This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in January 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 90 people.
Date | Name (age) of deceased | Race | Location | Description |
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2024-01-31 | David Falcon (66) | Unknown | Arroyo Grande, California | [1] |
2024-01-31 | unidentified male | Unknown | Spokane, Washington | [2] |
2024-01-30 | unidentified male | Unknown | Spokane, Washington | Police responded to a man threatening to kill his neighbor with a baton. They did not arrest the suspect due to his uncooperative nature and the lightness of potential charges, but later came back after the neighbor reported the suspect was trespassing. The suspect engaged in a standoff with police that ended in the suspect allegedly advancing toward officers, who fired shots, killing the suspect. A police dog and a deputy were injured. [3] |
2024-01-30 | Tevin Chatman (28) | Unknown | Springfield, Tennessee | Police responding to a shooting and stolen vehicle found the vehicle crashed. A man at the scene allegedly brandished a handgun and fired shots at officers, who returned fire, fatally shooting the suspect. [4] |
2024-01-30 | Kenneth Ellis (52) | Unknown | Fryeburg, Maine | Ellis led New Hampshire police officers into Maine during a car chase before crashing. He allegedly exited his vehicle with a knife and was shot dead by an officer. [5] |
2024-01-30 | unidentified male (23) | Unknown | Temple, Texas | A suicidal man allegedly brandished a handgun at officers, causing an officer to fire one round, fatally wounding the suspect. [6] |
2024-01-30 | Artell Cunningham (28) | Black | New Carrollton, Maryland | Two officers shot and killed a man suspected of multiple carjackings and two homicides. [7] [8] |
2024-01-29 | John Robert Smith (58) | Unknown | Decatur, Georgia | Smith allegedly brandished a knife at a veterans' affairs hospital and threatened to harm himself. He was shot dead by an officer as he reportedly advanced towards medical personnel with his weapon. [9] |
2024-01-29 | unidentified male | Unknown | Peoria, Arizona | Police responded to a man acting suspiciously at a restaurant. The man fled encroaching officers and was shot and killed after he brandished a gun at them. [10] |
2024-01-28 | unidentified male (35) | Unknown | Fife Lake, Michigan | [11] |
2024-01-28 | Tyler Lebron Roberts (31) | Black | Ooltewah, Tennessee | Roberts allegedly kidnapped his 18-month-old child in Ringgold, Georgia, before fleeing to Tennessee by car. His car was disabled with a spike strip, and he reportedly exchanged gunfire with officers, resulting in his death. [12] |
2024-01-28 | Brandon Kapa (24) | White | Palm Bay, Florida | Kapa shot and killed three people and wounded two police officers. Other officers killed him. [13] |
2024-01-27 | Joshua Nugent (36) | Unknown | Evergreen, Louisiana | [14] |
2024-01-27 | Guy Robert Vogel Jr | Unknown | Phoenix, Arizona | [15] |
2024-01-27 | unidentified male | Unknown | Colorado Springs, Colorado | [16] |
2024-01-26 | Robert Lee Campbell (51) | Unknown | Piedmont, South Carolina | [17] |
2024-01-26 | Vinton Miller (29) | Black | Olympic Valley, California | Miller, on a work visa from Jamaica, refused to stop for California State Parks Police, who suspected his car was stolen. Miller crashed his car following a pursuit, and was shot dead by police after exiting his vehicle with a knife. [18] |
2024-01-26 | Albaro Amaral (33) | Unknown | Susanville, California | [19] |
2024-01-26 | Alexander Spencer (28) | Black | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | [20] [21] |
2024-01-25 | unidentified male | Unknown | Waianae, Hawaii | [22] |
2024-01-25 | unidentified male | Unknown | Albuquerque, New Mexico | [23] |
2024-01-25 | Larry Armour (43) | Unknown | Wichita, Kansas | [24] [25] |
2024-01-25 | Raphael Nafees Dekemper (48) | Unknown | Indianapolis, Indiana | [26] |
2024-01-25 | unidentified person | Unknown | Dayton, New Jersey | [27] |
2024-01-24 | Clifford Brooks (41) | Black | Washington, D.C. | During a mental health call Brooks was transported by ambulance to the hospital. On the way there he allegedly assaulted medical personnel, leading the ambulances to stop. The man fled and ran into traffic, crawling under a truck. Brooks got out holding a long tire air-pressure gauge, and an officer shot him. [28] [29] |
2024-01-24 | Jeremiah Gaver (37) | White | Boise, Idaho | [30] |
2024-01-24 | Shamar Legette (41) | Black | South Brunswick, New Jersey | Legette was wanted by U.S. Marshals for his involvement in the robbery of Brooklyn-based pastor Lamor Whitehead during a live-streamed church service. Legette was tracked to an inn in New Jersey, where Marshals shot him after a scuffle. Marshals recovered two firearms near Legette. [31] |
2024-01-24 | James Ryan Jr (45) | Unknown | Elko, Nevada | [32] |
2024-01-24 | unidentified male (44) | Unknown | Bluffdale, Utah | [33] |
2024-01-24 | unidentified person | Unknown | Lakewood, Washington | [34] |
2024-01-24 | unidentified male | Unknown | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Police responding to shots fired shot a man, who later died at hospital. [35] |
2024-01-23 | John Garcia (46) | Unknown | San Antonio, Texas | Police responded to a call and found a deceased woman, 48-year-old Lisa Ortiz. Garcia allegedly returned the scene of the crime and rammed police cars before firing a shotgun at officers. Several officers returned fire and killed Garcia. [36] |
2024-01-23 | unidentified person | Unknown | Appleton, Wisconsin | A person was fatally shot after they allegedly fired on police responding to a weapons complaint at a bar. [37] |
2024-01-22 | Janet Sours (81) | Unknown | Wildwood, Florida | Sours called police to request personnel arrive at her residence. When police came, she allegedly attacked an officer with a knife and was fatally shot. [38] |
2024-01-21 | Liban S. Mohamed (22) | Unknown | Augusta, Maine | [39] |
2024-01-21 | Brett Shanahan (40) | Unknown | Gilbert, Arizona | [40] |
2024-01-21 | Heath Thompson (40) | Unknown | Nashua, New Hampshire | [41] |
2024-01-20 | unidentified person | Unknown | Crescent, Wisconsin | [42] |
2024-01-20 | Shane William Sims (33) | Unknown | Winston-Salem, North Carolina | [43] |
2024-01-18 | Jervon Jervy Harper (42) | Black | San Antonio, Texas | Harper died after he was fatally shot by SAPD officer Officer Edgardo Valladares during a traffic stop. [44] |
2024-01-18 | Gary Solomon (31) | Unknown | Norfolk, Virginia | [45] |
2024-01-18 | unidentified male | Unknown | Bakersfield, California | [46] |
2024-01-17 | unidentified male | Unknown | Miami, Florida | [47] |
2024-01-17 | unidentified male | Unknown | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | [48] |
2024-01-17 | Gary Whitten (36) | Unknown | Landrum, South Carolina | After killing his mother and partner, a standoff between Whitten and Greenville County Sheriff deputies occurred. 26 minutes later, Whitten stepped outside and point a shower head at police and being shot. He was pronounce deceased at the scene. [49] |
2024-01-14 | Matthew Holland (31) | Unknown | Portland, Oregon | [50] |
2024-01-14 | unidentified male | Unknown | Hohenwald, Tennessee | Two Deputies with the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office shot a male during a traffic stop along Highway 20. [51] |
2024-01-14 | Corey Faulkner (35) | Unknown | Yakima County, Washington | [52] |
2024-01-14 | Albert Alderman (33) | Unknown | Toledo, Ohio | [53] |
2024-01-14 | William Marvin Toon (28) | Unknown | Riverdale, Utah | [54] |
2024-01-14 | William Michael Fulk (66) | Unknown | Winston-Salem, North Carolina | [55] |
2024-01-13 | unidentified male | Unknown | Los Angeles, California | [56] |
2024-01-13 | Nathaniel Liberator (33) | Unknown | Carlisle, Pennsylvania | [57] |
2024-01-12 | McCrae Bowser (31) | Unknown | Seymour, Tennessee | [58] |
2024-01-12 | Jake Chiaradonna (35) | White | Manchester, New Hampshire | Police shot and killed Chiaradonna, suspected of a robbery, after he allegedly stabbed a police K-9 with a screwdriver and confronted officers with it. [59] [60] |
2024-01-12 | Brian Dawson (60) | Unknown | Grafton, Ohio | [61] |
2024-01-12 | unidentified male (44) | Unknown | Corpus Christi, Texas | [62] |
2024-01-11 | unidentified male | White | Mulliken, Michigan | [63] |
2024-01-11 | Carlos A. Rauda (46) | Unknown | North Little Rock, Arkansas | Rauda was shot and killed after allegedly shooting at two Arkansas State Police Troopers on Interstate 40 [64] |
2024-01-11 | Donald H Hibbard (49) | Unknown | Quincy, Illinois | [65] |
2024-01-11 | John Michael Lewis Jr (43) | Unknown | Phoenix, Arizona | [66] |
2024-01-10 | unidentified person | Unknown | Broomfield, Colorado | [67] |
2024-01-10 | William Wilson (43) | White | Carmichael, California | [68] |
2024-01-10 | unidentified person | Unknown | Oakland Park, Florida | [69] |
2024-01-09 | Joseph Lee McCrackin Jr. (26) | Unknown | Jonesboro, Arkansas | [70] |
2024-01-09 | unidentified person | Unknown | Gresham, Oregon | [71] |
2024-01-09 | Lucas Gilbertson | White | East Grand Forks, Minnesota | [72] |
2024-01-09 | unidentified person | Unknown | Hemet, California | [73] |
2024-01-09 | Sha-Kim Akil Webley (29) | Unknown | Pikesville, Maryland | Police responded to a reported domestic dispute and learned the suspect, Webley, had fled to a nearby BP gas station. Following a barricade situation, three officers shot Webley after he allegedly exited through the front door and shot at officers. [74] [75] |
2024-01-09 | Rhoda Butler (61) | Unknown | Tacoma, Washington | [76] |
2024-01-09 | unidentified person | Unknown | Lamesa, Texas | [77] |
2024-01-08 | Salvador Perez-Garcia (55) | Unknown | Sioux City, Iowa | [78] |
2024-01-08 | Wyatt M. Landon (29) | White | Idaho Falls, Idaho | [79] |
2024-01-08 | Jose A. Rico-Flores (24) | Unknown | Quincy, Washington | [80] |
2024-01-07 | Christopher Lee Shepherd (48) | Unknown | Upper St. Clair Township, Pennsylvania | [81] |
2024-01-06 | Aquazia Kennedy (19) | Black | Dallas, Texas | Kennedy was in the backseat of a stalled car when an off-duty officer in a Jeep Wrangler drove into it. Kennedy was killed, and her two brothers and the officer were injured. Kennedy was pregnant, and her baby was delivered following her death. [82] [83] |
2024-01-06 | Frank Glasgow (57) | Unknown | Morongo Valley, California | [84] |
2024-01-06 | Micheal Mills | Unknown | Leavenworth, Kansas | [85] |
2024-01-05 | Kenny Estrada | Hispanic | Buda, Texas | [86] [87] |
2024-01-05 | Junior Reyes (30) | Unknown | Peoria, Arizona | [88] |
2024-01-05 | Jeremy Bertram (45) | White | Wayne County, Kentucky | [89] |
2024-01-05 | Andre White (30) | Unknown | Whitehouse, Texas | Whitehouse Police responded to an apartment complex after reports of a disturbance. According to police, White started shooting at officers and was shot when an officer returned fire. [90] |
2024-01-05 | David Noteboom (43) | Unknown | Newport News, Virginia | Noteboom was shot after he allegedly pointed a firearm at Newport News police officers coming inside his residence. Noteboom's ex-girlfriend, who was in the residence when Noteboom was shot, said Noteboom did not. [91] |
2024-01-04 | Rickey Powell (43) | Black | Perry County, Mississippi | Powell fatally shot a George County Sheriff’s Office deputy while the deputy was approaching his vehicle during a traffic stop. Powell then fled the scene. After a chase, Powell was shot and killed by officers of the Mississippi Highway Patrol and George County Sheriff’s Office. [92] |
2024-01-03 | Rakim A. Tillery | Unknown | Hillburn, New York | Tillery, who was wanted for a shooting earlier in the day, was stopped by New York State Troopers on I-87. Tillery allegedly exited his vehicle and started shooting at two troopers, who shot and killed him. [93] |
2024-01-01 | Aaron Travis Watson (35) | White | Little Rock, Arkansas | Police pursued Watson, who was wanted by the United States Marshals Service, from Benton to Little Rock. Watson crashed after police performed a PIT maneuver on his vehicle, and officers shot him after he allegedly fired on officers. [94] [95] |
2024-01-01 | Sidney Tafokitau (44) | Pacific Islander [96] | Honolulu, Hawaii | Tafokitau was a suspect in a shooting that injured a woman and a carjacking that followed. Police shot and killed Tafokitau near the University of Hawaii at Manoa following a shoot-out in which two officers were wounded. [97] [98] |
2024-01-01 | Michael Griffin (20) | White | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | Following a car chase involving a stolen sedan, a high-risk stop was executed. The driver of the vehicle, who had been firing at the police during and after the car chase, was found dead after five officers fired upon the stopped vehicle. [99] [100] |
2024-01-01 | Katelynn Rose Smith (29) | White | Longview, Washington | A man reporting to 911 that Smith assaulted him and was suicidal. When Longview Police arrived, Smith allegedly exited the house with a handgun in her hand and then pointed it Longview Police officers, prompting them to fatally shot her. [101] |
2024-01-01 | Victor Figueroa Roblero (47) [102] | Hispanic | Spartanburg, South Carolina | A campus officer shot and killed Roblero during a physical altercation at Spartanburg Methodist College after stopping him for driving the wrong way down a one-way street. [103] [104] [105] |
Cadiente, who knew Tafokitau through his church and the Tongan community, had been following news throughout the day about an island-wide manhunt for Tafokitau.