February 2015
Date Name (Age) of DeceasedRaceState (City)Description2015-02-28 Thomas Allen Jr. (34) Black Missouri (Wellston) When Allen attempted to drive away from a traffic stop, a Wellston police officer jumped partially into the car. The officer fired at Allen, who died of his injuries in hospital on March 1. 2015-02-28 Stephanie LeJean Hill (37) White Arizona (Ehrenberg) Hill was one of two suspects in a Sonoma County, California, murder who were spotted in Indio, California. The pursuit on Interstate 10 east of Ehrenberg, Arizona, involved sheriff's deputies from Riverside County (California) and La Paz County (Arizona). During the foot pursuit after their car crashed, Hill pointed her weapon and was shot and killed by a Riverside County sheriff deputy. 2015-02-28 Cornelius J. Parker (28) Black Missouri (Columbia) Deputies from Boone County Sheriffs Office were pursuing the vehicle of a suspect in a multiple homicide. When the vehicle ran off the road, Parker got out with a handgun and was killed in an exchange of gunfire with the deputies. 2015-02-28 Jessica Uribe (28) Hispanic Arizona (Tucson) Uribe, whose sister said she has a mental condition, was the subject of a suspicious woman report. When a Tucson Police officer responded to check on her they got into a confrontation. When Uribe moved toward the officer holding a knife, the officer shot her. She died at a medical facility the next day. 2015-02-28 Deven Guilford (17) White Michigan (Grand Ledge) Guilford was pulled over for flashing his brights at an Eaton County sheriff's deputy and then shot seven times and killed by the sheriff deputy who made the stop. Family of Slain Teen Deven Guilford Sues Eaton County Cop After Roadside Killing. "Deven's tragic and totally unnecessary death represents a disturbing trend of demanding 100 percent compliance with police authority, coupled with zero tolerance of risk of harm to police officers," lawyer Cynthia Heenan said in a statement. "Whatever happened to protect and serve?"" 2015-02-28 Ian Sherrod (40) Black North Carolina (Tarboro) Police responded to a tip on the whereabouts of a suspect in three earlier fatal shootings. They found Sherrod in a truck displaying a gun. Refusing to surrender, he got out of his truck and pointed his gun at officers, who shot and killed him. 2015-02-28 Chazsten Noah Freeman (24) White South Carolina (Pelzer) A deputy from the Greenville County Sheriff's Office shot and killed Chaszten, a robbery suspect, who had shot at them from a wooded area near Highway 8 as they searched. 2015-02-27 Ernesto Javier Canepa Diaz (27) Hispanic California (Santa Ana) Police identified a man and the vehicle he was in as the suspect and vehicle involved in a robbery. Early reports lack detail, but "something happened" as police tried to contact him, and they shot and killed him. The Mexican government identified the man as Ernesto Javier Canepa Diaz, a Mexican citizen. 2015-02-26 Amilcar Perez-Lopez (21) Hispanic California (San Francisco) Police responded to a call of a man chasing another man down the street and/or having allegedly robbed a cyclist at knifepoint.Man killed by SF police didn't speak English, San Francisco Chronicle Lopez was found holding a knife. He allegedly lunged at the plain-clothed officers with knife overhead and officers shot and killed him. However, this version of events is disputed in a wrongful death lawsuit by a coroner's report revealing all six shots hit Lopez from behind. 2015-02-26 Crystal Lee Miley Harry (34) White Georgia (Sylvester) A pursuit by Worth County Sheriff Deputies led to the crash of the car Worth was in. She got out of the car pointing a pistol at deputies, who then shot and killed her. 2015-02-26 Rodney Dewayne Biggs (49) White Mississippi (Gulfport) Gulfport Police officers responding to a single vehicle crash found Biggs in the vehicle. Police say when they instructed him to get out of the vehicle he reached for a firearm. An officer shot and killed him. The Harrison County Grand Jury found no wrongdoing in the shooting. 2015-02-26 David Cuevas (42) Hispanic Florida (Lakeland) Cuevas was wanted on sexual battery charges so when he texted his girlfriend, she called Lakeland Police. They used her phone to impersonate her in text messages, setting up a meeting with Cuevas. When they met him in a parking lot he went for his gun and was fatally shot by police officers. 2015-02-25 Francis “Frank” Lamantia Spivey (43) White Nevada (Las Vegas) The man brandished a rifle, fired into the air, and then fired into an apartment police say they thought was occupied, at which point a SWAT sniper shot and killed the man. 2015-02-25 Alexander Phillip Long (31) White Indiana (Terre Haute) Terre Haute Police officers spotted Long's car and attempted to arrest him on a warrant. They used their vehicles to pin in his vehicle but he rammed the police cars. An officer used his Taser but could not control Long. Police say he failed to obey commands to show his hands and then reached inside his jacket. That's when an officer shot him in the chest. Long died later at a hospital. 2015-02-25 Glenn C. Lewis (27) Black Oklahoma (Oklahoma City) Oklahoma City Police pursued a vehicle which did not pull over for an early morning traffic stop. The driver went into a dead-end street and had to stop. After the officers got out of their cars and walked toward the stopped vehicle the driver turned around and drove toward the officers. They shot at the car but it went past them and crashed about a block away. Lewis, the driver had been hit several times and was dead at the scene. 2015-02-25 Robertson, Troy Austin (21) Texas (Houston) Harris County Sheriff Deputies responded to a domestic disturbance between a father and son. The psychologically troubled son had taken a rifle and left the house. Eventually the deputies found Robertson hiding, with a rifle, behind an air conditioning unit in the backyard. According to a Sheriff's Department spokesman the deputy ordered Robertson to drop the rifle. When he came back up pointing the rifle at the deputy, the deputy shot and mortally wounded him. Robertson died at a hospital. 2015-02-24 Biegert, Joseph (30) Wisconsin (Green Bay) Police responded to a call about a possibly suicidal man. He stabbed an officer in the arm. The wounded officer and his partner fired, killing the man. 2015-02-23 Smashey, Michael Wayne (37) Georgia (Powder Springs) Smashey was wanted on a warrant for armed robbery and deputies from the Sheriffs' Departments of Cobb County and Paulding County, along with U.S. Marshalls, went to his girlfriends house to try to serve the warrant. He was hiding in a crawl space and officials say he was shot and killed when he tried to stab the deputies as they pulled insulation off him. 2015-02-23 A'Donte Washington (16) Black Alabama (Millbrook) Millbrook Police officers responding to a report of a possible burglary found Washington and four other young men at the residence. The police took one into custody and others fired weapons. Washington retreated back into the house and fired again. Police say when Washington went into the backyard and then toward the street brandishing a weapon, he encountered an officer who shot and killed him. 2015-02-23 Robert Kohl (47) White Louisiana (Denham Springs) Kolh's mother had called the Denham Springs Police Department telling them he was suicidal. Officers say that when they found Kohl he took out a gun and pointed it towards them. A police officer shot and kill Kohl. 2015-02-23 Daniel A. Elrod (39) White Nebraska (Omaha) Police responding to a reported robbery engaged Elrod. Accounts of the interaction vary, but officer Alvin Lugod shot and killed the apparently unarmed Elrod. A grand jury reviewed the case but found no reason to charge the officer. 2015-02-23 Jerome Nichols (42) White Pennsylvania (Allentown) A woman who had been stabbed called police reporting that the man had fled. She named and described the man and his vehicle. Two Catasauqua Police officers and a Pennsylvania State Police found chased the vehicle. In the final confrontation Nichols stabbed one officer before the other two shot and killed him. 2015-02-22 Calvon A. Reid (39) Black Florida (Coconut Creek) Paramedics dealing with a man they described as "agitated, incoherent, and combative" who was found in a gated residential community, called for police assistance. When police arrived they used their tasers on Reid. After being tased, Reid was transported to a nearby hospital where he died on 24 February. 2015-02-22 Bradford Samuel Leonard (50) White Florida (Palm Bay) Police responded to an early-morning 911 hang-up call. When they arrived, Leonard reportedly walked into his driveway, aimed a gun at an officer, and opened fire. Officer Derek Hollcroft opened fire, killing Leonard. 2015-02-22 Anthony Giaquinta (41) White Georgia (Clarkesville) Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell and two deputies responded to a domestic disturbance call and found a woman later identified as Kathy Giaguinta, Anthony's former wife, shot dead in her garage. While they were investigating Anthony Giaquinta (a former sheriff's office employee) returned to his ex-wife's residence and was killed in a shoot-out with deputies. Later they found the body of Steve Singleton, 45, near the home. Sheriff Terrell and one of the deputies were injured and were treated at a local hospital. 2015-02-21 Kent Norman (51) White Indiana (Indianapolis) Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers responding to a 911 call found Norman holding a knife. They felt threatened and shot and killed him. Norman had allegedly been attempting to kill his mother. 2015-02-21 Chance Dale Thompson (35) White California (Marysville) Yuba County Sheriff deputies responded to a 2 a.m. call from a security guard at an aggregate plant about a trespasser. Deputies found the man walking atop a retaining wall, punching and kicking the air. Deputies used their tasers to gain control of Thompson so they could handcuff him. He went into cardiac arrest and died at a hospital. 2015-02-21 Jason Moncrief Carter (41) White New Mexico (Ruidoso) New Mexico State Police attempting to arrest Carter on a warrant surrounded him in his trailer in a rural RV park. There was an all-night standoff during which he brandished a firearm. When he threatened officers with the firearm they shot into his trailer, killing him. 2015-02-20 Ruben Garcia Villalpando (31) Hispanic Texas (Grapevine) Villalpando, a Mexican immigrant, was shot and killed by Grapevine police officer Robert Clark. Clark engaged him in a high-speed chase after responding to a burglary alarm at a business. According to the Star-Telegram, "The driver, later identified as Garcia, got out of his pickup, put his hands up and walked toward Clark's patrol car despite the officer's calls to halt.... Two shots rang out, and Garcia slumped over. He was pronounced dead at 12:06 a.m. at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner's office[.]" 2015-02-20 Alejandro Salazar Hispanic Texas (Houston) Officers from the United States Marshals Service and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice were staking out a residence looking for a wanted felon. They followed a vehicle from the residence until it stopped in a parking lot, then approached the vehicle as the driver got out. The suspect exited the vehicle with a weapon drawn and the officers shot and killed him The suspect was identified by a Marshalls Service spokesman as Alejandro Salazar 2015-02-20 Terry Price (41) Black Oklahoma (Tulsa) Price returned to an Osage Nation casino after he was banned from the premises so tribal authorities called for help from Osage County Sheriffs deputies. Price had left the casino by the time deputies arrived, but he returned while they were there and deputies along with tribal police chased him. A tribal officer used his stun gun. After being handcuffed, Price collaps