This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in June 2024, whether in the line of duty or not, and regardless of reason or method. The listing documents the occurrence of a death, making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or officer involved. Killings are arranged by date of the incident that caused death. Different death dates, if known, are noted in the description. The table below lists 123 people.
Date | Name (age) of deceased | Race | Location | Description |
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2024-06-30 | Christopher Ryan Junkin | White | Crookston, Minnesota | Police responded to reports of a fight near the Care and Share homeless shelter and encountered a man who was being "combative" and refused to follow commands. He was fatally shot by an officer after less lethal means were attempted. [1] [2] |
2024-06-30 | Kelvin Lee Plain (35) | Unknown | Waterloo, Iowa | Police responded to a report of a man armed with a firearm along a major street near Sullivan Park. A shootout then occurred in which the suspect was killed and two officers were wounded. [3] [4] |
2024-06-29 | Brian Moody (16) | Unknown | Dayton, Ohio | Police encountered Moody standing on the street while responding to an issue at a block party and approached him. As the officers approached, Moody pulled out a Glock 17 handgun, causing them to fatally shoot him. [5] [6] |
2024-06-29 | Alberto Nicholas Arenas (29) | Unknown | Downey, California | Police responded to reports of a disturbance near Stewart and Gray Road. A SWAT team and a negotiator responded to the call. Upon arrival, officers demanded Arenas to come out to the street for nearly two hours. Arenas, who suffered from psychosis, had been lighting fireworks in his parents' backyard at the time. Police said that the Arenas opened fire at the police at some point, prompting them to return fire, killing him. No officers were injured and an airsoft gun was recovered at the scene. [7] [8] |
2024-06-28 | Andrew E. Smith (56) | Unknown | Manchester, New Hampshire | Smith told a Manchester officer that he had a gun and he reached into his pocket for the gun. After a struggle, Smith fired his weapon and was shot and killed. [9] [10] |
2024-06-28 | Cody Watkins (34) | Unknown | Dallas, Texas | A man was shot and killed after he held a woman hostage and moving towards the officers with a knife. [11] |
2024-06-28 | John Jay Neibuhr (40) | Unknown | Melbourne, Florida | [12] |
2024-06-28 | Nyah Mway (13) | Asian | Utica, New York | Police stopped Mway and a friend in connection with a string of robberies. Mway ran away and pointed a pellet gun replica of a Glock pistol at the officers. One officer tackled Mway to the ground, then shot him in the chest. Mway and his family were Karen refugees from Myanmar. [13] [14] [15] |
2024-06-28 | unidentified female | Unknown | St. Louis, Missouri | [16] |
2024-06-27 | Francisco J. Hernandez (32) | Unknown | Lynchburg, Virginia | [17] |
2024-06-27 | Jamie Ann Crabtree (36) | White | North Branch, Minnesota | [18] |
2024-06-27 | unidentified male | Unknown | Bulloch County, Georgia | [19] |
2024-06-27 | Eric Michael Fiddler | White | Lansing, Michigan | When Deputy Sheriff William Butler, Jr. conducted a traffic stop and attempted to arrest Fiddler, he pulled out a gun and fatally shot Butler. About four hours after killing Butler, troopers located him and he opened fire on the troopers, causing them to return fire, killing him. [20] |
2024-06-27 | Max Van Sickle (25) | Unknown | Nashville, Tennessee | [21] |
2024-06-27 | Juan Mack (48) | Black | Cincinnati, Ohio | Police fatally shot a stabbing suspect outside of Cincinnati Music Hall after he raised a gun at them. [22] |
2024-06-26 | Paul Wilhite (61) | Unknown | Butler County, Missouri | [23] |
2024-06-26 | Titus Kopp (28) | Unknown | Greensboro, North Carolina | [24] |
2024-06-26 | Daniel A. Jenkins (30) | Unknown | Wauchula, Florida | [25] |
2024-06-26 | unidentified male | Unknown | Las Vegas, Nevada | [26] |
2024-06-26 | William J Banks Jr. (47) | Unknown | Melbourne, Florida | [27] |
2024-06-25 | Mariel Rivera Samuels (37) | Hispanic | Miami, Florida | [28] |
2024-06-25 | unidentified male | Unknown | Pomona, California | [29] |
2024-06-25 | Elijah Hadley (17) | Unknown | Otero County, New Mexico | A sheriff's deputy was dispatched to perform a welfare check on a person walking near U.S. Route 70 between Tularosa and Mescalero. When the deputy arrived, Hadley allegedly presented an airsoft gun at the deputy, who shot and killed him. [30] [31] |
2024-06-25 | Elijah Radford (45) | Unknown | Indianapolis, Indiana | [32] |
2024-06-24 | Daniel Allen Johnson (43) | Unknown | Birmingham, Alabama | Officers responded to a report of a disorderly person. Once on scene, a physical altercation ensued and one officer shot Johnson. [33] |
2024-06-24 | Christopher J. Martin (46) | Unknown | Galax, Virginia | Martin, a wanted felon, fled after officers attempted to stop him. After a pursuit, he discharged a handgun and was fatally shot by return fire. [34] |
2024-06-24 | Javontee Brice (28) | Black | Hamilton County, Florida | Brice shot and killed his mother, a cousin, and a partner of his ex-girlfriend at three separate locations in Bradenton and Palmetto. He began driving north towards Georgia, where another ex-girlfriend was living, when he was pulled over in Hamilton County. Brice opened fire on deputies and was killed in the shootout. [35] |
2024-06-24 | Hakim Al-Nas (18) | Unknown | Clayton County, Georgia | After Clayton County officers responded to a call about a suspicious person, they encountered four people at the scene. When they were going to investigate, Al-Nas fled the scene. One of the officers then shot and killed him. A handgun was recovered at the scene. [36] |
2024-06-23 | Jacob Alonzo (38) | Unknown | Lubbock, Texas | [37] |
2024-06-23 | Kurt Gaede | White | Amarillo, Texas | [38] |
2024-06-22 | Linzell Parhm (22) | Black | Fort Wayne, Indiana | [39] |
2024-06-21 | Richard Albert Viscarra Jr (42) | Unknown | Atascosa, Texas | [40] |
2024-06-21 | James Houllis (29) | White | Commerce City, Colorado | Houllis, who was wanted on two warrants as well as for a domestic violence assault barricaded himself in a home. Police stated that Houllis attack a woman with a handgun and held a maintenance worker hostage. About five hours of negotiating, police shot and killed him. The maintenance worker managed to escape during the standoff and the woman who was attacked is in a hospital with serious injuries. [41] |
2024-06-21 | Jesus Fuentes Vega (27) | Hispanic | Craig, Colorado | [42] |
2024-06-20 | Angela Stewart (53) | Black | Missouri City, Texas | A Missouri City police officer struck and killed a mother and her son while responding to a robbery report. According to the witness, the sirens weren't on before the collision. About 2 hours after the crash, officers found an occupant in the back seat of the officer's patrol vehicle, with no idea who he was or why he was there. The occupant is in unknown condition. [43] |
Mason Stewart (16) | ||||
2024-06-20 | Charles Page (60) | Unknown | Shreveport, Louisiana | [44] |
2024-06-20 | Jose Angel Mendoza (43) | Hispanic | Chino, California | [45] |
2024-06-20 | unidentified male | Unknown | Albuquerque, New Mexico | [46] |
2024-06-20 | Unborn child | Unknown | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | On Milwaukee's west side, police reportedly attempted to preform a traffic stop on a stolen SUV, occupied by five teens. The vehicle sped away, eventually entering I-43 and driving through a construction site, eventually getting blocked by a truck. The driver of the SUV attempted to reverse, hitting a police car. An officer then shot into the SUV, hitting a 17-year-old boy and a 18-year-old pregnant woman. The woman's baby died. The other four teenagers were arrested. [47] |
2024-06-20 | Shilo M. Rice (49) | Unknown | Knoxville, Tennessee | [48] |
2024-06-20 | Seth Samuel Wilson (49) | White | Las Vegas, Nevada | [49] |
2024-06-19 | Lisa Fordyce-Blair (58) | Unknown | Anchorage, Alaska | [50] |
2024-06-19 | Ronald Ray Valdez (34) | Hispanic | Pueblo, Colorado | [51] |
2024-06-19 | Michael Christopher Goodheart (26) | White | Las Cruces, New Mexico | Goodheart called police to report he was drunk driving. When a sheriff's deputy pulled him over, Goodheart allegedly fired at sheriff's deputies, who returned fire. Goodheart was struck by gunfire and died in a hospital. [52] |
2024-06-18 | Shannon Sloan (54) | White | Wadsworth, Ohio | Wadsworth police were called to a home after reports of a suicidal man armed with a handgun who was in the backyard of the house. For reasons that have yet to be disclosed, the man was shot by police when they made contact with him. [53] |
2024-06-18 | Emeshyon Wilkins (17) | Black | St. Louis, Missouri | Officers pursued three suspects in a stolen SUV. One suspect was arrested in the vehicle, a second fled and was arrested, and the third fled and was shot by police after he allegedly pointed a weapon at them. [54] |
2024-06-18 | Jimmy L. Ewing (68) | Unknown | The Dalles, Oregon | [55] |
2024-06-18 | Robert Allen Bostic | Black | Bulloch County, Georgia | [56] |
2024-06-18 | John Zook Jr. (40) | White | Wayne, Michigan | [57] |
2024-06-17 | Brandon Elliott Gabriel Flores (27) | Hispanic | Bakersfield, California | Flores was struck and killed by a police vehicle in Bakersfield. [58] |
2024-06-17 | Jonathan West Nelson (40) | White | Vancouver, Washington | [59] |
2024-06-17 | Jermaine Joseph Sims (35) | Black | Austin, Texas | [60] |
2024-06-17 | Timothy Howell (43) | Unknown | Henry County, Virginia | [61] |
2024-06-16 | Miguel Tapia (52) | Hispanic | Denver, Colorado | Police were called to reports of a person with a knife at an intersection. When officers arrived, Tapia pulled out a knife from a bag. Police tased Tapia twice, then shot Tapia when the tasers failed to work. [62] [63] |
2024-06-16 | Jason Chad Prosser (43) | White | Pacolet, South Carolina | [64] |
2024-06-16 | George E. Taylor (48) | White | Rudolph, Ohio | [65] |
2024-06-15 | Gabriel McNutt (15) | White | Athens, Alabama | Police responded to reports that a teenager was threatening his family with weapons. When officers arrived, the teenager allegedly threw knives and pointed a rifle at them, leading one officer to shoot him. [66] |
2024-06-15 | Christos Alexander (19) | Unknown | Tampa, Florida | Deputies responded to a home in Tampa after a woman reported that her son shot his father. When deputies arrived, they encountered Alexander and his mother outside the house. Alexander then shot his mother and opened fire on the deputies. He was then killed during the exchange of gunfire. Both Alexanders' parents were killed and one of the deputies was injured during the incident. [67] |
2024-06-15 | Monae Bonaparte (38) | Black | Newport News, Virginia | [68] |
2024-06-15 | Ronald Beheler (55) | White | Greenville County, South Carolina | [69] |
2024-06-15 | Joanna Lua (23) | Hispanic | Los Angeles, California | In the Panorama City neighborhood, Lua was fatally shot by police officers with the LAPD after she reportedly charged at them with a knife. [70] |
2024-06-15 | unidentified male | Unknown | Fullerton, California | [71] |
2024-06-15 | Marcelo Gutierrez (31) | Hispanic | South Jordan, Utah | [72] |
2024-06-15 | Julian McCoy (57) | Black | Las Vegas, Nevada | [73] |
2024-06-15 | Leein Hinkley (43) | White | Auburn, Maine | A woman called police to report Hinkley had broken into her home and was fighting with her husband. When police arrived, the couple's house was on fire. Hinkley fled and set a second home on fire before being shot by state troopers. The man who fought with Hinkley was found dead in the home. [74] |
2024-06-14 | Yerkoy Rayshun Shuler (42) | Black | Winston-Salem, North Carolina | Shuler died after being arrested for misdemeanor resisting, delaying, and obstructing a public officer and was sent into the back of the patrol car. The incident is still under investigation. [75] |
2024-06-14 | unidentified person | Unknown | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Officials stated that a driver of a Mazda pickup truck made an illegal left U-turn and was struck and killed by a Pennsylvania State Police cruiser. [76] |
2024-06-14 | Shantidra Harris (31) | Black | Milton, Georgia | Police responded to reports of shoplifting at a Kohl's store. After following the suspects' vehicle to a Walmart, one suspect was arrested at the scene while a second fled. A third suspect, Harris, allegedly carjacked another vehicle and drove towards an officer with it. The officer shot and killed Harris. [77] |
2024-06-13 | Steven Ryan Todd (34) | White | Wilmington, North Carolina | [78] |
2024-06-13 | Mathue O’Malley (27) | Black | Youngstown, Ohio | [79] |
2024-06-13 | Jerman Magana (30) | Hispanic | Compton, California | Two Los Angeles County Sheriff deputies fatally shot Magana as he reportedly shot at a police helicopter while on the rooftop of a house. The two deputies who shot Magana were on the ground. [80] |
2024-06-13 | Sandra "Sandy" Schultz-Peters (66) | White | Myrtle Beach, South Carolina | Schultz-Peters died after a Horry County Police truck drove over her on the beach near Springmaid Pier, pinning her under one of its wheels. [81] [82] |
2024-06-12 | William Kevin Guinn (54) | White | Sullivan County, Tennessee | An Sullivan County Sheriff’s deputy arrived at a home to perform a welfare check and encountered Guinn, who was allegedly armed with a firearm. For reasons unknown, the deputy shot Guinn. [83] |
2024-06-12 | Michael Warren Ristow (39) | White | Minneapolis, Minnesota | Minneapolis police officers responded to a report about Ristow threatened someone with a gun. When officers arrived, they encountered Ristow and he pointed a gun at them. All three officers opened fire, fatally striking him. A jammed gun was recovered from the scene. [84] |
2024-06-12 | Karl Gregory (46) | Unknown | Woodbridge Township, New Jersey | The man, who was wanted for his connection to a homicide in East Harlem, was shot by a Woodbridge and New York City Police officer after he reportedly exited the Raritan Hotel and began shooting at an Woodbridge and New York City Police officers. Both suffered injuries from the event. [85] |
2024-06-12 | Jason Lowery (41) | Unknown | Orange, Vermont | [86] |
2024-06-11 | Ruben Ollarzabal Chairez (51) | Hispanic | Edinburg, Texas | [87] |
2024-06-11 | Timothy Edward Wells (41) | White | Eugene, Oregon | A state trooper pulled Wells over for a traffic stop when Wells reportedly began reaching for a gun. The trooper employed a taser but fatally shot Wells when Wells got a hold of the gun. [88] |
2024-06-11 | Alexander Aguilar-Larios (20) | Hispanic | Los Angeles, California | [89] |
2024-06-11 | Jennifer Rose Dobbins (30) | White | Corona, California | [90] |
2024-06-11 | Damion Ladeal Jones (31) | Black | Opelika, Alabama | [91] |
2024-06-11 | unidentified male | Unknown | Clayton County, Georgia | [92] |
2024-06-11 | Selwyn Brown (54) | Black | Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania | [93] |
2024-06-11 | John Charles Neiswender (69) | White | South Bend, Indiana | Neiswender was reportedly chasing someone with a knife. When the South Bend police officers arrived, one officer unsuccessfully deployed his taser, resulting in another officer shooting him. [94] |
2024-06-10 | Daniel Ryan (65) | Unknown | Belfast, Maine | Ryan called 911 and said he would burn down his apartment building if law enforcement did not respond. Deputies responded and shot Ryan after he allegedly charged at them holding a flaming gas can. [95] [96] |
2024-06-10 | Ridge Rhodes (29) | White | Mifflin County, Pennsylvania | [97] [98] |
2024-06-10 | Noel Hernandez (35) | Hispanic | Columbus, Ohio | [99] |
2024-06-10 | José Luis Rincón López (24) | Hispanic | Clayton, North Carolina | [100] |
2024-06-09 | Willy Lumaine (33) | Black | Fort Myers, Florida | [101] |
2024-06-09 | Shannon Boyd (42) | Unknown | Arlington, Texas | Officers responded to a domestic disturbance call in Red Kane Park, when they arrived, they saw Boyd pointed a gun at his girlfriend and fired multiple shots at her. Officers then discharged their weapon killing him. The woman still remains in critical condition. [102] |
2024-06-09 | Jeffrey Martinez (28) | Hispanic | Española, New Mexico | [103] |
2024-06-09 | Kendrell Hall (22) | Black | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania | Hall was shot and killed after opening fire on an officer and a K9 officer. The K9 was shot and is in stable condition. [104] |
2024-06-08 | Vadim V. Sashchenko (43) | White | Vancouver, Washington | Police responded to reports of a man with an "aggressive" German Shepherd who had bit a person. When an officer arrived, Sashchenko aimed the gun at him before throwing it on the ground, at which point the officer shot him. The dog was tethered to a dumpster and transported to a humane society. [105] [106] [107] |
2024-06-08 | Travis Tauren Martin (41) | Black [108] | Roanoke, Virginia | Roanoke police officers initiated a traffic stop near a gas station. Travis Martin exited the vehicle with an axe and hit a police car with it. Martin then moved towards the police officers with the axe in hand, causing officers to fatally shoot Martin. [109] [110] |
2024-06-08 | Maurice Smith (43) | Black | Las Vegas, Nevada | [111] |
2024-06-08 | unidentified male | Unknown | Prescott, Arizona | [112] |
2024-06-08 | Jason Sekerak (39) | White | Corinth, Mississippi | [113] |
2024-06-08 | Harley Olson (42) | White | Cut Bank, Montana | [114] |
2024-06-07 | Christian Chestnut (37) | Black | Panthersville, Georgia | A reserve officer shot and killed Chestnut in a murder-suicide. [115] |
2024-06-07 | David Martinez (30) | Hispanic | Amarillo, Texas | Martinez, a pedestrian, was struck and killed by a police vehicle while crossing the road. [116] |
2024-06-07 | unidentified male | Unknown | St. Augustine, Florida | [117] |
2024-06-07 | Steven Nelson (39) | Unknown | Hiram, Maine | [118] |
2024-06-06 | Gabriel Gelpi Rodriguez (33) | Hispanic | Miami-Dade County, Florida | [119] |
2024-06-06 | Tyquarius Armstrong (21) | Black | Baton Rouge, Louisiana | When DEA Task Force and EBR sheriff’s deputies were conducting a search warrant, Armstrong opened fired on the deputies in the bedroom. One of the deputies was seriously injured. The deputies then returned fire, fatally striking Armstrong. [120] |
2024-06-06 | Trae Stewart Spurlock (26) | White | Casper, Wyoming | Spurlock was shot and killed by Casper police while trying to gain control of an officer’s firearm during an arrest. [121] |
2024-06-05 | Craig McGrath (37) | White | Brentwood, Pennsylvania | An Allegheny County police attempted to pull over McGrath, who was driving a stolen Nissan Rogue, but McGrath sped away. Minutes later, McGrath was spotted by Brentwood Police, commencing a vehicle pursuit. Eventually, the chase ended on a residential street. When McGrath attempted to flee, a fight reportedly broke out between McGrath and a Brentwood police officer. During the fight, the officer shot McGrath multiple times. McGrath was later pronounced dead at a hospital. McGrath was allegedly armed with a firearm. [122] |
2024-06-05 | Arnold Azamar (51) | Unknown | Dover, Delaware | Azamar, who had previously been banned from a senior living center for aggressive behavior, was being escorted from the facility by an employee. Azamar assaulted the employee, then retrieved a gun from his vehicle and fatally shot the employee. State troopers arrived and shot Azamar after he allegedly raised the gun towards them. [123] |
2024-06-05 | Jamme Mitchell (39) | Black | Jacksonville, North Carolina | [124] |
2024-06-05 | Michael Brown (52) | Black | Milford, Connecticut | [125] |
2024-06-04 | Damion Allen Linder (41) | White | Sturgeon, Missouri | [126] |
2024-06-04 | unidentified female | Unknown | Coloma, Michigan | A female told the dispatchers that someone was going to burn down her house. When the police arrived, she pointed a gun at the officers, prompting them to shoot her. She was later pronounced deceased. [127] |
2024-06-04 | Robby Jay Hernandez (19) | Hispanic | San Antonio, Texas | Hernandez was fatally shot by San Antonio police officer Officer Anthony Lane inside an apartment unit after Lane allegedly witnessed Hernandez pointing a firearm at his girlfriend inside the unit. [128] |
2024-06-04 | Jason Lee McDuffy (44) | White | Montgomery County, Virginia | Officers found a pickup truck which was stolen the previous day. When they pulled the truck over, McDuffy refused to exit and a pursuit ensued. McDuffy was shot and killed when he showed a gun after the pursuit. [129] |
2024-06-04 | Preston Johannsen Banks IV (27) | Black | Flowood, Mississippi | Flowood police officers were given a description of a suspicious man. When Officers found Banks, a foot chase ensued. Banks was then shot and killed after pointing a gun at them. [130] |
2024-06-04 | Elvin Dean Land (67) | Black | Jasper, Texas | When officers were serving a warrant, Land fired shots at them. One of them was struck and they returned fire, killing him. [131] |
2024-06-03 | Roy Chadwick (48) | White | Lubbock, Texas | Chadwick was fatally shot after charging a knife at the police. [132] [133] |
2024-06-03 | Tyler May (21) | White | Anchorage, Alaska | Police shot and killed May after responding to a report of shots fired. [134] |
2024-06-02 | Joshua Main (27) | Unknown | Phoenix, Arizona | According to the police, they were told that a man with a gun was attempting to rob someone of their motorcycle. Officers located the man on the motorcycle, then the man raised his gun and was shot and killed. [135] |
2024-06-02 | Nicholas Daniel Austin Papala (25) | Unknown | Spartanburg County, South Carolina | After a crash on I-85, Papala ran into a nearby wooden area. When four Spartanburg County sheriff's deputies encountered Papala, he reportedly reached for an object in his waistband. The four Spartanburg County sheriff's deputies then fatally shot Papala. [136] |
2024-06-02 | Ryan Prudhomme (41) | Unknown | Nashua, New Hampshire | Nashua Police arrived at a Lowe’s store after police in Pelham told them that Prudhomme was armed and had left his residence. Nashua Police encountered Prudhomme and two officer fired non-lethal weapons at Prudhomme, while a third shot Prudhomme in the chest. Prudhomme died from his gunshot wound. [137] [138] |
2024-06-01 | unidentified female | Unknown | Fort Lauderdale, Florida | A woman who was driving the sedan made a U-turn and collided with a police vehicle [139] |
2024-06-01 | Lataurus Harrison (44) | Black | Anderson, Indiana | When deputies attempted to serve an arrest warrant, they encountered Harrison inside a car in the driveway. The deputies gave him several commands to show his hands but he refused to comply. Then one of the deputies shot him. A firearm was recovered from the scene. [140] |