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On 08/22/2021, 40-year-old Michael Broady Jr. died after police from multiple Pickens County agencies restrained and repeatedly shocked him with Tasers following a 911 call that Broady himself made for help. Broady was at a residence in Reform when another person allegedly threatened to kill him. Broady called 911, bringing Reform Police Officer Kallenna Homan to the residence. Homan called for additional officers, and personnel from the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office, Gordo Police Department and Carrollton Police Department responded. Later federal litigation identified participating officers including Homan, Pickens County deputies Jeremy Herd and Taylor Gregory, and officers initially identified in court records as Doss and Anderson. Later litigation also identified Pickens County Deputy Austin Moss as involved.
The circumstances of Broady’s death remained remarkably opaque for years. His sister DeQuita Broady said in December 2021 that the family still did not know why he had died. The family knew that Broady had a child-support-related warrant from Lamar County, but that warrant was not what brought police to the residence: Broady brought police there by calling 911 because he reported that someone was threatening to kill him.
After officers arrived, they learned of the child-support matter and obtained a warrant to take Broady into custody. According to allegations subsequently set out in federal court, Broady voluntarily allowed officers to handcuff him and initially remained outside rather than being immediately placed in a police vehicle. The later release of body-camera recordings became especially important because they documented portions of the encounter that had not been publicly visible when Broady died.
While already handcuffed, Broady called 911 a second time. According to the lawsuit and body-camera reporting, he asked whether police were going to hold him over the child-support issue and at another point told the dispatcher that police had not arrived, even though officers were standing nearby. When officers asked whether he had just called 911, Broady denied doing so.
What followed became the central subject of his family’s civil-rights lawsuit. The family alleges that officers tackled the handcuffed Broady face-first onto the rocky dirt road and repeatedly used Tasers against him while he was restrained on the ground. The federal court's 2024 opinion specifically recorded the estate's allegations that officers shocked Broady numerous times and also used their Tasers in direct-contact, or “dry stun,” mode while he remained handcuffed. At that stage of the litigation, the court expressly stated that it was recounting the complaint's allegations and was not making a finding that those allegations were true.
Body-camera footage reviewed much later added substantial detail. The recordings reportedly show an initially conversational interaction followed by a rapid escalation after police moved to take Broady into custody. Officers took him to the ground, multiple Taser discharges can be heard, and an officer can be heard yelling that Broady had hold of a Taser. The family's attorneys contend officers continued shocking Broady while he was prone and handcuffed.
Police and attorneys representing law-enforcement defendants dispute significant portions of that account. Pickens County's attorney has asserted that Broady gained control of a Taser and used it against officers. The family disputes that characterization and maintains that any resistance by Broady occurred while he was being subjected to force and amounted to an attempt to defend himself rather than an attack initiating the confrontation.
The later amended allegations go considerably further than the family's original complaint. After attorneys reviewed additional body-camera evidence, the estate alleged overlapping Taser deployments against Broady while he was prone and handcuffed, use of a flashlight against his neck, kicking while he was restrained, another Taser deployment after he was put into the patrol vehicle, and an officer closing the vehicle door against his head. Those allegations remain contested and have not all been established as factual findings by a court.
Officers eventually carried or dragged Broady to a patrol vehicle and transported him to the Pickens County Jail. By the time the vehicle reached the jail, Broady was no longer moving. The estate alleges that Broady was still alive but that officers did not immediately transport him to a hospital. Officers eventually performed CPR. Police then transported Broady to the helipad at the closed Carrollton hospital for a planned airlift to another medical facility. Broady died before that transfer could occur.
Broady’s death therefore began with an extraordinary reversal of roles: he was the person who summoned police because he reported being threatened, yet he was the person who ended the encounter dead in police custody.
Broady was a father. His daughter Mackenzie Hollinger recalled speaking with him only hours before his death. She said he promised his family they would get ice cream after he returned home. His relatives have described him as funny and deeply connected to his children. His sister DeQuita became one of the principal advocates seeking an explanation of his death and later served as personal representative of his estate in the federal litigation.
The family's efforts eventually produced Broady v. Herd, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama in August 2023. The estate alleged excessive force, unreasonable seizure, deprivation of life without due process, failure to provide adequate medical care and related state-law claims. The original litigation named numerous officers, supervisors and municipalities. Some claims were later dismissed for procedural or limitations reasons, while litigation against individual officers continued.
The case changed substantially after body-camera evidence was examined more closely. In late 2025, Broady's estate sought permission to amend its complaint again and provide substantially more detailed allegations about which officers used force and what occurred after Broady had been restrained and placed inside the police vehicle. The family said viewing the recordings forced them to relive the circumstances of Broady's death but also supplied evidence they had not possessed when initially seeking answers.
There has now been a significant 2026 development. Reform Police Officer Kallenna Homan and Pickens County Sheriff’s Deputy Austin Moss reached settlements with Broady's estate. On 05/28/2026, U.S. District Judge Annemarie Carney Axon dismissed the claims against Homan and Moss with prejudice after the parties resolved those claims through settlement. The settlement terms were not publicly disclosed, and settlement does not constitute an admission of liability.
The lawsuit nevertheless did not end with those settlements. As of July 2026, claims against Brian/Jeremy Herd and Taylor Gregory remained pending, and the federal court scheduled mediation for 07/30/2026. Thus, nearly five years after Broady died, litigation over responsibility for the force used against him remained active.
Broady's death also became part of a broader controversy surrounding law enforcement in Pickens County. Within months, former New Orleans Saints player Glenn Foster Jr. also died after entering Pickens County law-enforcement custody. Wallace Wilder had previously been killed by Pickens County deputies during a 2019 welfare check. In 2023, Reform police Officer Dana Elmore was recorded repeatedly using a Taser against handcuffed Micah Washington, resulting in another federal civil-rights lawsuit. Civil-rights attorney Richard Rice, who has represented people in several of these cases, has publicly argued that the incidents indicate a broader local pattern rather than isolated encounters.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Jeremy Herd was already the subject of multiple federal civil-rights cases involving his work for the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office before and around the time of Broady's death. In Young v. Herd, filed 05/25/2021, Bryant Young named Herd and others as defendants in a federal §1983 civil-rights action.
In Chaney v. Herd, filed 07/26/2021—less than a month before Broady died—Patrick Chaney sued Herd and the Pickens County Sheriff’s Department. The litigation concerned Herd's use of chemical agents against jail detainees. The case ultimately reached summary judgment; the court ruled for Herd and the other defendants in February 2024. The existence of the lawsuit is therefore documented, but it did not result in a judicial finding that Herd violated Chaney's constitutional rights.
Herd was also named in litigation by Gavin Howard concerning alleged actions occurring in 2019 and August 2021. Howard alleged, among other things, that Herd issued an improper warrant, tampered with records and forced him to sign documents. A federal court later found the allegations insufficient to state a claim and also identified limitations problems with the claims. These remain allegations rather than substantiated misconduct findings.
Austin Moss, who settled the Broady claims in 2026, was separately sued by Lavarice Wilson under §1983. Wilson asserted false-arrest/imprisonment and malicious-prosecution claims. Those claims survived the federal court's initial screening, but Moss ultimately obtained summary judgment in October 2024, so that litigation likewise did not establish misconduct by Moss.

https://www.wbrc.com/2025/12/23/michael-broady-jrs-family-pushes-accountability/
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/alabama/alndce/7%3A2023cv01097/186588/59/
https://www.theaegisalliance.com/2025/12/18/michael-broadys-tragic-fatal-911-call-exposes-excessive-force-by-police-in-rural-alabama-2.html

https://theaegisalliance.com/2025/12/18/michael-broadys-tragic-fatal-911-call-exposes-excessive-force-by-police-in-rural-alabama/

https://www.wbrc.com/2025/12/23/michael-broady-jrs-family-pushes-accountability/

https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2025/12/he-dialed-911-and-ended-up-dead-alabama-police-sued-over-brutal-force-in-handcuffed-mans-death.html
 

On 08/22/2021, Greenfield Police Department officers killed 31-year-old Tyran Christamar Lamb after a traffic stop, police pursuit and crash at South 27th Street and West Becher Street in Milwaukee. Although Greenfield police conducted the stop and pursuit, the fatal shooting occurred within the city of Milwaukee. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office identified Lamb following his death. Sources also render his first name as Tyron, but contemporary news coverage and the medical examiner identification use Tyran Lamb.
The encounter began at approximately 1:36 a.m. when a Greenfield officer saw Lamb drive through a red light near South 35th Street and West Oklahoma Avenue. This later disclosure is important because the original reporting described the incident simply as a traffic stop without explaining why police initiated it. The officer activated emergency lights and siren, and Lamb initially stopped. Police video released later shows the officer repeatedly directing Lamb to put his vehicle in park. When a second officer arrived, Lamb continued driving away while police pursued.
During the pursuit, Lamb drove through additional stop signs and traffic signals. A third Greenfield officer deployed spike strips in an attempt to stop his vehicle. The pursuit continued until Lamb collided with another vehicle at South 27th Street and West Becher Street. His airbags deployed in the collision.
The original police description of what happened after the crash was significantly incomplete. Greenfield police initially said Lamb exited his vehicle and began firing at officers. Body-camera and squad-camera recordings released approximately five weeks later showed a more detailed sequence. After the crash, officers approached Lamb's vehicle with guns drawn and repeatedly ordered him to show his hands. According to Police Chief Jay Johnson, officers gave that command 18 times. A civilian then walked into the immediate area, briefly diverting the officers' attention.
The video subsequently shows Lamb firing multiple rounds through the windshield at a Greenfield officer who had approached the front of the vehicle. The officer was struck multiple times and fell or moved away from the immediate line of fire. Lamb then got out of the crashed vehicle and continued firing while moving away. Video released by police shows Lamb passing extremely close to the wounded officer and firing again. Two other Greenfield officers returned fire, striking Lamb. Lamb collapsed nearby and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The wounded Greenfield officer, then 36, suffered gunshot wounds that included injuries to his leg, chest and finger. He underwent multiple surgeries at Froedtert Hospital. By the time Greenfield police released the video on 09/30/2021, he had been discharged from the hospital and was recovering at home.
There was nevertheless an important dispute between Lamb's family and police during the period before the recordings were released. Lamb's mother, Tanisha Lamb, questioned the initial police narrative and demanded access to the body-camera and squad-camera recordings. She told reporters she had seen civilian cellphone footage that caused her to question who fired first. Lamb's girlfriend, Shanairra Rodgers, said she had been speaking with him over FaceTime during the crash and recalled hearing Lamb yelling that his hands were visible or raised immediately before hearing gunfire.
The subsequent police video provided considerably stronger evidence concerning the actual gunfire than was publicly available when Lamb's family raised those questions. Multiple body-camera and squad-camera perspectives show Lamb firing through his windshield at the approaching officer. The recordings therefore independently document significant portions of the exchange rather than leaving the sequence dependent solely upon officers' written accounts. However, Greenfield police released an approximately five-minute edited compilation, not the complete unedited recordings, while the independent investigation remained underway.
The Milwaukee Area Investigative Team investigated the killing, with the Milwaukee Police Department serving as lead agency because Greenfield officers were involved. Greenfield turned its body-camera and squad-camera evidence over to Milwaukee investigators.
Lamb was a father of two children and was expecting a third child at the time of his death. His mother described him as charismatic and sociable and said he encouraged other people to do their best. His family became publicly involved immediately after his death, pressing for release of the recordings rather than accepting the initial police account without seeing the evidence themselves.

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/officer-involved-shooting-officer-shot/
https://www.fox6now.com/news/greenfield-police-release-video-officer-involved-shooting-from-aug-22
https://www.cbs58.com/news/greenfield-police-release-bodycam-dashcam-video-from-officer-involved-shooting-on-aug-22
https://www.fox6now.com/news/greenfield-officer-recovering-family-of-man-shot-by-police-want-answers
https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/greenfield-police-release-statement-on-fatal-police-shooting
https://www.cbs58.com/news/man-who-shot-greenfield-police-officer-identified
https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/video-released-from-august-shootout-that-left-greenfield-officer-in-critical-condition-suspect-dead
https://www.fox6now.com/news/greenfield-officer-critical-milwaukee-man-dead-after-traffic-stop

On 08/21/2021, Liberty County Sheriff’s Office SWAT deputies killed 45-year-old Daryl Jay Carr during an approximately six-hour standoff at 186 Maggie Lane in Allenhurst.Deputies initially went to the residence at approximately 5:30 a.m. after a 911 call reporting a domestic dispute. According to the GBI, the encounter developed into a hostage situation involving Carr’s wife, their two children and a third child who was not related to the family. The Liberty County Sheriff’s Office deployed its SWAT team, established a perimeter and staged emergency medical personnel nearby.
SWAT negotiators communicated with Carr for several hours. According to investigators, negotiations resulted in the three children being released from the house. Police alleged that Carr threatened to shoot deputies if they entered. Carr’s wife remained inside after the children were released but eventually escaped through a second-story window. SWAT personnel had positioned a trampoline below the window, and she jumped onto it to escape.
After determining that continued negotiations were no longer effective, deputies decided to enter the residence. SWAT deployed tear gas and a flash-bang grenade. At approximately 11:45 a.m., deputies attempted to enter through the front door and encountered Carr on the upstairs landing. Gunfire followed and Carr was struck multiple times. Deputies recovered a firearm at the scene. Carr was transported to Liberty Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
There is an important discrepancy in the early public accounts concerning who fired the fatal shots. The GBI's initial release stated only that deputies encountered Carr on the upstairs landing and “shots were fired,” followed by Carr being struck multiple times. Liberty County Sheriff William Bowman separately told reporters immediately afterward that investigators had not yet determined whether Carr had shot himself or had been shot by deputies. FOX 5/AP reported that uncertainty publicly while the GBI investigation and Carr’s autopsy were pending.
Later accounts characterized Carr's death as a fatal police shooting, and the GBI ultimately placed the case on its official list of 2021 officer-involved shootings, marking the incident as fatal. However, the publicly accessible GBI material located for this update does not provide a later detailed ballistic reconstruction identifying which deputies fired, how many deputies fired, the number of rounds discharged by Carr and deputies, or which specific rounds caused Carr’s fatal wounds.

https://gbi.georgia.gov/press-releases/2021-08-22/gbi-investigates-officer-involved-shooting-liberty-county
https://gbi.georgia.gov/news/2022-05-20/2021-officer-involved-shootings
https://www.wtoc.com/2021/08/21/suspect-dies-after-police-standoff-liberty-county/
https://www.ajc.com/news/gbi-man-killed-after-holding-wife-3-children-hostage-during-swat-standoff/PBNN4EAJKBGPZN4YXC52CQ7GAY/
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/liberty-county-hostage-standoff-investigation
https://www.wjcl.com/article/seven-hour-standoff-in-allenhurst-ends-in-gunfire-suspect-injured/37364642

On 08/21/2021, Rankin County Sheriff’s Department deputies killed 28-year-old Shannon Trevor McKinley inside his grandparents’ home on Garrett Road in Florence. The encounter began when McKinley’s grandfather, Sonny Quarles, called 911 because McKinley had become angry during an argument and Quarles’s wife, Charlene, began experiencing shortness of breath. Quarles said his wife recovered while he was speaking with the dispatcher and he initially told 911 that assistance was no longer needed. He called again after McKinley became angry again.
The family had planned to take McKinley and his children to a lake that day for one last family outing because McKinley expected to surrender to authorities shortly afterward. McKinley had recently completed a rehabilitation program after relapsing on drugs. His father, Shannon McKinley, said Trevor had previously tried to surrender after returning to Mississippi but was told he needed two negative COVID-19 tests before the sheriff’s department would accept him. Attorney William Andy Sumrall also told Insider that he had contacted the sheriff’s department before the weekend and left a message saying his client intended to surrender the following Monday.
When deputies arrived, Charlene Quarles said they drove rapidly into the yard, immediately went toward different entrances and entered without explaining themselves. Deputies learned that McKinley had an outstanding domestic-violence warrant and found him hiding in the attic. His grandmother believed he hid because he was frightened of the Rankin County deputies. She said the family had previously been warned that deputies would “rough him up” if they had to come get him and described the department as having a reputation for rough treatment during arrests. The sheriff’s department did not respond to Insider’s questions about that allegation.
The later Mississippi Bureau of Investigation record provided an important detail omitted from the sheriff’s initial public account. According to information an MBI agent received from Sheriff Bryan Bailey, the two deputies first attempted to use a Taser against McKinley while he was coming down from the attic, but the Taser reportedly had no effect. Police alleged that McKinley then turned and fired multiple rounds at the deputies. According to the MBI account, one deputy returned fire and struck McKinley in the head, killing him. This indicates that although two deputies confronted McKinley, only one was reported to have fired the fatal gunfire.
McKinley’s family did not accept that the encounter had to end with his death. His grandmother questioned why deputies entered and attempted to force him from the attic when no one else remained in danger inside the house. His father similarly questioned why police did not contain the house and attempt to de-escalate rather than immediately going inside after him. His mother, Jackie McKinley, said she was not claiming her son was blameless but believed his death could have been avoided.
McKinley’s former fiancée, Ashton Durr, was speaking with him by telephone during the encounter. She said she heard scrambling before the telephone dropped and disconnected. Approximately ten minutes later, McKinley’s aunt called and told her he was dead. McKinley was the father of children, and photographs provided by his family showed him with his sons. His relatives described the planned lake trip that morning as particularly important because everyone expected he might spend time in jail after surrendering.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation investigated the shooting, but McKinley’s family spent well over a year without receiving meaningful information about its progress. The sheriff’s department withheld the incident report, 911 material and other records requested by Insider, asserting that records could not be released while the investigation remained open. McKinley’s mother said the family was not provided a toxicology report or substantive investigative information and that authorities initially delayed releasing his body, resulting in a roughly three-week wait before the family could hold his funeral.
The secrecy surrounding McKinley’s killing ultimately became the subject of separate litigation. Insider and the Mississippi Center for Justice sued the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department in 2022 after it withheld incident reports concerning McKinley and several other people who died during encounters with Rankin County deputies. The requested cases included McKinley, Damien Cameron, Cory Jackson and Robert Rushton.
The records eventually released in McKinley’s case raised another significant issue: neither of the two reports produced by the sheriff’s department was written by the deputies who confronted and shot McKinley. Deputy Allison Defour reported arriving afterward and establishing a crime-scene log. Deputy Craig Williams likewise arrived after hearing radio traffic announcing shots fired. Williams’s report identified deputies Pickle and Little as being inside the residence when he subsequently entered, but the released records did not establish that Pickle and Little were necessarily the two deputies who confronted or shot McKinley. The sheriff’s department did not answer Insider’s questions about whether the deputies directly involved in the shooting had written incident reports.
A Rankin County grand jury finally considered McKinley’s killing in January 2023 and returned a no bill, declining to indict the deputies. Remarkably, McKinley’s family was not informed that the case had been closed. Jackie McKinley learned about the grand-jury decision when Insider contacted her in early 2023. She said she was extremely disappointed both by the result and by nearly two years of virtually no communication from authorities.
The public-records litigation also produced a ruling against the sheriff’s department. In March 2023, a judge found that the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department had violated Mississippi’s Public Records Act by withholding incident reports requested by Insider. The records had ultimately been supplied approximately 200 days after they were requested even though state law required their production within seven working days.
McKinley’s death occurred during a striking concentration of deaths involving the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department. Five men died following encounters with the department during an eight-month period in 2021: Cory Jackson, Damien Cameron, McKinley, Adam Coker and Robert Rushton. McKinley and Rushton were shot by deputies; Cameron, Jackson and Coker died in custody. McKinley’s mother contacted Sheriff Bryan Bailey after her son’s death because she wanted to discuss deputy training and what she viewed as the department’s growing pattern of fatal encounters. She said Bailey was rude to her and ended the call.
The broader context became considerably more significant after McKinley’s death. Rankin County deputies were subsequently exposed for a longstanding culture of excessive force, including members who called themselves the “Goon Squad.” Five former Rankin County deputies ultimately pleaded guilty to federal charges arising from the January 2023 racist torture of Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker. The U.S. Department of Justice subsequently opened a broader civil-rights investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department examining allegations of excessive force and other unconstitutional practices.
OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The name of the deputy who fired the fatal shot at McKinley remains unresolved in the publicly accessible material reviewed for this update. Later records identify Deputies Allison Defour and Craig Williams as officers who arrived after the shooting and identify deputies with the surnames Pickle and Little as being inside the house when Williams subsequently entered. Those records do not establish which deputy fired the fatal shot, so none of those names should be entered in the Officer(s) field without additional documentation.
The inability to identify McKinley’s shooter is particularly significant given what subsequently became known about the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department. Multiple Rankin deputies were later convicted for the 2023 torture of Jenkins and Parker, and subsequent reporting established that some members of the department implicated in later misconduct had also participated in earlier fatal encounters. Without documentation identifying McKinley’s shooter, however, those histories cannot responsibly be attributed to the deputy who killed him.

https://www.wapt.com/article/deputy-involved-shooting-turns-deadly-in-rankin-county/37364697
https://darkhorsepressnow.com/4291-2/
https://www.magnoliastatelive.com/2021/08/21/deputies-shoot-kill-mississippi-man-after-he-allegedly-shot-at-them/
https://vicksburgnews.com/suspect-deceased-after-opening-fire-at-rankin-county-deputies/
https://www.businessinsider.nl/a-family-is-still-waiting-for-answers-7-months-after-mississippi-police-burst-into-their-home-and-shot-a-28-year-old-man-dead/

On 08/21/2021, Guadalupe Police Department Officer Miguel Jaimes killed 59-year-old Juan Luis Olvera-Preciado, an uninvolved bystander, while firing at another man near Birch and Obispo streets. Olvera-Preciado was sitting in his vehicle in his own driveway in the 100 block of Obispo Street, waiting for his wife so the couple could go out for a late dinner.
The California Department of Justice later produced a detailed reconstruction that substantially expanded the information available immediately after the killing. Shortly before the shooting, Guadalupe officers were investigating a small fire and encountered a man whom they knew had two outstanding arrest warrants. The man ran from officers. Jaimes and Officer Christopher Orozco pursued him on foot.
During the pursuit, police repeatedly ordered the man to stop and show his hands. According to the DOJ investigation, the man removed his right hand from the pocket of his sweatshirt and extended his arm. Jaimes believed he was pointing a firearm. Orozco also told investigators he thought the man was about to shoot either him or Jaimes. Jaimes fired three rounds. Orozco did not fire.
The man Jaimes fired at was not carrying a gun. Investigators recovered a small black butane torch at the scene. All three of Jaimes's rounds missed him.
One of Jaimes's bullets struck the pavement, ricocheted and traveled approximately 174 feet down Obispo Street. The bullet entered through the slightly open door of Olvera-Preciado's vehicle and struck him in the head. Olvera-Preciado had no involvement whatsoever in the police encounter.
The circumstances immediately before his death were reconstructed through an interview with his wife, Silvia. The couple had been married for nearly 40 years. At about 9:30 p.m., they decided to go out for a late dinner. Because it was cold, Silvia went back into the house to get a sweater while her husband waited in their vehicle. She heard several loud bangs and police yelling outside. When she returned, she saw the vehicle door partly open and her husband motionless. At first she thought he was joking with her, then saw blood on his face and shirt and called 911.
The DOJ investigation determined that the area was extremely dark and that Olvera-Preciado's driveway was not visible to the officers from where they fired. That finding became part of the state's justification for declining criminal charges, but the investigation also exposed shortcomings in Guadalupe Police Department practices surrounding the shooting.
On 01/03/2023, the California Department of Justice announced that it would not prosecute Jaimes. Investigators concluded there was substantial evidence that Jaimes believed the fleeing man posed an immediate armed threat to him and Orozco and determined that his three shots constituted lawful self-defense and defense of another. Under California's transferred-intent doctrine, the DOJ concluded that because Jaimes's shooting at the intended target was legally justified, there was insufficient evidence to prosecute him criminally for unintentionally killing Olvera-Preciado.
The DOJ nevertheless issued a series of recommendations to the Guadalupe Police Department directly arising from its investigation. The state recommended requiring body cameras during investigative stops; preventing officers involved in or witnessing shootings from discussing the incident with each other before investigators interview them; updating use-of-force policies; requiring de-escalation and crisis-intervention techniques when feasible; and creating specific guidance on situational awareness to reduce the danger that police gunfire poses to innocent people in residential neighborhoods.
Olvera-Preciado's family strongly contested Jaimes's decision to fire. In May 2022, his widow and four children filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against Jaimes, the City of Guadalupe and the Guadalupe Police Department. The lawsuit alleged that Jaimes panicked and fired unnecessarily toward an occupied residential area. The family emphasized that other officers present did not fire and alleged that there was no reasonable basis to shoot when doing so placed nearby residents at risk.
The civil case produced a substantial financial resolution. In 2023, the City of Guadalupe and Olvera-Preciado's family reached a $4 million settlement. The settlement was approved by the California Joint Powers Insurance Authority after private mediation.
A second lawsuit was subsequently filed by Olvera-Preciado's brother on behalf of himself and their late father. That complaint alleged inadequate police training and argued that Jaimes should have recognized the danger of firing in a residential neighborhood. It specifically challenged the contention that darkness excused the shooting, alleging that nearby houses, streetlights and police vehicles provided illumination and that Jaimes knew people were nearby.
Olvera-Preciado had moved with his family to Guadalupe in 2001. He worked for Freitas Brothers Farms, where he was responsible for irrigation. He and Silvia were approaching their 40th wedding anniversary when he was killed. They had four children and six grandchildren, with another grandchild expected at the time. His children described a father who taught them to work, routinely helped them when they needed him and centered much of his life around his family.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Miguel Jaimes joined the Guadalupe Police Department in January 2020, approximately 19 months before he killed Olvera-Preciado.The most significant subsequent scrutiny of Jaimes's conduct remains the Olvera-Preciado case itself: three rounds fired at a man who ultimately proved to be unarmed, all three rounds missing their intended target, one traveling approximately 174 feet after ricocheting and killing an uninvolved man sitting in his driveway. The resulting investigation prompted statewide investigators to recommend changes specifically addressing Guadalupe officers' situational awareness and the danger police gunfire poses to bystanders.

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/california-department-justice-releases-report-death-juan-luis-olvera-preciado
https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/ois/report/2023_01_OlveraPreciado_AB1506_Report.pdf
https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/guadalupe-police-officer-wont-be-charged-for-killing-bystander
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https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/he-was-the-happiness-in-my-home-family-remembers-innocent-guadalupe-man-killed-in-officer-involved-shooting
https://keyt.com/news/santa-maria-north-county/2021/08/27/guadalupe-officer-who-shot-bystander-identified-in-court-documents/
https://keyt.com/news/santa-maria-north-county/2023/01/06/states-justice-department-clears-guadalupe-police-officer-of-criminal-charges-in-2021-fatal-police-shooting/

On 08/20/2021, a Chanute Police Department officer shot 28-year-old Brandon Lee Schlichting near 4th Street and Evergreen Avenue after police received a report of someone looking into vehicle windows. A single officer initially responded and encountered Schlichting shortly before 7:30 p.m.
According to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, when the officer approached Schlichting, Schlichting removed a weapon from a holster and allegedly pointed it at the officer. The officer fired one round, striking Schlichting in the head. The publicly available KBI account does not identify the weapon by make or type beyond describing it as a weapon, nor does the available reporting indicate that Schlichting fired at the officer.
The officer immediately attempted lifesaving measures. Other officers and EMS personnel arrived and continued treatment. Schlichting was initially transported to Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center and subsequently transferred approximately 100 miles away to the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City. He remained alive for more than a day after the shooting and died at approximately 1:15 a.m. on 08/22/2021. The death date for the database therefore should be 08/22/2021, not the 08/20/2021 shooting date.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation's Crime Scene Response Team investigated the shooting independently of Chanute police. KBI announced that its completed investigation would be submitted to the Neosho County Attorney for review. The agency's public update announcing Schlichting's death stated that the investigation remained underway and that no further information would be released at that time.
Despite the passage of nearly five years, the publicly indexed record remains unusually thin. Searches for the completed KBI investigation, a Neosho County Attorney charging decision, grand-jury disposition, body-camera or dash-camera release, civil-rights litigation, wrongful-death action, or subsequent detailed reconstruction did not locate a publicly available follow-up establishing any of those developments. The public narrative therefore still rests primarily upon the KBI's preliminary account of the encounter.
Schlichting was born 12/09/1992. He was an only child and was survived by his mother, Cynthia Lee, and father, Desmond Schlichting. His family memorial describes a young man who was particularly passionate about music, dancing, drawing and sketching and who was closely attached to his dog, Monster.

https://www.kansas.gov/kbi/docs/media%20releases/2021/Media%20Release-%20UPDATE-%20Officer%20involved%20shooting%20in%20Chanute.pdf
https://www.wibw.com/2021/08/21/chanute-man-critical-condition-after-being-shot-by-police-officer/
https://www.wibw.com/2021/08/22/chanute-man-dies-injuries-after-being-shot-by-officer/
https://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article253670313.html
https://www.kwch.com/2021/08/21/officer-involved-shooting-chanute-leaves-one-man-injured/
https://www.iolaregister.com/news/kbi-investigating-officer-involved-shooting-in-chanute
https://kggfradio.com/local-news/587883
https://everloved.com/life-of/brandon-schlichting/obituary/

On 08/20/2021, Amarillo Police Department officers shot 34-year-old George Michael Mireles at the Amarillo Garden Apartments, 1223 S. Roberts Street, after mistaking him for another man police had gone there to arrest. Mireles survived the initial shooting but died at the hospital the following day, making 08/21/2021 the death date for this record.
At approximately 9:30 a.m., officers assigned to APD's Crime Prevention Unit were conducting surveillance at the apartment complex while attempting to locate another man wanted on a felony drug-related warrant. Police saw Mireles walking toward the apartments and believed he matched the description of the person they were seeking. Officers approached Mireles and attempted to identify him.
According to Amarillo police, Mireles then produced a handgun and fired at the officers. Three APD officers returned fire and struck him. The allegation that Mireles fired first comes from the police account; the later publicly available reporting located for this update does not provide body-camera footage, civilian video, ballistics findings or another independent reconstruction establishing the sequence of gunfire.
After the shooting, officers provided first aid and emergency personnel transported Mireles to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. He died on 08/21/2021. Justice of the Peace Debbie Horn ordered an autopsy.
Police subsequently located and arrested the man they had actually gone to the apartment complex to find. Thus, whatever occurred once police confronted Mireles, he was not the person whose warrant caused officers to be at the complex or whom they intended to approach when the operation began.
APD later disclosed that Mireles himself happened to have a recently issued warrant. Police Chief Martin Birkenfeld acknowledged, however, that the officers did not know about that warrant when they approached Mireles. It therefore was not the reason for the encounter and does not change the fact that police initially confronted him because they had mistaken him for somebody else.
Mireles was born 03/08/1987 in Garden City, Kansas, and was the father of four children. His family remembered him as funny and outgoing, with a strong interest in music, rap and breakdancing. He had once wanted to pursue music but instead devoted himself to fatherhood. Friends and relatives repeatedly remembered his distinctive smile and his ability to make people laugh.
Despite searching subsequent records through 2026, I did not locate a publicly indexed body-camera release, detailed prosecutorial findings, civil lawsuit, settlement or later independent reconstruction that materially resolves unanswered questions about the shooting. I also did not locate a reliable public release naming the three Amarillo officers who fired at Mireles.
OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Amarillo police disclosed that three officers fired at Mireles, but the available public record located for this update does not reliably identify those officers by name.

https://www.amarillo.com/story/news/2021/08/20/amarillo-pd-releases-information-friday-morning-officer-involved-shooting/8211415002/
https://www.newschannel10.com/2021/08/21/update-suspect-involved-shooting-with-amarillo-police-officers-has-died/
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2021/08/22/police-man-dies-after-exchanging-gunfire-with-amarillo-cops-who-were-seeking-different-man/
https://www.wbap.com/2021/08/22/wanted-man-killed-by-police-officers-who-were-looking-for-someone-else/
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Fatal-Police-Shooting-Texas-16402696.php
https://www.rectorfuneralhome.com/obituaries/george-mireles

On 08/20/2021, off-duty Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office Detention Deputy Daniel Lawrence Hernandez crashed his 2020 Ford Mustang into a Nissan Murano driven by 65-year-old Krista Richter at North Dale Mabry Highway and West Sligh Avenue in Tampa. Richter suffered catastrophic injuries and died at the hospital nine days later. Her husband, Peter Richter, 63, was riding with her and suffered serious injuries. Hernandez was driving his personal vehicle and was not responding to a police call or engaged in official duties.
On 08/20/2021, 65-year-old Khrista Richter was fatally injured when off-duty Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office detention deputy Daniel Hernandez, driving his personal Ford Mustang at extreme speed, crashed into the Nissan SUV occupied by Richter and her husband, Peter Richter, at North Dale Mabry Highway and West Sligh Avenue in Tampa.
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Shortly before 8:00 p.m., Khrista and Peter Richter were traveling in their Nissan after leaving a restaurant. Khrista was making a left turn from Dale Mabry Highway onto Sligh Avenue when Hernandez approached in the opposite direction in his Mustang.
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Hernandez was off duty and was not responding to an emergency, pursuing another vehicle, or performing a law-enforcement function. Florida Highway Patrol investigators determined that excessive speed caused the collision.
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Data recovered from the Mustang's electronic data recorder later became central evidence in Hernandez's criminal trial. The recorder showed the Mustang traveling approximately 109 mph in the 45-mph zone immediately before the collision. Trial evidence placed the speed at 109.2 mph approximately 1.5 seconds before impact.
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Hernandez's Mustang struck the passenger side of the Richters' Nissan with tremendous force. Khrista suffered catastrophic injuries. Peter was seriously injured but survived. Hernandez suffered minor injuries.
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Khrista later died from her injuries. She was a breast cancer survivor whose family described her as a caring person and loving aunt. Her husband, Peter, survived the crash and spent the following years seeking accountability for her death.
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Florida Highway Patrol investigated the collision. In April 2022, Hernandez was charged with vehicular homicide and reckless driving with serious bodily injury. After the charges were filed, he resigned from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office and surrendered to authorities.
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Hernandez disputed the prosecution's reconstruction of his speed. At his 2025 trial, an FHP trooper testified that the collision would not have occurred had Hernandez been traveling at the posted speed limit because Richter's Nissan would have had sufficient time to clear the intersection.
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On 09/26/2025, a Hillsborough County jury found Hernandez guilty of vehicular homicide and reckless driving with serious bodily injury. He was taken into custody after the verdict.
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Khrista's husband, Peter Richter, said after the verdict that the four years following his wife's death had been extremely difficult. Khrista's sister, Connie Carroll, described her as caring and loving and said the conviction brought a measure of justice for her sister.
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On 11/21/2025, Hernandez was sentenced to 15 years in state prison followed by five years of probation for causing the fatal crash.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Daniel Hernandez was a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office detention deputy at the time of the fatal collision. He was off duty and driving his personal vehicle when he killed Khrista Richter and seriously injured Peter Richter. Hernandez resigned from HCSO after he was criminally charged in April 2022. A jury subsequently convicted him of vehicular homicide and reckless driving with serious bodily injury, and he was sentenced to 15 years in prison followed by five years of probation.

https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborough-county/hillsborough-county-detention-deputy-on-trial-in-deadly-crash-that-killed-woman-injured-husband
https://www.fox13news.com/news/former-detention-deputy-found-guilty-in-crash-that-killed-tampa-woman
https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-detention-deputy-trial-deadly-crash-killed-woman-injured-husband
https://www.fox13news.com/news/hillsborough-detention-deputy-charged-with-vehicular-homicide
https://www.teamhcso.com/News/PressRelease/d932c8f6-06d7-4b76-873a-b4691ebcd1fb/22-043
https://www.tampabay.com/news/hillsborough/2021/11/05/off-duty-hillsborough-detention-deputy-under-investigation-in-fatal-tampa-crash/
https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2022/04/04/hillsborough-detention-deputy-arrested-on-vehicular-homicide-charge/
https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2025/11/21/hillsborough-deputy-vehicular-homicide-sentence-tampa-crash/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/former-hillsborough-detention-deputy-sentenced-230139574.html

On 08/19/2021, Alaska State Trooper Joshua Rallo killed 26-year-old Douglas Brown Jr. while investigating a reported burglary involving a firearm in Selawik.
At approximately 5:20 a.m., Alaska State Troopers received a report of a burglary and theft involving a firearm. Rallo responded and began searching for two men police believed were involved. Approximately 20 minutes later, at about 5:40 a.m., Rallo encountered the two men.
According to Alaska State Troopers, Brown had a shotgun when Rallo encountered him. The initial official account stated only that Rallo “perceived a threat” and fired his service pistol at Brown. Trooper spokesperson Austin McDaniel declined to explain what Brown allegedly did that Rallo interpreted as threatening. Police did not publicly allege in the initial account that Brown fired the shotgun, and the available reporting did not establish that he pointed it at Rallo.
Rallo fired his service pistol, striking Brown. Brown died at the scene. His body was sent to the Alaska State Medical Examiner’s Office in Anchorage. Rallo was not physically injured.
The Alaska Bureau of Investigation investigated the killing and sent investigators to Selawik. The completed investigation was to be forwarded to the Alaska Department of Law’s Office of Special Prosecutions for review.
The publicly available record does not provide a detailed subsequent reconstruction explaining precisely what Rallo alleged Brown did immediately before the shooting, whether Brown moved or pointed the shotgun toward Rallo, how many rounds Rallo fired, or the specific ballistic and autopsy findings. No publicly released body-camera recording of the shooting was located.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Joshua Rallo was a 16-year veteran of the Alaska State Troopers when he killed Brown.
On 10/25/2013, Rallo was involved in another police shooting in Noorvik. Troopers responded after receiving reports of 40-year-old Jeffery Henry walking through the community and firing a gun. The encounter developed into a lengthy standoff at a residence. Police alleged that after several hours of negotiations Henry emerged and pointed a firearm toward troopers. Rallo fired at Henry, critically wounding him. Henry survived.
Brown’s killing was therefore at least the second documented police shooting involving Rallo: the 2013 nonfatal shooting of Jeffery Henry in Noorvik and the 2021 fatal shooting of Douglas Brown Jr. in Selawik.

https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2021/08/19/1-dead-after-being-shot-by-trooper-selawik/
https://www.kotzebuearcticnews.com/story/2021/08/20/news/trooper-shooting-in-selawik-leaves-one-dead/7816.html
https://dailydispatch.dps.alaska.gov/Home/DisplayIncident?incidentNumber=AK21081969
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2021/08/20/trooper-fatally-shoots-armed-selawik-man-during-burglary-investigation-officials-say/
https://alaska-native-news.com/selawik-man-killed-in-trooper-involved-shooting-thursday/57347/
https://alaska-native-news.com/trooper-in-noorvik-officer-involved-shooting-identified-suspect-still-in-critical-condition/8985/
https://alaska-native-news.com/noorvik-man-involved-in-firearm-incident-last-month-arrested-upon-hospital-release/9011/

On 08/19/2021, El Cajon Police Department Sgt. Kevin Reilly killed 38-year-old Setha Phangdy near Ballard Street and Decker Street while responding to a reported shooting at a nearby business. The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office later conducted a detailed review of the encounter and issued its findings in April 2022.
According to investigators, police received an emergency call reporting that a man had been shot inside a business. Police alleged that Phangdy had shot an employee and then left on foot. A witness provided police with a description, which officers broadcast over the radio. Reilly encountered Phangdy a short distance away while driving a marked patrol SUV.
According to the subsequent investigation, Phangdy was standing in the roadway when Reilly approached. Investigators concluded that Phangdy pointed a handgun toward Reilly and fired repeatedly at the patrol vehicle. Reilly stopped and ducked below the dashboard as bullets struck his vehicle. Police initially reported three bullet strikes to the SUV; the later prosecutor’s review stated that four rounds struck Reilly’s vehicle.
Reilly then accelerated directly toward Phangdy and struck him with the police SUV, knocking him to the pavement. Reilly got out with his firearm and saw Phangdy sit up. According to the DA's reconstruction, Phangdy attempted to reload his handgun while Reilly repeatedly ordered him to drop it. Reilly then fired, striking Phangdy four times.
Other officers arrived and provided medical treatment until paramedics transported Phangdy to a hospital, where he died. The medical examiner determined that he died from multiple gunshot wounds and classified the death as homicide.
Investigators recovered the handgun police attributed to Phangdy. Police described it as an unserialized privately manufactured firearm, commonly called a ghost gun, equipped with an extended magazine. Police also reported recovering six additional magazines containing more than 80 rounds.
Reilly's body-worn camera did not record the shooting. El Cajon police said Reilly did not activate it because gunfire began almost immediately after he arrived. Consequently, there is no body-camera recording from Reilly independently documenting the critical initial seconds of the confrontation.
The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office reviewed the shooting after receiving the investigative file in December 2021 and additional materials in early 2022. On 04/15/2022, prosecutors concluded that Reilly would not face criminal charges. The DA determined that Reilly reasonably believed Phangdy presented an immediate deadly threat and found both Reilly's use of his vehicle against Phangdy and his subsequent gunfire legally justified.
The prosecutor specifically considered the period after the police SUV knocked Phangdy down. The DA concluded that the threat had not ended because investigators determined Phangdy still possessed the handgun and was attempting to reload it rather than surrendering when Reilly fired. The office therefore found insufficient evidence to establish criminal liability for the four fatal shots.
No subsequent wrongful-death lawsuit, civil settlement, criminal prosecution of Reilly, or publicly documented family challenge to the shooting was located in the later public record reviewed for this update.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Kevin Reilly had worked for the El Cajon Police Department for approximately 16 years when he killed Phangdy. He was a sergeant assigned to patrol and was in uniform and driving a marked police vehicle.
Reilly remained with the El Cajon Police Department after the shooting and subsequently worked in the department's Investigations Division. By October 2024, department records identified him as a lieutenant and Patrol Division commander.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2021-08-19/el-cajon-police-officer-wounds-shooting-suspect-during-gun-battle
https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2021/08/19/el-cajon-police-shooting
https://www.sdcda.org/content/MediaRelease/2020_2021/Setha%20Phangdy.pdf
https://www.sdcda.org/content/MediaRelease/OIS%20News%20Release%207-1-22.pdf
https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/das-office-clears-10-officers-in-seven-shootings-two-of-which-were-fatal
https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2022/07/01/das-office-clears-10-officers-in-seven-shootings-two-of-which-were-fatal/
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/san-diego-das-office-clears-10-officers-in-7-shootings-2-of-which-were-fatal/2985636/
https://www.elcajon.gov/Home/Components/News/News/6111/112

On 08/19/2021, at approximately 7:34 p.m., Ridgefield Park Police responded to a home near Main Street and Grand Avenue after receiving a report of a man barricaded inside and armed with a gun. Officers attempted to negotiate with Scott J. DeGraw, 58. After communication efforts, police breached the home and found DeGraw deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/ridgefield-park/2021/08/19/man-found-dead-gunshot-wound-after-police-standoff-ridgefield-park-nj/8196217002/
https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/bergenfield/news/man-found-dead-of-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound-after-standoff-with-police-in-ridgefield-park/815232/
https://patch.com/new-jersey/ridgefieldpark/police-respond-standoff-ridgefield-park-home

On 08/19/2021, Jordan Nelson, 33, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound following an approximately two-hour standoff with the Nye County Sheriff’s Office at his residence on Dana Way in Pahrump. The police encounter began after deputies responded to reports of gunfire at Nelson’s former girlfriend’s residence in the area of Irene and Leslie streets.

The Nye County Sheriff’s Office alleged that Nelson had fired multiple rounds at his former girlfriend’s house at approximately 3:30 p.m., narrowly missing people inside. Deputies subsequently went to Nelson’s residence on Dana Way. Police reported that Nelson fired at deputies when they arrived, with at least one round striking a police vehicle.

The sheriff’s office deployed its SWAT team and established a perimeter around the residence. David Boruchowitz acted as a negotiator and communicated with Nelson by telephone for approximately two hours while police attempted to persuade him to leave the house.

After the negotiations failed to produce a surrender, deputies deployed CS gas and entered the residence. They found Nelson suffering from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was transported by ambulance to Desert View Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police gunfire did not cause his death.

Nelson’s death later became the subject of wrongful-death litigation against Boruchowitz and former Nye County Sheriff Sharon Wehrly. A lawsuit filed by Nelson’s family alleged that Boruchowitz turned off his body-worn camera while negotiating with Nelson, taunted him and encouraged him to kill himself. Those assertions are allegations made in the civil complaint.

Nelson’s family subsequently continued publicly challenging the circumstances of his death. Nye County government records document his mother stating that she believed Boruchowitz talked her son into suicide and questioning why body-camera footage had not been provided to the family’s attorneys.

OFFICER BACKGROUND:
David Boruchowitz was identified as the Nye County Sheriff’s Office negotiator who communicated with Nelson during the standoff. Nelson’s family later named Boruchowitz in wrongful-death litigation alleging misconduct during those negotiations, including deliberately disabling his body-worn camera and encouraging Nelson to kill himself.

https://pvtimes.com/news/man-dies-from-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound-after-standoff-end-with-nye-county-sheriffs-office-103681/
https://pvtimes.com/news/nye-county-sheriffs-captain-named-in-wrongful-death-lawsuit-124127/
https://www.nyecountynv.gov/DocumentCenter/View/46508/Item272

On 08/18/2021, police killed 29-year-old Terrance Andre Bey after officers from several Bucks County departments pursued him from Middletown Township into Philadelphia, where the encounter ended with police gunfire near Whitaker and Adams avenues in the Crescentville section. Later reporting establishes his full name as Terrance Andre Bey; some contemporary reports spelled his first name “Terrence.”
Middletown Township police initially responded at approximately 2:41 p.m. to the Racquet Club Apartments in the 2000 block of Veterans Highway after a 911 caller reported a domestic assault involving an armed man. Police alleged that Bey had assaulted his girlfriend. During the encounter at the apartment complex, police further alleged that Bey shot a 65-year-old neighbor in the face after the neighbor and his wife allowed Bey's girlfriend into their apartment. The wounded man survived after emergency surgery.
After police saw Bey driving away in a Volvo, a Middletown Township officer began pursuing him. Officers from Middletown Township and several surrounding Bucks County departments joined the pursuit as police followed the Volvo along Veterans Highway, onto Interstate 95 and into Philadelphia. The pursuit ultimately continued onto heavily traveled Roosevelt Boulevard.
Near Whitaker Avenue, a Middletown Township police sergeant used a PIT maneuver against the Volvo. The maneuver spun Bey's vehicle around until it was facing a Lower Makefield Township police cruiser. According to the subsequent police reconstruction, a Lower Makefield sergeant believed Bey pointed a handgun toward him and deliberately rammed the Volvo with his police vehicle. The sergeant ducked below his dashboard and reported hearing gunfire.
Bey then left the vehicle and ran across Roosevelt Boulevard toward a Sunoco station. Police alleged that he fired at pursuing officers while running. A Lower Makefield officer fired at least once after allegedly seeing Bey point a gun toward him. A Philadelphia counterterrorism officer arriving at the scene also reported seeing Bey running toward the gas station and firing at police.
A Philadelphia Police Department 15th District officer confronted Bey near the Sunoco station. Police alleged that Bey continued holding and firing the handgun. The Philadelphia officer fired at least one round, striking Bey in the head. Bey died at the scene. Investigators reported recovering a Glock 22 .40-caliber handgun near him.
The fatal shooting was investigated by the Philadelphia Police Department Officer-Involved Shootings Investigations Unit, with the investigative findings intended for review by the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office. Searches of subsequent publicly indexed reporting did not locate a detailed Philadelphia DA findings letter, publicly released body-camera footage, civil lawsuit or settlement arising from Bey's death.
Although later reporting substantially clarified the pursuit and shooting sequence, the names of the Philadelphia officer who fired the fatal shot and the Lower Makefield officer who also fired at Bey were not disclosed in the publicly available reports located for this update. Contemporary reporting identified the fatal shooter only as an officer assigned to Philadelphia's 15th Police District.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
At least two officers fired during the final confrontation: a Lower Makefield Township police officer fired at least one round during the foot pursuit, and a Philadelphia 15th District officer subsequently fired the shot that struck Bey in the head. The Middletown Township sergeant who conducted the PIT maneuver and the Lower Makefield sergeant who rammed Bey's vehicle were also directly involved in ending the vehicle pursuit.
The publicly indexed records located for this update do not reliably identify those officers by name.

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https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-police-fatal-shooting-terrance-bey-bucks-county-20210819.html
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-police-shooting-bucks-county-middletown-chase-20210818.html
https://www.inquirer.com/crime/terrance-bey-philadelphia-shot-domestic-violence-20210820.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/terrence-bey-fatally-shot-philly-police-bucks-county-shooting/
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/bucks-county-shooting-suspect-killed-by-police-in-philadelphia-after-pursuit-da-says/
https://crimewatch.net/us/pa/bucks/da/29567/post/man-shot-trying-help-middletown-domestic-assault-victim-suspect-killed-officer-involved
https://www.buckscounty.gov/m/newsflash/home/detail/176
https://levittownnow.com/2021/08/19/philly-man-ided-as-shooting-suspect-killed-after-chase/
https://levittownnow.com/2021/08/20/authorities-suspect-shot-dead-by-cops-had-been-fighting-with-girlfriend/

On 08/18/2021, Pflugerville Police Department Officer Ian Clark killed 72-year-old Ronald Francis Zavaglia outside a residence on Lanark Loop after police responded to disturbance calls concerning an armed man at the house. The shooting occurred around midnight in the Windermere neighborhood.
Police received several calls concerning a disturbance at the residence. Initial reporting said callers described a resident with a gun who was actively attempting to break down a door. The later account released through the Travis County District Attorney's Office described the call more generally as a disturbance at the residence.
Clark and other Pflugerville officers went to the house, knocked on the front door and identified themselves as police. According to the account subsequently presented by the District Attorney's Office, Zavaglia opened the door while holding a rifle. Police alleged that Zavaglia raised the rifle toward the officers. Officers repeatedly ordered him to drop it. Clark then fired a single round, striking Zavaglia in the chest.
Officers requested emergency medical assistance and provided aid until EMS arrived. Zavaglia died at the scene. The available later account does not allege that Zavaglia fired the rifle before Clark shot him.
The case was subsequently reviewed by the Travis County District Attorney's Office and presented to a special grand jury. On 06/14/2022, District Attorney José Garza announced that the grand jury had completed its review and returned no indictment against Clark. Clark therefore faced no criminal charge for killing Zavaglia.
Zavaglia's full name was Ronald Francis Zavaglia. He was born 01/01/1949 and was a U.S. Navy veteran who attained the rank of lieutenant commander and served during the Vietnam era. He was buried at the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery in Killeen.

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https://www.kxan.com/news/one-dead-after-being-shot-by-pflugerville-police-officer/
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/suspect-dies-following-officer-involved-shooting-in-pflugerville
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https://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Office%20of%20Police%20Oversight/Lawsuits/Sanders%20v.%20COA.pdf
https://www.interment.net/united-states/texas/bell-county/killeen/central-texas-state-veterans-cemetery/transcription/842.php?page=137

n 08/17/2021, Burleson County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy John Pollock went to 41-year-old James Matalice Smith’s residence along FM 60 near County Road 230 to serve an arrest warrant. Later reporting established that the warrant arose from an investigation of an armed robbery at a Dollar General near Lake Somerville on 08/14/2021. Police alleged Smith was one of several people involved in that robbery.
According to police, Smith shot Pollock in the face while Pollock was attempting to serve the warrant at approximately 6:45 p.m. Pollock suffered a serious wound to his chin and jaw and was transported for emergency treatment. Smith remained inside the residence, and police surrounded the property.
The confrontation developed into an approximately eight-hour standoff. The response expanded to include the Texas Department of Public Safety, Burleson County Sheriff’s Office, Bryan and College Station police, Brazos County law enforcement and other agencies. Texas DPS tactical personnel were among the officers deployed at the residence.
At approximately 3 a.m. on 08/18/2021, Smith came out of the residence. Early DPS statements said officers believed he was surrendering and alleged that Smith then fired at Texas Highway Patrol Trooper Joshua Strawn, striking him in the arm. Officers returned fire and shot Smith. EMS treated Smith at the scene, but he died there.
A later Texas Department of Public Safety account supplied a substantially more detailed sequence than the initial reporting. DPS said Smith emerged from the house with a handgun and fired two rounds before falling to the ground, apparently incapacitated. Strawn and another trooper approached him. According to DPS, Smith then rolled over, produced a handgun and fired twice at Strawn. Troopers returned fire and killed Smith.
The later DPS account also revealed that Strawn sustained more injuries than initially reported. Investigators initially described him as having been shot in the arm, but DPS subsequently stated that he suffered a gunshot wound to his right arm and another gunshot wound to his upper right thigh. Other DPS personnel moved Strawn to safety and applied a tourniquet before EMS transported him to a hospital. He survived and was later released.
The Texas Rangers took responsibility for investigating the shootings. Public reporting identified Strawn as one of the troopers directly involved in the final confrontation but did not identify the other trooper or troopers who fired at Smith. The publicly indexed material located for this update does not provide a subsequent grand-jury report, prosecutor findings letter, body-camera release, civil lawsuit or detailed Texas Rangers public report identifying every officer who fired.
Chief Deputy Pollock underwent surgery for the gunshot injury to his face and was released from the hospital on 08/20/2021. He returned to work shortly afterward, although officials said his recovery would be lengthy and he could require additional surgery.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Joshua Strawn was a 16-year Texas Department of Public Safety veteran assigned to the Freeport Highway Patrol office when Smith was killed. DPS subsequently awarded Strawn its Purple Heart for injuries he sustained during the confrontation.
Strawn appears in an earlier Texas appellate case arising from an October 2013 traffic stop he conducted in Brazoria County. That case concerned a motorist convicted of providing false identifying information and does not establish misconduct by Strawn. A search of publicly indexed records did not identify another reliably documented fatal police shooting, substantiated excessive-force finding, disciplinary action or civil-rights judgment involving Strawn.
The available public record does not reliably identify the other trooper or troopers who fired at Smith. Their names therefore cannot be checked for prior shootings, complaints or disciplinary histories without risking attribution to the wrong officers.

https://www.kbtx.com/2021/08/18/burleson-county-deputy-shot-active-standoff-fm-60/
https://www.kbtx.com/2021/08/18/texas-rangers-take-lead-investigation-after-burleson-county-chief-deputy-shot-serving-warrant/
https://www.kbtx.com/2021/08/23/burleson-county-standoff-suspect-tied-somerville-armed-robbery/
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https://kwhi.com/2021/08/24/dps-suspect-in-burleson-co-standoff-was-connected-to-armed-robbery/
https://www.kxxv.com/brazos/burleson-county-law-enforcement-officer-shot-standoff-ongoing

On 08/18/2021, San Bernardino Police Department SWAT officers Ernesto Luna, Jason Stack and Christopher Shipley killed 34-year-old Ervin Dekei Olikong during an arrest operation at Rosemary Drive and Victoria Avenue in Highland. A fourth SWAT officer, Jordan Robison, was part of the apprehension team but was shot before he could fire his weapon. The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office released a 41-page review in February 2024 identifying all four officers and providing extensive video, ballistic, witness and autopsy findings that were unavailable in the initial 2021 reporting.
The operation stemmed from a shooting the previous afternoon. San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Deputy Carlos Velasco attempted to stop a white BMW for illegal window tint near Waterman Avenue and 10th Street. The BMW continued driving away while Velasco pursued. Surveillance recordings captured the BMW turning onto Bobbett Drive followed by rapid gunfire. Velasco and his patrol vehicle were struck, although Velasco escaped serious injury. Investigators recovered 36 rifle casings and later matched them to an AK-style rifle recovered during the investigation.
Police subsequently identified Olikong as the person they believed had fired at Velasco and tracked his cellphone the following day. Officers located him at his workplace in Perris and placed him under surveillance rather than immediately attempting an arrest. A sheriff’s fixed-wing aircraft followed his movements while San Bernardino police assembled a SWAT apprehension team.
During the afternoon, Olikong rode as a passenger in a gray Chevrolet sedan driven by a coworker. Police followed the vehicle through several locations in San Bernardino and Highland. SWAT officers repeatedly postponed an arrest while looking for a location where they believed they could make the apprehension with less danger to other people. When the sedan stopped along Rosemary Drive beside a large dirt lot, Sgt. Luna authorized the SWAT team to move in.
Luna, Stack, Shipley and Robison approached in an unmarked white van. Stack drove the van and activated a forward-facing emergency light and briefly sounded the siren. Police planned to use a “bump” maneuver in which Stack would use the van to block the sedan’s driver-side door while the SWAT officers exited through the van’s sliding door. Stack drove the van against the sedan and pinned the driver's door closed.
Video evidence reviewed by investigators showed Olikong retrieving a Glock 10mm semiautomatic pistol from a shoulder bag shortly before the SWAT van reached the sedan. According to the driver, Olikong recognized that police were approaching. The driver told investigators he heard Olikong prepare the handgun immediately before the confrontation.
Olikong exited through the passenger side and fired repeatedly toward the SWAT van before the officers had fully emerged. The van was struck seven times. Robison was the first officer attempting to exit and was hit by multiple rounds in his abdomen, arms, shoulder and leg. Shipley was shot in the leg. Robison attempted to return fire but his arm injuries prevented him from firing his weapon.
Shipley fired his Colt M4 rifle at Olikong. Luna then fired approximately six to eight rounds, and Stack exited the driver's side of the van and fired approximately four to six rounds. After Olikong fell backward into the adjacent dirt field while still holding the pistol, Luna fired one additional round and then approached and removed the handgun.
Olikong sustained approximately 17 gunshot wounds, which the autopsy determined were immediately fatal. Fire personnel pronounced him dead at approximately 3:57 p.m. Robison required multiple surgeries and approximately a month of hospitalization and rehabilitation. Shipley was treated for his leg wound and released from the hospital the following day.
The evidence supporting the shooting sequence was substantially broader than officers’ statements alone. Investigators reviewed aerial surveillance, civilian recordings and other video, interviewed civilian witnesses, examined the SWAT van and firearms, and conducted ballistic testing. The District Attorney reported that several civilian witnesses said police returned fire only after Olikong began shooting.
On 02/20/2024, more than two years after the killing, the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office publicly released its completed review. Prosecutors concluded that Luna, Stack and Shipley acted in lawful self-defense and defense of the other officers and would not face criminal charges. Although the memorandum also legally cleared Robison, its factual reconstruction establishes that his wounds prevented him from actually firing during the encounter.
Olikong was born on 01/08/1987 in Koror, Palau, and spent the first 15 years of his life there before moving to the United States in 2002. He was a husband and father of four children and worked as an entrepreneur.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Sergeant Ernesto Luna commanded the four-person SWAT apprehension team and authorized the officers to move in at Rosemary Drive. Luna fired approximately six to eight rounds during the initial exchange and an additional round after Olikong fell.
Detective Jason Stack drove the unmarked SWAT van and deliberately positioned it against the sedan to prevent the driver from opening his door. After gunfire began, Stack exited the driver's side and fired approximately four to six rifle rounds.
Officer Christopher Shipley was shot in the leg as he attempted to exit the van and fired his M4 rifle at Olikong. Officer Jordan Robison sustained multiple gunshot wounds and attempted to return fire but was physically unable to discharge his firearm.

https://www.sbsun.com/2021/08/19/man-killed-in-officer-involved-shooting-in-highland-identified/
https://www.vvdailypress.com/story/news/2021/08/19/highland-police-shooting-man-killed-identified/8200463002/
https://www.vvng.com/highland-man-killed-in-officer-involved-shooting-identified/
https://abc7.com/ervin-olikong-highland-san-bernardino-police-officers/10962433/
https://da.sbcounty.gov/2024/02/20/officer-involved-shooting-fatal-highland-olikong-e/
https://da.sbcounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/120/2024/02/OIS-Public-Release-Memo-Olikong.pdf
https://abc7.com/highland-san-bernardino-police-officers-deputy/10960360/
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-18/2-law-enforcement-officers-reportedly-shot-in-highland
https://www.emmersonbartlett.com/obituaries/ervin-dekei-olikong
 

On 08/18/2021, Cobb County Police Department Officer Ian McConnell killed 28-year-old Devonte Dawayne Brown following a traffic stop and police pursuit in Marietta. Police initiated the encounter at approximately 3:30 p.m. after an officer reported seeing Brown driving erratically near South Loop and Powder Springs Road. Initial reports incorrectly described Brown’s vehicle as stolen, but then-Cobb Police Chief Tim Cox subsequently clarified that the reason police attempted to stop Brown was his driving.
Brown initially stopped his vehicle, but then drove away. Cobb County police officers and Cobb County Sheriff’s Office deputies pursued him and attempted to stop him. Officers eventually used multiple police vehicles to box Brown’s car in on Powder Springs Road.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation initially reported that Brown struck several police vehicles while attempting to drive away and that one officer sustained non-life-threatening injuries. The critical final portion of the encounter became substantially clearer more than two years later, when attorneys representing Brown’s family publicly released McConnell’s body-camera recording.
The body-camera video shows Brown’s vehicle surrounded by police vehicles with its airbags deployed. McConnell stood outside Brown’s driver-side window with his handgun pointed toward him and repeatedly ordered Brown to raise his hands. Brown moved the vehicle backward and forward, striking police vehicles that were blocking him in.
McConnell then fired 12 rounds through the driver-side window at Brown. Several other officers were positioned around Brown’s vehicle but did not fire. Brown’s attorneys later emphasized that distinction, arguing that the decisions of the other officers not to shoot undermined the contention that Brown presented an immediate threat requiring deadly force.
After firing, McConnell requested emergency medical assistance and reported multiple gunshot wounds. He also stated that firefighters might be needed to extricate Brown from the vehicle. Brown was transported to a hospital, where he died.
Investigators recovered a handgun from inside Brown’s vehicle. However, the GBI did not allege that Brown fired the gun, pointed it at an officer, reached for it, or held it during the confrontation. Brown’s family's attorneys have consequently described him as unarmed during the shooting despite the presence of a firearm elsewhere inside the vehicle.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation investigated McConnell’s shooting and completed its investigation in January 2022. The case was forwarded to the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office, but the disposition remained largely outside public view for nearly two years.
A Cobb County grand jury ultimately reviewed the shooting in November 2023 and declined to recommend criminal charges against McConnell. The body-camera footage became public through Brown’s attorneys around the same time rather than through an earlier law-enforcement release.
Brown’s family and attorneys strongly disputed the conclusion that McConnell’s shooting was justified. Civil-rights attorney Harry Daniels argued that Brown had been effectively trapped by police vehicles and posed no immediate threat when McConnell opened fire. The attorneys emphasized that Brown’s airbags had deployed, his vehicle was surrounded, and multiple other officers facing the same situation did not fire.
In February 2024, Brown’s family publicly challenged the manner in which Cobb County District Attorney Flynn Broady’s office handled the grand-jury proceedings. Attorneys Bernarda Villalona, Chantel Cherry-Lassiter and Crystal Carey alleged that the DA had presented incomplete evidence and questioned the unusually rapid grand-jury presentation. The family called for Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr to appoint a special prosecutor and also sought federal intervention.
The family’s attorneys joined the Georgia NAACP in calling for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Brown’s killing as well as other fatal Cobb County police shootings. They specifically compared Brown’s case with the fatal 2020 police shooting of 17-year-old Vincent Truitt and criticized what they described as inadequate local accountability for police killings.
On 02/28/2024, Brown’s family filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against McConnell. The lawsuit alleges that McConnell violated Brown’s constitutional rights by using excessive and deadly force when Brown posed no immediate threat to officers. McConnell was the sole defendant named in the lawsuit.
The complaint argues that Brown was boxed in and that McConnell’s decision to fire 12 rounds was unnecessary. The family acknowledged that a vehicle can constitute a deadly weapon under some circumstances but contended that the circumstances visible in the body-camera recording did not establish that Brown was using his vehicle in a manner that justified killing him.
Brown was a father. Later national reporting described him as the father of four children, while attorneys and Georgia NAACP representatives subsequently described him publicly as the father of five. His biological aunt and adoptive mother, Monica Brown, questioned the necessity of killing him from the beginning and continued seeking accountability after the body-camera recording became public.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Ian Joseph McConnell joined the Cobb County Police Department in January 2016 and had been with the department for approximately five and a half years when he killed Brown. McConnell remained employed by Cobb County after the shooting and was still working for the police department when Brown’s family challenged the grand-jury outcome and filed its federal lawsuit in 2024.
McConnell fired all 12 rounds directed at Brown during the final confrontation. Although several other officers were positioned around the boxed-in vehicle, the available body-camera footage and subsequent reporting identify McConnell as the only officer who fired.
The GBI completed its investigation in January 2022. A Cobb County grand jury later declined to recommend criminal prosecution of McConnell, and he was not criminally charged.
The 2024 federal civil-rights lawsuit directly names McConnell and alleges that his shooting of Brown constituted excessive and deadly force in violation of Brown’s constitutional rights. The lawsuit therefore represents a formal unresolved challenge to McConnell’s conduct notwithstanding the earlier grand-jury decision not to pursue criminal charges.

https://gbi.georgia.gov/press-releases/2021-08-19/gbi-investigates-officer-involved-shooting-cobb-county
https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/family-attorney-releases-bodycam-footage-of-fatal-cobb-police-shooting-in-2021/VFVIFE3G4NCWXN3MWYYSMLE63M/
https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2023/11/29/bodycam-video-showing-deadly-cobb-county-police-shooting-released-by-family-attorneys/
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/cobb-county-police-faces-scrutiny-after-grand-jury-clears-officer-in-deadly-shooting
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/no-charges-cobb-county-officer-involved-2021-shooting-death-28-year-old-man/OZXERE37HRAMBNORSVZFWBJG74/
https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/02/06/family-devonte-brown-accuses-cobb-da-presenting-evidence-grand-jury-too-quickly/
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/devonte-brown-cobb-county-police-officer-death-lawsuit
https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/family-of-man-killed-by-cobb-police-officer-files-federal-lawsuit/5UYJGXCEURDBNLRZ3BZRDFSWMU/
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/devonte-brown-cobb-county-police-shooting-death-lawsuit
https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/02/28/watch-live-family-man-shot-killed-by-cobb-county-police-officer-files-lawsuit/
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia-naacp-calls-for-doj-to-intervene-in-cobb-county-police-shootings
https://www.mdjonline.com/news/cobb-police-identify-man-killed-in-officer-involved-shooting/article_2c1d0f9a-00f2-11ec-bb77-8f5c6e0a8a2a.html
https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/man-killed-by-police-after-traffic-stop-in-cobb-county/7Z6Z6E5J5ZB7JPHZ5M3H2B7WDE/
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/gbi-releases-identity-man-shot-killed-cobb-police/85-33707a35-bafd-4074-8e77-d3c36e18965e
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/attorney-2021-shooting-death-erractic-driver-cobb-police-devonte-dawayne-brown/85-6777e945-ea0f-44bf-9085-309b47621ed0

On 08/18/2021, Northglenn Police Officer Charles Festi and Thornton Police Officer Mikal Timm killed 33-year-old Lucas Antonio Salas following a Northglenn police pursuit that ended at Thorncreek Golf Course in Thornton. Northglenn Officer Joshua Moreau was directly involved throughout the pursuit and final confrontation but did not fire his gun.
The encounter began after the Colorado Bureau of Investigation asked Northglenn police to locate Salas. He had an active arrest warrant for a parole violation and was also being investigated in connection with the disappearance of 21-year-old Cheyenne Goins. Salas had not been charged with Goins's death when police encountered him. Investigators believed he might be staying at his stepmother's apartment complex at 301 E. Malley Drive and associated him with a blue 2003 Nissan Sentra.
On the morning of August 18, Northglenn Detective Paul Gesi located the Nissan at the apartment complex and watched Salas and three other people enter it. Gesi requested patrol officers to assist in making contact. Marked Northglenn police vehicles entered the parking lot with emergency lights and sirens activated and attempted to block the Nissan.
Salas drove the Nissan across landscaping and through a chain-link fence while police attempted to stop him. Officer Moreau pursued the Nissan as it traveled through Northglenn. According to Moreau and the subsequent investigation, near East 120th Avenue and Washington Street Salas leaned from the driver's window and fired toward Moreau's police vehicle. Moreau was not struck.
Police continued pursuing the Nissan north toward Thornton. The vehicle eventually went off the roadway and into a ditch near East 136th Avenue and Washington Street beside Thorncreek Golf Course. Salas got out and ran onto the golf course while the three other people remained with the vehicle.
Thornton officers joined Northglenn police at the golf course. Golfers and other civilians were still on the property. Festi, who had heard radio reports that shots had allegedly been fired toward Moreau, went to the clubhouse and asked staff to announce over the public-address system that everyone should go inside.
Moreau, Timm and Festi pursued Salas across the golf course. The later investigation included body-camera recordings from the officers and accounts from civilian witnesses. Witnesses reported seeing uniformed officers follow Salas for approximately 100 yards while repeatedly ordering him to stop and get onto the ground.
Moreau approached with a Taser while Timm initially planned to physically apprehend Salas and holstered his firearm as he closed the distance. Festi followed with his handgun drawn.
Body-camera footage documented the critical final encounter. According to the video evidence and subsequent investigation, Salas removed a handgun from his waistband when Timm was within arm's reach and fired toward Timm and Moreau. Moreau deployed his Taser and then drew his handgun but did not fire.
Timm fired three rounds. Festi fired four rounds. Salas was struck and fell to the ground. Officers immediately began providing medical aid before paramedics arrived. Salas was transported to Good Samaritan Medical Center, where he died.
Investigators recovered a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson M&P handgun and magazine near Salas. Crime-scene investigators recovered one spent .40-caliber casing on the golf course, supporting the finding that Salas fired once during the final encounter. Three additional .40-caliber cartridge cases were recovered from the Nissan. Civilian witnesses also reported hearing an initial gunshot followed by a rapid series of additional shots.
The 17th Judicial District Critical Incident Response Team conducted the investigation, led by Adams County Sheriff's Office detectives Dylan Lussier and Jamie Keefer. Investigators submitted their findings to the 17th Judicial District Attorney's Office on 12/22/2021.
On 05/09/2022, District Attorney Brian Mason issued a detailed decision letter and released body-camera evidence from the encounter. The DA concluded that Timm and Festi reasonably believed Salas presented an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury when he fired toward the officers and determined that both officers' use of deadly force was legally justified. Neither officer was criminally charged.
The later investigation also corrected the much thinner initial description that police and Salas simply "exchanged gunfire." It established specifically that Timm fired three rounds, Festi fired four, Moreau used his Taser but did not fire his handgun, and physical evidence indicated Salas fired one round during the confrontation on the golf course.
Salas's connection to the investigation involving Cheyenne Goins also became clearer after his death. Goins had been reported missing by her family on August 12. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation later said Salas was a person of interest and had been among the people who had contact with her around the time she disappeared. Her body was subsequently found in Conejos County. Salas died before any criminal case concerning her death could be brought against him.

https://adamsbroomfieldda.org/userfiles/2358/files/DecisionLetterOIS08182021%281%29.pdf
https://www.westword.com/news/lucas-salas-police-shooting-video-cheyenne-goins-murder-update-14078777/
https://www.denverpost.com/2021/08/19/northglenn-police-shooting-thornton/
https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/homicide-suspect-shot-by-police-in-thornton
https://www.denvergazette.com/2021/08/24/coroner-identifies-man-fatally-shot-by-police-at-thornton-golf-course-4fe1644a-0519-11ec-bb92-8b7e80205dde/
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/thornton-police-shooting-northglenn-officer-involved/
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/lucas-antonio-salas-thorncreek-golf-course/
https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/cbi-missing-alamosa-woman-was-in-contact-with-man-killed-in-northglenn-police-shooting-the-night-she-went-missing
https://www.westword.com/news/cheyenne-goins-murder-lucas-salas-police-shooting-death-update-12196995/

On 08/18/2021, a Raleigh County Sheriff’s Office deputy shot and killed 50-year-old Kevin Eugene Norris at an apartment complex on Rural Acres Drive in Beckley. The deputy encountered Norris while responding to a call reporting an indecent-exposure incident.
According to the Raleigh County Sheriff’s Office, the deputy encountered Norris outside the apartment complex and ordered him to show his hands. Police alleged that Norris did not comply and instead moved as though he were pulling a firearm from a holster. The sheriff’s office further alleged that Norris pointed what appeared to be a handgun toward the deputy.
The deputy fired at Norris, striking him. Norris was critically wounded and transported for emergency medical treatment. Authorities initially reported him alive and hospitalized following the shooting. Raleigh County officials announced on 08/20/2021 that Norris had died from the gunshot wounds. His death had occurred following the Wednesday-night shooting, but authorities delayed publicly confirming it until his relatives had been notified.
The object Norris allegedly drew during the encounter was subsequently identified as a pellet gun designed to resemble a semiautomatic handgun. The available reporting does not indicate that Norris fired the pellet gun at the deputy.
West Virginia State Police took responsibility for investigating the shooting rather than leaving the investigation solely with the Raleigh County Sheriff’s Office. The deputy who shot Norris was not injured.
The public record surrounding Norris’s killing remained exceptionally limited after the initial investigation. Searches for subsequent West Virginia State Police findings, a Raleigh County prosecutorial decision, grand-jury disposition, body-camera or dashboard-camera footage, ballistics or autopsy findings, civil litigation, settlement, or a later detailed reconstruction did not locate a substantive publicly released follow-up. The publicly available narrative therefore continues to rely largely on the law-enforcement account released immediately after the shooting.
No publicly available video was located documenting the confrontation. National police-shooting data compiled from the case also records the encounter as having no known body-camera footage.
The available record does not provide additional independent evidence establishing precisely how Norris handled the pellet gun, the distance between Norris and the deputy when the deputy fired, how many rounds the deputy fired, how many times Norris was struck, or whether civilian witnesses saw the critical portion of the encounter.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The Raleigh County Sheriff’s Office did not publicly identify the deputy who shot Norris in the contemporary reporting, and subsequent publicly indexed reporting located for this update does not reliably establish the shooter’s identity.

https://wchstv.com/news/local/suspect-dies-in-officer-involved-shooting-in-raleigh-county-08-20-2021
https://www.wvva.com/2021/08/18/breaking-wvsp-investigating-deputy-involved-shooting-in-raleigh-county/
https://wvmetronews.com/2021/08/20/suspect-in-officer-involved-shooting-has-died-in-beckley/

On 08/17/2021, around 4:30 p.m., the Pennsylvania State Police responded to a report of an active shooter and a man threatening to harm himself at a residence on Third Street in Port Carbon, Pennsylvania. Police attempted to have the man exit the home voluntarily, but a gunshot was heard from inside. Officers later found the man deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The incident remains under investigation.

https://www.skooknews.com/2021/08/coroner-called-to-standoff-late-tuesday.html

On 08/17/2021, officers responded to a domestic disturbance report in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood after a woman was shot inside a residence. Police surrounded the home where a man barricaded himself. Officers conducted negotiations during the containment response. The man was later found deceased inside from a self inflicted gunshot wound as police maintained the operation. The incident followed the shooting of his mother earlier in the same location and unfolded entirely under active police presence and tactical escalation.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/1-shot-seattles-magnolia-neighborhood/ZARXNFVE2FGSFC4YG5ZHOME64M/
https://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-police-investigating-shooting-in-magnolia-neighborhood

On 08/17/2021, 35-year-old Kyle Wade Plunkett died after a Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Office deputy pursued his motorcycle on rural roads southeast of Lafayette. Plunkett is the correct identity of the motorcyclist killed in this pursuit.
A Tippecanoe County sheriff’s deputy attempted to stop Plunkett while he was riding his motorcycle. Police described the initiating reason as a traffic violation. Plunkett continued driving away, and the deputy began pursuing him.
The pursuit continued at high speed through rural Tippecanoe County. Plunkett traveled along County Road 800 East as the sheriff’s deputy pursued him. Near County Road 500 South, Plunkett lost control of the motorcycle, left the roadway and crashed.
Emergency personnel responded to the crash, but Plunkett sustained fatal injuries and died at the scene. There was no reported collision between the pursuing sheriff’s vehicle and Plunkett’s motorcycle, and the available reporting does not indicate that police used a PIT maneuver, stop sticks or another physical intervention against the motorcycle before the crash.
The death occurred during an active police pursuit initiated over a traffic violation. The available contemporary reports do not provide the specific alleged traffic violation that prompted the deputy to attempt the stop, the pursuit speed, its exact duration or distance, or whether a supervisor authorized or monitored the continuation of the pursuit.
The Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Office investigated the crash, with the Tippecanoe County Coroner’s Office handling the death investigation. Searches for subsequent crash-reconstruction findings, dash-camera or body-camera footage, an internal pursuit review, litigation, settlement or disciplinary proceeding did not locate substantial later public documentation expanding upon the original account.
Plunkett was born on 09/13/1985 in Lafayette. He graduated from Mt. Vernon High School in Mt. Vernon, Indiana, and worked as a welder and fabricator. He had previously worked for TMI in Mt. Vernon and was working in Lafayette for Cornego Custom Welding when he died. Plunkett was the father of a son, Dalton. He was an avid motorcyclist and also enjoyed video games. His family described him as quiet and reserved but someone who readily helped others.
OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Office deputy who initiated and continued the pursuit has not been reliably identified in the publicly available reporting located for this update.

https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2021/08/18/tippecanoe-county-man-dies-motorcycle-crash-during-police-pursuit/8174974002/
https://www.wlfi.com/news/local-news/deputy-pursues-motorcyclist-in-tippecanoe-county-crash-fatality/
https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/man-killed-in-police-chase-crash-tippecanoe-county/531-c3b6eb98-54e2-4956-8f21-81645073c615
https://www.sandersfuneralcare.com/obituaries/kyle-plunkett

Destinee Thompson, a 27-year-old pregnant mother of three who was seven months pregnant, was on her way to lunch with her stepmother on August 17, 2021. Officers from the Arvada Police Department, including Officer Anthony Benallo, responded to a report of a woman who had stolen from a Target store and held a knife at an employee. A witness followed the individual to the American Motel at 10101 W. I-70 Frontage Rd. N., where officers were searching for a woman in a white tank top with a chest tattoo. Thompson was wearing a white tank top but did not have the specified chest tattoo. She repeatedly told officers she was not the person they were looking for and that she had no identification. Unable to convince the officers of her innocence, she locked herself in her minivan, locked the doors, and refused to exit, repeatedly stating, "It wasn't me."
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An officer smashed the passenger window with a baton. Thompson panicked, reversed the vehicle, hitting a police car, and then drove forward over a curb onto the road. Officer Benallo opened fire, discharging eight shots and striking Thompson. She was pronounced deceased at the scene. Both Thompson and her seven-month-old unborn child died as a result of the shooting. The shooting was handled in an internal investigation by the Arvada Police Department and the First Judicial District Attorney's Office.
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In August 2023, Thompson's family filed a wrongful death and excessive force lawsuit against five officers from the Arvada Police Department, alleging that her race—being part Latina and part Native American—played a role in her being targeted. The Arvada Police Department stated that the family's lawyer has mischaracterized the events surrounding Thompson's death and plans to mount a vigorous legal defense. Reports suggest that Thompson may have been mistakenly identified as the shoplifter.
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TOTAL FATALITIES/INJURIES: 1 fatality (Destinee Thompson) and her unborn child
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Last Update: 01/15/2025

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/destinee-thompson-family-lawsuit-pregnant-mother-3-fatally-shot-by-police-denver-suburb-arvada/
• https://www.denver7.com/news/crime/police-who-fatally-shot-a-pregnant-woman-are-sued-by-her-family-in-colorado
• https://www.9news.com/article/news/investigations/arvada-police-lawsuit-pregnant-woman-killed/73-641d06bc-ff51-4d66-bfd7-813c43525513
• https://rmlawyers.com/in-the-news/family-of-pregnant-woman-killed-by-arvada-officer-files-lawsuit/

On 08/16/2021, a Shelby County Sheriff’s Office lieutenant shot and killed 26-year-old Antonio Jackson during a narcotics operation at the Robinhood Park Apartments in the 3700 block of Robin Park Circle in Memphis. Deputies assigned to the Multi-Agency Gang Unit were conducting the operation and approached Jackson while he was sitting in the driver's seat of a parked vehicle.
The initial Tennessee Bureau of Investigation account said deputies were conducting an investigation and attempted to make contact with Jackson at approximately noon. The later Shelby County District Attorney review established that deputies intended to arrest Jackson as part of a narcotics investigation.
According to the TBI investigation, Jackson drove forward as deputies approached. Police alleged that his vehicle struck the lieutenant. The lieutenant fired two rounds into Jackson's vehicle before being knocked to the ground. One bullet struck Jackson in the chest.
Both Jackson and the lieutenant were transported to hospitals. Jackson was taken to Regional One Health, where he died from the gunshot wound. The lieutenant sustained injuries that authorities described as non-life-threatening.
Jackson's family quickly challenged the law-enforcement narrative and demanded evidence explaining why he had been killed. His mother, Sheri Owens, and community activists said the family had received little information about the circumstances surrounding the shooting. They demanded the deputy's identity, body-camera footage and greater transparency about the operation.
The dispute continued for months. In November 2021, Owens and community members delivered a petition signed by hundreds of people seeking accountability and transparency in Jackson's death. Organizers also called for dissolution of the Multi-Agency Gang Unit and demanded that authorities release the name of the lieutenant who fired the fatal shots and any available body-camera footage.
At a February 2022 Shelby County Commission meeting, an advocate speaking on Jackson's behalf told commissioners that eyewitness accounts disputed the official version of the encounter. He said witnesses maintained that the deputy already had his firearm drawn and characterized Jackson's actions differently from the sheriff's account. The statement demonstrates that the police narrative was publicly contested, although the available record does not establish those witness claims as independently verified findings.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's Violent Crime Response Team conducted the independent law-enforcement investigation. The TBI compiled a comprehensive investigative file that was subsequently reviewed by Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich and five senior prosecutors serving on the DA's Officer Involved Death Review Team.
On 08/26/2022, more than a year after Jackson's death, Weirich announced that the lieutenant would not face criminal charges. The DA concluded that the officer was legally justified in firing after Jackson drove forward and struck him. The prosecutor's reconstruction specified that the lieutenant fired twice and that one of those rounds struck Jackson in the chest and killed him.
The DA's announcement stated that the TBI investigative reports underlying the decision were available through the Shelby County District Attorney's Office. Tennessee law permits TBI investigative records concerning deaths involving law enforcement to become public after the investigation and prosecution decision are complete.
Despite the family's sustained demands for the shooter's identity, publicly indexed reporting and the District Attorney's eventual justification announcement continued to identify him only as a Shelby County Sheriff’s Office lieutenant. The available public sources located for this update do not reliably establish his name.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The officer who killed Antonio Jackson was a lieutenant with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office assigned to or participating with the Multi-Agency Gang Unit. He fired two rounds into Jackson's vehicle, one of which struck Jackson in the chest and caused his death.
Jackson's family and community organizations repeatedly demanded that authorities identify the lieutenant publicly. The officer nevertheless remained unnamed in the TBI's initial public statement, subsequent news coverage, the family's November 2021 campaign for transparency, and the Shelby County District Attorney's August 2022 announcement clearing him of criminal liability.
Because the lieutenant's identity cannot be reliably established from the public material located for this update, prior or subsequent shootings, complaints, excessive-force litigation, discipline or other misconduct cannot reliably be attributed to him.

https://wreg.com/news/family-of-man-fatally-shot-by-shelby-county-deputy-demands-answers/
https://tbinewsroom.com/2021/08/16/tbi-agents-investigating-officer-involved-shooting-in-shelby-county/
https://www.scdag.com/news-releases/officers-justified-in-3-fatal-shooting-incidents-in-2021-da-announces
https://www.actionnews5.com/2021/08/16/man-shot-during-interaction-with-shelby-county-deputies-dies/
https://www.actionnews5.com/2022/08/26/officers-deemed-justified-3-fatal-2021-shootings/
https://dailymemphian.com/section/metro/article/23545/tbi-investigating-shooting
https://dailymemphian.com/section/metropublic-safety/article/25170/antonio-jackson-petition-shooting-death
https://tri-statedefender.com/fatal-shooting-moves-protesters-to-seek-sit-down-with-county-mayor-harris/11/06/
https://shelby.granicus.com/MinutesViewer.php?clip_id=2085&view_id=4 

On 08/16/2021, 33-year-old Jeffrey Duane Smith died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound during an approximately five-hour police and SWAT standoff at 1823 2nd Avenue, Apartment B, in Kearney. The confrontation involved Kearney police, Buffalo County sheriff’s deputies, the Nebraska State Patrol SWAT team and the Kearney/Buffalo County Emergency Services Unit.
Earlier that morning, the Buffalo County Sheriff’s Office began searching for Smith after two women were shot at a residence west of Elm Creek. Police alleged that Smith forced his way into the residence at approximately 2:40 a.m. and shot a 35-year-old woman and her 63-year-old mother. Several children were inside the residence but were not physically injured. Both women survived and were transferred to an Omaha hospital for treatment.
At approximately 11 a.m., the sheriff’s office received information that Smith was inside the apartment on 2nd Avenue in Kearney. Kearney police officers, Buffalo County sheriff’s deputies and Nebraska State Patrol troopers surrounded the residence. An adult woman confirmed to police that Smith was inside alone.
Police deployed the Kearney/Buffalo County Emergency Services Unit and Nebraska State Patrol SWAT. Authorities closed 2nd Avenue between 17th and 21st streets, closed several surrounding streets and directed nearby residents to shelter in place. Kearney Public Schools placed its buildings into secure status because of the police operation.
Negotiators established cellphone communication with Smith and spoke with him for several hours. Police also brought two armored vehicles and a tactical robot to the scene and requested additional equipment and assistance from the Grand Island and Hastings police departments.
After hours of negotiations, police escalated the tactical operation by using less-lethal chemical munitions inside the apartment. During the continuing standoff, an officer heard what police believed was a single gunshot from inside the residence.
Rather than immediately sending officers inside, police used a tactical robot to enter and search the apartment. The robot located Smith dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. No police officer fired a service weapon during the standoff.
Kearney police classified Smith’s death as an in-custody death and requested that investigators from the Grand Island Police Department and South-Central Area Law Enforcement Services lead the investigation rather than having the agencies directly involved in the standoff investigate the death themselves.
Later reporting did not identify police gunfire, physical contact with officers or another person inside the apartment as causing Smith’s fatal injury. The available evidence continued to describe his death as suicide during the active SWAT operation.
Smith's full identity was Jeffrey Duane Smith, and contemporary reporting gave his date of birth as 02/29/1988. The later publicly indexed record does not appear to contain a substantial civil lawsuit, settlement or subsequent finding contradicting the determination that Smith died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

https://www.cityofkearney.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/8353
https://kgfw.com/2021/08/16/police-standoff-with-shooting-suspect-in-kearney/
https://www.wowt.com/2021/08/16/update-standoff-kearney-comes-an-end/
https://www.ksnblocal4.com/2021/08/17/update-police-standoff-kearney-ends-death-suspect/
https://www.ksnblocal4.com/2021/08/16/buffalo-county-sheriffs-office-investigating-possible-shooting-elm-creek/
https://northplattepost.com/posts/a6c5fa02-d3fa-491e-87e2-271ab0c7b348
https://www.klkntv.com/buffalo-county-searching-for-shooting-suspect/
https://nebraska.tv/news/local/buffalo-county-sheriffs-office-looking-for-suspect-involved-in-shooting-and-home-invasion-jeffrey-duane-smith

On 08/16/2021, Loveland Police Department Officer Eddie Luzon shot 19-year-old Alexander “Alex” Domina during a mental health crisis at the home where Domina lived with his grandmother and legal guardian, Judy Domina, in the 1600 block of Tennessee Street. Alex remained hospitalized for three weeks and died from the gunshot wounds on 09/07/2021.
Judy Domina called 911 asking for help because Alex was having what she described as a mental breakdown and was damaging property inside the home. She explained that her grandson had significant intellectual and developmental disabilities and had previously been institutionalized. She repeatedly emphasized that the situation involved mental health and asked responders to handle him carefully. She initially told dispatch that Alex had not hurt anyone and did not have a weapon, but later reported that he had picked up a kitchen knife.
Judy also told the dispatcher that Alex could be talked down. Her attorney, Mari Newman, later emphasized that point in questioning why the encounter was handled by an armed police officer rather than through a behavioral-health response. Loveland had contracted with SummitStone Health Partners since 2016 to embed mental-health professionals with the police department, but a mental-health co-responder was not sent into the backyard with Luzon.
Luzon arrived shortly before 7 p.m. Judy met him and told him that Alex had a knife. Luzon then entered the backyard alone. His body-worn camera recorded the entire critical encounter. Alex was visible farther into the yard holding a kitchen knife and damaging objects around the property.
The body-camera recording shows Luzon initially speaking calmly to Alex and repeatedly asking him to put down the knife and talk. Alex repeatedly said that he was not “going back,” an apparent reference to his previous institutionalization. Luzon remained inside the yard rather than withdrawing behind a barrier or waiting for additional officers or behavioral-health personnel.
Approximately one minute after Luzon entered the backyard, Alex began moving toward him while still holding the knife. Luzon backed away and repeatedly ordered him to stop. The subsequent prosecutor's review calculated that only about one minute and 13 seconds elapsed between Luzon's arrival and the shooting.
Luzon fired four rounds when Alex was approximately 15 to 23 feet away. Three bullets struck Alex in the abdomen. No other officer fired. The shooting was captured on Luzon's body camera.
Alex was transported to Medical Center of the Rockies in critical condition. He underwent five surgeries and remained on life support while doctors attempted to treat the extensive injuries and subsequent infections. After three weeks in the hospital, Alex died during the afternoon of 09/07/2021.
Alex's family and attorney challenged not simply the instant when Luzon fired, but the police decisions that created the confrontation. Newman argued that Judy had specifically summoned emergency help for an intellectually disabled young man in crisis, had explained that he could be talked down, and had warned responders about his mental condition. The family questioned why police did not slow the encounter down, create distance, use a trained mental-health responder or employ another strategy before placing an armed officer within close range of Alex.
Community members held demonstrations outside the Loveland Municipal Building following the shooting and demanded changes in how the department responds to people experiencing behavioral-health emergencies. The killing occurred while Loveland police were already under intense scrutiny for their treatment of vulnerable and disabled people, particularly the violent 2020 arrest of 73-year-old Karen Garner, who had dementia.
The 8th Judicial District Critical Incident Response Team investigated the shooting, with Fort Collins Police Services serving as the lead investigative agency. The investigation included Luzon's body-camera recording, the 911 call and interviews and was submitted to 8th Judicial District Attorney Gordon McLaughlin.
On 09/10/2021, three days after Alex died, McLaughlin announced that Luzon would not face criminal charges. The DA concluded that when Alex continued approaching with the knife despite Luzon's commands to stop, Luzon reasonably believed he faced an imminent threat of serious injury or death and was legally justified in firing.
McLaughlin nevertheless made an unusual distinction between criminal justification and the broader circumstances that produced Alex's death. He stressed that finding the shooting legally justified did not absolve the city and police department from examining how the encounter was handled and urged Loveland officials to reconsider their response to people experiencing mental and behavioral-health crises.
Alex had significant cognitive and developmental disabilities and had spent years in institutional settings before moving into his grandmother's home. His repeated statements during the body-camera recording that he was not going back took place against that history. His family said after his death that their principal hope was that his killing would lead to better mental-health training for Colorado police so another family would not experience the same outcome.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Eddie Luzon joined the Loveland Police Department in 2019 and had approximately two years with the department when he shot Alex. Luzon was a patrol officer and was placed on paid administrative leave after the shooting.
Significantly, later reporting indicates Luzon was not an officer with no specialized preparation for behavioral-health encounters. He held Crisis Intervention Training certification and was also a defensive-tactics instructor. The shooting therefore occurred despite Luzon's crisis-intervention training and after dispatch had been explicitly informed that Alex was experiencing a mental-health crisis.
The 8th Judicial District Attorney concluded on 09/10/2021 that Luzon's four shots were legally justified and declined to prosecute him. The DA nevertheless used his decision to call for broader examination of Loveland's handling of vulnerable people and behavioral-health emergencies.

https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2021/08/17/loveland-police-shooting-teen-identified-alex-domina/8162512002/
https://www.denverpost.com/2021/08/18/loveland-police-shooting-alex-domina/
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/eddie-luzon-alex-domina-loveland-police-shooting/
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/alex-domina-loveland-police-shooting-body-camera-video-911-call/
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/alex-domina-death-loveland-police-shooting-knife/
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/alex-domina-death-loveland-police-shooting/
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/loveland-police-training-mental-crisis/
https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/loveland-police-release-body-cam-video-in-shooting-that-injured-intellectually-disabled-man
https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/man-19-shot-by-loveland-police-in-august-dies-of-his-injuries
https://www.cpr.org/2021/09/08/man-dies-after-being-shot-by-loveland-police-while-in-mental-health-crisis/
https://www.cpr.org/2021/09/10/no-charges-for-loveland-officer-who-shot-and-killed-19-year-old-while-in-mental-health-crisis/
https://coloradosun.com/2021/08/26/alex-domina-shooting-investigation/
https://www.westword.com/news/alex-domina-obituary-loveland-police-shooting-update-12304291/
 

On 08/16/2021, 18-year-old Brianna Lynn Foster was killed when a stolen Hummer traveling the wrong direction on Interstate 26 crashed head-on into the Kia she was driving near mile marker 14.5 in Spartanburg County. Foster was traveling from Fishers, Indiana, to the South Carolina coast with 17-year-old twins Elleana and Isabella Gaddis and their 17-year-old friend Maci Watts.
The later criminal prosecution substantially clarified the events preceding the crash. Shortly before 2 a.m., Melissa Ann Parker arrived at a Circle K on Asheville Highway in her own vehicle, parked it and climbed into another customer's Hummer SUV. Parker stole the Hummer and drove it repeatedly around the Circle K while law enforcement arrived.
An Inman Police Department officer attempted to stop Parker at the gas station. According to prosecutors, Parker nearly struck the officer and then drove away in the Hummer. She entered Interstate 26 near Exit 15 traveling west in the eastbound lanes.
At approximately 2:06 a.m., the wrong-way Hummer collided head-on with Foster's eastbound Kia near mile marker 14.5. Foster and passengers Elleana and Isabella Gaddis were killed. Watts survived with minor injuries.
Parker escaped from the wrecked Hummer through its rear window and left the crash scene without contacting emergency services. South Carolina Highway Patrol personnel, Spartanburg County sheriff's deputies and K-9 teams searched the surrounding area and found her in a residential neighborhood adjacent to I-26. Investigators determined that she had consumed THC gummies and Adderall before driving.
The later prosecutorial account is important in assessing the law-enforcement role in the incident. It establishes that an Inman officer attempted to stop Parker at the Circle K immediately before she drove onto the interstate, but it does not describe officers pursuing the Hummer onto I-26 behind her. The available evidence therefore does not establish this as a continuing high-speed police pursuit at the moment Parker crashed into Foster's vehicle.
Foster was a recent Hamilton Southeastern High School graduate. The Gaddis twins were still students at Hamilton Southeastern. The four friends were traveling together from Fishers to the beach when the crash occurred.
The criminal case remained pending for more than three years. On 09/23/2024, Parker pleaded guilty to three counts of felony DUI resulting in death, first-degree assault and battery, grand larceny and hit-and-run with minor personal injury.
Circuit Court Judge R. Keith Kelly sentenced Parker to 25 years in prison and a $25,100 fine on each of the three felony-DUI-death convictions. He also imposed 10 years for first-degree assault and battery, 10 years for grand larceny and one year for hit-and-run. The sentences run concurrently, leaving Parker with an effective 25-year prison sentence.
Foster's mother, Jodi Foster, spoke publicly after sentencing and said the punishment did not provide sufficient justice for the three young women. She described the deaths as permanent sentences for their families and believed Parker should have received a sentence reflecting that loss.

https://www.spartanburgcounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/103955/092324--Spartanburg-Woman-Sentenced-for-The-Deaths-of-Three-Young-Women
https://www.foxcarolina.com/2024/09/23/plea-hearing-take-place-woman-accused-killing-3-upstate-teens-wrong-way-crash/
https://www.wyff4.com/article/woman-sentenced-wrong-south-carolina-crash-teens/62337150
https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/woman-sentenced-to-prison-in-wrong-way-crash-that-killed-3-fishers-teens-melissa-ann-parker/531-93f658ab-92fc-496a-b860-e974d7b993f6
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/hamilton-county/2021/08/17/3-fishers-teens-killed-car-crash-south-carolina/8155533002/
https://www.goupstate.com/story/news/2021/08/30/spartanburg-teens-killed-dui-crash-suspect-pleads-guilty/5637680001/
https://www.wyff4.com/article/three-teens-from-indiana-die-in-south-carolina-wrong-way-crash-with-hummer/37319748

On 08/16/2021, 17-year-old Elleana Lee Gaddis was killed when a stolen Hummer traveling the wrong direction on Interstate 26 crashed head-on into the Kia in which she was riding near mile marker 14.5 in Spartanburg County. Her identical twin sister, Isabella Lee Gaddis, and their friend Brianna Lynn Foster were also killed. Their friend Maci Watts survived.
The four teenagers were traveling from their home community of Fishers, Indiana, to the South Carolina coast. Foster, 18, was driving the Kia, with the Gaddis twins and Watts, both 17, riding as passengers.
The later criminal prosecution established that Melissa Ann Parker had arrived at a Circle K on Asheville Highway in her own vehicle shortly before the crash. She parked her vehicle, climbed into another customer's Hummer SUV and stole it. Parker drove the Hummer around the gas station several times as law enforcement arrived.
An Inman Police Department officer attempted to stop Parker. Prosecutors said Parker nearly struck the responding officer before driving away and entering Interstate 26 near Exit 15 traveling west in the eastbound lanes.
At approximately 2:06 a.m., Parker drove the Hummer head-on into the eastbound Kia carrying the four friends. Elleana, Isabella and Foster died from the collision. Watts survived with minor injuries.
Parker climbed through the Hummer's rear window after the collision and left the scene. South Carolina Highway Patrol personnel, Spartanburg County sheriff's deputies and K-9 teams searched for her and found her in a nearby residential area. Investigators subsequently determined that Parker had consumed THC gummies and Adderall before driving.
Although an Inman officer attempted to stop Parker immediately before she entered I-26, the later detailed prosecutorial account does not state that police pursued her onto the interstate. The available evidence therefore does not establish that a continuing police pursuit was underway when the fatal head-on collision occurred.
Elleana and Isabella were identical twins and students at Hamilton Southeastern High School in Fishers. Their deaths, along with Foster's, prompted the school district to provide counseling and other support to students and staff.
On 09/23/2024, Parker pleaded guilty to three counts of felony DUI resulting in death, first-degree assault and battery, grand larceny and hit-and-run with minor personal injury.
Circuit Court Judge R. Keith Kelly imposed the statutory maximum 25-year prison sentence and a $25,100 fine for each felony-DUI-death conviction, together with additional prison sentences for the other offenses. All sentences run concurrently, resulting in an effective 25-year term.
Maci Watts, the only survivor from the Kia, later said she wished Parker's sentence had been longer but found some comfort in knowing Parker would remain incarcerated for years.

https://www.spartanburgcounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/103955/092324--Spartanburg-Woman-Sentenced-for-The-Deaths-of-Three-Young-Women
https://www.foxcarolina.com/2024/09/23/plea-hearing-take-place-woman-accused-killing-3-upstate-teens-wrong-way-crash/
https://www.wyff4.com/article/woman-sentenced-wrong-south-carolina-crash-teens/62337150
https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/woman-sentenced-to-prison-in-wrong-way-crash-that-killed-3-fishers-teens-melissa-ann-parker/531-93f658ab-92fc-496a-b860-e974d7b993f6
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/hamilton-county/2021/08/17/3-fishers-teens-killed-car-crash-south-carolina/8155533002/
https://www.goupstate.com/story/news/2021/08/30/spartanburg-teens-killed-dui-crash-suspect-pleads-guilty/5637680001/
https://www.wyff4.com/article/three-teens-from-indiana-die-in-south-carolina-wrong-way-crash-with-hummer/37319748

On 08/16/2021, 17-year-old Isabella Lee Gaddis was killed when a stolen Hummer traveling the wrong direction on Interstate 26 crashed head-on into the Kia in which she was riding near mile marker 14.5 in Spartanburg County. Her identical twin sister, Elleana Lee Gaddis, and their friend Brianna Lynn Foster were also killed. Their friend Maci Watts survived.
The four teenagers were traveling from Fishers, Indiana, to the South Carolina coast. Foster, 18, was driving the Kia when the crash occurred.
The later criminal prosecution established that Melissa Ann Parker had arrived at a Circle K on Asheville Highway, parked her own vehicle and climbed into another customer's Hummer SUV. Parker stole the Hummer and drove it around the gas station several times while law enforcement was arriving.
An Inman Police Department officer attempted to stop Parker. Prosecutors said Parker nearly struck the officer and then drove the Hummer away. She entered Interstate 26 near Exit 15 and began traveling west in the interstate's eastbound lanes.
At approximately 2:06 a.m., the Hummer collided head-on with the Kia carrying Isabella, Elleana, Foster and Watts. Isabella, Elleana and Foster were killed. Watts sustained minor injuries.
Parker escaped from the damaged Hummer through its rear window and left the scene without contacting police or emergency medical personnel. South Carolina Highway Patrol personnel, Spartanburg County sheriff's deputies and K-9 teams searched the surrounding area and found Parker in a residential neighborhood near the interstate. Investigators determined that she had consumed THC gummies and Adderall before driving.
The later prosecutorial reconstruction confirms that police attempted to stop Parker at the Circle K but does not describe an active police pursuit continuing behind her on Interstate 26. The available evidence therefore does not establish that police were pursuing the Hummer when Parker struck the teenagers' Kia.
Isabella and Elleana were identical twins and students at Hamilton Southeastern High School in Fishers. Foster had recently graduated from the same school. The school district made counselors available following the deaths.
More than three years after the crash, Parker pleaded guilty on 09/23/2024 to three counts of felony DUI resulting in death, first-degree assault and battery, grand larceny and hit-and-run with minor personal injury.
Circuit Court Judge R. Keith Kelly sentenced Parker to 25 years in prison and a $25,100 fine for each felony-DUI-death count, as well as additional prison terms on the remaining convictions. Because all of the sentences run concurrently, Parker received an effective 25-year prison sentence.
The families and surviving passenger continued to speak publicly at sentencing about the permanent consequences of the crash. They expressed dissatisfaction that Parker could eventually leave prison when the three young women had lost their lives.

https://www.spartanburgcounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/103955/092324--Spartanburg-Woman-Sentenced-for-The-Deaths-of-Three-Young-Women
https://www.foxcarolina.com/2024/09/23/plea-hearing-take-place-woman-accused-killing-3-upstate-teens-wrong-way-crash/
https://www.wyff4.com/article/woman-sentenced-wrong-south-carolina-crash-teens/62337150
https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/woman-sentenced-to-prison-in-wrong-way-crash-that-killed-3-fishers-teens-melissa-ann-parker/531-93f658ab-92fc-496a-b860-e974d7b993f6
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/hamilton-county/2021/08/17/3-fishers-teens-killed-car-crash-south-carolina/8155533002/
https://www.goupstate.com/story/news/2021/08/30/spartanburg-teens-killed-dui-crash-suspect-pleads-guilty/5637680001/
https://www.wyff4.com/article/three-teens-from-indiana-die-in-south-carolina-wrong-way-crash-with-hummer/37319748

On 08/16/2021, 33-year-old Kyle Alan Wagner died after a Newton Police Department officer pursued his car from Newton through Maiden and into Lincolnton, where Wagner crashed into a concrete bridge guardrail and his vehicle caught fire.
At approximately 1:07 a.m., a Newton police officer attempted to stop the blue 2014 Kia Forte Wagner was driving in the 1900 block of U.S. Highway 321 Business South. Police reported that Wagner initially pulled onto the right side of the road and stopped. As the officer prepared to get out of the patrol vehicle, Wagner drove away southbound on Highway 321 Business.
The Newton officer initiated a high-speed pursuit. Police continued pursuing Wagner south from Newton, through the town of Maiden and across the county line into Lincoln County. Other agencies became involved as the pursuit progressed, including Maiden police, Lincolnton police, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol and the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.
The available public accounts do not identify the specific traffic violation or other conduct that caused the Newton officer to initiate the attempted stop. They also do not provide the pursuit's maximum speed, exact distance or duration, whether supervisors monitored or authorized its continuation, or whether officers considered terminating the pursuit as it passed through multiple jurisdictions.
After police pursued Wagner into Lincolnton, he continued south on North Aspen Street. Near Deaton Avenue, Wagner lost control of the Kia, left the right side of the roadway and struck a concrete bridge guardrail. The impact caused the vehicle to catch fire.
Officers reached the wreck and pulled Wagner from the burning vehicle. They provided emergency medical assistance until Lincolnton firefighters and Lincoln County EMS arrived. Paramedics transported Wagner toward Atrium Health Lincoln, but he died from his injuries before reaching the hospital.
No available reporting indicates that a police vehicle struck Wagner's Kia, that officers used a PIT maneuver or stop sticks, or that another vehicle was involved in the fatal crash. The fatal sequence resulted from Wagner losing control while police were actively pursuing him at high speed.
Newton Police Chief Vidal Sipe publicly described the death as a tragic incident. Newton and Lincolnton police jointly investigated the fatal crash. The Lincoln County Medical Examiner’s Office was also involved.
The public record concerning the pursuit remained unusually thin after the initial reporting. Searches for later crash-reconstruction reports, dash-camera or body-camera recordings, internal pursuit reviews, investigative findings, litigation, settlements or disciplinary proceedings did not locate substantial later public documentation explaining the decision to begin and continue the high-speed pursuit.
The pursuing Newton police officer was not identified in the publicly available reporting located for this update. As a result, the officer's pursuit history, prior crashes, uses of force, complaints, disciplinary record and civil litigation cannot reliably be reviewed without risking attribution to the wrong officer.
Wagner was a Charlotte resident. Available obituary information identifies him as Kyle Alan Wagner. The later public record does not appear to contain substantial family statements or litigation challenging the police account of the pursuit or crash.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The Newton Police Department officer who initiated the traffic stop and subsequent high-speed pursuit has not been reliably identified in publicly available records located for this update.
The pursuit continued through Newton, Maiden and into Lincolnton and involved assistance from multiple law-enforcement agencies before Wagner's fatal crash. The available reporting does not identify which additional officers actively joined the pursuit as opposed to assisting at the crash scene.

https://www.wbtv.com/2021/08/16/man-dies-following-high-speed-chase-that-ended-crash/
https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/man-dies-after-fiery-crash-during-police-chase-lincoln-county/6WD7RDGOD5BSZGA4FMDGJJ4CTM/
https://860wacb.com/man-dead-after-chase-from-catawba-to-lincoln-county/
https://www.roseborosmortuary.com/obituary/Kyle-Wagner

On 08/16/2021, Milwaukee Police Department Officers Joshua Heder, Ryan Miller and David Bui shot and killed 42-year-old Brodrick Emanuel Shelton Jr., known to family and people in the neighborhood as “Baldie,” outside the Clark gas station at 2514 N. 27th Street near W. Wright Street. The officers were bicycle officers working together when police dispatched them shortly before 4 p.m. to a report involving a man with a gun.
The later Milwaukee Area Investigative Team file substantially expanded upon the initial police account. The 911 caller told dispatch that Shelton had taken his firearm and was pointing it at people at the gas station. Police sent Heder, Miller and Bui to the location. All three officers were wearing body cameras, and surveillance cameras at the gas station also recorded the encounter.
When the officers arrived, Shelton was near the entrance of the gas station holding a semiautomatic handgun. The officers drew their guns and repeatedly ordered Shelton to drop the weapon. Video subsequently released by Milwaukee police shows Shelton moving near the entrance while officers confronted him from outside.
According to the subsequent investigation, Shelton pointed the handgun in the direction of officers and a civilian near a gas pump and then fired. Heder, Miller and Bui returned fire. The later police community briefing reported that Shelton fired 16 rounds. Gunfire struck a nearby residence and a civilian vehicle, although no other person was physically injured.
All three officers fired their weapons at Shelton. Shelton was struck multiple times and collapsed outside the gas station entrance. Officers approached after the gunfire stopped, secured the handgun and attempted lifesaving measures, but Shelton died at the scene.
The shooting was independently investigated under Wisconsin's officer-involved-death law by the Milwaukee Area Investigative Team, with the Wauwatosa Police Department serving as the lead agency. The investigative file is unusually extensive and includes officer interviews, civilian witness interviews, body-camera recordings, gas-station surveillance video, physical evidence, firearm and ballistic evidence, dispatch records and other investigative material.
The officer interviews provide additional information not available in the original news coverage. Heder voluntarily gave investigators an interview the following day with his attorney present. He declined investigators' request to record the interview but told them that he had not reviewed his body-camera footage or other evidence before giving his account.
Milwaukee police publicly released an edited community briefing on 10/01/2021 containing portions of the 911 call, surveillance video and officer body-camera recordings. The release provided independent visual evidence of much of the confrontation rather than leaving the account dependent solely upon the statements of the three officers.
The video also complicated the family's initial understanding of what had happened. Immediately after the shooting, Shelton's sister Ella Jones strongly disputed the police account, saying she did not believe her brother had a gun or would shoot at police. His cousin Jennifer Davis similarly described him as nonviolent and said he had mental-health problems but treated people well.
People who regularly encountered Shelton around the gas station also described him in markedly different terms from the threatening-person description that prompted the police response. A gas-station worker said Shelton frequently asked customers for money but had not caused problems there. Neighborhood resident Charles Reed described Shelton as someone people knew and helped with small amounts of money and said he did not regard Shelton as dangerous.
Shelton had significant documented mental-health problems. His last reported address was Bell Therapy-Thurston, a group-home facility on Milwaukee's north side. A worker there told reporters that Shelton had been gone for approximately a month and had stopped taking his medication. The later investigative file also documented previous occasions on which Shelton had sought or received psychiatric treatment, including a 2020 incident in which he contacted police himself and asked to be taken to Milwaukee County Mental Health.
The Wauwatosa-led investigation was submitted to Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm for review. On 12/10/2021, Chisholm issued a formal decision identifying Heder, Miller and Bui and declining to prosecute any of them. Chisholm concluded that the officers' gunfire was legally justified because Shelton had pointed the handgun toward officers and a civilian and fired at police.
The DA's decision established that the shooting officers were Heder, Miller and Bui, information that was not included in the initial public reports, which identified them only by age and years of service.

https://www.cbs58.com/news/large-police-presence-at-fatal-shooting-near-27th-and-wright-in-milwaukee
https://www.cbs58.com/news/man-fatally-shot-by-3-milwaukee-police-officers-identified
https://www.cbs58.com/news/milwaukee-police-release-video-series-regarding-fatal-officer-involved-shootings
https://www.fox6now.com/news/27th-and-wright-police-shooting-mpd-releases-community-briefing
https://www.fox6now.com/news/milwaukee-man-fatally-shot-by-police-identified-neighbors-react
https://www.fox6now.com/news/1-fatally-shot-by-milwaukee-police-near-27th-and-wright
https://www.wisn.com/article/milwaukee-police-release-edited-video-of-two-officer-involved-shootings-in-august/37827360
https://www.wauwatosa.net/home/showpublisheddocument/4419/637756874290270000
https://www.wdio.com/archive/milwaukee-county-prosecutor-clears-police-in-fatal-shooting/

On 08/15/2021, three Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office deputies shot and killed 29-year-old Katelyn Lee Harris after police pursued her from Kingsport into Greene County and her vehicle left the roadway on Jearoldstown Road. Harris was also known as Katelyn Lee McColl Honaker.
Shortly before 10 p.m., Sullivan County deputies saw Harris driving on John B. Dennis Highway in Kingsport. Deputies knew that warrants had been issued for her arrest and attempted to stop her vehicle. Harris continued driving away, and Sullivan County deputies initiated a pursuit that traveled onto Interstate 81 and continued approximately 30 miles into Greene County.
Harris left Interstate 81 at Exit 44 and drove north on Jearoldstown Road. A short time later, her vehicle went off the roadway. A male passenger then got out of Harris’s vehicle, and deputies took him into custody. Harris remained inside the vehicle.
According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, deputies saw that Harris had a firearm and ordered her to drop it. Police alleged that Harris instead put the vehicle into reverse and accelerated toward the deputies. Three Sullivan County deputies opened fire, striking Harris. She died at the scene. The TBI’s initial public account did not allege that Harris fired the gun at deputies.
The critical account that Harris reversed toward the deputies came from law enforcement and was challenged by her family and friends. Within days of her death, relatives publicly questioned the sequence described by police and said they did not believe the official account. Harris’s boyfriend had been the passenger in the vehicle and survived the encounter.
The shooting occurred in Greene County even though the deputies involved were from Sullivan County. Third Judicial District Attorney General Dan Armstrong requested that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation conduct an independent investigation. TBI agents processed the scene and investigated the pursuit and shooting, with the completed findings intended for prosecutorial review to determine whether the deputies’ gunfire was legally justified.
Publicly indexed records located for this update do not contain a subsequent detailed TBI report, body-camera release, dashboard-camera release, prosecutor decision letter, civil lawsuit or settlement that provides a substantially fuller reconstruction of the final encounter. The names of the three Sullivan County deputies who fired at Harris also do not appear to have been publicly released.
Harris had significant connections to Pennsylvania and had previously lived in Lancaster and Chester counties. She was the mother of four children. Family members described her as someone who loved art and music and was deeply attached to her children and extended family. After her death, relatives raised money to transport her remains from Tennessee back to Pennsylvania.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The three Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office deputies who fired at Harris have not been publicly identified in the records located for this update.

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On 08/15/2021, Barstow Police Department Officer Steven Rodriguez and Corporal Andrew Buesa shot and killed 42-year-old Victor Richard Carevic following a police encounter that developed into a foot pursuit from a residential neighborhood to a shopping center near Armory Road and Monterey Avenue. A detailed 28-page San Bernardino County District Attorney review released in February 2025 provides body-camera, surveillance-video, ballistic, autopsy and witness evidence that was unavailable in the initial 2021 reporting.
The encounter began several hours earlier after the Chrysler 300 in which Carevic and his girlfriend were traveling ran out of gas in the 1000 block of Mirage Drive. Carevic left on foot to get gas while his girlfriend remained with the vehicle. A resident reported the vehicle to police as suspicious.
Rodriguez arrived at approximately 7:46 a.m. and discovered that the license plate did not correspond with the Chrysler's vehicle identification number. After checking the VIN, police determined that the Chrysler had been reported stolen in Arizona. Police arrested Carevic's girlfriend and impounded the car. Officers found BB guns, ammunition and other items inside.
Carevic returned to the neighborhood several hours later looking for his girlfriend, dog and vehicle. A resident saw him pushing a shopping cart and contacted police. At approximately 11:08 a.m., Rodriguez returned and approached Carevic on Candlelight Street near Monterey Avenue. Rodriguez's body-worn camera recorded the encounter.
Carevic told Rodriguez he was looking for his car and said his identification had been inside it. Rodriguez asked Carevic to walk to his patrol vehicle. The body-camera recording shows Carevic initially agreeing but then remaining near the shopping cart. Rodriguez told Carevic to put his hands behind his back, drew his handgun and informed him that the Chrysler was stolen. Carevic responded that he had done nothing.
Rodriguez subsequently holstered his gun. When Carevic asked whether he was being detained, Rodriguez told him that he was. Carevic pushed the shopping cart toward Rodriguez and ran east on Candlelight Street before turning north on Monterey Avenue. Rodriguez pursued him on foot.
During the pursuit, Rodriguez repeatedly ordered Carevic to stop and told him to stop reaching into his pockets. Rodriguez's body-camera recording shows Carevic remove a small black handgun from his pocket and, approximately one second later, turn and point it toward Rodriguez.
Rodriguez moved sideways while drawing his own handgun, tripped and fell onto his left side. While on the ground, he fired 12 rounds toward Carevic. The fall temporarily interrupted the video portion of his body camera, but its audio continued and recorded the 12 shots. Investigators later recovered 12 .40-caliber cartridge casings and documented seven bullet impacts in a nearby block wall.
Carevic continued running toward Armory Road and the Stater Bros. shopping center while Rodriguez followed. Buesa, responding as a backup officer, arrived in a marked police vehicle. Buesa had not known Carevic was armed when he initially approached the area but learned that information as he entered the shopping-center parking lot.
Carevic ran beneath the awning of a strip mall and attempted to open the locked door of a Metro PCS store. According to Buesa and video evidence reviewed by prosecutors, Carevic then extended the handgun in Buesa's direction while Buesa was still near his patrol vehicle.
Rodriguez stopped near the north curb of Armory Road and fired two additional rounds. Carevic fell outside the businesses.
Buesa approached with his handgun drawn. According to Buesa, Carevic reached for the handgun lying beside him despite commands not to touch it, picked it up and began moving it toward Buesa. Surveillance footage from the shopping center captured Carevic holding the gun while on the ground. Buesa fired one round. Almost simultaneously, Rodriguez fired one additional round.
Rodriguez therefore fired 15 rounds during the encounter: 12 during the initial confrontation on Monterey Avenue, two near Armory Road and one final shot after Carevic had fallen. Buesa fired one round.
After the final shots, Buesa kicked Carevic's handgun away. Rodriguez called for medical assistance, Buesa retrieved medical supplies, and the officers attempted to control Carevic's bleeding and performed chest compressions. Paramedics arrived approximately five minutes later and continued treatment. Carevic was pronounced dead at 11:24 a.m.
Investigators recovered a Phoenix Arms .22-caliber semiautomatic pistol beside Carevic. Examination revealed that the weapon was badly damaged: the barrel was detached from the lower receiver and slide, and the slide was only partially attached. A live round remained in the chamber and five live cartridges were in the magazine.
The physical condition of the handgun became significant because Rodriguez initially believed Carevic may have fired at him. Investigators found no evidence establishing that the .22-caliber pistol successfully discharged during the encounter. The District Attorney ultimately acknowledged that Carevic most likely did not fire the weapon, while theorizing that he may have attempted to fire it but could not because the gun malfunctioned. No determination that Carevic actually pulled the trigger was established by the physical evidence.
The autopsy documented four conventional gunshot wounds and two ricochet wounds. Carevic suffered gunshot wounds to the abdomen, right thigh, left forearm and left thigh, along with two ricochet injuries to the left ankle. The abdominal wound perforated his liver, diaphragm and right lung and was fatal. The right-thigh wound severed a branch of the femoral artery and was also fatal. The medical examiner classified the death as homicide.
The autopsy findings also establish that some bullets entered Carevic from behind. The right-thigh wound traveled from back to front, as did the left-thigh wound. The left-forearm wound entered through the posterior forearm. The abdominal wound traveled front to back. These trajectories are consistent with gunfire occurring at different stages of the running confrontation.
Rodriguez's body camera provided substantial independent evidence of the encounter, including Carevic pointing the handgun toward Rodriguez and later extending it toward Buesa's location. Shopping-center surveillance video documented portions of the final confrontation after Carevic fell. Buesa's body camera was not activated until after Carevic had been incapacitated.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department investigated the killing under report DR# 602100157. The District Attorney's review examined investigative reports, photographs, officer and witness interviews, audio, Rodriguez's body-camera recording, surveillance recordings, firearm evidence, ballistics and the autopsy.
The prosecutorial review was not publicly released until February 2025, approximately three and a half years after Carevic was killed. The District Attorney concluded that Rodriguez's three separate episodes of gunfire and Buesa's single shot were legally justified as self-defense or defense of others. Neither officer was criminally charged.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Steven Rodriguez was a Barstow Police Department patrol officer when he killed Carevic. Rodriguez initiated the encounter, pursued Carevic on foot and fired 15 rounds during three separate stages of the confrontation. His body camera was activated before his contact with Carevic and provided the principal video record of the shooting. Later Barstow records show Rodriguez remaining with the department and working as a detective.A search for other reliably documented fatal or nonfatal police shootings, substantiated serious misconduct, discipline or excessive-force judgments involving Rodriguez did not identify another comparable incident.
Andrew Buesa had a substantially more significant documented history. Before joining Barstow police, Buesa worked for the Los Angeles Police Department and was discharged in connection with misconduct arising from a 2002 arrest.
Buesa was also directly involved in the 2018 fatal Barstow police shooting of Leonard Angelo Sanchez at the Sands Motel. Police responded after Sanchez's family sought help while he was experiencing a mental-health crisis and holding two kitchen knives. Buesa deployed a Taser while Officer William Spiller fired the fatal gunshots. Sanchez's family sued the City of Barstow and the officers, alleging excessive force. Barstow ultimately paid approximately $1.3 million to settle the litigation. Buesa did not fire the fatal bullets in the Sanchez case, but he was one of the two officers directly confronting Sanchez when police used force.
Buesa's history is therefore relevant beyond the Carevic shooting: he had previously been discharged from the LAPD over misconduct and had participated in another fatal Barstow police use-of-force encounter three years before Carevic's death.

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https://da.sbcounty.gov/2025/02/20/officer-involved-shooting-fatal-barstow-r-carevic/
https://da.sbcounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/120/2025/02/OIS-Carevic-Victor-FINAL-Redacted.pdf
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https://steeringlaw.com/police-misconduct-blog/barstow-pays-1-3-million-dollars-for-police-shooting/
 

On 08/15/2021, a Newberry County Sheriff’s Office deputy shot and killed 40-year-old Phillip John Walden after police pursued him for more than 40 miles along Interstate 26 through multiple counties. The pursuit ended near Exit 91 in Lexington County after police forced the vehicle Walden was driving into a concrete barrier.
The sequence began at approximately 5:30 p.m. in Laurens County. According to Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster, Walden's vehicle became disabled on I-26 and motorists stopped to assist him. Police alleged that Walden displayed a weapon and attempted to take the first couple's vehicle, but they drove away.
Walden returned to his vehicle and continued along I-26 before crashing and rolling down an embankment near mile marker 60, close to the Laurens-Newberry county line. Other motorists stopped to assist at that crash. Police alleged that Walden attempted to take two vehicles before obtaining control of another vehicle and driving east toward Columbia. Witness descriptions of the weapon varied considerably: 911 callers variously reported seeing a gun, knife or scissors.
At approximately 5:51 p.m., the Newberry County Sheriff’s Office began receiving reports about the incident. A deputy located the vehicle near Exit 72 and attempted to stop it. Walden continued driving away and Newberry County deputies began pursuing him east on I-26.
The pursuit became extensive and involved numerous collisions. According to Foster, Walden struck several civilian vehicles while deputies pursued him and at one point struck a Newberry County deputy's patrol vehicle, forcing it into a guardrail. At least 10 civilian vehicles and two police vehicles were ultimately involved in collisions during the overall incident, and two civilians were transported to hospitals with injuries described as non-life-threatening.
Police continued the pursuit through Newberry County and into the Columbia-area interstate system. Walden exited I-26 near Exit 97 in Richland County, reversed direction and returned toward Newberry.
Near Exit 91 at Chapin, Walden left I-26 and entered the parking area of a Taco Bell and gas station, where additional collisions occurred. He then crossed the highway and attempted to enter I-26 traveling west in the eastbound lanes.
A Newberry County deputy and South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper positioned their vehicles ahead of Walden. According to Foster, Walden struck the deputy's patrol vehicle. The deputy then used the patrol vehicle to divert Walden's vehicle into a concrete Jersey barrier, disabling it and ending the pursuit.
Walden got out of the disabled vehicle. Both the Newberry County deputy and Highway Patrol trooper also exited their vehicles.
The officers deployed Tasers against Walden, but the electrical weapons did not incapacitate him. Police accounts of precisely what happened immediately before the shooting differed somewhat in their wording. Foster told The State that Walden moved toward the officers and alleged that he then charged toward the Newberry County deputy. Another contemporary Newberry County account stated that Walden moved a hand toward the rear of his waistband before the deputy fired.
Critically, Foster acknowledged immediately after the shooting that he did not know whether Walden was armed during the final confrontation. Foster also confirmed that Walden did not fire at the deputy. Thus, although witnesses earlier in the incident had variously described Walden as possessing a gun, knife or scissors, the available public record does not establish that Walden possessed or displayed a weapon when the deputy shot him.
The Newberry County deputy fired multiple rounds, striking Walden in the upper body. Walden died at the scene. Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher subsequently confirmed his identity and determined that he died from multiple gunshot wounds to the upper body.
The shooting and pursuit produced an unusually large scene extending for more than 40 miles along I-26. Authorities closed a section of the interstate for approximately six hours while investigators processed the final shooting scene and collected evidence.
Because a Newberry County deputy fired the fatal shots, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division took responsibility for investigating the shooting. The deputy's firearm was turned over to SLED for examination, and the deputy was placed on administrative leave while the investigation was pending.
The publicly accessible record remains considerably thinner than the scale of the incident would suggest. Searches for subsequent SLED findings, a prosecutorial decision letter, body-camera or dashboard-camera release, detailed shooting reconstruction, civil lawsuit or settlement did not locate a later public document substantially expanding upon the 2021 accounts. The available reporting also does not identify the Newberry County deputy who shot Walden.
The later record therefore leaves several important questions unresolved publicly, including the exact number of shots fired, whether Walden possessed any weapon during the final confrontation, the distance between Walden and the deputy when the deputy fired, what the Tasers accomplished, and whether video recorded the final encounter.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The Newberry County Sheriff’s Office deputy who shot and killed Walden has not been publicly identified in the records located for this update.

https://www.wistv.com/2021/08/16/officials-release-identity-man-killed-i-26-officer-involved-shooting/
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https://www.wltx.com/article/news/crime/man-killed-after-carjacking-and-police-chase-in-richland-county/101-0e4c7b77-6e78-4e91-9b0f-5a3b8a8c6f59
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https://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article253504589.html

On 08/15/2021, Albuquerque Police Department Officers Max Denerstein and Christopher Mings shot and killed 33-year-old Eric Padilla during a foot pursuit near 9121 Menaul Boulevard NE. The encounter began with an investigation of a stolen Honda Accord and developed into a pedestrian stop after police located Padilla and a woman near a Walmart. A later special-prosecutor review, completed in April 2023, examined police reports, witness statements, video and photographs and identified both shooting officers.
Earlier that afternoon, Mings saw a Honda Accord near Lomas and Louisiana boulevards and checked its license plate. Police determined that the car had been reported stolen the previous night. Officers attempted a traffic stop, but the driver continued driving away. Rather than begin a conventional high-speed pursuit, police fired a StarChase GPS tracking device onto the Honda and tracked it remotely.
Police followed the GPS signal to the area of Morrow Avenue and Pennsylvania Boulevard NE, where they found that someone had removed the tracking device from the Honda. Officers subsequently located the abandoned car in a Walmart parking lot near Northeastern and Wyoming boulevards. Surveillance footage showed a man and woman leaving the vehicle, and police broadcast their descriptions.
Officers later encountered Padilla and a woman near Northeastern and Menaul. Body-camera video shows officers questioning the pair because they matched the descriptions of the people who had left the Honda. Padilla was initially cooperative. During the encounter he removed a knife from his pocket and voluntarily handed it to police.
The officers then told Padilla they intended to pat him down for additional weapons. Padilla objected to the search and ran. Denerstein and Mings pursued him on foot. The subsequent police video release shows that the transition from questioning to pursuit occurred rapidly after Padilla declined to submit to the pat-down.
According to APD, civilian witnesses and video reviewed during the investigation, Padilla turned partially toward the pursuing officers while running and removed a handgun. Denerstein and Mings then opened fire, striking him. Padilla fell near Menaul Boulevard and died at the scene. Police recovered a handgun near his body.
Police did not establish that Padilla fired the handgun during the encounter. When APD released the body-camera footage in September 2021, the department acknowledged that it remained unclear whether the weapon had been fired. Thus, the evidence supporting the officers' claim of an imminent deadly threat centered on Padilla allegedly producing the gun while running and turning partly toward them, rather than on Padilla firing at police.
APD later said investigators had forensically associated the handgun recovered near Padilla with three other shootings in Albuquerque during the summer of 2021. Those allegations concerned the history of the firearm and did not establish that Padilla fired it during his encounter with Denerstein and Mings.
APD publicly released body-camera footage and additional information about the shooting on 09/23/2021. The release identified Denerstein and Mings as the officers who fired and provided the first substantially detailed public reconstruction of the events between the abandoned Honda and Padilla's death.
The criminal review of the officers' conduct remained unresolved publicly for considerably longer. In 2023, Second Judicial District Attorney Sam Bregman appointed a special prosecutor to review whether Denerstein or Mings should face criminal charges. The review included police reports, witness statements, videos and photographs.
On 04/03/2023, the special prosecutor issued a formal decision declining to charge either officer. The prosecutor concluded that the available evidence was insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Denerstein and Mings were not acting under a reasonable belief that Padilla's actions threatened them or others with death or great bodily harm. The decision closed the DA's criminal review while expressly noting that it did not prevent administrative action, investigation by another agency or civil litigation..

OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Max Denerstein had served with the Albuquerque Police Department since 2014 when he killed Padilla. APD reported after the shooting that Denerstein had not previously been involved in a police shooting.
Denerstein was later named as a defendant in a 2024 federal civil-rights lawsuit, Scott v. City of Albuquerque. The plaintiff initially alleged civil-rights violations against Denerstein and another APD officer arising from a separate 2023 arrest.

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On 08/14/2021, 69-year-old Steve Sanders was struck and killed by a Houston Police Department patrol vehicle driven by Officer Brandon Kristofer Kpotie in the 10000 block of Bissonnet Street near Woodfair Drive in southwest Houston. Kpotie was driving above the posted speed limit without activating the patrol vehicle's emergency lights or siren while responding to an arrest connected with an HPD prostitution enforcement operation.
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At approximately 9:00 p.m., Kpotie and another Houston police officer identified in court records as Officer Young were assigned to a crime-suppression team conducting a prostitution operation in southwest Houston. Kpotie and Young were sitting together in a marked HPD patrol vehicle while surveillance officers and an undercover officer conducted the operation. They were waiting for notification that an arrest was ready to be made.
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After officers involved in the operation notified Kpotie and Young that they were ready to make an arrest, Kpotie began driving the marked patrol vehicle toward the planned arrest location. Kpotie did not activate the vehicle's emergency lights or siren. The posted speed limit on Bissonnet Street was 35 mph.
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Kpotie later estimated that he had been traveling approximately 40 to 45 mph. HPD's subsequent crash reconstruction determined that the patrol vehicle was traveling approximately 55 mph about 70 feet before it struck Sanders, approximately 20 mph above the posted speed limit.
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As Kpotie traveled along Bissonnet Street, Sanders entered the roadway. Officer Young, who was riding in the passenger seat, reported seeing a shadow suddenly appear in front of the passenger side of the patrol vehicle and warned Kpotie. Kpotie said he did not see Sanders until Young alerted him. Kpotie attempted to steer to the left, but the right front portion of the police vehicle struck Sanders.
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Sanders suffered fatal injuries. He had no involvement in the prostitution enforcement operation that Kpotie and Young were responding to when the police vehicle struck him.
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The collision subsequently became the subject of civil litigation brought by Sanders's daughters against the City of Houston. In August 2022, they sued the city alleging that Sanders's death resulted from negligence involving Kpotie's operation of the police vehicle. The litigation later reached the Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals as City of Houston v. Morris.
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The appellate record documented that Kpotie was responding to the prostitution-operation arrest without emergency lights or siren and that HPD's crash reconstruction calculated his speed at approximately 55 mph shortly before impact in the 35-mph zone. The City of Houston asserted governmental and official-immunity defenses in the litigation.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Houston Police Officer Brandon Kristofer Kpotie was driving the marked patrol vehicle that struck and killed Sanders. Officer Young was riding in the passenger seat and was participating with Kpotie in the prostitution enforcement operation but was not driving the vehicle.
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LITIGATION:
Sanders's daughters filed a wrongful-death and survival lawsuit against the City of Houston in August 2022 arising from Kpotie's operation of the police vehicle. The litigation proceeded through the Texas courts and resulted in an appellate decision in City of Houston v. Morris addressing the city's governmental-immunity and official-immunity arguments.

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https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/fourteenth-court-of-appeals/2024/14-23-00570-cv.html

On 08/14/2021, Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office deputies shot and killed 35-year-old Kyle Anthony Goidosik after a vehicle pursuit through southeastern Kalamazoo County. The encounter also resulted in the fatal shooting of Kalamazoo County Deputy Ryan Proxmire, who was struck during the pursuit and died the following day. Michigan State Police investigated the shootings, body-camera and dashboard-camera recordings were subsequently released, and Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Getting completed a detailed review in December 2021.
Earlier that day, Portage Department of Public Safety officers attempted to stop Goidosik while he was driving his van. Later accounts described the initiating reason as a registration or other minor traffic violation. Goidosik continued driving away, and Portage police pursued him. Police had also attempted to stop the same van the previous day.
At approximately 9:20 p.m., Kalamazoo County deputies were handling an unrelated call at a Shell gas station on 35th Street near Galesburg when they recognized Goidosik and his van. Body-camera footage later released by the sheriff’s office shows Proxmire and another deputy approaching Goidosik while he was standing near the van at a gas pump.
The second deputy asked Goidosik about his previous contact with police and attempted to speak with him. When Goidosik moved toward the driver's side of the van, the deputy stepped in his path. The body-camera recording shows Goidosik lift his shirt, remove a handgun from his waistband and point it toward the deputies. Both deputies backed away while ordering him to drop the gun. The other deputy directed civilians inside a nearby Subway restaurant to take cover. Goidosik then entered his van and drove away.
Kalamazoo County deputies began pursuing the van, with Proxmire initially driving the lead police vehicle. During the pursuit, according to the subsequent investigation and prosecutor's review, Goidosik fired multiple rounds from the van toward the pursuing deputies. Near MN Avenue and 38th Street in Climax Township, a bullet struck Proxmire in the head. His police vehicle veered from the roadway and stopped.
The other deputies continued pursuing Goidosik without realizing that Proxmire had been shot. Dashboard-camera footage shows several sheriff’s vehicles passing Proxmire's stopped cruiser. A civilian eventually found him slumped inside the vehicle and called 911. Video showed members of the public stopping to help approximately 23 minutes after he was shot. Proxmire was transported to a hospital in extremely critical condition and died on 08/15/2021.
Meanwhile, police continued pursuing Goidosik through Climax Township. According to the prosecutor's subsequent reconstruction, Goidosik continued firing from the van toward deputies during the pursuit. He eventually drove down a dead-end rural road near 44th Street and entered a field.
The prosecutor reported that Goidosik continued firing toward deputies at the end of the road. Police vehicles blocked the roadway. According to the prosecutor, Goidosik attempted to drive through the field and then drove the van toward deputies positioned at the roadblock. Multiple deputies opened fire.
Goidosik was struck four times: three gunshot wounds to his left leg and one to the left side of his head. The head wound was fatal. After the gunfire stopped, body-camera footage shows deputies ordering him to show his hands and not move before removing him from the van and beginning CPR. Emergency medical personnel subsequently pronounced him dead at the scene.
The body-camera and dashboard-camera recordings released in November 2021 provided a substantially fuller record than the initial accounts. The recordings documented the initial confrontation at the gas station, the pursuit, Proxmire's cruiser leaving the roadway after he was shot, deputies unknowingly continuing past him, the final confrontation with Goidosik and officers' efforts to provide medical aid.
Michigan State Police conducted the independent investigation. Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Getting subsequently reviewed the investigative file and announced his decision on 12/22/2021. Getting identified the deputies involved in the fatal shooting as Sgt. Chris Hoffman and Deputies Justin Barts, Patrick Braidwood and Riley Gallagher.
Getting concluded that the deputies reasonably believed they and other officers faced an immediate threat of death or serious injury because Goidosik had allegedly repeatedly fired toward police and was driving toward deputies at the final roadblock. He ruled their use of deadly force legally justified and declined to file criminal charges.
Goidosik's family provided important context about his condition that was largely absent from the initial police narrative. His parents, Gary and Kim Goidosik, said their son had suffered for years from invasive, delusional and irrational thoughts. They simultaneously expressed sorrow over Proxmire's death and described the events as a tragedy involving someone suffering from serious psychological disturbance.
Goidosik was born on 05/04/1986 in Kalamazoo, attended Vicksburg Community Schools and studied liberal arts at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. He was survived by his parents and sister.

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https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/kzoo-bc/kalamazoo/prosecutor-kalamazoo-county-deputies-justified-in-using-deadly-force
https://wkzo.com/2021/12/22/kalamazoo-county-prosecutor-deputies-justified-in-fatal-goidosik-shooting/
https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/kzoo-bc/kalamazoo/another-senseless-and-terrible-tragedy-family-of-suspect-in-deputy-proxmires-death-release-statement
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/family-man-in-michigan-deputys-shooting-had-irrational-thoughts/
https://www.amsfuneralhomes.com/obituaries/kyle-goidosik
https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2021/08/man-killed-in-officer-involved-shooting-after-chase-in-kalamazoo-county.html
https://wwmt.com/news/local/man-killed-after-police-chase-officer-involved-shooting-kalamazoo-county
https://www.woodtv.com/news/kalamazoo-county/deputies-involved-in-fatal-shooting-after-chase-in-kalamazoo-county/
https://wwmt.com/news/local/police-identify-suspect-in-shooting-death-of-kalamazoo-county-deputy
https://wwmt.com/news/local/ryan-proxmire-kalamazoo-county-memorial-2021-chase-kyle-goidosik-galesburg-schoolcraft-us-131-highway-honor-police-deputies-sheriffs-office-st-joseph-west-michigan

On 08/14/2021, a Nebraska State Patrol trooper shot and killed 80-year-old John A. Vogel while police were responding to a dispute between neighbors near Sheridan and Jay streets in St. Paul. Howard County sheriff’s deputies, St. Paul police officers and Nebraska state troopers all responded to the incident.
At approximately 12:30 p.m., the Howard County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a disturbance involving two neighbors. Police reported that one of the people involved had discharged a firearm during the dispute. The publicly released accounts did not identify what precipitated the disagreement or provide significant detail about what happened before police arrived.
By approximately 12:42 p.m., personnel from all three agencies were at the scene and searching for the people involved. A few minutes later, officers encountered Vogel near a garage holding a rifle.
According to the Nebraska State Patrol, a trooper repeatedly ordered Vogel to put the rifle down. Police alleged that Vogel did not comply and instead raised the rifle toward the trooper. The trooper fired twice, striking Vogel. The available public accounts do not report that Vogel fired at police during this confrontation.
Officers provided emergency medical aid before Vogel was transported to Howard County Medical Center, where he died from his gunshot wounds. No other person was physically injured during the police confrontation.
Because a Nebraska State Patrol trooper fired the fatal shots, Howard County Attorney David Schroeder requested an investigation by the Nebraska State Patrol Special Investigations Team. Nebraska law also required a grand jury to review the death because Vogel died while being apprehended or in law-enforcement custody.
The grand jury subsequently reviewed the shooting and declined to indict the officers involved. Later reporting described the grand jury as clearing the officers in Vogel’s death. No criminal charges resulted from the shooting.
The publicly available record remains notably limited despite that later grand-jury proceeding. No detailed prosecutor decision comparable to those released in many other police shootings was located, and publicly indexed material does not provide a body-camera or dashboard-camera release, autopsy report, ballistic reconstruction or extensive witness account of the critical seconds before the trooper fired.
The available record therefore leaves the central justification for the shooting dependent primarily on the police account that Vogel raised his rifle toward the trooper. The public material located for this update does not provide independent video evidence showing that movement or a detailed grand-jury report explaining the evidence jurors considered.
The case is also sometimes dated 08/15/2021 in secondary reporting because news coverage appeared the following day. The shooting itself occurred on Saturday, 08/14/2021. Contemporary Nebraska reporting and police-killing datasets consistently identify the location as the area of Sheridan and Jay streets in St. Paul.
OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The Nebraska State Patrol trooper who fired the two shots that killed Vogel has not been publicly identified in the records located for this update.

https://www.1011now.com/2021/08/14/officer-involved-shooting-howard-county/
https://www.3newsnow.com/news/local-news/nsp-investigating-deadly-officer-involved-shooting-of-80-year-old-man-in-st-paul-nebraska
https://www.wowt.com/2021/08/15/nsp-investigate-officer-involved-shooting-st-paul/
https://www.klkntv.com/one-man-dead-after-officer-involved-shooting-in-st-paul/
https://www.klkn.tv/grand-jury-clears-officers-in-howard-county-shooting/
https://www.ksnblocal4.com/2021/08/16/man-killed-in-officer-involved-shooting-in-howard-county/
https://www.1011now.com/2021/08/16/man-killed-by-police-in-howard-county-identified/
https://www.ketv.com/article/nsp-investigating-an-officer-involved-shooting-in-howard-county/37309045
https://apnews.com/article/nebraska-b482b34a50ff61ba72218d27cb1b8fbd

On 08/14/2021, Scott County Sheriff’s Office deputies shot and killed 50-year-old Robert D. Bailey outside Mt. Zion Church on Blossom Road in Scott County after workers at the church reported that someone was firing at them. The incident occurred at approximately 1:45 p.m. and was later classified by the FBI as one of the active-shooter incidents that occurred in the United States during 2021.
Workers were present at Mt. Zion Church when gunfire began. According to the Scott County Sheriff’s Office, Bailey was positioned in or near a tree line across the road from the church and was firing toward the workers. The available accounts do not report that any of the workers was struck by the gunfire.
Scott County deputies responded to the church and located Bailey across the road near the tree line. Police reported that Bailey was armed with multiple firearms. The FBI’s subsequent national active-shooter review specifies that Bailey was armed with both a rifle and a shotgun.
Deputies confronted Bailey near the tree line. Police reported an exchange of gunfire between Bailey and the responding deputies. Deputies fired at Bailey and killed him at the scene. The FBI’s later review likewise records that the gunman exchanged gunfire with law enforcement before police killed him.
No church worker, deputy or other civilian was reported shot during the incident. The FBI classified the location as a house of worship and recorded no casualties other than Bailey.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation was called to conduct the investigation into the deputies’ use of deadly force. The case therefore moved from the Scott County Sheriff’s Office, whose deputies fired the fatal shots, to MBI for review.
The later FBI report provides useful independent confirmation of several details that were only briefly described in the original local coverage. Its review identifies the incident as occurring at approximately 1:45 p.m., identifies Bailey as 50 years old, specifies that he possessed a rifle and shotgun, states that he fired at workers at the church, and records an exchange of gunfire with responding law enforcement before his death.
The publicly available record remains unusually sparse beyond those findings. No later detailed MBI investigative report, prosecutor decision, grand-jury disposition, body-camera or dashboard-camera release, autopsy report, ballistic reconstruction, civil lawsuit or family challenge to the official account was located in publicly indexed sources. The available record also does not establish how many deputies fired, how many rounds Bailey or deputies fired, or which officers' gunfire struck him.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The Scott County Sheriff’s Office deputies who shot Bailey have not been publicly identified in the records located for this update.

https://www.wlbt.com/2021/08/18/deputies-kill-suspected-active-shooter-outside-church/
https://www.wjtv.com/news/local/scott-county-sheriff-man-killed-in-deputy-involved-shooting-after-firing-shots-at-workers/
https://www.wapt.com/article/deputy-involved-shooting-at-mt-zion-church-in-scott-county/37342757
https://www.magnoliastatelive.com/2021/08/19/mississippi-sheriff-active-shooter-targeting-workers-at-church-killed-by-deputies/
https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/active-shooter-incidents-in-the-us-2021-052422.pdf

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REASON FOR POLICE CHASE:
License plates that did not match the vehicle. At approximately 3:16 a.m. on 08/01/2021, New Richmond Police Department officers attempted to stop a 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix driven by 20-year-old Logan Zappa after determining that the license plates displayed on the Pontiac did not belong to that vehicle. Zappa continued driving away on County Highway T and police pursued.
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EVENT NARRATIVE:
On 08/01/2021, 20-year-old Logan Zappa of Deer Park was critically injured when his Pontiac Grand Prix crashed into a pickup truck after a New Richmond Police Department pursuit in the Town of Stanton. Zappa survived for nearly two weeks before dying from his injuries on 08/14/2021. Because the database records the date of death, the correct Date field is 08/14/2021.
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The encounter began at approximately 3:16 a.m. when New Richmond police attempted to stop Zappa because the license plates displayed on his 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix did not match the vehicle. The initiating reason therefore was an equipment/registration violation rather than a violent crime, warrant or reported stolen vehicle.
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Zappa continued driving away on County Highway T while New Richmond officers pursued. The pursuit continued north through rural St. Croix County toward 200th Avenue.
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New Richmond police then discontinued the pursuit near 200th Avenue. This is an important part of the chronology: officers did not continue chasing Zappa all the way to the fatal collision. After police terminated the pursuit, Zappa continued north on County Highway T for approximately another 2½ miles.
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At the intersection of County Highway T and County Highway H, authorities said Zappa entered the intersection without stopping at the stop sign. A pickup truck traveling on County Highway H struck the driver's side of the Pontiac.
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Zappa was trapped in the wreckage and had to be extricated. Emergency personnel transported him to Regions Hospital in St. Paul with serious injuries. The pickup driver was treated at the crash scene and released.
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No PIT/TVI maneuver, stop sticks, roadblock or intentional police-vehicle contact is identified in the available reporting. The fatal collision occurred approximately 2½ miles after New Richmond police discontinued their pursuit. The available reports do not provide a measured maximum pursuit speed, exact pursuit duration, the distance between Zappa and police when the pursuit was terminated, or the specific reason officers decided to discontinue it.
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Zappa remained hospitalized at Regions Hospital following the August 1 crash. The St. Croix County Sheriff's Office subsequently announced that he died from his injuries on Saturday, August 14. He was 20 years old and lived in Deer Park, Wisconsin.
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The available public reporting provides little information about Zappa's life beyond identifying him as a young Deer Park resident. No reliable obituary or family account located for this reconstruction provides enough additional biographical information to add without speculation.
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The St. Croix County Sheriff's Office investigated the collision because it occurred outside New Richmond's jurisdiction. The crash investigation therefore was separate from the New Richmond Police Department's decision to initiate and subsequently terminate the pursuit.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The New Richmond Police Department officer or officers who attempted to stop Logan Zappa and participated in the pursuit have not been publicly identified in the contemporary and follow-up reporting located for this reconstruction.

https://www.twincities.com/2021/08/17/wisconsin-man-dies-two-weeks-after-car-crash-during-police-chase-officials-say/

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/driver-who-crashed-in-wisconsins-st-croix-county-aug-1-dies-of-injuries/