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Andrew Lloyd Collamore

Age : 23

Gender : Male

Race : White

Date : 08/29/2025

Location : US Highway 41 near Schacht Road

City : Peshtigo

County : Marinette

State : Wisconsin

Agency : Marinette Police Department; Marinette County Sheriff’s Office

Officer(s) :Parker J. De Los Santos; Andrew D. Bonjean

Cause of Death : Gunshot

Event : Killed by police after pursuit and rollover crash

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

On 08/29/2025, 23-year-old Andrew Lloyd Collamore was driving a white Hyundai SUV in Marinette County when Marinette police attempted to stop him at approximately 9:12 a.m. The attempted stop was not for a traffic violation. Dane County authorities had issued a statewide alert seeking the vehicle because it had been taken from the scene of the killing of 70-year-old Thomas Muckler at a cabin in the Town of Mazomanie. Police had been instructed to locate the vehicle and identify anyone inside it.
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A Marinette police officer located the Hyundai in the City of Marinette and attempted to stop it. Collamore continued driving away while police pursued him south on US Highway 41. Multiple law-enforcement vehicles joined the pursuit.
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Investigators later reviewed squad-camera recordings, dispatch records and other evidence and determined that Collamore reached speeds of approximately 105 mph. Police alleged that he drove between other vehicles as the pursuit continued southbound.
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Marinette County Sheriff Randy Miller positioned spike strips on US Highway 41 in an attempt to stop the Hyundai. Collamore avoided the spike strips but lost control of the SUV. The vehicle spun out, rolled multiple times across the median and entered the northbound side of US Highway 41 before coming to rest near Schacht Road in the Town of Peshtigo.
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Marinette Police officers Parker J. De Los Santos and Andrew D. Bonjean approached the crashed vehicle. Collamore eventually climbed out through the passenger side. Police said he was holding a knife. Officers repeatedly ordered him to drop it while attempting to communicate with him.
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Body-camera and squad-camera recordings subsequently reviewed by the Marinette County District Attorney captured the confrontation. According to District Attorney DeShea Morrow’s written review, Collamore continued walking away from officers while holding the knife. At one point he referred to “Area 51” and told officers they were supposed to execute him.
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Sheriff Randy Miller approached Collamore carrying a Taser. According to the district attorney’s review of the video and investigative evidence, Collamore then turned and ran toward De Los Santos while holding the knife. De Los Santos and Bonjean opened fire while Miller simultaneously deployed his Taser. The Taser was ineffective. Collamore was struck by police gunfire and collapsed.
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Police and emergency medical personnel provided medical treatment before Collamore was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Investigators recovered the knife at the scene.
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The Wisconsin Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation conducted the independent investigation. DCI reviewed body-camera and squad-camera recordings, dispatch and CAD records, witness statements, physical evidence and the medical examiner’s findings. One of the Marinette officers had been wearing a body camera, and both officers’ squad-camera systems were operating.
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On 10/03/2025, Marinette County District Attorney DeShea Morrow completed her review of the shooting. Morrow determined that De Los Santos and Bonjean acted legally when they shot Collamore and declined to file criminal charges. The district attorney then closed the criminal review of the shooting.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND
Marinette Police officers Parker J. De Los Santos and Andrew D. Bonjean fired the shots that killed Collamore. Marinette County Sheriff Randy Miller was also directly involved in the final confrontation and deployed the Taser but did not shoot Collamore.
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A substantive records search for De Los Santos and Bonjean found Bonjean identified in multiple Wisconsin criminal cases arising from his police work, including a 2021 encounter that later became the subject of a Wisconsin Court of Appeals suppression decision. In that case, Bonjean encountered Brandon Strickland unconscious or asleep behind the wheel of a parked vehicle and subsequently searched the vehicle. Strickland challenged the detention and search, but in 2026 the Wisconsin Court of Appeals upheld the search and resulting conviction, concluding that Bonjean's initial intervention was justified under the community-caretaker doctrine and that subsequent observations provided reasonable suspicion.
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Available Marinette city records also document De Los Santos performing patrol and investigative duties before the Collamore shooting. The officer-background search did not produce an affirmative, verified prior fatal shooting, criminal prosecution, decertification, or disciplinary finding involving either De Los Santos or Bonjean that warrants inclusion in this report.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.wbay.com/2025/08/29/alert-us-41-closed-along-peshtigo-due-incident/
https://www.wbay.com/2025/09/12/wisconsin-doj-releases-names-those-involved-officer-shooting-town-peshtigo/
https://www.wbay.com/2025/09/03/dane-co-homicide-preceded-peshtigo-officer-involved-shooting/
https://www.wbay.com/2025/10/07/officers-cleared-shooting-death-suspect-town-peshtigo/
https://www.wisdoj.gov/PressReleases/08.29.25_Town%20of%20Peshtigo%20OID.pdf
https://www.wisdoj.gov/Pages/AboutUs/officer-involved-critical-incidents.aspx
https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/WIDOJ/2025/10/07/file_attachments/3414944/DA%20Opinion%20-%20Peshtigo.pdf
https://www.wicourts.gov/ca/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&seqNo=1092254