole Officer Shawn Reynolds and New York State Trooper Matthew Shutter.
Police alleged that Wandell raised what appeared to be a handgun and pointed it toward officers despite commands to show his hands and drop the weapon. Goodwin, Hugg, Kennedy, Reynolds and Shutter then opened fire. Wandell was struck five times. The medical examiner determined that two of the gunshot wounds were fatal. Ballistic examination could not determine which officers fired the two fatal rounds because the recovered projectile fragments were too damaged for comparison.
After police shot Wandell, officers discovered that the object beside his body was not a firearm. It was an unloaded Airsoft pistol from which the federally required orange tip had been removed, making it resemble a conventional handgun. Police found no ammunition for an actual firearm on Wandell. Contemporary police reporting was also corrected to clarify that Wandell had not fired at officers during the encounter.
No body camera captured the fatal shooting itself. Hugg was the only one of the five officers who fired in the cemetery who was equipped with a body camera, but he told investigators he forgot to activate it when he entered the cemetery and turned it on only after Wandell had been handcuffed. Shutter's New York State Police unit did not yet issue body cameras; Elmira investigators were not required to wear them; state parole did not require them; and Chemung County did not provide them to sergeants. Other officers' cameras captured audio of the shooting and portions of the pursuit and aftermath.
The New York Attorney General's Office of Special Investigation conducted an independent investigation that included officer and civilian interviews, body-camera footage, police radio transmissions, photographs, crime-scene evidence and ballistics testing. Trooper Matthew Shutter, through his attorney, declined the Attorney General investigators' request to be interviewed. Investigators nevertheless examined his weapon and determined that Shutter had fired six rounds from his Glock .45-caliber handgun.
On 09/01/2022, the Attorney General's Office announced that it would not pursue criminal charges against the five officers who shot Wandell. The Office of Special Investigation concluded that prosecutors could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers' use of deadly force was legally unjustified.
A review of publicly indexed records for Goodwin, Hugg, Kennedy, Reynolds, Shutter and Hadlock did not establish another fatal police shooting involving any of them before Wandell's death. Goodwin remained with the Elmira Police Department and was subsequently promoted to sergeant in the Detective Bureau. Hadlock also remained with Elmira Police and was among the officers nominated for the department's 2024 Mary J. Brunner Award.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/elmira-police-shooting
https://www.weny.com/news/local/police-shooting-elmira-2021
https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2021/08/elmira-man-shot-and-killed-by-police-responding-to-wanted-person-report.html
https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2022/attorney-general-james-office-special-investigation-releases-report-death-david
https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/reports/osi-wandell-report.pdf
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/public-safety/2021/08/27/elmira-officer-shooting-suspect

On 08/27/2021, eight-year-old Fanta Bility attended an Academy Park High School football game with her mother and older sister in Sharon Hill. As spectators were leaving the stadium after the game, gunfire erupted approximately a block away following a dispute between two groups of young men.
Sharon Hill Police Department officers Brian Devaney, Devon Smith and Sean Dolan were stationed outside the stadium as part of the police detail for the football game. After hearing gunfire, the officers fired toward a vehicle and the crowd leaving the stadium. The three officers collectively discharged 25 rounds. Fanta, her 12-year-old sister and two other people were struck by police gunfire.
Fanta was struck in the back as she and her family were leaving the game. She was transported to Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Investigators ultimately determined that the bullet that killed Fanta came from one of the three Sharon Hill police officers. Ballistics testing could not establish which officer fired the fatal round.
The initial handling of the case became highly controversial. Prosecutors first charged two teenagers involved in the earlier exchange of gunfire with offenses that included murder in connection with Fanta's death. A grand jury investigation later concluded that the police officers' decision to fire toward the vehicle and a crowd of people leaving the stadium caused Fanta's death and wounded three other people. The murder charges against the teenagers relating to Fanta's death were subsequently withdrawn.
On 01/18/2022, Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer charged Devaney, Smith and Dolan with voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter and 10 counts each of reckless endangerment. Prosecutors said they could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the three officers fired the shots that killed Fanta and wounded the other civilians.
Sharon Hill Borough fired all three officers. Devaney had been a Sharon Hill police officer since 2005, Smith since 2015 and Dolan since 2018. An outside administrative investigation subsequently examined the department's policies, training, supervision and response to the shooting.
On 11/10/2022, Devaney, Smith and Dolan each pleaded guilty to 10 counts of reckless endangerment under a plea agreement supported by Fanta's family. The manslaughter charges were dismissed as part of the agreement.
In May 2023, the three former officers were sentenced to five years of probation, including the first 11 months on house arrest. They were also prohibited from possessing firearms and barred from working as police officers during their sentences.
Fanta's family and other people injured by the police gunfire filed federal civil-rights litigation against Sharon Hill Borough and the officers. In September 2023, Sharon Hill announced that it had reached a federal settlement with Fanta's family and the other plaintiffs.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/02/girl-shooting-football-game-police-sharon-hill

On 08/27/2021, Milwaukee Police Department officers attempted to stop a 29-year-old man in downtown Milwaukee. The man ran from officers, and police pursued him on foot toward the Milwaukee River.
During the foot pursuit, the man entered the Milwaukee River. Police and emergency personnel responded to search the water after he disappeared beneath the surface. Divers subsequently recovered him from the river.
The man was pronounced dead after being removed from the water. His death was investigated as a drowning associated with the police foot pursuit.

https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/man-drowns-in-milwaukee-river-following-foot-pursuit-with-police
https://www.cbs58.com/news/body-found-in-milwaukee-river-after-police-pursuit
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2021/08/27/man-drowns-after-police-chase-milwaukee-river/5628881001

On 08/27/2021, at approximately 10:22 a.m., Elkhart Police Department officers responded to a shooting at 514 West High Street. Police alleged that 19-year-old Lonnel Cephas Jr. had fired multiple rounds toward his estranged 15-year-old girlfriend and her mother during a domestic dispute. Neither woman was struck, but bullets penetrated a wall and door of the residence. One bullet struck Danton Munoz, a child who was only days away from his second birthday, in the head. Danton died from the gunshot wound.
Cephas left the residence before officers arrived. Police located his blue van a short time later and received information that a man matching his description was walking in an alley near 8th Street and Cleveland Avenue. Elkhart Police Sgt. Mike Davis, a 15-year department veteran, responded to the area and encountered Cephas.
According to the subsequent Elkhart County Homicide Unit investigation, Davis ordered Cephas to show his hands. Police alleged that Cephas initially concealed his right hand before displaying a 9mm handgun and raising it toward his own head. Davis repeatedly ordered Cephas to drop the weapon. Police alleged that Cephas then lowered the handgun and pointed it toward Davis.
Davis opened fire with his police rifle, striking Cephas multiple times. Cephas died at the scene. Investigators recovered the 9mm handgun underneath his body. Subsequent firearms testing determined that the recovered handgun had fired the bullets at the High Street residence, including the bullet that killed Danton Munoz.
The Elkhart County Homicide Unit investigated Davis's killing of Cephas. Investigators reviewed law-enforcement audio and video recordings, forensic evidence, the recovered handgun and autopsy findings. The autopsy determined that Cephas died from multiple gunshot wounds inflicted by Davis.
On 11/03/2021, Elkhart County Prosecuting Attorney Vicki Elaine Becker announced that Davis would not face criminal charges. Becker concluded that Davis's use of deadly force was justified under Indiana law because the evidence supported his account that Cephas pointed the handgun toward him. The prosecutor determined that a grand jury was unnecessary and declined to file charges.

https://www.elkhartcountyprosecutor.com/news/press-releases/officer-involved-shooting-death-man-killed-elkhart-child-justified-under-indiana
https://wowo.com/identities-released-of-child-victim-and-officer-involved-in-elkhart-shooting-deaths/
https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/crime/elkhart-officer-will-not-face-charges-for-fatally-shooting-man-who-killed-boy
https://wsbt.com/news/local/police-shoot-kill-man-suspected-in-toddlers-shooting-death
https://www.wndu.com/2021/11/03/officer-involved-shooting-man-that-killed-elkhart-child-justified/
https://www.wndu.com/2021/08/27/2-year-old-is-shot-killed-elkhart-police-say-stop-violence/

On 08/27/2021, at approximately 3:08 p.m., 41-year-old Christopher Corey Moore entered the employee parking lot at Greensboro Police Department headquarters at 100 East Police Plaza. Police said Moore brought an accelerant into the lot and used it to set a marked Greensboro police patrol vehicle on fire.
Officer J.M. Chavez, a 22-year Greensboro Police Department veteran, encountered Moore while Chavez was entering the building. According to the subsequent investigation, Moore attacked Chavez, striking him repeatedly in the face and head before the two men fell to the ground. Police said Moore put his arms around Chavez's neck and attempted to take Chavez's service weapon during the struggle.
Chavez managed to fire his handgun once at Moore while the two remained on the ground. Officers A.L. Dellinger and R.T. Brooks heard the struggle and responded to the parking lot. They found Chavez on the ground with facial injuries and Moore still struggling with him. Dellinger and Brooks then opened fire on Moore.
Moore was struck by police gunfire and died at the scene. He was unarmed. Chavez was transported to Moses Cone Hospital for treatment of injuries sustained during the confrontation and was subsequently released.
Dellinger had joined the Greensboro Police Department in 2009, Brooks had approximately 10 years with the department, and Chavez had approximately 22 years of service at the time of Moore's death. All three were initially placed on administrative duty while the shooting was investigated.
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation conducted the criminal investigation into Moore's death. Greensboro Police Department's Professional Standards Division separately conducted an internal investigation to determine whether department policies had been followed.
The SBI investigation included witness accounts supporting that Moore initiated the physical confrontation with Chavez. Guilford County District Attorney Avery Crump subsequently reviewed the evidence and determined that Chavez, Dellinger and Brooks were legally justified in using deadly force. No criminal charges were filed against the officers.
Moore was born on 04/21/1980 in White Plains, New York. He had graduated from Iona Preparatory School, earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Duke University and later worked as a research assistant at Columbia University.

https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/crime/deadly-force-justified-in-deadly-shooting-at-greensboro-police-department/83-e35777de-51d9-459c-9d8a-45b1822e2431
https://www.wxii12.com/article/greensboro-police-department-hq-shooting-investigation-aug27/37418689
https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/piedmont-triad/suspect-killed-in-officer-involved-shooting-outside-of-greensboro-police-headquarters-identified/
https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/incident-reported-outside-greensboro-police-department/83-a6a864fe-5eac-44e5-873d-703841bcac31
https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/greensboro/new-details-released-after-fatal-shooting-in-parking-lot-of-greensboro-police-department-use-of-deadly-force-deemed-justified/
https://www.wxii12.com/article/greensboro-police-department-hq-shooting-investigation-aug27/37418689

On 08/27/2021, at approximately 1:40 p.m., 33-year-old Brandon Ventura called 911 from his 15th-floor apartment at Kamakee Vista in Honolulu's Kakaako neighborhood. Ventura told the dispatcher that his girlfriend had broken up with him, that he was suicidal and had a loaded handgun to his head. He also said he had not taken his medication that day. Police arrived approximately 11 minutes later.
Honolulu Police Department officers established a perimeter and attempted to persuade Ventura to leave the apartment. HPD requested a crisis negotiator, but the situation eventually escalated to deployment of four officers from the department's Specialized Services Division, HPD's SWAT unit. The SWAT officers entered the building approximately two hours into the encounter.
According to the later civil lawsuit filed by Ventura's father, the four-officer team included an officer armed with an M4 rifle, another carrying a 40mm less-lethal launcher, an officer carrying a ballistic shield and handgun, and a fourth designated as the contact officer. The contact officer was not a trained crisis negotiator. Ventura eventually threw a knife and an ammunition magazine outside the apartment but retained his handgun.
Shortly after 4:30 p.m., Ventura came out of the apartment with the handgun pressed against his own temple. According to the lawsuit, the officer carrying the less-lethal launcher instructed Ventura to remove his finger from the trigger and lower the handgun, and Ventura complied. That officer then fired a foam projectile at Ventura. The SWAT team rushed him, with one officer grabbing the hand containing the handgun while other officers pushed Ventura back inside the apartment and pinned him against the kitchen counter.
During the struggle, the SWAT officer providing lethal cover fired an M4 rifle at Ventura from approximately five to ten feet away, striking him in the head and killing him. Police maintained that Ventura pointed his handgun toward officers during the struggle. The later civil lawsuit disputed HPD's characterization of the encounter and alleged that Ventura was attempting to surrender when police escalated to physical force and killed him.
The Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney's Office conducted an investigation lasting nearly a year. On 08/04/2022, Prosecuting Attorney Steve Alm announced that the SWAT officer who killed Ventura would not be criminally charged. Alm concluded that police had attempted available de-escalation measures and that the fatal shooting was legally justified because Ventura pointed his handgun toward officers.
In August 2023, Ventura's father, Dean Ventura, filed a civil lawsuit against the City and County of Honolulu and the four SWAT officers involved in his son's death. The lawsuit alleged negligence, assault and battery and argued that police violated HPD's de-escalation policy by escalating a suicidal mental-health crisis rather than allowing trained crisis negotiators additional time to work with Ventura.
The lawsuit emphasized that Ventura had experienced suicidal ideation during five previous encounters with police and alleged that HPD should have recognized the encounter primarily as a mental-health crisis. Attorney Sean Fitzsimmons argued that police unnecessarily compressed the time and physical space available for de-escalation and that the SWAT team's use of the foam projectile precipitated the fatal confrontation.
The identities of the four SWAT officers, including the officer who fired the fatal rifle shot, were withheld from the public. The prosecutor's investigative report redacted their names, and HPD subsequently declined to identify them while the civil lawsuit was pending.

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2021/08/28/breaking-news/honolulu-police-fatally-shoot-armed-man-after-hours-long-standoff/
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2021/08/28/man-killed-by-police-after-hours-long-standoff-in-honolulu/
https://www.khon2.com/local-news/man-shot-and-killed-by-hpd-after-hours-long-standoff/
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2021/08/27/breaking-news/honolulu-police-close-kamakee-street-in-kakaako-after-reports-of-gunman/
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/08/04/live-prosecutor-discuss-his-investigation-into-2021-police-shooting-that-left-suspect-dead/
https://www.civilbeat.org/2022/08/honolulu-prosecutors-office-wont-charge-swat-officer-who-killed-kakaako-man/
https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/09/city-hpd-face-lawsuit-over-2021-killing-of-kakaako-man/

On 08/27/2021, at approximately 6:27 a.m., federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents were serving a narcotics-related search warrant at an apartment building in the 1600 block of North Willis Boulevard in Portland's Kenton neighborhood. Portland Police Bureau officers were called to assist after Alexander Tadros, 30, left a third-floor apartment and agents reported that he was armed and had threatened to shoot law enforcement officers. Portland police were not involved in serving the original DEA warrant.
Portland Police activated its Special Emergency Reaction Team and Crisis Negotiation Team and began evacuating nearby apartments. According to the subsequent police investigation, Tadros fired multiple rounds during the encounter. At approximately 7:30 a.m., a bullet traveled through a wall and struck a Portland police officer in the hip. The wounded officer was transported to a hospital and later released.
Police reported additional gunfire coming from Tadros's location. SERT officers Joshua Howery and Jake Ramsey then opened fire. Howery was a 20-year Portland Police Bureau veteran and Ramsey had served approximately four years with the department.
Tadros was struck and killed. The Oregon State Medical Examiner conducted an autopsy and determined that Tadros died from a single police gunshot wound. Although both Howery and Ramsey fired their weapons, the publicly released summary does not identify which officer fired the fatal round.
Howery and Ramsey were placed on paid administrative leave while the shooting was investigated. Portland Police subsequently released extensive investigative records, including reports and grand-jury transcripts, concerning Tadros's death.
Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt and the Oregon Department of Justice jointly presented the police shooting to a grand jury. More than 25 witnesses testified during two days of evidence. On 02/25/2022, the grand jury returned a not-true bill, determining that the police use of deadly force was not criminal under Oregon law. Neither Howery nor Ramsey was charged.
The Portland Police Bureau also subjected the shooting to its internal use-of-force review process, including review by the Police Review Board, which includes community members, Police Bureau personnel and representatives from the city's independent police oversight system.

https://www.portland.gov/police/open-data/alexander-tadros
https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/2021/08/27/36206208/portland-police-shoot-and-kill-person-in-kenton-neighborhood
https://www.koin.com/news/crime/autopsy-complete-man-killed-in-ppb-shootout-idd/
https://www.mcda.us/index.php/news/grand-jury-returns-not-true-bill-in-august-27-2021-fatal-shooting-by-an-officer-after-joint-presentation-from-the-doj-and-mcda
https://apnews.com/article/crime-police-shootings-oregon-portland-f8833609c21bde930508e8adc82209e0

On 08/26/2021, Daleville Police Department officers responded to the 9000 block of South Walnut Street in Daleville following a report of a disturbance involving a firearm. Officers encountered 30-year-old Pradeep Singh at the location.
During the encounter, a Daleville police officer opened fire, striking Singh. Emergency medical personnel responded, but Singh died from the police gunfire.
Indiana State Police were called to conduct the investigation into the fatal shooting. State Police investigators processed the scene, interviewed witnesses and investigated the circumstances leading to the Daleville officer's use of deadly force.
Singh's identity was publicly released following the shooting. Contemporary local reporting identified him as the man killed during the Daleville police encounter.

https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2021/08/26/police-shooting-daleville
https://fox59.com/news/indiana-state-police-investigate-officer-involved-shooting
https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/state-police-review-fatal-shooting

On 08/26/2021, at approximately 2:05 a.m., two Seminole County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the 400 block of Riverview Avenue in unincorporated Sanford after a neighbor called 911 reporting a physical altercation between a man and woman and hearing the woman crying for help. When deputies arrived, they initially could not determine which residence was involved because both people had left the immediate area.
Deputies began contacting residents to identify where the disturbance had occurred. Their investigation led them to the home of 26-year-old Samuel Thomas Kirk. As deputies approached the residence and attempted to make contact at the front door, Kirk came out from the carport area carrying a handgun. Body-camera footage recorded the encounter.
According to Sheriff Dennis Lemma, deputies repeatedly ordered Kirk to put the handgun down. Police alleged that Kirk pointed the gun toward the deputies and fired one round. The two deputies returned fire, collectively firing approximately 15 rounds. Kirk was struck five times.
After Kirk was shot, deputies provided emergency medical treatment until fire-rescue personnel arrived. Kirk was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The Sheriff’s Office publicly released body-camera footage from the encounter, including a slow-motion recording of the exchange of gunfire.
Investigators subsequently located and interviewed the woman involved in the original disturbance. She told detectives that she and Kirk had been drinking at a downtown Sanford bar and that she followed him home to make sure he arrived safely. She alleged that an argument developed outside the residence and that Kirk threw her to the ground, slammed her against the concrete and choked her before she escaped in her vehicle. She declined medical treatment.
Kirk was described by the sheriff as believed to be a Marine veteran. Both deputies who killed Kirk had been hired by the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office less than two years before the shooting. They were placed on administrative leave following the killing.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement conducted the independent investigation into the fatal police shooting. The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office did not identify the two shooting deputies in its initial public release.

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2021/08/26/seminole-county-sheriffs-deputy-involved-in-shooting/#//

On 08/26/2021, shortly before midnight, Nampa Police Department officers responded after a driver called police and reported that a man carrying a gun had chased the driver's vehicle in the area of Lincoln Avenue and Elder Street. The man was later identified by the Canyon County Coroner's Office as 53-year-old Nampa resident Vladislav Fomin.
Officers searched the surrounding area and located Fomin near Sherman Avenue and Banner Street. According to Nampa Police, officers approached Fomin and alleged that he pulled out a handgun. At least one Nampa police officer then opened fire, striking Fomin.
Fomin died at the scene from the police gunfire. Available police-violence data records his death as a fatal shooting by the Nampa Police Department and lists the reported reason for the encounter as aggravated assault.
The Canyon County Sheriff's Office led the investigation through the Canyon County Critical Incident Task Force. Nampa Police did not initially disclose how many officers fired, and the names of the shooting officer or officers were not publicly released in the contemporary reporting. Body-camera footage had also not been publicly released while the investigation was pending.
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https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/canyon-county/article253776248.html
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/crime/nampa-police-officer-involved-shooting-banner-street/277-8a58b16e-9c47-4b6e-9b88-9a9c1e4b4b8c
https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/nampa-police-fatally-shoot-man-after-reportedly-threatening-driver/article_4b7c6a78-06d8-11ec-b2a6-2b7b86fbd2e6.html
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/crime/coroner-identifies-man-shot-and-killed-by-nampa-police/277-113d040c-290a-4fdd-85cc-455dd9f8cd1b

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/canyon-county/article272900535.html

On 08/26/2021, at approximately 6:43 p.m., a Palmer Police Department officer attempted to stop 27-year-old Zaqua Radle-Maxson after observing him speeding on a motorcycle near the Alaska State Fairgrounds. Radle-Maxson continued driving away and Palmer police pursued him. As the pursuit entered Wasilla, Palmer police requested assistance from the Wasilla Police Department.
During the pursuit, police noticed what appeared to be a handgun holstered on Radle-Maxson's belt. Officers from the two departments continued pursuing him for approximately 17 minutes before Radle-Maxson stopped in a residential area on Church Road near Spruce Avenue on the west side of Wasilla.
Police alleged that after stopping, Radle-Maxson reached toward the object holstered at his waist. Wasilla Police Officer Cody Rice, Palmer Police Officer Richard Clark and Palmer Police Reserve Officer James Harvey opened fire, killing Radle-Maxson at the scene. Rice had approximately two years of service with Wasilla Police, Clark had four years with Palmer Police and Harvey had served approximately five years as a Palmer reserve officer.
After police killed Radle-Maxson, investigators discovered that the weapon was not a firearm. It was a full-size BB gun manufactured to resemble a functioning handgun. Alaska State Troopers reported that it lacked an orange tip or other markings distinguishing it from an actual firearm.
Rice, Clark and Harvey were placed on administrative leave following the killing. The Palmer and Wasilla police departments requested that Alaska State Troopers conduct the investigation. The completed investigation was designated for review by the Alaska Department of Law's Office of Special Prosecutions.

https://alaskapublic.org/news/2021-08-27/troopers-police-fatally-shoot-wasilla-man-armed-with-bb-gun
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2021/08/27/wasilla-man-wielding-bb-gun-killed-by-palmer-wasilla-police-after-chase-troopers-say/
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2021/08/27/motorcyclist-fatally-shot-after-pursuit-by-palmer-and-wasilla-police-when-he-reached-for-apparent-gun-troopers-say/
https://www.alaskapublic.org/2021/08/27/troopers-police-fatally-shoot-wasilla-man-armed-with-bb-gun/

https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2021/08/27/wasilla-man-wielding-bb-gun-killed-by-palmer-wasilla-police-after-chase-troopers-say/
 

On 12/23/2021, 14-year-old Valentina Orellana Peralta was shopping with her mother at the Burlington store at 12121 Victory Boulevard in North Hollywood when Los Angeles Police Department officers responded to multiple 911 calls concerning a man attacking customers inside the store. Valentina and her mother took shelter together inside a dressing room as the disturbance unfolded.
The man, 24-year-old Daniel Abisai Elena Lopez, was attacking women with a heavy metal bicycle lock. Some information transmitted to responding officers indicated that there might be an active shooter, although investigators later determined that Elena Lopez did not have a firearm. Numerous LAPD officers entered the store and advanced toward the area where he had attacked a woman.
Officer William Dorsey Jones Jr., who had approximately 12 years with LAPD and was certified to carry a patrol rifle, moved to the front of the responding group because he was armed with the rifle. Body-camera footage documented other officers telling Jones to slow down and wait as they advanced. Jones then encountered a badly injured woman on the floor and saw Elena Lopez nearby holding an object.
Jones fired three rifle rounds at Elena Lopez, killing him. One of Jones's rounds struck the floor, deflected upward and penetrated the wall of the dressing room where Valentina and her mother were hiding. The bullet struck Valentina, killing her. She had no involvement whatsoever in the confrontation that brought police into the store.
The California Department of Justice investigated Valentina's killing under AB 1506 because she was an unarmed civilian killed by police. The investigation reviewed body-camera recordings, surveillance video, physical and ballistic evidence, witness statements and the circumstances surrounding Jones's decision to fire his rifle inside the occupied department store.
LAPD's internal review reached significant adverse findings concerning Jones's gunfire. The Los Angeles Police Commission determined that two of Jones's three shots violated department policy, while then-LAPD Chief Michel Moore concluded that all three shots were unjustified.
On 04/17/2024, the California Department of Justice announced that Jones would not face criminal charges. The DOJ concluded that the evidence was insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Jones committed a crime, finding that he likely believed he was acting in defense of himself or others and that Valentina's death was unintended. The DOJ nevertheless recommended that LAPD review and update aspects of its communication training.
Valentina's parents filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Jones and the City of Los Angeles alleging negligence and negligent infliction of emotional distress. The case went to trial in 2026. In May 2026, a Los Angeles jury found that the city was not legally liable for Valentina's death, voting 9-3 that the city had not been negligent.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/14-year-old-girl-shot-by-police-remembered-at-los-angeles-funeral/https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/04/california-wont-prosecute-lapd-officer-who-shot-teenage-girl-in-stores-dressing-room/

On 08/26/2021, Milwaukee Police Department officers attempted to stop 33-year-old Earl Lawhorn III for reckless driving. Lawhorn continued driving away while police pursued him through Milwaukee.
During the pursuit, Lawhorn crashed the vehicle and then ran from the crash scene on foot. Milwaukee police officers pursued him on foot. Police alleged that Lawhorn was carrying a handgun during the encounter.
Police alleged that officers repeatedly ordered Lawhorn to drop the handgun and that he did not do so. Two Milwaukee police officers then opened fire, striking Lawhorn. He was transported to a hospital, where he died from the police gunshot wounds.
Milwaukee Police Inspector Willie Murphy identified the shooting officers at the time only by their ages and experience: one was 31 years old with approximately three years of service and the other was 29 years old with approximately four years of service. Both were placed on administrative duty following the killing.
The Milwaukee Area Investigative Team investigated Lawhorn's killing, with the Waukesha Police Department serving as the lead investigative agency.
Lawhorn's death was the third fatal police shooting in Milwaukee County in less than two weeks. Milwaukee police had killed 42-year-old Broderick Shelton Jr. on 08/16/2021, and Greenfield police killed 31-year-old Tyran Lamb on 08/22/2021.

https://www.wpr.org/justice/thursday-police-shooting-marks-3rd-incident-2-week-span-milwaukee-county

On 08/25/2021, the Pennsylvania State Police were notified around 3 p.m. of Taylor Jeffrey Johnson, who was wanted on an attempted homicide warrant out of North Carolina. Troopers located Johnson's vehicle on Route 234 and initiated a pursuit. Spike strips were deployed, stopping the vehicle, and Johnson fled on foot. After nearly five hours of searching, officers encountered Johnson around 7:30 p.m. Johnson reportedly pulled out a gun and fatally shot himself. The incident remains under investigation.

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/08/man-who-killed-himself-in-central-pa-standoff-was-wanted-for-attempted-homicide.html

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REASON FOR POLICE CHASE:
Stolen vehicle taken during an armed carjacking. Dallas police officers spotted a black Toyota Camry that had been stolen at gunpoint the previous evening, confirmed through its registration that it was the stolen vehicle, and attempted to stop it in the 1000 block of South Buckner Boulevard. The 14-year-old driver continued driving away and police pursued.
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EVENT NARRATIVE:
On 08/25/2021, 34-year-old Cordell Jackson was killed when a stolen Toyota Camry being pursued by Dallas Police Department officers ran a red light and crashed into the Chevrolet Impala he was driving at Great Trinity Forest Way and Wadsworth Drive in Dallas. Jackson was an uninvolved motorist and had no connection to the carjacking or police pursuit.
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The Camry had been stolen during an armed carjacking the previous evening in East Dallas. Police said a person armed with a handgun threatened a woman as she was getting into the vehicle, demanded her property and took the Camry.
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At approximately 1:10 a.m. the following morning, Dallas officers spotted the Camry in the 1000 block of South Buckner Boulevard near Lake June Road and C.F. Hawn Freeway. After checking its registration and determining that it was the vehicle stolen in the armed carjacking, officers attempted a traffic stop. The driver continued driving away and police pursued.
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The pursuit continued at high speed through Dallas, Balch Springs and Hutchins before returning to Dallas. Contemporary accounts place its duration at approximately 20 to 25 minutes. Available reporting does not provide a documented maximum speed for either the Camry or pursuing police vehicles. No PIT/TVI maneuver, stop sticks, roadblock or intentional police-vehicle contact was publicly reported.
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At Great Trinity Forest Way and Wadsworth Drive, the Camry entered the intersection against a red light and crashed into Jackson's Chevrolet Impala. Jackson and a female passenger in his vehicle were taken to a hospital. Jackson died from his injuries. His passenger suffered serious injuries but survived and was subsequently released from the hospital.
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The Camry's 14-year-old driver and three passengers—two other juveniles and one adult—were taken into custody after the crash and treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Police said the 14-year-old had a handgun. Because Jackson was an uninvolved bystander, the identities and unrelated histories of the people in the pursued vehicle are not pertinent to his report.
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Police charged the 14-year-old driver with murder, evading police, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and unlawful carrying of a weapon. Dallas Police Chief Eddie García said after Jackson's death that the department was reviewing the pursuit and its vehicle-pursuit policies, while stating that he initially believed the officers had followed department guidelines.
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Jackson was 34 years old. Public reporting about his death focused almost entirely on the pursuit and provides little reliable information about his family, occupation, interests or life outside the fatal collision.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The Dallas Police Department officers who initiated and participated in the pursuit have not been publicly identified in the available reporting.

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/dallas-police-chase-stolen-car-crash-innocent-driver-dead/
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2021/08/25/14-year-old-3-others-taken-into-custody-after-police-chase-ends-in-crash-killing-innocent-driver/
https://www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-police-chase-involving-teen-carjacking-suspects-ends-in-crash-innocent-driver-killed
https://www.wbap.com/2021/08/26/dallas-14-year-old-charged-with-murder-after-high-speed-police-chase-ends-in-crash/

On 08/25/2021, at approximately 8:20 p.m., Redondo Beach Police Department officers responded to numerous 911 calls reporting a man firing a handgun at people at the Redondo Beach Pier. The man was later identified as 36-year-old Kenneth Vessell Jr. Witnesses described people running from the pier and taking shelter inside nearby restaurants and businesses. Police found a teenage boy with a gunshot wound to his lower torso and a man in his 70s who had been shot in the upper torso. Both survived.
Police alleged Vessell had approached people on the pier and fired apparently at random. After shooting the two victims, Vessell moved through the pier complex while carrying a semiautomatic handgun and a large knife. Witnesses reported seeing him go over a railing toward the rocks beneath or alongside the pier as police converged on the area.
A later Los Angeles County District Attorney investigation provides considerably more information than the initial news coverage. The four Redondo Beach officers who opened fire were Joseph Rangel, Christopher Bushman, Lauren McNeely and Angelica Chaires. The DA's review states that all four fired their duty weapons at Vessell. The officer names therefore can be removed from the "Not Disclosed" category in the original record.
The shooting was investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Homicide Bureau rather than solely by Redondo Beach police. The Sheriff's Department submitted its investigative materials to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Justice System Integrity Division on 06/24/2022. The evidence reviewed by prosecutors included recorded interviews, photographs, video recordings, body-worn-camera footage and police radio communications.
Significantly, Rangel, Bushman, McNeely and Chaires all declined to give voluntary statements to investigators about their shooting of Vessell. The District Attorney reported that no compelled statements from the officers were considered in its criminal review.
The District Attorney's Justice System Integrity Division subsequently reviewed the actions of each of the four officers. On 08/10/2023, nearly two years after Vessell was killed, prosecutors issued their final shooting memorandum. The DA concluded that the evidence supported a reasonable belief that Rangel, Bushman, McNeely and Chaires used deadly force in self-defense and/or defense of others. No criminal charges were filed against any of them.
The DA memorandum identifies the police case as Redondo Beach Police Department file 21-5061, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department file 021-00094-3199-013, and Justice System Integrity Division file 21-0354. Those case numbers provide additional routes for obtaining the underlying investigative records, including body-camera recordings, radio traffic, shooting reports, photographs and officer records.
A search for subsequent publicly indexed records did not establish another fatal police shooting involving Rangel, Bushman, McNeely or Chaires that can presently be attributed to any of them with confidence. The search did, however, locate substantial federal civil-rights litigation involving other Redondo Beach officers, including a case arising from a 2019 police shooting in which a federal judge found factual disputes significant enough to deny officers' request for summary judgment. That litigation involved officers Ryan Crespin and Patrick Knox and Sgt. Mark Valdivia, not the four officers who killed Vessell.

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/2-wounded-shooting-redondo-beach-pier-gunman-killed-by-police/
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https://patch.com/california/redondobeach/authorities-identify-redondo-beach-pier-shooter
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/police-respond-to-shooting-on-redondo-beach-pier/
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-25/shooting-at-redondo-beach-pier
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-26/redondo-beach-pier-shooting-was-random-attack-police-say
https://www.foxla.com/news/redondo-beach-pier-active-shooter-two-people-shot
https://da.lacounty.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/JSID-OIS-08-10-23-Vessell-Jr.pdf

On 08/25/2021, at approximately 8:02 p.m., Tucson Police Department officers responded to an armed robbery at the Walgreens pharmacy at 8730 East Broadway Boulevard near South Camino Seco. Police alleged that 23-year-old Ray Arredondo entered the store armed with a handgun and robbed the pharmacy.
Police identified and tracked the vehicle associated with the robbery using patrol officers, a police K-9 unit and the Tucson Police Department Air Unit. Officers briefly pursued the vehicle until it crashed through a gate at 8250 East Golf Links Road near Sarnoff Drive. The 31-year-old driver was taken into custody at the crash site, while Arredondo ran from the vehicle.
Police continued searching for Arredondo. Investigators said he reached Lakeside Park, where he pointed a handgun at a man and took a minivan. Police subsequently located the minivan near East Stella Road and South Camino Seco. Arredondo left the vehicle and barricaded himself inside a shed attached to a nearby residence.
The Tucson Police Department SWAT team was called to the residence. The barricade continued into the early morning of 08/26/2021. At approximately 1:00 a.m., SWAT officers entered the shed and found Arredondo dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
This case should therefore not be classified as a fatal police shooting. Arredondo died by suicide after the armed-robbery investigation developed into a police pursuit, foot search, carjacking investigation and SWAT barricade. Under the database criteria, the appropriate classification is suicide under police duress.
A deeper search of Tucson Police Department's published critical-incident records also indicates that there was no fatal Tucson police shooting on 08/25 or 08/26/2021. The department's 2021 critical-incident index lists an officer shooting on 08/20, followed by the next fatal police shooting on 10/05. That substantially strengthens the conclusion that the old links describing a “fatal officer-involved shooting” were misleading, broken, or later repurposed and that Arredondo was not shot by a Tucson officer.
Because police did not shoot Arredondo, there is no shooting officer to identify for the Officer(s) field. The available reports also do not identify the individual patrol, K-9, Air Unit or SWAT officers involved in the pursuit and final entry into the shed. I searched specifically for later Tucson Police critical-incident records and officer-identification material but did not find names that could be reliably attached to this case.

https://www.kold.com/news/tucson-police-officer-involved-shooting-east-broadway
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/tpd-investigating-fatal-officer-involved-shooting
https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/officer-involved-shooting-under-investigation

On 08/25/2021, police went to the Marion, Indiana, residence of 33-year-old Naria Jenna Whitaker after investigators in Mercer County, Ohio, identified her as a second person allegedly involved in the 2015 killing and dismemberment of 21-year-old Ryan R. Zimmerman. Whitaker was the wife of 30-year-old Sarah Elizabeth Buzzard, who had been arrested earlier that day in Marion in connection with Zimmerman's death.
Zimmerman's partial skeletal remains had been discovered in January 2016 near the mouth of Coldwater Creek at Grand Lake St. Marys State Park in Mercer County, Ohio. Investigators eventually identified the remains through DNA evidence and developed information connecting Zimmerman to Buzzard and Whitaker.
On 08/25/2021, investigators executed an arrest warrant for Buzzard at her Marion residence. Mercer County Sheriff Jeff Grey subsequently said Buzzard confessed to strangling Zimmerman and dismembering his body. During her interview, investigators obtained information alleging that Whitaker had also participated in the crime, prompting police to seek her arrest.
Police then confronted Whitaker in Marion. According to Sheriff Grey, Whitaker was not yet formally in police custody, which meant officers had not searched or secured her personal belongings. During the encounter, Whitaker pulled a handgun from her bag and shot herself. Officers did not fire their weapons. Whitaker died from the self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Grey specifically addressed the circumstances of Whitaker's death, explaining that officers had gone there intending to arrest her and that her death was not the intended outcome of the operation. Her access to the handgun became possible because police had not yet taken her into custody or secured the contents of her bag.
Investigators alleged that Whitaker had participated with Buzzard in dismembering Zimmerman's body, cleaning the scene and disposing of his remains. Authorities believed Buzzard and Whitaker transported portions of Zimmerman's remains from Columbus toward Marion and discarded them at multiple locations. Whitaker died before she could be arrested or prosecuted, and the allegations against her were therefore never adjudicated in court.
Buzzard was subsequently prosecuted for Zimmerman's killing. The case against her continued after Whitaker's death, providing additional confirmation that the 08/25/2021 police encounter in Marion was part of the Mercer County homicide investigation rather than a Marion Police Department shooting investigation.

https://www.wcjc.com/2021/08/26/two-marion-women-are-suspected-to-be-involved-in-a-2015-homicide/
https://www.dailystandard.com/archive/2021-08-27/stories/43630/1-arrested-in-2016-homicide
https://www.dailystandard.com/archive/2021-08-27/stories/43631/sheriff-victims-bones-brought-here
https://www.whio.com/news/local/substantial-update-surrounding-2016-homicide-case-expected-today/UFC6XHIJSJBPHAXUSLNA63IY5U/
https://www.dailystandard.com/archive/2021-08-28/stories/43637/suspect-charged-with-murder

On 08/25/2021, at approximately 5:19 p.m., Fremont Police Department officers responded to the Southlake Mobile Home Park in the 43800 block of Fremont Boulevard after a 911 caller reported that a man had been shot in the head. The wounded man was transported to a trauma center with life-threatening injuries. Investigators developed a description of the alleged shooter, later identified as 22-year-old Kevin Victor Johnston of Hayward.
Police searched the surrounding area for approximately 40 minutes. Fremont Police Officer Jesse Hartman, a nine-year department veteran, located Johnston near Auto Mall Parkway and Southlake Common, just outside the mobile-home park. Hartman's body-worn camera recorded the encounter.
Johnston was pushing a baby stroller when Hartman approached him. According to Fremont Police, Hartman identified himself as a police officer. Johnston dropped the stroller and picked up a white T-shirt from the stroller. Police said a handgun was concealed within or underneath the shirt. Johnston then raised his arms toward Hartman in what police described as a shooting stance.
Hartman opened fire, striking Johnston. Johnston died from the police gunfire. Police recovered a privately manufactured handgun, commonly described as a ghost gun, from the scene. Acting Police Chief Sean Washington later said investigators believed Johnston had fired a round toward Hartman during the confrontation.
Fremont Police initially withheld Hartman's identity while investigators reviewed body-camera footage, physical evidence and witness information. When the department released its critical-incident video and additional evidence in September 2021, it publicly identified Jesse Hartman as the officer who killed Johnston.
The released critical-incident material included Hartman's body-camera footage, surveillance recordings and audio from the original 911 call. The footage showed the encounter between Hartman and Johnston and provided substantially more information than police disclosed immediately after the shooting.
Acting Chief Sean Washington publicly announced that the department considered Hartman's shooting justified, stating that he believed Hartman acted within both California law and Fremont Police Department policy.
The Fremont Police Department continues to maintain Johnston's case in its public officer-involved-shooting archive. The department's archive confirms the 08/25/2021 Auto Mall Parkway/Southlake Common incident and provides links to the later investigative updates and critical-incident video.
A search for additional publicly indexed records on Jesse Hartman did not establish another fatal police shooting involving him that could be reliably documented. The available material identifies him as a nine-year Fremont Police Department veteran at the time he killed Johnston.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/fremont-police-release-identity-of-suspect-officer-in-shooting/2642902/
https://patch.com/california/fremont/fremont-ois-audio-911-call-led-fatal-officer-involved-shooting-kevin-johnson
https://abc7news.com/fremont-shooting-today-police-auto-mall-parkway-in/10975990/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YSEddldfFc
https://www.fremontpolice.gov/about-us/transparency-portal/officer-involved-shootings
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/video-911-audio-fremont-police-fatal-shooting-kevin-johnston/
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/fremont-fatal-police-shooting-officer-involved/
https://www.ktvu.com/news/videos-released-in-deadly-shooting-by-fremont-police
https://abc7news.com/fremont-shooting-police-body-cam-footage-fatal/11024802/

On 08/25/2021, at approximately 2:45 p.m., California Highway Patrol officers and Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to Parkway Drive and Sherwood Lane north of Crescent City after receiving a report of a disabled vehicle blocking the roadway. Police encountered 38-year-old Robert Anderson barefoot along the side of the road with a large kitchen knife. Anderson, a Black father of three who had moved from Michigan to Crescent City approximately seven months earlier, appeared to be experiencing a severe emotional or mental health crisis.
Body-camera footage later released by the Sheriff’s Office substantially expanded upon the initial police account. A CHP officer told an arriving deputy that Anderson had a large kitchen knife and that a woman at the scene appeared injured. Police said Anderson acknowledged being involved in a domestic violence incident the previous night. Video showed the woman near a van with a black eye and visible facial bruising.
Despite possessing the knife when police initially encountered him, Anderson eventually placed it on the grass. At that point none of the three officers visible in the body-camera recording had their firearms drawn. Anderson repeatedly asked police not to approach him and spoke in a confused and distressed manner about his life, control, truth and the world around him. Police repeatedly attempted to persuade him to move farther away from the knife.
The recordings show that Anderson remained unarmed for several minutes while speaking with police. He repeatedly directed comments toward the woman farther down the road and asked whether she was recording the encounter. At one point she told Anderson that he was going to jail. Anderson then looked toward the knife lying on the ground.
Anderson suddenly picked up the knife and ran toward the officers. The body-camera footage shows him pass extremely close to one officer while holding the knife before continuing down the road toward the woman. Officers then opened fire from behind Anderson. At least 10 gunshots can be heard on the recordings before Anderson collapsed in the roadway.
Police handcuffed Anderson after shooting him and began providing medical aid. Officers counted at least seven apparent gunshot wounds while reporting that Anderson still had a faint pulse. Paramedics subsequently arrived and continued treatment, but Anderson died from the police gunfire.
Anderson’s wife, Sequoia Annette, witnessed the shooting and publicly disputed the Sheriff’s Office’s initial characterization that Anderson had simply advanced toward police. She said Anderson was shot while running toward her and alleged that race played a role in the decision to kill him. The subsequently released body-camera footage confirmed that Anderson passed the officers and was moving in her direction when much of the gunfire occurred, although the footage also showed Anderson picking up the knife and moving directly past an officer with it immediately beforehand.
The Sheriff’s Office released two body-camera recordings on 09/11/2021 after journalists submitted California Public Records Act requests for the footage. The two recordings, approximately 14½ and 16 minutes long, provided different perspectives from deputies standing near one another and captured approximately four minutes and 45 seconds of the police interaction immediately preceding the shooting. CHP initially withheld its own video evidence, saying premature release could interfere with the investigation.
The criminal and administrative investigation involved the California Highway Patrol Northern Division Critical Incident Investigation Team, CHP Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team, Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office, Del Norte County District Attorney’s Office and California Attorney General’s Office.
A deeper search for the officers produced one important lead missing from the original reporting. Contemporary local coverage discussing the body-camera recordings identifies a Del Norte County sheriff’s deputy as Deputy Mulch and describes Sheriff Erik Apperson expressing concern for Mulch immediately following the gunfire. The available searchable material does not provide Mulch’s first name, and I could not establish the identities of the CHP officers who fired with sufficient confidence to add names that may be incorrect.
Anderson had previously worked as a bus driver in Michigan. Before moving to California, he had received public attention for helping locate a missing 13-year-old girl. Friends described him after his death as caring and devoted to his family.

https://wildrivers.lostcoastoutpost.com/2021/aug/25/officer-involved-shooting-crescent-city/
https://wildrivers.lostcoastoutpost.com/2021/sep/11/video-dnso-releases-body-cam-footage-last-months-o/
https://www.times-standard.com/2021/08/25/one-dead-after-officer-involved-shooting-in-crescent-city/
https://kymkemp.com/2021/08/25/man-killed-in-officer-involved-shooting-in-del-norte-county/
https://www.triplicate.com/news_free/black-man-killed-in-officer-involved-shooting/article_43fccdb4-06da-11ec-84ea-37cde00b43ec.html

https://www.letmilitary.info/uncategorized/body-camera-footage-released-of-officer-involved-shooting-in-del-norte-county/

On 08/25/2021, 43-year-old Ryan Kaufman died after four police officers fired rifles into his burning pickup truck on West Van Giesen Street in West Richland. The original news coverage contained limited information, but a later Regional Special Investigations Unit investigation produced more than 2,000 pages of records and established a detailed timeline of the events preceding Kaufman’s death.
The incident began shortly before 4:00 a.m. in Finley. Investigators determined that Kaufman first set fire to his own home and outbuildings before going to the neighboring Zlatich residence. Police concluded that Kaufman forced his way into the home with a shotgun and opened fire. Seventy-seven-year-old Emil “Bob” Zlatich Jr. was killed, his 58-year-old son Emil “Bobby” Zlatich III was wounded, and another family member escaped injury. Kaufman then set the Zlatich residence on fire.
Investigators subsequently attributed a series of additional fires to Kaufman. Police said he used a flare gun to ignite fires along Highway 397, Nine Canyon Road and Olympia Street and broke into two International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 112 facilities in Kennewick, setting fires inside both buildings. Investigators later linked shotgun shells recovered at the union buildings to the same weapon associated with the earlier violence.
Police also determined that Kaufman killed his parents, Daniel and Vickie Kaufman, at their home in the 4300 block of South Gum Street in Kennewick. Their bodies were discovered later that day. Kaufman had also attempted to set their house on fire.
At approximately 6:15 a.m., Benton County Sheriff’s Deputy Tara Marks received information from a motorist about an orange pickup that had been burning beside Interstate 82. Marks recognized the vehicle as the one police were searching for in connection with the Finley shootings and fires. Because she had no immediate backup, she continued past the truck while reporting its location. Tri-City Regional SWAT personnel were directed toward the area.
The SWAT officers responding included Pasco Police Officer David Dillsworth and Benton County Sheriff’s deputies Elias Perez and Ivan Hernandez. At approximately 6:26 a.m., West Richland Police Officer Daniel Flores spotted Kaufman’s pickup on Kennedy Road and began following it. Flores did not immediately activate his emergency lights. According to his later statement, he knew Kaufman was believed to be heavily armed and increased the distance between his patrol vehicle and the truck after seeing Kaufman repeatedly lean toward the passenger side.
Kaufman turned onto Bombing Range Road and then west onto Van Giesen Street. Smoke began pouring from underneath the truck’s hood. Flores activated his emergency lights primarily to warn approaching motorists when Kaufman’s truck began drifting toward oncoming traffic. The truck was moving only about 14 mph before it jumped the curb and stopped near The Wash Stop shortly before 6:30 a.m.
Flores, Dillsworth, Perez and Hernandez positioned themselves around the burning truck with rifles. Officers and civilian witnesses then reported hearing gunfire from inside Kaufman’s vehicle. Hernandez reported seeing Kaufman turn toward him and seeing apparent bullet holes appearing through the front-right portion of the windshield in his direction. The four officers opened fire on the truck.
The later investigation determined that Flores, Dillsworth, Hernandez and Perez collectively fired 29 rifle rounds at Kaufman’s vehicle. Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory examination identified at least 13 bullet-entry points in the truck, although the destruction of the windows and extensive fire damage prevented investigators from reconstructing every bullet trajectory.
The truck became completely engulfed in flames. Ammunition stored inside began exploding, throwing fragments as far as approximately 275 feet from the vehicle and preventing police, firefighters and medical personnel from approaching for roughly 30 minutes. Officers eventually used an armored SWAT vehicle to get close enough to suppress the fire. Kaufman and his dog Montana were found dead inside. Investigators recovered the burned remains of multiple firearms, ammunition, flares and a gasoline container from the truck.
The autopsy produced an important finding that was unavailable in the original 2021 coverage. Kaufman had two gunshot wounds. One bullet entered his chest and was identified as a 9mm projectile. Because none of the four officers fired a handgun, investigators concluded that the chest wound was likely self-inflicted. The medical examiner determined that the chest wound was potentially fatal but would not have caused immediate death.
The second bullet struck Kaufman in the head, traveling from front to back. It was a rifle projectile and caused an immediately fatal wound. The subsequent official review determined that this fatal head wound came from one of the four officers’ rifles, but forensic testing could not determine whether Flores, Dillsworth, Hernandez or Perez fired it. Kaufman’s Cause of Death should therefore remain Gunshot rather than Suicide.
The Tri-County Special Investigations Unit conducted the independent investigation. Investigators from the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, Richland Police Department, Kennewick Police Department, Walla Walla Police Department, Washington State Patrol and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife participated. The case was identified as West Richland Police Department case 21-03769.
A later Washington State Auditor review independently summarized the investigation and confirmed the identities of all four shooting officers: West Richland Officer Daniel Flores, Pasco Officer David Dillsworth, and Benton County deputies Ivan Hernandez and Eli/Elias Perez. The Auditor’s review likewise confirmed that Kaufman’s fatal head wound came from police rifle fire but could not be attributed to a particular officer.

https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/crime/article253731063.html
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/crime/article253746983.html
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/crime/article253790393.html
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/crime/article253904398.html
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/crime/article265216131.html
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/crime/article272223883.html
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/crime/article272339233.html
https://portal.sao.wa.gov/ReportSearch/Home/ViewReportFile?arn=1034617&isFinding=false&sp=false
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/police-4-killed-shootings-arsons-across-tri-cities/Y2S5EL2OJ5BG3LCK5W7QVXJDZI/

On 08/25/2021, at approximately 1:12 p.m., police began looking for 33-year-old Jonathan Daniel Mansilla of Coral Gables, Florida, after a driver reported that Mansilla had backed his Chevrolet Cobalt into another vehicle in the Goodwill parking lot on North Main Street in Rutland and left without exchanging information. The other driver photographed Mansilla’s vehicle and provided police with its description and registration number.
Mansilla was subsequently spotted south of Rutland in Wallingford. Rutland County sheriff’s deputies attempted to stop him, but he continued driving away. Police encountered him again in Clarendon and initiated additional pursuit efforts. At least one pursuit was discontinued because officers determined that continuing it had become too dangerous.
Mansilla eventually returned toward Rutland. At approximately 2:35 p.m., his vehicle rear-ended a UPS truck near Allen Street and South Main Street. Mansilla left the car and ran into the nearby McDonald’s. Rutland City Police Cpl. Christopher A. Rose saw him enter the restaurant and pursued him inside on foot.
Mansilla entered the men’s restroom and went into a stall. Rose followed him into the restroom alone. There was no body-camera recording of what occurred because the Rutland City Police Department did not issue body cameras to its officers at the time. No other person witnessed the confrontation inside the restroom.
Rose later told Vermont State Police investigators that he could see Mansilla’s legs beneath the stall partition. According to Rose, Mansilla suddenly opened the stall door and ran toward him while holding an object above or in front of him. Rose said he believed the object was some type of weapon.
Rose fired three rounds. Two bullets struck Mansilla in the chest. Mansilla collapsed and died from the police gunfire. Investigators subsequently determined that Mansilla was unarmed. The object Rose believed was a weapon was Mansilla’s cellphone.
Surveillance footage obtained later through public-records requests raised additional questions about what police did immediately after shooting Mansilla. The video showed Mansilla lying face down in a pool of blood in the hallway outside the restroom while Rose pulled his arms behind his back and handcuffed him. No one provided medical aid to Mansilla for at least two minutes after he was shot.
Mansilla’s nephew David Heria publicly questioned why officers did not immediately check Mansilla’s pulse or attempt to help him. Vermont State Police Capt. Scott Dunlap was later questioned by VTDigger about the delay in providing aid and said he did not believe it had been a concern in the investigation.
The investigation also uncovered an unusual dispute over evidence viewed by Rose before his formal interview with Vermont State Police. Rutland City Police allowed Rose to watch dash-camera footage from outside the McDonald’s before state investigators questioned him. Vermont State Police later objected to that decision and blocked Rose from viewing additional restaurant surveillance footage while its investigation remained underway. Rose’s attorney, Susan Edwards, sought access to the footage.
Vermont State Police investigated the killing and submitted the case for independent review. The Rutland County State’s Attorney’s Office recused itself, leaving reviews to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office and Bennington County State’s Attorney’s Office.
On 11/17/2021, the Vermont Attorney General’s Office announced that Rose would not be criminally prosecuted. Attorney General T.J. Donovan concluded that Rose reasonably believed Mansilla posed an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury when Mansilla came out of the restroom stall and moved toward him with the cellphone that Rose mistook for a weapon. Prosecutors therefore found the shooting legally justified.
Rose had served with the Rutland City Police Department for more than five years when he killed Mansilla. He remained with the department afterward and was subsequently promoted. As of 2026, Christopher Rose is listed by the Rutland City Police Department as a Patrol Sergeant.
A search for other fatal shootings involving Rose did not establish another publicly documented killing by him. However, the Mansilla case remains notable because Rose killed an unarmed man while alone with him in a restroom where there was no body-camera recording or independent eyewitness to the shooting, and subsequently released surveillance footage documented the delay before medical aid was provided.

https://www.wcax.com/2021/08/25/1-killed-officer-involved-shooting-rutland/
https://vermontdailychronicle.com/rutland-police-shoot-kill-man-in-mcdonalds/
https://vtdigger.org/2021/12/08/new-video-shows-no-aid-provided-for-at-least-2-minutes-after-police-shot-a-man-in-mcdonalds-in-rutland/
https://www.wcax.com/2021/08/26/police-id-man-who-died-officer-involved-shooting-rutland/
https://www.wcax.com/2021/09/09/vsp-suspect-fatal-officer-involved-shooting-was-holding-cell-phone/
https://www.wcax.com/2021/11/17/rutland-officer-justified-fatal-shooting/
https://vtdigger.org/2021/10/29/vermont-state-police-block-officer-from-viewing-video-of-mcdonalds-police-shooting/
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/ag-clears-rutland-cop-who-fatally-shot-man-in-mcdonalds-bathroom-34275471/
https://www.mynbc5.com/article/rutland-officer-justified-in-decision-to-fatally-shoot-man-state-decides/38282069
https://rutlandcitypolice.com/about-us/

On 08/25/2021, at approximately 6:10 p.m., Grantsville Police Department officers located 42-year-old Rodney Logan Barton while attempting to arrest him in connection with an Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force investigation. Barton had been charged nine days earlier, on 08/16/2021, with 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, all second-degree felonies, and a judge had issued a no-bail warrant for his arrest.
Police attempted to stop Barton's vehicle on State Route 112 between Grantsville and Tooele. Barton continued driving away while Grantsville police pursued him. Police described the vehicle pursuit as brief and said Barton eventually stopped his vehicle on the highway.
According to Grantsville Police, Barton got out of the vehicle carrying a knife and moved toward the officers. Police alleged that Barton continued toward them with the knife, at which point a Grantsville police officer opened fire, striking him.
Officers and responding medical personnel attempted emergency treatment, but Barton died at the scene from the police gunfire. No other person was reported shot during the encounter.
The shooting was not investigated solely by the Grantsville Police Department. The Utah Department of Public Safety recorded it as the “Grantsville Police Officer Involved in Critical Incident,” and the Utah State Bureau of Investigation investigated the killing with involvement from the Utah Highway Patrol and Tooele County Attorney's Office.
Barton's identity was initially withheld. Grantsville Police publicly identified him as Rodney Logan Barton on 09/01/2021, one week after his death. Court records subsequently reported by Utah media established that police had been seeking Barton under the no-bail warrant issued in the child-sexual-exploitation case. Because Barton died before prosecution, those criminal allegations were never adjudicated.
I searched specifically for the identity of the Grantsville officer who fired, including later reporting, Utah Department of Public Safety material and references to the State Bureau of Investigation. The publicly indexed sources I could locate continue to describe the shooter only as a Grantsville police officer and do not provide a reliable name. The Officer(s) field therefore has to remain Not Disclosed unless the SBI investigative file, Tooele County Attorney review, personnel records or another non-indexed record identifies the officer.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/08/26/grantsville-police-shoot/
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/09/01/grantsville-police-release-the-name-of-a-man-an-officer-shot-and-killed/
https://www.ksl.com/article/50229294/grantsville-officer-kills-man-who-charged-at-officer-with-knife-police-say
https://www.ksl.com/article/50232962/grantsville-man-killed-by-police-had-warrant-out-for-his-arrest
https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/man-shot-killed-by-grantsville-officers-identified
https://gephardtdaily.com/local/grantsville-police-suspect-shot-dead-by-officer-after-pursuit-charging-officers-with-knife/

On 08/25/2021, shortly before 3:00 a.m., Metropolitan Police Department officers responded to New York Avenue and Florida Avenue NE after receiving a report of a man asleep or unconscious behind the wheel of a vehicle stopped in a traffic lane. The driver was 27-year-old An’Twan Gilmore of Capitol Heights, Maryland. Officers saw a handgun tucked into Gilmore’s waistband while he remained asleep or unconscious in the driver’s seat.
The police response grew to 18 MPD officers. Officers blocked New York and Florida avenues to civilian pedestrian and vehicle traffic and brought a ballistic shield to the scene. Gilmore remained in the vehicle for approximately ten minutes while officers organized around it. The handgun remained tucked in his waistband underneath his buckled seat belt.
MPD Sgt. Enis Jevric approached the vehicle and directed another officer to knock on its windows to wake Gilmore. When Gilmore awakened, his vehicle moved forward several feet and stopped. It then began moving forward again. Jevric opened fire.
Jevric initially fired four rounds at Gilmore’s vehicle. As the vehicle continued rolling away down New York Avenue, Jevric fired another six rounds, for a total of ten shots. No other officer fired. Three of Jevric’s bullets struck Gilmore.
After the vehicle came to rest, officers pulled Gilmore from it while he was bleeding, unconscious and unresponsive. Critically, investigators later established that Gilmore’s handgun had never left his waistband. When officers removed him from the vehicle after Jevric shot him, the gun remained exactly where police had first observed it—tucked into his waistband beneath his fastened seat belt.
Gilmore was transported to a hospital and died from the police gunshot wounds. The shooting was captured on police body-worn cameras. The footage showed officers surrounding the vehicle behind the ballistic shield before waking Gilmore and Jevric firing as Gilmore’s vehicle moved away.
The case eventually developed into something comparatively rare in fatal police shootings: a federal criminal prosecution of the officer. On 03/07/2023, a federal grand jury indicted Jevric on charges arising from Gilmore’s killing, including a federal civil-rights violation and second-degree murder.
On 02/23/2024, Jevric pleaded guilty in federal court to willfully violating Gilmore’s Fourth Amendment right to be free from excessive force and also pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter under District of Columbia law. As part of his plea, Jevric admitted that his use of deadly force against Gilmore was unconstitutional, excessive and unreasonable. He admitted acting willfully and in reckless disregard of Gilmore’s constitutional rights.
Following Jevric’s guilty plea, MPD reported that he was on indefinite suspension without pay and announced that its Internal Affairs Division would conduct its administrative investigation now that the criminal investigation had concluded.
On 08/29/2024, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss sentenced former Sgt. Enis Jevric to 60 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Federal prosecutors emphasized that Gilmore never removed the gun from his waistband and that Jevric was the only one among the 18 responding officers who opened fire.
The FBI Washington Field Office conducted the federal investigation with extensive assistance from the FBI Laboratory, including its Shooting Reconstruction Team. The federal prosecution established considerably more detail than MPD’s initial 2021 public account, including the exact number of shots Jevric fired, the fact that no other officer fired, the location of Gilmore’s handgun throughout the encounter, and Jevric’s subsequent admission that his use of deadly force was unconstitutional.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/former-mpd-sergeant-sentenced-60-months-prison-fatally-shooting-dc-motorist
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/mpd-sergeant-pleads-guilty-federal-civil-rights-violation-fatal-shooting-dc-motorist
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/mpd-sergeant-charged-federal-civil-rights-violation-and-second-degree-murder
https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/mpd-officer-involved-shooting-new-york-avenue-and-florida-avenue-northeast
https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/mpd-statement-regarding-plea-sergeant-fatal-2021-shooting
https://apnews.com/article/enis-jevric-antwan-gilmore-police-shooting-c48e817a8a3cb4d080afdd3bf8135e0e

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REASON FOR POLICE CHASE:
Disputed. Buffalo police records obtained through a later public-records investigation state that officers began pursuing the Chevrolet Cruze after observing the driver speeding. Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia later gave a different account, saying officers recognized the car as a vehicle connected to an earlier shooting. The distinction is significant because Buffalo Police Department policy prohibited vehicle pursuits based solely on traffic violations.
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EVENT NARRATIVE:
On 08/24/2021, 21-year-old Sequoyah C. Woodberry was killed while riding as the front-seat passenger in a Chevrolet Cruze pursued by Buffalo Police Department officers through the city's East Side. Woodberry was not driving the car and had no control over whether the driver stopped for police.
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Buffalo police patrol officers began pursuing the Cruze at approximately 3:45 a.m. near Sycamore Street and Fillmore Avenue. Initial police reporting described the vehicle only as suspicious. Later police records obtained through a public-records request stated that officers observed the driver traveling at high speed. Commissioner Gramaglia subsequently said officers instead recognized the Cruze as connected to an earlier shooting. The public accounts therefore conflict over the justification for initiating the chase.
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Annette Addimando, another passenger in the Cruze, later told investigators that she had allowed Darrius Jackson Jr. to drive her car. She remembered portions of the pursuit, including screeching tires, loud music and police emergency lights behind the vehicle. She also recalled Jackson indicating before driving away that he did not stop for police.
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The pursuit continued for approximately 15 minutes through Buffalo. At about 4:00 a.m., the Cruze was traveling south on Bailey Avenue at high speed when police said the driver entered the intersection at Doat Street against a red light. Another vehicle traveling through the intersection struck the Cruze broadside. The impact sent the Cruze into a light pole and severely damaged the vehicle.
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Woodberry was trapped in the wreckage with Jackson and Addimando. Police body-camera video later obtained through public-records requests shows officers arriving immediately after the crash and cutting through an airbag to reach the occupants. Woodberry was still showing signs of life as officers attempted to reach her, but she died at the scene. Jackson was transported to Erie County Medical Center in critical condition. Addimando was also hospitalized and survived. The driver of the other vehicle suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
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Police recovered a loaded 9mm handgun containing 13 rounds from the Cruze after the crash. The weapon was discovered after the pursuit had already occurred and therefore was not itself the initiating reason for the chase.
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No PIT/TVI maneuver, stop sticks, roadblock or intentional police-vehicle contact with the Cruze immediately before the collision was identified in the available records. Public reporting does not provide a documented maximum pursuit speed or identify the individual officers driving the pursuing Buffalo police vehicles.
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Woodberry was 21 years old and had been attending beauty school. Later reporting described her as a young woman whose life was cut short while she was a passenger in a vehicle someone else was driving. The New York Attorney General's Office formally recorded Woodberry as a Black woman who died during a Buffalo Police Department pursuit.
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The Buffalo Police Department's Internal Affairs Division and Accident Investigation Unit investigated the pursuit and fatal crash. The New York Attorney General's Office of Special Investigation also assessed Woodberry's death. OSI ultimately closed the matter, concluding that a police officer did not cause Woodberry's death.
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Later scrutiny raised a significant issue concerning whether the pursuit complied with Buffalo Police Department policy. Records obtained by the Times Union indicated that officers initiated the chase after observing speeding, while department policy prohibited pursuits for traffic violations alone. Commissioner Gramaglia disputed that account and said the Cruze had been associated with an earlier shooting, which would have provided a violent-crime basis for pursuing it. The conflicting explanations remained unresolved in the later reporting.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The Buffalo Police Department officers who initiated and participated in the pursuit have not been publicly identified in the available records and reporting.

https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/fatal-crash-following-police-pursuit-in-buffalo
https://www.buffalonews.com/news/crime/police-chase-ends-in-fatal-crash-in-buffalo
https://www.wnyt.com/abc-news/nation-world/fatal-crash-in-buffalo-involving-vehicle-in-police-pursuit/
https://wblk.com/police-chase-in-buffalo-ends-with-one-dead-one-in-critical-condition/
https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/fatal-police-chases-ny-death-19369809.php
https://www.timesunion.com/projects/2024/police-pursuits/
https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021-osi-annual-report.pdf

On 08/24/2021, shortly before 7:00 a.m., Butler City Police Department officers were dispatched to the 300 block of West Jefferson Street after a 911 caller reported a man behaving erratically and repeatedly moving in and out of traffic. The man was 35-year-old Butler resident John Ebberts. Later police-killing databases categorized the original call as a mental health/welfare-check encounter.
Patrol Officer Michael E. Sulerud Jr. responded and encountered Ebberts shortly after arriving. According to the Pennsylvania State Police investigation, a physical struggle began between the two men. Police said Ebberts had a knife and stabbed Sulerud multiple times during the struggle. Sulerud then drew his department-issued firearm and opened fire, killing Ebberts.
A civilian witness, George Schmidt, gave a more detailed account of the immediate aftermath. Schmidt said he saw Sulerud fall with a knife protruding from his abdomen and then saw the officer reach for his gun and fire. Schmidt, a former Marine, removed his shirt and used it to apply pressure to Sulerud's wounds while waiting for emergency medical personnel.
Sulerud was critically wounded and transported by medical helicopter to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, where he underwent surgery. He was 27 years old, a Marine Corps veteran and had served with Butler City Police for approximately three years. City records show that Butler conditionally hired Michael E. Sulerud Jr. as a patrol officer in August 2018.
Ebberts' husband, Joe, told reporters that Ebberts had struggled with mental health problems but described him as compassionate and loving. He said this was the first time Ebberts had hurt anyone and expressed concern that police needed additional training for encounters involving people experiencing mental health crises. He did not blame Sulerud personally for what occurred but wished the encounter had ended with Ebberts receiving help rather than being killed.
There was no body-camera or other video evidence of the fatal encounter, according to Pennsylvania State Police. That makes the physical evidence, witness accounts and statements gathered by investigators particularly important in reconstructing what happened immediately before Sulerud opened fire.
Pennsylvania State Police's Major Case Team investigated the killing in conjunction with the Butler County District Attorney's Office and Butler County Coroner's Office. The Butler County Sheriff's Office, Butler City Bureau of Fire and Butler Ambulance Service also assisted.
Sulerud survived his injuries and was released from UPMC Presbyterian on 09/01/2021 after approximately a week in the hospital. The City of Butler formally approved his request for Pennsylvania Heart and Lung Act benefits for the work-related injuries he sustained during the encounter.
Sulerud remained away from active police duty for several months while recovering. On 02/25/2022, Butler Police Chief Bob O'Neill announced that Sulerud had been medically cleared and returned to active duty with the department.
A deeper search of Sulerud's record showed that he continued working as a Butler police officer. A 2025 Butler County court proceeding identified Sulerud as the arresting officer in an unrelated alleged arson/hostage case; defense counsel challenged inconsistencies between his hearing testimony and the charging documents, resulting in one charge being withdrawn, although the reporting does not establish misconduct or discipline against Sulerud.

https://triblive.com/local/regional/police-butler-police-officer-fatally-shoots-man-accused-of-stabbing-him/
https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/man-shot-killed-butler-police-officer-stabbed/
https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/butler-police-officer-stabbed-identified/
https://www.wtae.com/article/butler-police-officer-shooting/37383614
https://www.wpxi.com/news/top-stories/butler-city-officer-be-released-hospital-after-stabbing-cards-support-being-accepted/ENKWVGOUCJCV7KJMQ4K5LTLA5M/
https://butlerradio.com/police-officer-allegedly-injured-in-downtown-butler-incident/
https://butlerradio.com/no-update-on-police-officers-condition/
https://butlerradio.com/butler-city-officer-released-from-hospital/
https://butlerradio.com/officer-sulerud-who-was-injured-last-summer-returns-to-city-police-force/
https://cityofbutler.org/2018/08/4264/
https://cityofbutler.org/2021/08/august-26-2021/

On 08/24/2021, shortly after midnight, Payson Police Department officers responded to the Safeway parking lot at 401 East Highway 260 after receiving a report that a man had physically forced a woman into a black SUV at gunpoint. The man was described as a 31-year-old New Mexico resident. Police later learned that the man and woman were a couple traveling to New Mexico when they stopped at the Safeway.
Officers Jirhod Brennan, Kyle Bathke and Carson Frahm responded to the call and located the SUV in the parking lot. The officers directed the woman to get out of the vehicle. She complied and officers began escorting her away from the SUV toward a police vehicle.
While police were moving the woman away, the man quickly got out of the SUV. Payson Police Chief Ronald Tischer alleged that the man turned toward the officers and made a movement that officers interpreted as an attempt to draw a weapon from his waistband. Police ordered him to stop and show his hands. According to the department, he did not comply.
Brennan, Bathke and Frahm opened fire, striking the man. Officers provided medical aid at the scene before he was flown to a hospital in the Scottsdale/Phoenix area, where he died from the police gunshot wounds.
The initial Payson Police statement did not state that the man actually produced or pointed a firearm during the shooting. Instead, Chief Tischer said officers fired after the man made a movement “as if” he were drawing a weapon from his waistband. The contemporaneous reports available publicly do not clarify whether police subsequently recovered a firearm from his person.
All three shooting officers were placed on administrative leave. At the time, Payson Police reported that one of the officers had more than four and a half years of law-enforcement experience, another had approximately two years, and the third had approximately 13 months.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety took responsibility for investigating the fatal shooting rather than leaving the investigation solely with the Payson Police Department.
A deeper search identifies the three shooting officers as Jirhod Brennan, Kyle Bathke and Carson Frahm. Fatal Encounters' subsequent case record specifically names all three as the officers who responded to the Safeway and shot the man. This information was absent from the earliest news reports, which identified the officers only by their years of experience.

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/payson-police-fatally-shoot-man-in-parking-lot-encounter
https://www.abc15.com/news/region-northern-az/man-dies-after-being-shot-by-police-officers-in-payson
https://www.12news.com/article/news/crime/payson-police-shoots-kills-man-who-allegedly-held-woman-gunpoint/75-285117b8-f337-4835-ad75-3ffd484b9e10
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2021/08/24/new-mexico-man-suspected-kidnapping-killed-payson-police/5572442001/
https://navajotimes.com/reznews/blotter/police-report-nm-man-shot-killed-by-payson-police/
https://kvia.com/ap-new-mexico/2021/08/24/arizona-police-fatally-shoot-man-in-parking-lot-encounter/
https://fatalencounters.org/view/person/victim/6477d076/

On 08/24/2021, at approximately 5:00 p.m., Amtrak Police Department officers were waiting at Chicago Union Station for 33-year-old Jamar Jason Taylor of San Leandro, California, who was traveling to Chicago aboard Amtrak's California Zephyr. California law enforcement had alerted Amtrak Police that Taylor was aboard the train and was wanted on multiple warrants, including a newly issued murder warrant from Oakland. Amtrak police checked the passenger manifest and positioned officers to arrest Taylor when Train No. 6 arrived at Track 30.
Taylor was wanted in connection with the 08/21/2021 killing of a 55-year-old man in the 8800 block of International Boulevard in Oakland. Oakland police had responded to a ShotSpotter activation and subsequently obtained what court records described as clear high-definition surveillance video showing Taylor and a vehicle associated with the killing. An Alameda County warrant sought Taylor for murder, possession of a firearm by a felon and other allegations. Taylor was also on probation and had previous convictions that included making criminal threats, attempted grand theft from a person, second-degree commercial burglary and driving under the influence.
When the train arrived in Chicago, Amtrak officers confronted Taylor on the platform. Police said Taylor ran from the officers and knocked down or otherwise injured Amtrak employees while trying to get away. Police radio traffic captured an officer warning other officers that Taylor was running toward them and telling them to take cover.
Police alleged that Taylor then produced a semiautomatic handgun and fired at the Amtrak officers. A later Cook County State's Attorney investigation finally identified the officer who returned fire as Amtrak Police Officer Jeremy Maske, a name that was missing from the original 2021 news coverage. Maske opened fire on Taylor, striking him.
Taylor was transported to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died from multiple police gunshot wounds. Police recovered a semiautomatic handgun at the scene. An Amtrak employee suffered minor injuries during Taylor's attempt to get away, and an Amtrak officer was transported to a hospital for evaluation. No other officer fired at Taylor.
The circumstances created a potentially dangerous confrontation in a busy passenger station during the evening travel period. Witnesses described people running from the platform and station personnel warning travelers about an active shooter. Amtrak temporarily suspended train service into and out of Chicago Union Station following the gunfire.
Contemporary reporting also raised questions about why Amtrak Police rather than a specialized fugitive-apprehension unit was assigned to intercept Taylor at the crowded station. The U.S. Marshals Service, which routinely assists local agencies in apprehending violent fugitives, confirmed that it was not involved in the operation.
Chicago Police Department investigators responded to the scene, interviewed witnesses and prepared the initial investigative report. The case was subsequently investigated by CPD's Incident Response Team. Investigators reviewed civilian and law-enforcement witness interviews, scene photographs, police reports, medical records, forensic examinations, the Cook County Medical Examiner's postmortem report and available video recordings.
The most important later development was a Cook County State's Attorney's Office Police Involved Death Decision Memorandum that was not available when the original reports were published. That official review identifies Jeremy Maske by name as the Amtrak officer who killed Taylor and provides the formal prosecutorial review of his gunfire.
After reviewing the evidence, the Cook County State's Attorney's Office concluded that there was insufficient evidence to support criminal charges against Maske. Prosecutors therefore declined to prosecute him for Taylor's death

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-man-killed-police-union-station-20210824-6q5f5zqfdfg4dm6n3brk6t5n2e-story.html
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-police-shootings-illinois-union-station-08-24-2021
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/man-shot-killed-police-union-station/
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/8/25/22640871/4-shot-tuesday-chicago

On 08/24/2021, Utah County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Justin Mortensen and Pleasant Grove Police Department Officer Chris Peterson killed 48-year-old Paul Finn Rasmussen outside 935 W. 300 North in Provo. Both officers were working with the multi-agency Utah County Major Crimes Task Force. Later information released by the Utah County Attorney’s Office substantially expanded on the initial reporting and established that task-force investigators had been following Rasmussen because police believed he possessed firearms and was distributing narcotics.
Earlier that evening, task-force officers attempted to stop Rasmussen while he was driving a 2012 blue Buick LaCrosse. Initial police reports described the attempted stop as occurring on Geneva Road in Provo and said a deputy noticed Rasmussen slowing, pulling off the roadway and then returning to the road before attempting the stop. The later Utah County Attorney’s Office account instead placed the attempted stop on Interstate 15 in Orem and disclosed that Rasmussen was already being followed as part of the task-force investigation. According to police, Rasmussen drove through a red light and continued away at high speed. Officers discontinued the attempted pursuit because they considered continued pursuit too dangerous.
Shortly before 10 p.m., task-force officers located Rasmussen’s Buick at 935 W. 300 North. Later reporting described the location as outside Rasmussen’s home. Rasmussen was outside or getting out of the vehicle when officers approached and activated emergency lights. According to the subsequent prosecutor’s account, one officer confronted Rasmussen while he was walking away from the vehicle. Police alleged Rasmussen turned and pointed a handgun at that officer, who moved behind a nearby vehicle for cover. Peterson and Mortensen then fired multiple rounds at Rasmussen. Police did not allege that Rasmussen fired at the officers.
Rasmussen was struck multiple times. Officers provided medical aid until paramedics transported him to Utah Valley Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead approximately an hour after the shooting. Investigators reported finding one firearm near Rasmussen’s body and another firearm in his clothing.
The Utah County Officer-Involved Critical Incident Team investigated the killing, with the Lehi Police Department serving as the lead investigative agency. The investigation was completed in December 2021, followed by additional investigative work requested before prosecutorial review was completed. On 03/01/2022, Utah County Attorney David Leavitt announced that his office would not file criminal charges against Peterson or Mortensen. The prosecutor accepted the police account that Rasmussen pointed a firearm at an officer and concluded that Peterson and Mortensen were legally justified in using deadly force.
Later reporting also identified Rasmussen by his full name, Paul Finn Rasmussen. He was born 12/17/1972 and was the father of six children. Rasmussen worked in construction and became skilled in brick masonry and concrete work, and his family described him as an outdoorsman who enjoyed camping, fishing, mountain biking and hiking.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Mortensen was previously involved in a heavily publicized January 2018 police pursuit of Jeremy Llewelyn, who police alleged had shot a civilian and fired at officers. Mortensen intentionally rammed Llewelyn’s pickup with his patrol vehicle to end the pursuit and sustained minor injuries in the collision.

https://www.ksl.com/article/50359800/2-officers-were-legally-justified-in-killing-orem-man-county-attorney-says
https://www.ksl.com/article/news/utah/no-charges-filed-for-two-officers-who-shot-and-killed-utah-man-in-provo/51558172
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2022/03/02/officers-who-fatally-shot/
https://www.ksl.com/article/50228847
https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/2021/aug/25/two-officers-on-administrative-leave-with-pay-after-fatal-shooting-tuesday/
https://www.sundbergolpinmortuary.com/obituaries/paul-rasmussen
https://www.utgia.org/copy-of-conferences-2
https://www.deseret.com/2018/1/25/20638836/suspect-in-manhunt-said-he-d-die-before-going-back-to-jail-police-say/
https://www.fox13now.com/2019/05/15/meet-django-a-new-addition-to-the-pleasant-grove-police-department

On 08/24/2021, Clayton County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. David Hidalgo killed 22-year-old Tory Brown inside an apartment at 2135 Godby Road, Building 33, Apartment 502, in College Park. Although Clayton County deputies carried out the operation, the apartment is in Fulton County. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation initially withheld the shooting deputy’s name, but a federal civil-rights lawsuit filed by Brown’s mother later identified Hidalgo as the deputy who fired the fatal shot.
The later federal court record provides considerably more information than was available immediately after Brown’s death. On 08/23/2021, Brown’s grandmother contacted the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office and reported allegations that Brown had threatened family members. Investigators also determined that a probation-violation warrant was outstanding for Brown. The following day, police learned Brown was staying at his girlfriend’s apartment at Chelsea Gardens and assigned the sheriff’s Fugitive Unit to arrest him. Sgt. Hidalgo was among the deputies assigned to the operation. These allegations formed part of the information provided to the Fugitive Unit before deputies went to the apartment.
Hidalgo approached the apartment with Investigator Sophal Vong and investigators identified in the later court record as Kelly and Ahmad. Deputies surrounded the apartment and called for Brown to come outside for approximately 10 to 15 minutes. Two women and a child eventually left the apartment. According to the evidence Hidalgo subsequently presented in federal court, one of the women told deputies that Brown had a weapon inside.
Brown remained inside. Deputies could see portions of the darkened apartment from the doorway and used weapon-mounted lights. Other deputies positioned outside reported seeing Brown through a bedroom window. According to Hidalgo's subsequent account, officers saw Brown moving between the bedroom and living room and believed he was searching through a closet. Hidalgo said this caused him to believe Brown might be retrieving a firearm.
Hidalgo subsequently alleged that Brown suddenly moved into the living-room area in a crouched position, angled toward the deputies, with his right arm positioned where Hidalgo could not see his hand. Hidalgo said he believed Brown was holding a firearm and was about to shoot. Hidalgo fired one rifle round, striking Brown in the neck and killing him. No firearm was subsequently found on Brown or elsewhere inside the apartment. The fact that Brown was unarmed became a central issue in his family's challenge to the shooting.
Brown's family disputed the police account from the beginning. Antoinette Martin, whose daughter was Brown's girlfriend and whose apartment deputies entered, said deputies had been searching for Brown earlier that day and described aggressive conduct by officers while questioning the family. Martin said that when deputies later arrived at the apartment, they forced their way inside. She disputed that Brown posed a threat justifying deadly force. Brown's mother, Paula Thomas, likewise rejected the official account and publicly demanded accountability for her son's death.
The GBI investigated the killing and announced that its completed investigative file would be forwarded to the Fulton County District Attorney's Office. The case then remained unresolved publicly for an unusually long period. In April 2023, nearly two years after Brown was killed, Thomas and attorney Reginald Greene went to the Fulton County courthouse seeking an explanation. Thomas said she believed her son had been murdered. Greene emphasized that Brown had been unarmed and said the family had been unable to obtain the officers' names, body-camera recordings, incident reports and other evidence needed to pursue its civil case. According to Greene, prosecutors attributed the delay to a backlog of more than 100 police-use-of-force cases awaiting review.
On 08/18/2023, Thomas, acting as administrator of Brown's estate, filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against Hidalgo in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The lawsuit alleged excessive force under 42 U.S.C. §1983 as well as assault and battery, wrongful death and negligence or gross negligence under Georgia law. The complaint alleged that Brown did not pose a threat to Hidalgo or anyone else when Hidalgo killed him. Thomas sought compensatory and punitive damages.
The litigation ultimately produced a much more detailed reconstruction of the shooting but ended unsuccessfully for Brown's family. Hidalgo moved for summary judgment, and Thomas did not file an opposition to that motion. The federal court therefore treated Hidalgo's properly supported factual assertions as undisputed for purposes of deciding the motion, while still independently reviewing whether his evidence legally supported judgment in his favor.
On 11/19/2025, U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Thrash Jr. granted Hidalgo summary judgment. The court concluded that Hidalgo was entitled to qualified immunity on the federal excessive-force claim and official immunity on the state claims. Significantly, the court expressly acknowledged that Brown turned out to be unarmed, but concluded that the issue for qualified-immunity purposes was whether Hidalgo reasonably could have believed Brown was armed and presented an immediate threat based upon the information available to him at the time. The ruling dismissed the case and entered judgment for Hidalgo.
The 2025 ruling also confirms that Hidalgo was not criminally prosecuted for killing Brown. Thus, by the end of 2025, both potential avenues of accountability had closed: prosecutors had brought no criminal case, and Brown's federal civil-rights case had been dismissed on summary judgment.
Brown's mother remained his most persistent public advocate. In 2023, after waiting almost two years for the prosecutorial review, Thomas said she would continue pressing officials for answers and justice. The family's position consistently emphasized a fact that was eventually undisputed in federal court: whatever Hidalgo believed when he pulled the trigger, Tory Brown did not actually have a gun when Hidalgo killed him.

https://gbi.georgia.gov/node/24486
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/clayton-county/gbi-investigating-shooting-involving-clayton-county-sheriffs-office/3ONDSWJF5JFBXC3BUZOHWZWT74/
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/godby-road-officer-involved-shooting-college-park
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/fulton-county/mother-says-backlog-is-causing-delay-getting-answers-after-her-son-was-killed-by-clayton-deputies/YDJA5AQJBNFAPMFYWC7G4Q5XGE/
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-gand-1_23-cv-03700/pdf/USCOURTS-gand-1_23-cv-03700-0.pdf
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/georgia/gandce/1%3A2023cv03700/319430/28/
https://dockets.justia.com/docket/georgia/gandce/1%3A2023cv03700/319430

On August 23, 2021, Virginia State Police initiated a pursuit of a man driving a gray Jeep on Interstate 81 in Botetourt County. The driver, who was wanted in Pennsylvania, failed to pull over when attempted to be stopped by a trooper. The chase, reaching speeds over 100 mph, continued through Roanoke County, Salem, and into Montgomery County. During the pursuit, the man communicated with dispatch, stating he was armed. Spike strips were deployed, and the chase ended when police forced the vehicle off the road, causing it to crash. After the crash, the man reportedly shot and killed himself.

https://www.wsls.com/news/2021/08/23/southbound-i-81-in-montgomery-county-shut-down/

On 08/23/2021, Amarillo Police Department officers killed 42-year-old Trinidad Marry in the 500 block of South Bivins Street near Southeast 5th Avenue and Browning Street in Amarillo. Police were dispatched at approximately 8 p.m. after receiving multiple calls reporting a man walking through the neighborhood with a gun and allegedly pointing it at people. Later reporting identified the man as Marry.
According to Amarillo police, officers located Marry and repeatedly ordered him to put down the firearm. Police alleged that Marry did not comply and continued waving the gun in the air. Rather than immediately shooting him, officers followed or walked alongside Marry for some distance while continuing attempts to persuade him to put the weapon down. Police eventually fired at Marry in the area of 500 S. Bivins Street. He died at the scene. Available reporting does not indicate that Marry fired the gun at officers before police killed him.
Initial reports described the shooting only as occurring near South Bivins Street and Southeast Fifth Avenue, but subsequent APD information placed the fatal shooting specifically around the 500 block of South Bivins Street, close to Dick Bivins Stadium. Police subsequently asked anyone who witnessed or recorded the encounter to contact investigators, indicating that APD was seeking civilian video or eyewitness evidence in addition to officers' accounts.
The Potter County District Attorney's Office presented Marry's killing to a grand jury almost immediately. On 08/30/2021, only seven days after Marry was killed, 47th District Attorney Randall Sims announced that a Potter County grand jury had reviewed the shooting and returned a no bill, meaning no officer was indicted. The same special grand-jury session also considered the separate 08/20/2021 police killing of George Michael Mireles and returned no indictment in that case as well.
The grand-jury announcement provided no detailed public reconstruction of Marry's shooting, did not identify the officer or officers who fired, and did not disclose the evidence presented to jurors. The public account therefore remains largely dependent on Amarillo Police Department statements that Marry possessed a gun and failed to put it down before officers fired. No later publicly reported criminal prosecution resulted from the shooting.
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https://www.newschannel10.com/2021/08/24/amarillo-police-identify-suspect-officer-involved-shooting-near-bivins/
https://abc7amarillo.com/news/local/apd-investigators-on-scene-of-officer-involved-shooting
https://www.newschannel10.com/2021/08/30/potter-county-grand-jury-cleared-officers-2-recent-shooting-deaths/
https://abc7amarillo.com/news/local/gallery/potter-county-grand-jury-no-bills-apd-officers-in-two-shooting-deaths-earlier-this-month
https://fatalencounters.org/view/person-csv/csv/?pagenum=62