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This category contains articles about people who died in police custody in the United States of America, such as deaths during an arrest caused from suffocation or beating, or people who died from an unrelated cause during their arrest. This category does include those shot dead by police officers.
Police responding to shots fired shot a man, who later died at hospital. [36] 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.
Map of per capita police killings in the United States in 2018. [1]Below are lists of people killed by law enforcement in the United States, both on duty and off duty. . Although Congress instructed the Attorney General in 1994 to compile and publish annual statistics on police use of excessive force, this was never carried out, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation does not collect the
On July 13, 2016, we published a database of more than 800 deaths that took place in jails and police lockups in the previous year. The government doesn't release this kind of data, and jails often aren't required to give out information about people who die in their custody, so we had to dig deep.
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. [74] [75] 2024-06-16 Jason Chad Prosser (43) White Pacolet, South Carolina [76] 2024-06-16 George E. Taylor (48) White Rudolph, Ohio [77 ...
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
An FBI agent and a New Britain Police officer returned fire, killing Vasquez. The New Britain officer had been involved in a separate shooting in 2017, in which the officer was cleared of wrongdoing. [78] 2021-01-06 Robert Howard Black Tennessee (Memphis) A Memphis Police officer was arrested for allegedly kidnapping and murdering Howard while ...
Police were responding to a call for help when 27-year-old Taylor Dawn Shutte was shot and killed by 37-year-old Eli Crawford, causing a standoff between him and police. Police say that Eli died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound while his daughter, Cessie, was accidentally struck by a Joplin, Missouri Police Officer's gunfire. [8]