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Ingmar Von Strandberg

Age : 30

Gender : Male

Race : White

Date : 08/28/2021

Location : Unknown

City : Esmeralda County

County : Esmeralda

State : Nevada

Agency : Nye County Sheriff’s Office, Esmeralda County Sheriff’s Office

Officer(s) :Jonathan Justice; Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Gunshot

Event : Killed by police during armed encounter

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

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

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