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July 2017
The following events occurred in reverse chronological in July of 2017. Date Name (age) of deceasedRace State (city) Description2017-07-31Norberto Neiblas Reyes (39)HispanicCalifornia (Los Banos)2017-07-31Isaiah Tucker (28)BlackWisconsin (Oshkosh)2017-07-31Robert Savelli (43)WhiteNew Mexico (Albuquerque) 2017-07-31 Dwayne Jeune (32) Black New York (Brooklyn) 2017-07-29 Anewki Gross Palanco (32) Puerto Rico (Carolina) Gross Palanco was in a dispute with a food truck driver when he was shot in the face by off-duty officer Nieves Pérez Ortiz. Ortiz was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to a total of 104 years in prison.2017-07-29Dennis W. Robinson (48)WhiteIdaho (Melba)2017-07-29Jashod Carter (34)BlackCalifornia (Norco)2017-07-28Raymond Cruz (37)HispanicNew Mexico (Albuquerque)2017-07-28Rodney E. Jacobs (31)BlackMissouri (Kansas City) 2017-07-28 Brian J. Skinner (32) White New York (Glenville) "Police say 32-year-old Brian Skinner exited the front of the home and came at officers with a knife. Officers from both departments then fired their weapons and killed Skinner."2017-07-27Sergio Velasco-Martinez (25)HispanicCalifornia (Avenal)2017-07-27Alejandro Alvarado (35)HispanicCalifornia (Chowchilla)2017-07-27Jerauld Phillip Hammond (46)WhiteCalifornia (Los Angeles)2017-07-27Michael Fitzgerald (26)WhiteCalifornia (Grand Terrace) 2017-07-27 Matthew L. Folden (31) White Washington (Wenatchee) Folden was shot by a police officer who responded to a 911 call. Dispatch described a man who was screaming and wielding a knife while pacing back and forth in the parking lot outside a store.2017-07-26Giovani Casiano (26)WhiteTexas (San Antonio)2017-07-26Andrew Collins (35)WhiteArizona (Phoenix)2017-07-26Kesharn K. Burney (25)BlackOhio (Dayton)2017-07-26Susan Teel (62)WhiteFlorida (Vero Beach)2017-07-25Alexander J. Schoessel (23)WhiteVirginia (Richmond)2017-07-25Aries Clark (16)BlackAR (Marion)2017-07-25Moises Balladares (33)HispanicArizona (Avondale)2017-07-25Michael Joseph Harris (28)WhiteFlorida (Jacksonville)2017-07-24Jerrod Kershaw (31)WhiteMissouri (St. Louis) 2017-07-24 Ismael Lopez Rodriquez (41) Hispanic Mississippi (Southaven) Police accidentally went to Lopez's house while trying to arrest his neighbor for domestic assault. Police claim that he was holding a rifle and refused verbal commands to drop it, but neighbors dispute this. Lopez was shot through his front door. 2017-07-24 Amy Josephine Kuehn (22) Florida (Volusia County) Amy (who was un-armed and had committed no crime) was killed by Trooper Cameron Joseph, who drove his patrol car nearly 153 feet off of the road, and ran her over. Joseph violated the agency’s own pursuit policy, and the investigation resulted in Joseph, who was chasing her at “nearly 20 miles per hour,” being issued a traffic citation for failure to use due care toward a pedestrian. The charge (against Joseph) was dismissed by Volusia County Judge Christopher Kelly because the judge ruled that FHP did not have jurisdiction to issue a traffic citation on private property (the resident’s lawn). .2017-07-23Tyler Scott Rushing (34)WhiteCalifornia (Chico)2017-07-23Walter H. Lynde (49)WhiteMassachusetts (Spencer)2017-07-23Michael Caponigro (59)WhiteWisconsin (Eau Claire)2017-07-21Martin Louis Avena (70)HispanicArizona (Chino Valley)2017-07-21Vicente Velasquez (42)HispanicTexas (Mission)2017-07-21Yahir Brito Lucero (22)HispanicCalifornia (Santa Ana)2017-07-20Joshua D. Daniels (52)WhiteMissouri (Neosho)2017-07-20Daniel Cash (45)WhiteGeorgia (Tallapoosa)2017-07-20Isaiah Perkins (27)BlackMissouri (St. Louis)2017-07-19Farhad Jabbari (38)AsianMichigan (Saginaw)2017-07-19Anthony Benavidez (24)WhiteNew Mexico (Santa Fe)2017-07-19Nolan Cornett (24)WhiteCalifornia (Fair Oaks) 2017-07-18 Eric Wesley Clark (43) Virginia (Culpeper County) Clark was shot by Culpeper County sheriff’s deputies after a vehicle pursuit that lasted several minutes and displayed a shotgun. 2017-07-18 Robert "Bob" Earl Vaughan (70) White Oregon (Springfield) 2017-07-18Daniel Thomas Reid (32)WhiteAlabama (Clay)2017-07-18Mark Allen Smith (36)Unknown raceArizona (Eagar)2017-07-17Ernesto S. Sedillo (52)HispanicNew Mexico (Las Cruces)2017-07-17India Nelson (25)BlackVirginia (Norfolk)2017-07-17Eric Wesley Clark (43)WhiteVirginia (Boston)2017-07-17Jose Cazares (37)HispanicTexas (San Antonio)2017-07-16Amanda Jensen (37)WhiteCalifornia (Seal Beach)2017-07-16David Mordi (24)WhiteWashington (Mill Creek)2017-07-15Justine Damond (40)WhiteMinnesota (Minneapolis)An Australian woman, Justine Damond, called police to report a possible sexual assault. After police arrived, Damond, wearing pyjamas, approached the driver's side door. The officer in the passenger seat, Mohamed Noor, shot Damond through the driver's side door, later telling a supervisor that he and his partner "got spooked." The body cameras of both Noor and his partner were turned off. Noor was subsequently tried and convicted, in 2019, of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.2017-07-15Keith Wade (22)WhiteTexas (Arlington)2017-07-15Vaughn Shaw (23)BlackCalifornia (Moreno Valley)2017-07-15Gerber Dieguez (29)HispanicCalifornia (Los Angeles)2017-07-15Luis Fransisco Vasquez (32)HispanicArizona (Globe)2017-07-15Amy Kuehn (22)WhiteFlorida (Winnemissett Park)2017-07-13Pedro Rubio (42)HispanicArizona (Goodyear)2017-07-13Chancy or Chancey Chamblee (55)WhiteArizona (Tucson)2017-07-13Stephen Steele (56)WhiteFlorida (Zephyrhills)2017-07-12James Gerald Davis (40)WhiteSouth Carolina (Lake View)2017-07-12Kenneth Alan Eustace (58)WhiteCalifornia (Grover Beach)2017-07-12Dorsey Glenn Taulbee Jr. (33)Native AmericanOklahoma (Oklahoma City)2017-07-11Antonio Garcia Jr. (47)BlackKansas (Leavenworth)2017-07-11Silas Andrew Smith (54)WhiteArizona (Golden Valley)2017-07-11Gary Michael Haynes (44)WhiteVirginia (Richmond)2017-07-11Steve Scott (48)WhiteMissouri (Poplar Bluff)2017-07-11Randy Engstrom (34)WhiteWisconsin (Johnson Creek)2017-07-11Caleb Edward Blaylock (27)WhiteNevada (Las Vegas)2017-07-10Cody Ethan Mitchell (26)WhiteMaryland (Mount Airy)2017-07-10Gregory Shawn Thrower (39)WhiteMinnesota (Harris)2017-07-09Michael T. Ward (27)BlackMaryland (Salisbury)2017-07-09Edward Earl Taylor (54)BlackOhio (Akron)2017-07-09Ryan Allen Probst (28)WhiteOhio (Uniontown) 2017-07-09 Robert D. Yeiser (34) White Washington (Bainbridge Island) Yeiser was shot by a SWAT team after he used a rifle to fire towards shoreline homes from his boat. 2017-07-09 Bryant Alvarez (24) Hispanic Illinois (Chicago) A man was shot after holding his girlfriend and her child hostage.2017-07-08Cardell Vance III (23)BlackFlorida (Crescent City)2017-07-08Michael Anthony Rude (22)WhiteWashington (Lacey)2017-07-08Tina Renee Medlin (50)WhiteNorth Carolina (Benson)2017-07-08James Michael Short (28)WhiteNorth Carolina (Charlotte)2017-07-07Kareem Ali Nadir Jones (30)BlackOhio (Franklinton)2017-07-07Eurie Lee Martin (58)BlackGeorgia (Deepstep)Killing of Eurie Martin2017-07-07Brian Easley (33)BlackGeorgia (Marietta) 2017-07-07 Gabriel Sage Barnes (15) White Alabama (Morgan County) Barnes was shot by police after a stolen car chase.2017-07-06Jesus Cervantes (35)HispanicFlorida (Plant City)2017-07-06DeJuan Guillory (27)BlackLouisiana (Mamou) 2017-07-05 Alexander Bonds (34) New York (Bronx) Bonds, who had a long history of severe mental illness (including schizophrenia) and anger at the police, killed New York City Police Officer Miosotis Familia while she was posted at an "R.V.-style police command" vehicle in the Bronx. New York City police officials called the attack a deliberate assassination. Familia's wounded partner called for backup and two officers shot and killed Bonds.2017-07-05Jonathon Coronel (24)HispanicCalifornia (Vista)2017-07-05James William Huskey (45)WhiteOklahoma (Sallisaw)2017-07-05Tiffany Lynn Potter (29)WhiteIowa (Des Moines)2017-07-05Edwin J. "Beanie" Esker (53)WhiteIllinois (Maeystown)2017-07-05Carroll Tuttle Jr. (51)WhiteMaine (Madison)2017-07-04Juan Manriquez (30)HispanicColorado (Federal Heights)2017-07-04Donald Martin (39)WhiteIllinois (Belleville)2017-07-04Tyrone Orvy Peabody (53)Native AmericanColorado (Pleasant View)2017-07-04Dana D. Dubose (36)BlackOhio (Vandalia)2017-07-04Douglas West (46)WhiteWashington (West Richland)2017-07-04Miguel Gonzales (28)HispanicNew Mexico (Albuquerque)2017-07-04Cody Ray McCray (32)WhiteUtah (Farmington)2017-07-03Holden Austin Gorka (25)WhiteOregon (Hillsboro)A man who attempted to steal a helicopter from Hillsboro Airport was fatally shot by police.2017-07-03Zepp Crouchet (42)BlackCalifornia (Antioch)2017-07-03John Donadio (51)WhiteIndiana (Fishers)2017-07-03Christopher Harry Cashell (45)WhiteGeorgia (Bonaire)2017-07-03Daniel Craven (53)WhiteWashington (Spokane)2017-07-03David Leon Bell (30)BlackGeorgia (Brunswick)2017-07-03Holden Austin Gorka (25)WhiteOregon (Hillsboro)2017-07-02Tyson Chad Williams (39)WhiteVirginia (Norfolk)2017-07-01Quintec Locke (37)BlackIllinois (Chicago)2017-07-01Patrick Sanchez (23)HispanicArizona (Glendale)2017-07-01Unnamed personUnknown raceFlorida (Miami)2017-07-01Jeremy Holmes (19)WhiteColorado (Fort Collins)Police were called by Holmes' girlfriend that he was behaving violently with a knife. Responding to a home close to Colorado State University, police confronted Holmes holding the knife, and despite being told to drop it more than 40 times Holmes disobeyed, goading the police to shoot him. Eventually Holmes charged at one of the officers and was shot and killed by the other.
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