38 Meurtres pour Avril 2015
April 2015
| Date | Name (Age) of Deceased | State (City) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/26/2015 | Unnamed man | California (Fountain Valley) | Police were called to a Rite Aid pharmacy shortly after 4am for a burglary, finding the glass front door smashed open and the suspect inside. The suspect fought with officers trying to detain him, allegedly biting one officer in the arm and grabbing another's handgun. After repeated commands to let go, he was fatally shot by an officer.[1] |
| 04/24/2015 | Collins, Gary Timmie (63) | Oklahoma (Miami) | Oklahoma Highway trooper waved Collins over at a checkpoint. Collins started to flee. After a six-block pursuit, he stopped and got out of the car, showing a weapon in a threatening manner, and was fatally shot by the trooper. He died at the scene.[2] |
| 04/24/2015 | Hawkins, Mark Cecil (49) | Oregon (Salem) | Officers responded to reports of a suspicious vehicle and found Hawkins, who fled to a bus that had been converted to an RV. He shot at officers who returned fire. This repeated over the course of a 7-hour standoff. When police determined they had to end the standoff, officers rammed the RV with heavy equipment to punch holes in it and fired shots into the vehicle, fatally wounding Hawkins. A police dog was wounded in the shooting.[3] |
| 04/24/2015 | Unnamed man | Colorado (Trinidad) | Police received report of an intruder in a vacant trailer in a trailer park. A responding officer searched the trailer, found a man inside, and told him to get on the ground. He complied, but as the officer began radioing in the report, he jumped up and ran. When the officer told him to stop, he turned around and pointed a gun at the officer, so the officer fatally shot him.[4] |
| 04/23/2015 | Unnamed woman | Wisconsin (Madison) | A suicidal woman was fatally shot by officers, outside an apartment building.[5] |
| 04/23/2015 | Morejon, Hector (19) | California (Cambodia Town/Long Beach) | Officers responded to a residential complex in response to reports of several subjects trespassing and vandalizing a vacant residence. Officers saw Morejon in the residence standing next to a wall. Morejon allegedly turned toward the officer while bending his knees and extending his arm; he was then fatally shot. No weapon was found at the scene. Four others were arrested, not killed, for trespassing.[6] |
| 04/23/2015 | Unnamed man | California (Sylmar/Los Angeles) | Morning 911 calls reported a man walking around the streets waving a gun and threatening people. Responding officers found the man with the weapon pointed to his head. When they tried to speak with him, he walked away before allegedly turning around and aiming at the officers. At least one officer fatally shot him in the chest.[7] |
| 04/23/2015 | Chatman, Terry Lee (48) | Texas (Houston) | A cyclist was struck and killed by a patrol car before dawn. The car did not have emergency lights or sirens on. The driver claimed to have a green light and claimed he tried to avoid the cyclist but was unsuccessful.[8] |
| 04/22/2015 | Janks, Karen (46) | California (Sebastopol) | Janks was allegedly speeding up to 100 mph on a highway from Windsor to Sebastopol with Sonoma County Sheriff's Deputies chasing her for 19 miles. At a parking lot of an antique store in Gravenstein Highway, Janks allegedly accelerated towards deputies, injuring three of them; one required hospitalization. Janks was shot by four deputies and died two days later in the hospital.[9] |
| 04/22/2015 | Efraim, Jonathan (30) | New York (Queens) | Efraim was involved in an argument and opened fire in a crowded bar, prompting 911 calls. Responding officers pursued Efraim; after about a block he turned and fired twice at the officers, then ran again. When he raised his weapon at the officers again, they shot and killed him.[10][11] |
| 04/22/2015 | Chapman, William L. II (18) | Virginia (Portsmouth) | An officer responding to a shoplifting call shot and killed Chapman after a struggle between the two.[12][13] |
| 04/21/2015 | Wolfe, Daniel (35) | New Jersey (Union) | Troopers were conducting surveillance of an allegedly stolen car (Wolfe's relatives say he worked for a towing company that owned it[14]) when a man identified as a suspect in a carjacking over a month prior got into the car. Police converged on the car. Wolfe drove it in reverse, ramming a parked vehicle and then accelerated forwards at a trooper, who fired multiple rounds. Wolfe died at the hospital shortly thereafter.[15] |
| 04/19/2015 | Foster, Michael (40) | Kentucky (Wilmore) | An armed man was shot and killed after confronting officers outside a residence. He had previously called a suicide hotline threatening to kill himself.[16][17] |
| 04/18/2015 | McCarroll, Thaddeus (23) | Missouri (Jennings) | The man's mother reported he had barricaded himself in. Officers tried to engage McCarroll but he refused. A few hours later he came out of the house with a knife and Bible. Officers first shot his leg with a rubber bullet which didn't stop him and he allegedly charged at officers, at which point they shot him.[18][19][20] |
| 04/16/2015 | Shephard, Frank (41) | Texas (Houston) | The father of 3+, wanted for allegedly making unsafe lane changes, refused to pull over and called 911 threatening to harm a child in the vehicle if police tried to stop him again. A 15-20 minute pursuit ended in a collision at an intersection and he was shot (10-12 shots fired) when he got out of the car. There was no child in the vehicle.[21] |
| 04/14/2015 | Robinson, Colby (26) | Texas (Dallas) | The man was the primary suspect in murders of two individuals (and critical injury of a third) in the medical marijuana industry. He was recognized by a 7-11 clerk who had just been shown his photo by police, and followed the suspect to get a license plate number. Desoto Police found the truck and pursued the suspect, shooting him after he left the truck and began fleeing on foot.[22] |
| 04/13/2015 | Jiminez, Isaac (27) | Illinois (Alton) | The suspect in a home break-in was believed to be armed, told to drop his weapon, did not comply, and was fatally shot in the chest. Jiminez may also have been involved in a shooting the previous day.[23] |
| 04/12/2015 | Gray, Freddie (25) | Maryland (Baltimore) | Police encountered Gray in a high-crime area and he ran when police approached. According to Gray's attorney, officers thought he may have been involved in a crime. Police pursued and caught Gray. Less than an hour after being arrested, transported, and held, his spine was broken. After a short while, he was transported to the hospital where he lapsed into a coma, died, was resuscitated, stayed in a coma, underwent surgery, and died again (permanently) from the injuries a week later, still in police custody.[24] The cause and specific timing of Gray's fatal injury has yet to be determined. |
| 04/12/2015 | Weaver, Richard Dale (83) | Oklahoma (Oklahoma City) | The elderly man did not comply with officers' order to drop his machete and was shot. He was pronounced dead at the scene.[25] |
| 04/12/2015 | Long, Mack (36) | Indiana (Indianapolis) | The suspect was pulled over during a traffic stop and fled into the woods. Officers chased the armed suspect and gunfire was exchanged.[26] |
| 04/11/2015 | Allen, Donald (66) | Oklahoma (Sand Springs) | Police say the Vietnam veteran was experiencing a mental health breakdown when he rushed Barnett holding a loaded pistol, threatening to kill him.[27] |
| 04/09/2015 | Kimbrell, Gordon Talmage (22) | Florida (Neveree) | Police arrived at Kimbrell's home after he was reported to be acting erratically after drinking rum. Kimbrell allegedly threw knives at an officer and attacked an officer with a sword, injuring him. Kimbrell was shot dead by an officer.[28] |
| 04/09/2015 | Burgess, Phillip (28) | South Carolina (Boiling Springs) | Fatally shot when deputies tried to serve a drug-related search warrant at his home.[29] |
| 04/08/2015 | Rodriguez, Roberto (39)[30] | California (Los Angeles) | Suspect in fatal shooting killed by LAPD.[31] |
| 04/08/2015 | Weber, Joseph (28) | California (Sunnyvale) | Weber allegedly robbed a liquor store with a knife and was then shot by a responding officer after unheeded demands that he drop the knife.[32] |
| 04/08/2015 | Bethea, Dexter (42) | Georgia (Valdosta) | While attempting to arrest Bethea after a drug deal, he drove his car toward the officers, who opened fire and killed him.[33] |
| 04/07/2015 | Rose, Erick (32) | Oklahoma (Pottawatomie County) | A high-speed car chase following a burglary ended in a shoot-out with police.[34] |
| 04/06/2015 | Larsen, Tyrell (31) | Idaho (Booneville County) | Larsen was stopped by a deputy in his pickup truck and picked up a .22-caliber rifle. The deputy shot Larsen.[35] |
| 04/04/2015 | Howell, Justus (17) | Illinois (Zion) | Howell was shot by Zion police. He had allegedly been involved in the theft of a gun shortly prior to the shooting incident, but full details have not yet emerged.[36] |
| 04/04/2015 | Scott, Walter L. (50) | South Carolina (North Charleston) | Walter L. Scott was fatally shot by officer Michael Slager during a traffic stop. Slager was subsequently charged with murder.[37] |
| 04/04/2015 | Noll, Ethan (34) | New Mexico (Edgewood) | Police responded to a call of a man in a neighborhood armed with a rifle and firing shots. A standoff between Noll and officers ensued and Noll was killed by an officer.[38] |
| 04/04/2015 | Anderson, Paul (31) | California (Orange) | Police stopped a car to serve an arrest warrant on a female passenger in the car. The driver got out of the car and was holding a weapon, and an Anaheim police officer fatally shot Anderson.[39] |
| 04/03/2015 | Prevatt, Christopher (38) | Virginia (Frederick County) | Officers entered the home in response to an emergency domestic call, encountered Prevatt, and shot him. He died at the scene.[40] |
| 04/02/2015 | Langford, Darrin (32) | Illinois (Rock Island) | Responding to a complaint of shots fired, Officer Ryan Derudder confronted and pursued an armed Langford who was subsequently shot dead.[41] |
| 04/02/2015 | Harris, Eric (44) | Oklahoma (Tulsa) | Harris is seen running from police before a voice shouts "Taser, Taser". A moment later, there is a single gunshot, and voice says, "Oh, I shot him. I'm sorry." Harris cries out, "He shot me, man. Oh, my god. I’m losing my breath." "Fuck your breath. Shut the fuck up," an officer shouts back in response. Harris was unarmed at the time of the shooting.[42] Part-time volunteer reserve Deputy Robert Bates, 73, was charged with manslaughter.[43] |
| 04/01/2015 | Clyde, Sean (36) | New Jersey (Hamilton) | Clyde was found repeatedly stabbing his 54-year-old father (and mother when she tried to intervene) and refused to drop the knife. He was shot by police and died in the hospital April 15.[44] |
| 04/01/2015 | Washington, Robert (38) | California (Hawthorne) | Washington and his two half-brothers pursued a woman and her twelve-year-old son who may have laughed at them when passing in traffic. Denise Berry stopped a patrol car to report being followed. The pursuers arrived and Washington stepped out of the car and opened fire, killing Ms. Berry and wounding her child. The officer in the patrol car returned fire and killed Washington. One of his half-brothers, the driver, was charged with murder and attempted murder; the other half-brother was released.[45] |
