June 2017
Date Name (age) of deceasedRaceState (city)Description2017-06-30Brett Rodriguez (33)HispanicColorado (Westminster)2017-06-30Stephanie Lopez (32)HispanicColorado (Englewood)2017-06-30Chet Knuppel (23)WhiteColorado (Fort Collins)2017-06-29Aaron Bailey (45)BlackIndiana (Indianapolis)Following a nighttime traffic stop and a brief car chase (which ended in Bailey's vehicle crashing), two Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers fired 11 shots in the back and side of Bailey's vehicle; four struck Bailey, killing him. The officers said that the saw "Bailey reaching toward the center console, where they feared a gun may have been stored"; however, no weapon was found. State and federal prosecutors conducted investigations but decided not to prosecute the two officers. The police chief recommended that the two officers be fired for violations of department policy, but the local Civilian Police Merit Board voted, 5–2 that the officers had not committed a violation, allowing them to keep their jobs on the police force.Drew Daudelin, Community Reacts After Board Clears IMPD Officers Who Killed Aaron Bailey, WFYI (May 11, 2018).2017-06-29Jose Guillermo Flores Colon (37)HispanicFlorida (Deltona)2017-06-29Marco Cardoza (41)HispanicCalifornia (Burbank)2017-06-29Joel Gatu Muturi (23)BlackGeorgia (Marietta)2017-06-28Rodney L. Cole (37)BlackTennessee (Nashville)2017-06-28Samuel AlamilloHispanicCalifornia (Los Angeles)2017-06-27Jason Magana Herrera (35)HispanicTexas (Amarillo)2017-06-25Nicholas Johnston (47)WhiteArizona (Cave Creek)2017-06-25Lawrence Heyward Jr. (56)BlackSouth Carolina (North Charleston)2017-06-25Rip S. Huntington (36)HispanicNew Mexico (Rowe)2017-06-25George Tillman (56)WhiteNevada (Las Vegas)2017-06-25Deveonte Johnson (24)BlackOklahoma (Oklahoma City)2017-06-24Cameron Ollman (37)WhiteOregon (Florence)2017-06-24Christopher Michael Murray WhiteAlabama (Deer Park)2017-06-24Jimmie Bevenue (47)WhiteOklahoma (Tulsa)2017-06-24Giovonn Joseph-McDade (20)BlackWashington (Kent)Police attempted to pull Joseph-McDade over during a traffic stop. Joseph-McDade fled, eventually colliding his vehicle with a police vehicle. An officer ordered him to get out of his vehicle. Police say Joseph-McDade then gunned the engine at which point police opened fire, killing him.2017-06-23Jesus Ramon Deltoro (34)HispanicArizona (Phoenix)2017-06-22Santino Trevino (20)HispanicCalifornia (Los Angeles) 2017-06-22 Armando Garcia-Muro (17) Hispanic California (Palmdale) Los Angeles sheriff's deputies responded to a "loud music" complaint, and after one deputy reached down to touch a large pit bull, the dog bit the deputy. Two deputies opened fire, firing six shots, and a bullet ricocheted and killed Garcia-Muro.L.A. County D.A. Releases OIS Reviews, Says No Charges to Be Filed, MyNewsLA (December 10, 2018), The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office concluded that the deputies' actions were lawful and declined to bring charges. The mother of the victim filed a wrongful death suit.L.A. County D.A. releases report on fatal officer-involved shooting of Palmdale teen, Antelope Valley Times (December 10, 2018).2017-06-21Daniel Francisco Valenzuela (37)HispanicOklahoma (Millerton)2017-06-21Terry Williams (19)BlackWisconsin (Milwaukee)2017-06-21Brandon D. Lukenbill (33)White Missouri (Nevada)2017-06-20Jacob Faulkner (32)WhiteOhio (Hamilton)2017-06-20Pedro Ramirez (28)HispanicNevada (Las Vegas)2017-06-20Robb Stewart (50)WhiteKansas (Lehigh)2017-06-20David Bryan Creson (40)WhiteTennessee (Franklin)2017-06-20David Pacas (36)HispanicCalifornia (South Gate)2017-06-19Alton Folmar (28)WhiteTexas (Dallas)2017-06-19Matthew Colton Stover (21)Native AmericanAlaska (Fairbanks)2017-06-18Christopher Reyes (30)HispanicTexas (Edinburg) 2017-06-18 Charleena Lyles (30) Black Washington (Seattle) Two Seattle police officers shot Charleena Lyles, a pregnant woman, seven times in her Northwest Seattle apartment, after she called 9-1-1 to report a burglary.Dam Levin, Seattle police shot Charleena Lyles seven times, autopsy finds, The Guardian (August 30, 2017). Police said they fired after Lyles confronted them with a knife, but Lyles' family questioned that account.Sam Levin, Seattle insists it's a model for progressive policing – so why was Charleena Lyles killed?, The Guardian (July 17, 2017). Lyles may have suffered from mental illness, having experienced a decline in her mental health leading up to the fatal encounter. Inquest proceedings began in 2019.Steven Kiggins, Inquest into SPD shooting death of Charleena Lyles begins with pre-conference, KCPQ (September 10, 2019).2017-06-18William Brewster (64)WhiteWisconsin (Waukesha)2017-06-17Joseph Paul Hogan (48)WhiteSouth Dakota (Rapid City)2017-06-17Samantha Aguilar (28)HispanicCalifornia (Montebello)2017-06-16Jamie Dougan (24)WhiteMississippi (Water Valley)Robert J. Berube (41)White2017-06-16Hector Cisneros Soria (30)HispanicCalifornia (Rialto)2017-06-16Nathan Banks (37)WhiteCalifornia (Antioch)2017-06-16Joshua Terrell Crawford (25)BlackAlabama (Tuscaloosa)2017-06-16Sergio Valdovinos (32)HispanicCalifornia (Madera)2017-06-15Michael Brown (40)WhiteNew Hampshire (Newton)2017-06-14Michael Hiram Morris (54)WhiteTennessee (Somerville)2017-06-14Tommy Le (20)AsianWashington (Burien)Following reports of gunfire and a man with a knife, ten patrol units responded to the scene, where neighbors pointed out Le as the apparent assailant. Officers say he advanced on them with a knife. Le was in reality holding a pen. Officers deployed their tasers, which they said were ineffective. They shot Le to death, claiming he was lunging at them. Le was shot twice in the back and once in the back of the hand. 2017-06-14 James T. Hodgkinson (66) White Virginia (Alexandria) Congressional baseball shooting2017-06-13Barry Jones (36)WhiteNew Hampshire (Hampton)2017-06-13Chazz Brown (33)BlackMissouri (St. Louis)2017-06-13Austin M. Durham (24)WhiteIllinois (Jerseyville)2017-06-13Jordan Frazier (36)BlackLouisiana (Baton Rouge)2017-06-12Johnny Platas (45)HispanicCalifornia (Selma)2017-06-12Avery D. Metrejean (35)BlackLouisiana (Broussard)2017-06-12Eleuterio Amaya-Torres (63)HispanicTexas (Plano)2017-06-12John W. Bays (50)WhiteKentucky (Barbourville)2017-06-11Emmett Hall (60)WhiteTexas (Abilene)2017-06-10Robin Blaylock (53)WhiteIowa (North English)2017-06-10Theodore Brendecke (82)WhiteFlorida (Miami)2017-06-10Isaiah Obet (25)Native Hawaiian or Pacific IslanderWashington (Auburn)Police responded to reports of a man with a weapon in an occupied home, later identified as Obet. When Obet fled, he attempted to carjack a vehicle. Police then opened fire, killing him.2017-06-09Joshua Anthony Barre (29)BlackOklahoma (Tulsa)2017-06-09Antonio Juarez (44)HispanicIllinois (Lyons)2017-06-08David Thomas Jones (32)BlackPennsylvania (Philadelphia)2017-06-08Oscar Junior (45)HispanicCalifornia (Ridgecrest)2017-06-08Michele Anne-Marie Rice (33)WhiteCalifornia (Long Beach)2017-06-08Miguel Diaz Garcia (38)HispanicTexas (San Benito)2017-06-08Stephen Scott Rich (48)WhiteColorado (Loveland)2017-06-08Paul Eugene Mashburn Jr. (57)WhiteOklahoma (Roland)2017-06-07Salvadro Alfredo Pablo Lopez (21)HispanicCalifornia (Fresno)2017-06-07Blaine Robert Erb (35)WhiteMaryland (Dundalk)2017-06-07Isaiah Hammett (21)WhiteMissouri (St. Louis)2017-06-07Donald Marcus Smith (75)WhiteNorth Carolina (Sawmills)2017-06-07Mark Ellis (54)WhiteMaine (Orrington)2017-06-06David W. Hamilton (50)Unknown raceWashington (Vancouver)2017-06-06Eric Rivera (20)HispanicCalifornia (Los Angeles)2017-06-05Adrian Maurice Hardeman (37)BlackTexas (Shiner)2017-06-05Charles Edgar "Eddie" Mullins (45)WhiteKentucky (Bardstown)2017-06-05Quentin Case (34)WhiteFlorida (Lake Wales)2017-06-05Zachary N. Bearheels (29)Native AmericanNebraska (Omaha)After being asked to leave a bus in Omaha while heading to his home state of Oklahoma, Bear Heels, who had schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, was left at a gas station. His mother asked police to bring him to a crisis center. Police officers punched Bear Heels, and deployed a stun gun on him 12 times, leading to his death. 2017-06-05 John Spaulding (47) Black Florida (Miami) 2017-06-04Bruce Dawley (66)WhiteCalifornia (Campo)2017-06-04Juwan Lumpkin (21)BlackMichigan (Detroit)2017-06-04Jeremy A. Lindsey (27)WhiteFlorida (Callahan)2017-06-03Donald L. Cramer (44)WhiteArizona (Avondale)2017-06-02Francisco "Frank" Suarez-Maldonado (27)HispanicNevada (Las Vegas)Las Vegas police shot and killed Suarez, stating that he had shot at officers and had told his girlfriend he wanted officers to kill him prior to the shooting.2017-06-02Charles D. Baker Jr. (29)BlackAlabama (Abbeville)2017-06-02Marc B. Davis (34)BlackMississippi (Petal)2017-06-02Naway Willy (18)AsianOklahoma (Tulsa)2017-06-02Antonio G. Rodriguez (55)HispanicTexas (Laredo)2017-06-02Corsean Lewis (17)BlackIllinois (Chicago)2017-06-02Raul Gallegos (45)HispanicNew Mexico (Albuquerque)2017-06-02Edward E. Courtenay (51)WhiteFlorida (Fernandina Beach)
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