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57238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Edmond%20Yu | Shooting of Edmond Yu | Edmond Wai-Hong Yu (; October 2, 1961 – February 20, 1997) was a Hong Kong Canadian former medical student whose death after being shot by a constable of the Toronto Police Service sparked debates about the police's use of force, mental illness, and the treatment of those diagnosed with a mental illness.
Early life an... |
1093498 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Victoria%20Snelgrove | Shooting of Victoria Snelgrove | Victoria E. Snelgrove (October 29, 1982 – October 21, 2004) was an American journalism student at Emerson College in Boston, who died after being shot by officer Rochefort Milien of the Boston Police Department using a less-lethal weapon. The shooting took place following the victory of the Boston Red Sox over the New ... |
1127564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Harry%20Stanley | Shooting of Harry Stanley | Henry Bruce Stanley (2 May 195322 September 1999) was a Scottish painter and decorator who was shot dead by the Metropolitan Police in London in contentious circumstances. Initially his death was recorded with an open verdict, before being ruled as unlawful killing by a jury on appeal and finally returned to an open ve... |
1183023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Nicholas%20Green | Shooting of Nicholas Green | Nicholas Green (September 9, 1987 – October 1, 1994) was an Anglo-American boy who was shot and killed in an attempted car robbery while vacationing with his family in Southern Italy. Robbers mistook their family car for a jeweller's. When Nicholas died, his parents chose to donate his organs. Five people received his ... |
1789460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Kendra%20James | Shooting of Kendra James | Kendra James was a 21-year-old African-American Oregonian mother of two, who was fatally shot by police on May 5, 2003. The incident sparked a controversy over the use of deadly force by the Portland Police Bureau in Portland, Oregon.
James was a passenger - who also had an outstanding warrant for her arrest - stopp... |
2197521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Daniel%20Rocha | Shooting of Daniel Rocha | Daniel Rocha (died June 9, 2005) was an 18-year-old who was shot and killed in southeast Austin, Texas by police officer Julie Schroder, a seven-year veteran of the Austin Police Department, on June 9, 2005. The officer was responding to a report of drug trafficking when she pulled over a dark Chevrolet Suburban carryi... |
2308525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20James%20Ashley | Shooting of James Ashley | James Ashley was a British man shot dead by police at his flat in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, on 15 January 1998, while unarmed and naked. Armed officers had been sent to raid the flat based on reports that Ashley kept a firearm and a quantity of cocaine there, and to arrest Ashley and another man in connection wi... |
2378365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Stephen%20Waldorf | Shooting of Stephen Waldorf | Stephen Waldorf was a 26-year-old film editor who was shot and severely injured by Metropolitan Police officers in London, England, on 14 January 1983, when he was misidentified as escaped prisoner David Martin.
Background
On 5 August 1982, David Martin was caught while breaking into a private cinema in Portman Close,... |
3352086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Rigoberto%20Alpizar | Shooting of Rigoberto Alpizar | Rigoberto Alpizar (April 17, 1961 – December 7, 2005) was a Costa Rican-born United States citizen who was fatally shot at Miami International Airport by two United States Federal Air Marshals.
Alpizar lived in the central Florida town of Maitland and worked in the Paint Department of a Home Depot. He was supposed to ... |
3722910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Christopher%20Penley | Shooting of Christopher Penley | The shooting of Christopher Penley, a 15-year-old boy, occurred on January 13, 2006, at Milwee Middle School in Longwood, Florida. During class, Penley took out an Airsoft gun that was designed to look realistic. Penley ran from the room and eventually entered a restroom area. SWAT officers arrived on the scene and tr... |
5343055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Eleanor%20Bumpurs | Shooting of Eleanor Bumpurs | The shooting of Eleanor Bumpurs by the New York Police Department occurred on October 29, 1984. The police were present to enforce a city-ordered eviction of Bumpurs, an elderly, disabled African American woman, from her public housing apartment in the Bronx. In requesting NYPD assistance, housing authority workers tol... |
6140200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Ousmane%20Zongo | Shooting of Ousmane Zongo | Ousmane Zongo ( – May 22, 2003) was a Burkinabé arts trader living in the United States who was shot and killed by Brian Conroy, a New York City Police Department officer during a warehouse raid on May 22, 2003. Zongo was not armed. Conroy did not receive any jail time but was convicted of criminally negligent homicide... |
6678777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Phillip%20Pannell | Shooting of Phillip Pannell | On April 10, 1990, Phillip Pannell, an African-American teenager, was shot and killed by police officer Gary Spath in Teaneck, New Jersey. Pannell was fleeing police when he was shot; Spath was later charged and acquitted on charges of manslaughter. The case created controversy over allegations of racial profiling and ... |
6758588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Gidone%20Busch | Shooting of Gidone Busch | Gidone Busch or Gary Busch (1968 – August 30, 1999) was a mentally ill Breslover Hasid who was shot and killed outside his apartment in Borough Park, Brooklyn by four officers of the New York City Police Department, who fired on him at least 12 times. The killing was highly controversial, because although Busch was arm... |
6792159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Timothy%20Stansbury | Shooting of Timothy Stansbury | The shooting of Timothy Stansbury Jr. occurred in New York City on January 24, 2004. Stansbury was an unarmed 19-year-old New York City man who was shot and killed by New York Police Department Officer Richard S. Neri Jr. on January 24, 2004. Officer Neri and a partner were patrolling the rooftop of a housing project... |
7920264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Donald%20Scott | Shooting of Donald Scott | Donald P. Scott was a 61-year-old man who lived on a ranch in a remote part of Ventura County, California, in the Santa Monica Mountains, who was fatally shot during a police raid on October 2, 1992. The officers were attempting to serve a warrant to search his ranch for marijuana. When the officers forcibly entered h... |
8150117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Sean%20Bell | Shooting of Sean Bell | Sean Bell was shot in New York City, in the borough of Queens on November 25, 2006. Three men were shot when a total of 50 rounds were fired by New York City police (NYPD) in both plainclothes and undercover. Bell was killed on the morning before his wedding, and two of his friends, Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman, w... |
9542285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Edmund%20Perry | Shooting of Edmund Perry | Edmund Perry, a Harlem resident, was shot to death by Lee Van Houten, a 24-year-old plainclothes policeman, on June 12, 1985 when he was 17 years old. The case briefly generated a firestorm of protest in New York City when it was revealed that Perry was an honor student and was enrolled to attend Stanford on a scholars... |
10753351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Deandre%20Brunston | Shooting of Deandre Brunston | The shooting of Deandre "Trey" Brunston, a 24-year-old African-American, occurred in Compton, Los Angeles County, California, on August 24, 2003. He was shot 22 times by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies, who fired 81 rounds. In 2006, Brunston's family settled with the county
for $340,000 after filing a lawsuit, a... |
11227464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Kayla%20Rolland | Shooting of Kayla Rolland | Kayla Renee Rolland (May 12, 1993 – February 29, 2000) was an American six-year-old girl from Mount Morris Township, Michigan, who was fatally shot on February 29, 2000 by a six-year-old male classmate at Buell Elementary School in the Beecher Community School District. The boy had found the gun while living at his unc... |
15959812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Michael%20Cho | Shooting of Michael Cho | The shooting of Michael Sungman Cho occurred on December 31, 2007, in the Orange County city of La Habra, California. Cho, a 25-year-old Korean-American artist, was brandishing a tire iron outside a store and was shot by two police officers. The shooting was ruled justified by the Orange County district attorney. Cho's... |
19666814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Jean%20Charles%20de%20Menezes | Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes | Jean Charles da Silva e de Menezes (; 7 January 1978 – 22 July 2005) was a Brazilian man killed by officers of the London Metropolitan Police Service at Stockwell station on the London Underground, after he was wrongly deemed to be one of the fugitives involved in the previous day's failed bombing attempts. These event... |
20972526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Oscar%20Grant | Shooting of Oscar Grant | Oscar Grant III was a 22-year-old African-American man who was killed in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009 by BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California. Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded Bay Area Rapid Transit train returning from San Francisco, BART Police officers detained ... |
23535552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Marta%20Russo | Shooting of Marta Russo | Marta Russo was a 22-year-old student at the school of law at the Sapienza University of Rome, who was shot and killed within the university grounds. Her death was the centre of a complex court case that garnered huge media attention owing to the lack of substantial evidence and motive.
After a six-years-long trial Gi... |
28840210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Clifford%20Glover | Shooting of Clifford Glover | Clifford Glover was a 10-year-old African American boy who was fatally shot by Thomas Shea, an on-duty, undercover policeman, on April 28, 1973. Glover's death, and Shea's later acquittal for a murder charge, led to riots in the South Jamaica section of Queens, New York.
Shooting
At 5 a.m. on April 28, 1973, 10-year-... |
29530312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Henry%20Glover | Shooting of Henry Glover | Henry Glover was an African American resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, who was shot to death by New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) officer David Warren on September 2, 2005. Glover's charred body was later found in a destroyed Chevrolet Malibu parked on a Mississippi River levee.
Warren was tried on federal charg... |
30858051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Yoshihiro%20Hattori | Shooting of Yoshihiro Hattori | was a Japanese student on an exchange program to the United States who was shot to death in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The shooting happened when Hattori, on his way to a Halloween party, went to the wrong house by mistake. Property owner Rodney Peairs () fatally shot Hattori, thinking that he was trespassing with crimina... |
32684174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Mark%20Duggan | Shooting of Mark Duggan | Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old Black British man, was shot and killed by police in Tottenham, North London on 4 August 2011. The Metropolitan Police stated that officers were attempting to arrest Duggan on suspicion of planning an attack and that he was in possession of a handgun. Duggan died from a gunshot wound to the ch... |
33349034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Barry%20Deloatch | Shooting of Barry Deloatch | The shooting of Barry "Gene" Deloatch occurred on the early morning of September 22, 2011 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Deloatch, an unarmed man, was shot twice and killed by police. Officers later claimed he attempted to hit them with a wooden stick. The circumstances of his death generated significant controversy, le... |
39394645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Kirill%20Denyakin | Shooting of Kirill Denyakin | Kirill Ivanovich Denyakin () was a 26-year-old Kazakhstani national, who was fatally shot by a police officer in Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, on the evening of April 23, 2011. Later found to have been intoxicated but unarmed at the time of the shooting, Denyakin was shot by Officer Stephen Rankin of the Portsmo... |
40151927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Fredy%20Villanueva | Shooting of Fredy Villanueva | The shooting of Fredy Alberto Villanueva occurred on August 9, 2008, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Villanueva, a Honduran immigrant, was shot and killed by a Montreal Police officer in the parking lot of Montreal-Nord's Henri-Bourassa Arena, near Rolland Boulevard and Pascal Street, just after 7:00 p.m. Two other men w... |
42476489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20James%20Boyd | Shooting of James Boyd | James Matthew Boyd (April 8, 1975 – March 16, 2014) was an American man who was fatally shot by Albuquerque Police Department officers Keith Sandy and Dominique Perez in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains in Albuquerque, New Mexico on the evening of March 16, 2014. A resident of a nearby subdivision called police at... |
43529715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Michael%20Brown | Shooting of Michael Brown | On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown Jr., an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by 28-year-old white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the city of Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.
Brown was accompanied by his 22-year-old friend Dorian Johnson. Wilson said that an altercation ensued when Brown attacke... |
43690208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Charles%20Vacca | Shooting of Charles Vacca | On August 25, 2014, 39-year-old Charles Vacca was accidentally shot and killed while instructing a nine-year-old girl in how to shoot a Mini-Uzi. The accident occurred at the Arizona Last Stop Gun Range (also known as "Bullets and Burgers") in White Hills, Arizona, where Vacca had worked for about eighteen months. Acco... |
44642890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Corey%20Jackson | Shooting of Corey Jackson | William "Corey" Jackson was a 34-year-old African-American man who was fatally shot by a police officer in Geneva, New York, in May 2011.
The incident
On May 20, 2011, police stopped a car with three men in it. William "Corey" Jackson was in the back seat, and he was wanted in connection with an alleged strong armed r... |
44671186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20John%20Crawford%20III | Shooting of John Crawford III | The shooting of John Crawford III occurred on August 5, 2014. Crawford was a 22-year-old African-American man shot and killed by a police officer in a Walmart store in Beavercreek, Ohio, near Dayton, while he was holding a BB gun that was for sale in the store. The shooting was captured on surveillance video and led to... |
44810520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Kuanchung%20Kao | Shooting of Kuanchung Kao | The shooting of Kuanchung Kao occurred on April 29, 1997 in Rohnert Park, California. Kao was waving a wooden stick in the street in front of his driveway, prompting multiple 911 calls placed by Kao's neighbors. He was then fatally shot by public safety officer Jack Shields.
Kao's family filed a lawsuit against Rohner... |
44917539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Douglas%20Zerby | Shooting of Douglas Zerby | The fatal shooting of Douglas Zerby occurred on December 12, 2010 in Long Beach, California. Zerby was shot by two Long Beach Police Department officers while playing with a garden hose nozzle. They claimed that they mistook the hose nozzle for a gun and fired at Zerby, killing him, and did not make any verbal warnings... |
44938436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Ezell%20Ford | Shooting of Ezell Ford | Ezell Ford, a 25-year-old African-American man, died from multiple gunshot wounds after being shot by Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers in Florence, Los Angeles, California on August 11, 2014. In the weeks and months that followed, Ford's shooting triggered multiple demonstrations and a lawsuit by Ford's fa... |
45179085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Jerame%20Reid | Shooting of Jerame Reid | Jerame Reid was shot on December 30, 2014, in Bridgeton, New Jersey, by Bridgeton officer Braheme Days when he and his partner, Roger Worley, during a traffic stop for running through a stop sign. The encounter was captured on a dashcam video that was released on January 22, 2015.
Details
The two-minute fatal encounte... |
45627590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Tony%20Robinson | Shooting of Tony Robinson | The shooting of Tony Terrell Robinson Jr. occurred on March 6, 2015, in Madison, Wisconsin. Robinson, an unarmed 19-year-old man, was fatally shot by Madison police officer Matthew Kenny, during a "check-person" call. Kenny was responding to dispatch reports that Robinson was jumping in front of cars and acting erratic... |
46369340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Bich%20Cau%20Thi%20Tran | Shooting of Bich Cau Thi Tran | The shooting of Bich Cau Thi Tran (also known as Cau Bich Tran) occurred in San Jose, California, on July 13, 2003. She was fatally shot by a San Jose Police officer in her home. Tran was wielding an Asian vegetable peeler at two police officers and was then shot once in the chest. The incident led to controversy among... |
46449003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Dontre%20Hamilton | Shooting of Dontre Hamilton | On April 30, 2014, Dontre Hamilton was shot and killed by police officer Christopher Manney, at Red Arrow Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. No charges were brought, but Manney was fired from the force. As a result of the shooting and subsequent protests, Milwaukee police officers were equipped with body cameras.
Backgroun... |
46500223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Eric%20Harris | Shooting of Eric Harris | The shooting of Eric Harris occurred on April 2, 2015, when 43-year-old African-American Eric Courtney Harris was fatally shot during an undercover sting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as Harris ran from authorities unarmed. While Harris was being subdued, Tulsa County Reserve Deputy Robert Charles Bates, 73, confused his persona... |
46546166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Rekia%20Boyd | Shooting of Rekia Boyd | Rekia Boyd was a 22-year-old black American woman who was fatally shot in Chicago, Illinois by Dante Servin, an off-duty Hispanic Chicago police detective, on March 21, 2012.
Shooting
Servin, an off-duty police officer, drove his car to Douglass Park on the West Side of Chicago after calling the police to make a noise... |
46611026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Brian%20Moore | Shooting of Brian Moore | The murder of Brian Moore, a New York City police officer, took place on May 2, 2015, in Queens, New York, where he was shot. Moore died two days later at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, at the age of 25. His partner, Erik Jansen, was shot at but escaped injury. Demetrius Blackwell was arrested in connection with the ... |
46612927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Parrish%20Dennison | Shooting of Parrish Dennison | Parrish Dennison was shot and killed by police in New Mexico in 2013. There was disagreement over the justification for the fatal shooting.
Fatal shooting
On March 5, 2013, Parrish Dennison was shot and killed by Albuquerque police officers Perdue, Dedler and Aragon. Dennison was suspected of being one of three people... |
46616143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Kendall%20Carroll | Shooting of Kendall Carroll | Kendall Carroll was shot and killed on March 19, 2013, just two weeks after the fatal Albuquerque Police Department (APD) shooting of Parrish Dennison. Kendall and his brother were both involved in an officer stand off. The stand off lasted for more than four hours. Michael the younger brother surrendered midway while ... |
46831506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Ramarley%20Graham | Shooting of Ramarley Graham | The shooting of Ramarley Graham took place in the borough of the Bronx in New York City on February 2, 2012. Richard Haste, a New York Police Department officer, shot Graham in the bathroom of the latter's apartment. The 18-year-old Graham was in possession of marijuana when officer Haste tried to stop him on the stree... |
47206422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Kate%20Steinle | Shooting of Kate Steinle | On July 1, 2015, 32-year-old Kathryn ("Kate") Steinle was shot and killed while walking with her father and a friend along Pier 14 in the Embarcadero district of San Francisco. She was hit in the back by a single bullet. The man who fired the gun, José Inez García Zárate, said he had found it moments before, wrapped in... |
47377684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Samuel%20DuBose | Shooting of Samuel DuBose | On July 19, 2015, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Samuel DuBose, an unarmed black man, was fatally shot by Ray Tensing, a white University of Cincinnati police officer, during a traffic stop for a missing front license plate and a suspended driver's license.
Tensing fired after DuBose started his car. Tensing stated that DuBos... |
47562324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20John%20Geer | Shooting of John Geer | The shooting of John Geer occurred on August 29, 2013, in the Pohick Hills neighborhood of Springfield, Virginia. Geer was killed by Fairfax County Police Department Officer Adam Torres, after a 42-minute standoff. Geer was unarmed with his hands raised above his shoulders, but a holstered gun was reportedly on the flo... |
47599043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Jonathan%20Ferrell | Shooting of Jonathan Ferrell | On September 14, 2013, Jonathan Ferrell (born October 11, 1988), a 24-year-old former college football player for the Florida A&M University Rattlers, allegedly charged at and was shot and killed by police officer Randall "Wes" Kerrick in Charlotte, North Carolina. Kerrick was charged with voluntary manslaughter, but n... |
47644694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20William%20Chapman | Shooting of William Chapman | The shooting of William L. Chapman II, a black 18-year-old, on April 22, 2015, in Portsmouth, Virginia, when Chapman was shot and killed in a Wal-Mart parking lot by Portsmouth Police Officer Stephen D. Rankin. Rankin had been responding to a report of suspected shoplifting, and engaged in a physical struggle with Ch... |
47671602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Darren%20Goforth | Shooting of Darren Goforth | The Shooting of Darren Goforth ( 1968 – August 28, 2015) refers to the shooting death of a ten-year deputy sheriff of the Harris County Sheriff's Office. Goforth, who was in uniform at the time, was killed by Shannon Miles, a repeat offender with a history of mental illness, who shot Goforth repeatedly in the back of ... |
47979716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Jeremy%20McDole | Shooting of Jeremy McDole | Jeremy "Bam Bam" McDole was a 28-year-old African American paraplegic who was shot and killed by police in Wilmington, Delaware on September 23, 2015, at 3:00 pm. McDole was in a wheelchair at the time of the shooting. Police and bystanders have offered differing accounts of the event. The exact cause of the shooting r... |
48503346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Jeremy%20Mardis | Shooting of Jeremy Mardis | On November 3, 2015, Jeremy Mardis, a six-year-old boy, was murdered by police in Marksville, Louisiana, in a shooting that also wounded his father, Chris Few.
Two Marksville law enforcement officers, Derrick Stafford and Norris Greenhouse Jr., were arrested on charges of second-degree murder and attempted second-deg... |
48511051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20John%20T.%20Williams | Shooting of John T. Williams | On August 30, 2010, John T. Williams, a Native American woodcarver, was shot four times by Officer Ian Birk of the Seattle Police Department. Williams died at the scene. The shooting was ruled "unjustified" by the police department's Firearms Review Board. The department's actions were scrutinized by the United States ... |
48564072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Corey%20Jones | Shooting of Corey Jones | Corey Jones (February 3, 1984October 18, 2015) was shot to death by police officer Nouman K. Raja, while waiting for a tow truck by his disabled car, in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
Raja, who was in plainclothes and in an unmarked white van, approached Jones, who was waiting by his disabled vehicle on a highway exit r... |
48943845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Mohamed%20Taufik%20Zahar | Shooting of Mohamed Taufik Zahar | The shooting of Mohamed Taufik Zahar took place around 4:36 a.m. on 31 May 2015, near the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore where the Shangri-La Dialogue was being held; police officers fatally shot Mohamed Taufik bin Zahar, a 34-year-old logistics mover. Taufik, who was driving a red Subaru Impreza and was carrying two pa... |
49043698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Jesse%20Hartnett | Shooting of Jesse Hartnett | In the late evening of January 7, 2016, in a sudden attack with no precipitating event, Edward Archer rushed towards and shot Philadelphia police officer Jesse Hartnett while he drove his patrol car, inserting the gun into the window of the car and firing at point blank range. Despite being shot multiple times in the l... |
49384571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Leonard%20Deadwyler | Shooting of Leonard Deadwyler | Leonard Deadwyler (February 19, 1941 – May 7, 1966) was an African-American man who was shot and killed by LAPD officer Jerold M. Bova after allegedly speeding and running red lights while driving his wife, who was in labor, to the hospital. His wife later sued Los Angeles for wrongful death, and was represented by Joh... |
49636546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Abdullahi%20Omar%20Mohamed | Shooting of Abdullahi Omar Mohamed | The shooting of Abdullahi "Abdi" Omar Mohamed occurred in Salt Lake City, Utah, on February 27, 2016. Mohamed, a 17-year-old Somali refugee, was shot and injured by police after allegedly being involved in a confrontation with another person. Mohamed was armed with a metal broomstick, and was asked to drop it by respon... |
50322814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Daniel%20Shaver | Shooting of Daniel Shaver | On January 18, 2016, Daniel Leetin Shaver of Granbury, Texas, was fatally shot by police officer Philip Brailsford in the hallway of a La Quinta Inn & Suites hotel in Mesa, Arizona, United States. Police were responding to a report that a rifle had been pointed out of the window of Shaver's hotel room.
After the sho... |
50823846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Eula%20Love | Shooting of Eula Love | Eula Mae Love (commonly referred to as Eula Love) was a 39-year-old African-American mother and widow who was shot and killed on January 3, 1979, by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department. Although Love's death sparked outcry in South Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County District Attorney exonerated both of the p... |
51129124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Charles%20Kinsey | Shooting of Charles Kinsey | On July 18, 2016, Charles Kinsey, a mental health therapist, was shot in the leg by a police officer in North Miami, Florida. Kinsey had been retrieving his 27-year-old autistic patient, Arnaldo Rios Soto, who had run away from his group home. Police encountered the pair while they were searching for an armed suicidal ... |
51236487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Korryn%20Gaines | Shooting of Korryn Gaines | The shooting of Korryn Gaines occurred on August 1, 2016, in Randallstown, Maryland, near Baltimore, resulting in the death of Gaines, a 23-year-old woman, and the shooting of her son, who survived. According to the Baltimore County Police Department, officers sought to serve Gaines a warrant in relation to an earlier ... |
51252666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Paul%20O%27Neal | Shooting of Paul O'Neal | The shooting of Paul O'Neal occurred on July 28, 2016, when he was shot in the back by Chicago Police Department officers following a grand theft auto chase. O'Neal, 18, struck two police cars, a parked car, while operating a stolen Jaguar. Police say that O'Neal, who was unarmed, fled from the vehicle after the chase ... |
51669413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Terence%20Crutcher | Shooting of Terence Crutcher | On September 16, 2016, Terence Crutcher, a 40-year-old black motorist, was shot and killed by police officer Betty Jo Shelby in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was unarmed, standing near his vehicle in the middle of a street.
The shooting led to protests in Tulsa. Six days later, on September 22, the Tulsa County District Attorne... |
51693510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Keith%20Lamont%20Scott | Shooting of Keith Lamont Scott | Keith Lamont Scott, a 43-year-old African-American man, was fatally shot on , 2016, in Charlotte, North Carolina, by Brentley Vinson, an African-American city police officer. It sparked both peaceful and violent protests led by Black Lives Matter in Charlotte.
The shooting prompted investigations by the Charlotte-Meck... |
52071804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Deborah%20Danner | Shooting of Deborah Danner | Deborah Danner, 66, was fatally shot by New York Police Department Sgt. Hugh Barry on October 18, 2016, in her home in the Bronx, New York. According to police sources, she was armed with first a pair of scissors and then a baseball bat. According to an emergency medical technician, she had put the scissors down, and l... |
52334647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Benjamin%20Marconi | Shooting of Benjamin Marconi | On November 20, 2016, Benjamin Marconi, a detective with the San Antonio Police Department, was shot to death in San Antonio, Texas. In the shooting, a motorist stopped his car, got out, and shot and wounded Marconi while the latter was sitting in his marked patrol car in front of the department's headquarters, writing... |
52334723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Bernard%20Whitehurst | Shooting of Bernard Whitehurst | Bernard Whitehurst, Jr. was shot in the back and killed on December 2, 1975 by Donald Foster, a Montgomery, Alabama police officer who said he thought Whitehurst was the suspect in the robbery of a neighborhood grocery store. In a subsequent cover-up, police officers planted a gun on him. The initial police report sai... |
52489293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Ong%20Teik%20Kwong | Shooting of Ong Teik Kwong | The shooting of Datuk Ong Teik Kwong occurred on 1 December 2016, on Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway, Penang, Malaysia. Datuk Ong, a 32 year old businessman, was driving his car to Penang with his bodyguard and a passenger. The bodyguard, Ja'afar Halid, pulled out his gun and shot Ong. Ja'afar Halid's subsequent shootin... |
52503277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Larry%20Jackson%20Jr. | Shooting of Larry Jackson Jr. | On July 26, 2013, Larry Jackson Jr. was shot dead by Austin Police Department Detective Charles Kleinert in Austin, Texas. Jackson was at the scene of a bank robbery earlier that day in central Austin. When questioned by Kleinert as to why he falsely identified himself to a bank employee, Jackson ran. When Kleinert cau... |
52529924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Brian%20Stack | Shooting of Brian Stack | Brian Stack (1935/1936 — 29 September 1984), the chief prison officer at Portlaoise Prison, was shot in the neck in 1983 by members of the Provisional IRA and died after 18 months in hospital. He was the only officer in the Irish Prison Service to be killed in connection with the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Political... |
52801655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Collin%20Rose | Shooting of Collin Rose | On November 22, 2016, Collin Rose, a police officer with the Wayne State University Police Department who worked with police dogs, was shot to death in Detroit, Michigan. The shooting occurred following an attempt by the officer to stop and question a bicyclist riding near the Wayne State University campus in an area w... |
53177919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Johnny%20Robinson | Shooting of Johnny Robinson | Johnny Robinson (1947–1963) was a young African-American teenager who, at age 16, was shot and killed by a police officer in the unrest following the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama. Robinson and several others were allegedly throwing rocks at a car draped with a Confederate flag. A Birmingham... |
53798892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Robert%20Godwin | Shooting of Robert Godwin | On April 16, 2017, 74-year-old Robert Lee Godwin Sr. (September 7, 1942 April 16, 2017) was shot and killed with a firearm while walking in the Glenville neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The perpetrator, identified as 37-year-old Steve Stephens, posted a cellphone video of the shooting on his Facebook a... |
53966188 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Stephen%20Ballard | Shooting of Stephen Ballard | Corporal Stephen J. Ballard (28 January 1985 – 26 April 2017) was a Delaware State Police Officer. On 26 April 2017 Ballard was shot and killed after approaching a suspicious vehicle at a Wawa in Bear, Delaware.
Shooting
Ballard was shot and killed on April 26. 2017 after he approached a suspicious vehicle in the par... |
54003867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Mansur%20Ball-Bey | Shooting of Mansur Ball-Bey | On August 19, 2015, a Moorish man named Mansur Ball-Bey was shot and killed by a St. Louis police officer who was executing a search warrant at a house where Ball-Bey was present. Rumors surrounded the killing of Ball-Bey as to whether he was unarmed when shot by police, and crowds gathered in the street to express ang... |
54040153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Jocques%20Clemmons | Shooting of Jocques Clemmons | Jocques Clemmons, a 31-year-old, was fatally shot on February 10, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, after a traffic stop where Clemmons pulled out a gun, leading to a confrontation with Joshua Lippert, a 32-year-old police officer. After an investigation, the Davidson County District Attorney declined to pro... |
55274255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Scout%20Schultz | Shooting of Scout Schultz | On September 16, 2017, Scout Schultz, a 21-year-old student of the Georgia Institute of Technology, was shot once and killed by Tyler Beck, an officer of the Georgia Tech Police Department. Schultz was carrying a multitool and walked towards the police, asking them to shoot. The multitool contained a screwdriver and a ... |
55459841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Patrick%20Harmon | Shooting of Patrick Harmon | Patrick Harmon was a 50-year-old African-American man fatally shot from behind by police officer Clinton Fox in Salt Lake City, Utah, on August 13, 2017. The shooting took place after Harmon was pulled over by an officer for riding a bicycle without proper lighting. The incident led to protests in Salt Lake City, some ... |
56491209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Mohamed%20Bah | Shooting of Mohamed Bah | The shooting of Mohamed Bah was an incident that occurred on September 25, 2012. During the incident, Mohamed Bah was fatally shot 8 times inside his Manhattan apartment by New York City Police officers.
The incident prompted the Bah family to file a $70 million civil lawsuit against New York City. The lawsuit demande... |
56560914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Colten%20Boushie | Shooting of Colten Boushie | Colten Boushie (October 31, 1993 – August 9, 2016) was a 22-year-old Indigenous man of the Cree Red Pheasant First Nation who was fatally shot on a rural Saskatchewan farm by its owner, Gerald Stanley. Stanley stood trial for second-degree murder and for a lesser charge of manslaughter, but was ultimately acquitted in ... |
56917990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Stephon%20Clark | Shooting of Stephon Clark | In the late evening of March 18, 2018, Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old African-American man, was shot and killed in Meadowview, Sacramento, California by Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet, two officers of the Sacramento Police Department in the backyard of his grandmother's house while he had a phone in his hand. The en... |
56939414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Yassar%20Yaqub | Shooting of Yassar Yaqub | The death of Yassar Yaqub occurred on the evening of 2 January 2017 near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Yaqub was a passenger in a car stopped by police on a sliproad near junction 24 of the M62 motorway and was fatally shot by a West Yorkshire Police firearms officer.
Mohammed Yaqub, Yaqub's father, pa... |
57713358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Jos%C3%A9%20Rodr%C3%ADguez | Shooting of José Rodríguez | On October 10, 2012, at the Mexico–United States border near Nogales, Arizona, U.S. Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz fired 16 shots at teenager José Antonio Elena Rodríguez (born January 4, 1996), killing him, on the grounds that young men threw rocks at him and other law enforcement agents.
Rodriguez was hit 10 tim... |
58065997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Markeis%20McGlockton | Shooting of Markeis McGlockton | The shooting of Markeis McGlockton, a 28-year-old man at a parking lot in Clearwater, Florida, United States, on July 19, 2018, was widely reported by news media as another instance of Florida's controversial stand-your-ground law, six years after the killing of Trayvon Martin generated international attention and deba... |
58077523 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Bijan%20Ghaisar | Shooting of Bijan Ghaisar | On November 17, 2017, Bijan C. Ghaisar, a 25-year-old American, was fatally shot by US Park Police officers Lucas Vinyard and Alejandro Amaya after a vehicular chase that followed a traffic collision along the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Northern Virginia. Ghaisar was unarmed and died ten days later in a hosp... |
59036519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Jemel%20Roberson | Shooting of Jemel Roberson | On November 11, 2018, Jemel Roberson, a 26-year-old African American security guard for Manny's Blue Room Bar in Robbins, Illinois, was fatally shot by Ian Covey, a white Midlothian police officer responding to a call of shots fired at the bar. Roberson was working for the bar as a security guard when four people were... |
59174863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Camilo%20Catrillanca | Shooting of Camilo Catrillanca | Camilo Marcelo Catrillanca Marín (13 September 1994 – 14 November 2018) was a Mapuche farmer from Temucuicui in Chile who was shot to death by the Chilean police force. The incident led to protests against police violence, and occurred in the broader context of the ongoing conflict over Mapuche civil rights.
Biography... |
59948475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Willie%20McCoy | Shooting of Willie McCoy | Willie McCoy, also known as Willie Bo, was an African-American rapper. On February 9, 2019, McCoy was killed by six police officers in Vallejo, California.
Background
Early life and rapping
McCoy lost both parents to cancer by the time he was 12 years old. He did well at sports in school, and earned his GED before dr... |
60108263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Vivian%20Strong | Shooting of Vivian Strong | On June 24, 1969, Vivian Strong, a 14-year-old African American girl, was killed in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, when a white police officer shot her in the back of the head without warning. The white police officer, and his Black partner, had been dispatched to the location because there were "juveniles breaking in... |
61040385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20David%20Ortiz | Shooting of David Ortiz | On the evening of June 9, 2019, Dominican-American retired professional baseball player David Ortiz, formerly of the Boston Red Sox and Minnesota Twins, was shot and severely wounded while at a bar in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Ortiz survived and received emergency medical treatment, while an investigation quic... |
63455701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Danny%20Hansford | Shooting of Danny Hansford | Daniel Lewis Hansford (March 1, 1960 – May 2, 1981) was an American shooting victim who was killed by his employer, preservationist Jim Williams, at Williams' home in Savannah, Georgia, United States. His death was documented in John Berendt's 1994 non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and its 1997 f... |
63751545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Duncan%20Lemp | Shooting of Duncan Lemp | On March 12, 2020, Duncan Socrates Lemp was fatally shot at his home in Potomac, Maryland during a no-knock police raid by the Montgomery County Police Department's SWAT team. Police have said that Lemp was shot after "confronting" an officer during the execution of the raid. Lemp's family have said through their attor... |
64100356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Tony%20McDade | Shooting of Tony McDade | On May 27, 2020, after 11 a.m., a 38-year-old African-American transgender man, Tony McDade, was fatally shot in the Leon Arms apartment complex by an officer of the Tallahassee Police Department, following the fatal stabbing of Malik Jackson on nearby Saxon Street. Early reports of the incident misgendered McDade as a... |
64121871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Jamarion%20Robinson | Shooting of Jamarion Robinson | On August 5, 2016, Jamarion Rashad Robinson, a 26-year-old African American man who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was shot 59 times and killed in a police raid in East Point, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. The shooting occurred when at least 14 officers of a Southeast Regional Fugitive Taskforce from a... |
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