April 2018
Date Name and (age) of deceasedState (city)Description2018-04-30 Vigil Wolford (59) Ohio (Columbus) Police responding to a violence call found three stabbing victims, then found another a couple of blocks away. They found Wolford nearby, believed him to be the suspect, and confronted him, using a Taser before shooting him.2018-04-29 Unidentified man California (Redlands) A police officer responding to a burglary call encountered and shot a man inside the home.2018-04-29 Michael Scott Knibbs (47) North Carolina (Franklin) Sheriff's deputies responding to an argument between neighbors found one of the men, Knibbs, armed with a gun. Because he confronted the deputies, one of them shot him.2018-04-29 Joshua Lee Ewing (26) Iowa (Moorland) A state trooper found a man and woman arguing at a rural roadside and stopped. The man pointed a handgun at the trooper and the two exchanged gunfire, killing the man.2018-04-29 Brandon Busher (38) Louisiana (Shreveport) Outside a casino, a police officer noticed Busher, who had previously been banned from the establishment. The officer chased Busher, they fought, and Busher was shot when he tried to take the officer's gun.2018-04-28 Unidentified man Colorado (Northglenn) Police seeking a suspect found him outside a store; when he displayed a gun they shot him.2018-04-28 Shukri Said (36) Georgia (Atlanta) Said's family dialed 911 to report she had armed herself with a knife and was suffering mental health problems; the Somali-US citizen had schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. When police arrived, Said was wielding a knife; officers fatally shot her after non-lethal weapons failed to get her to drop the weapon. Her family said via a lawyer they felt her use of a headscarf may have led to the severity of force used but acknowledged an investigation may find police acted appropriately.2018-04-28 Nolberto Hernandez Leon (26) California (Elk Grove) Police responded to a call about shots fired in the early hours at a hotel. When they arrived, they found Hernandez Leon armed in a hotel hallway. Hernandez Leon shot himself, then fired at the officers, who returned fire.2018-04-28 Joseph L. Hoffman (41) Florida (Casselberry) Police were called to a scene where a man was firing a gun. When they arrived, Hoffman shot at them, and they returned fire killing him.2018-04-26 Myra Lisa Micalizio (56) California (Palermo) Responding to a report that a woman was causing making threats, sheriff's deputies arrived to find Micalizio in her car in a stranger's driveway. She backed her car toward the deputies and they shot her.2018-04-26 Anthony Lamar Carter (22) Texas (Vernon) Police were on the lookout for Carter as the suspect in a kidnapping. Officers saw his car in Burkburnett, Texas, pursued him, and disabled the car with spike strips. When the car crashed, the female victim jumped out; Carter also got out and attacked her. Officers shot him as he was stabbing her.2018-04-25 Jese Paul Schlegel (41) Colorado (Colorado Springs) Police received a report of a burglary just after 6 am at a print shop. They arrived and chased the suspect; when Schlegel pointed a gun at a bystander, police shot him.2018-04-25 Isaac Jackson (42) Kentucky (Louisville) On a domestic disturbance call, police entered a home and found Jackson armed with knives. When he injured an officer with a knife, another officer shot him.2018-04-25 Charles Boeh (36) Colorado (Denver) Police spotted Boeh, who was wanted on several robbery charges, while he was driving. After a car chase, Boeh brandished a gun, and officers shot him.2018-04-24 Unidentified man Texas (Amarillo) Police responded to a report of a man armed with a gun, suffering from a mental health emergency. The man came out of his house and fired a shot, then went back inside and fired a few more while SWAT officers were brought out. When the man came outside again and brandished the gun, police shot him.2018-04-24 Unidentified man Texas (San Antonio) Hotel employees confronted a man who was trying to enter guest rooms. He avoided them and made his way up through the floors of the hotel, trying to get into a couple of rooms at gunpoint. About an hour after the initial confrontation, police found the suspect on the seventh floor and shot him when he displayed a gun.2018-04-24 Demonjhea Jordan (27) Kentucky (Louisville) A phone store reported being robbed. A police officer found Jordan, who fit the suspect description, nearby and chased him. Reports said gunfire was "exchanged", and Jordan was killed.2018-04-22 Miguel Escalona Vivas (37) Kentucky (Louisville) Witnesses saw Vivas armed and fighting with another man, and alerted police officers who were nearby. Police chased Vivas and shot him. The other man was also shot but reports did not indicate whether by Vivas or by police.2018-04-22 Matthew Hartman (27) Michigan (West Olive) Family members reported that Hartman might be a danger to his wife. Officers came to their home and found Hartman outside with a gun; Hartman went inside, then came back out holding the gun to his wife's head. Officers killed him. It is also believed that Hartman shot two other people earlier that day, killing one of them.2018-04-21 Timothy Wayne Anderson (48) Iowa (Boone) A woman reported that her boyfriend, Anderson, was threatening her and her mother with a knife. When officers arrived, Anderson came outside at them and refused to drop the knife.2018-04-21 Terrence Carlton (25) Tennessee (Memphis) After a pair of late-night shootings, police spotted Carlton, who fit the description of the shooting suspect. During a foot chase, Carlton fell; as he got up, he "simultaneously reached for his waist and made a statement threatening the officer's life", when an officer shot him.2018-04-20 Matthew G. Brown (18) Illinois (Mackinaw) Police responded to a report of a man trying to break in. On arriving, Brown pointed a gun at them.2018-04-20 Lockwood Adrian Gibson (49) California (Foresthill) 911 calls reported Gibson driving recklessly -- across the center line, through red lights, and bumping other cars. Highway Patrol officers pursued him for quite some time before he crashed on city streets; they shot him there.2018-04-20 James Bauduy (48) Florida (Orlando) Bauduy was wanted for murder and carjacking when sheriff's deputies located him. They approached and he did not comply with their orders; he made some motion that prompted the deputies to shoot him.2018-04-18 Dytadious Mobley (31) Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Officials were seeking Mobley as a suspect in the murder of his mother-in-law. A US Marshals task force found him and ordered him out of his car. When Mobley fired a gun, several officers fired, killing him.2018-04-18 Delorean Pikyavit (32) Utah (Sugar House) Police responding to a domestic disturbance call found Pikyavit in his front yard. Pikyavit went inside; after an hour of negotiation, he came back out and officers shot him.2018-04-18 David Teneyuque (48) Michigan (Pavilion Township) The manager of a mobile home park called police, asking them to remove two people who were in a car on the property. Police found Teneyuque and a woman in the car and talked with them for about an hour when Teneyuque pointed a gun at them.2018-04-17 Charles Whitley (40) Kentucky (Cumberland County) Sheriff's deputies tried to make a traffic stop on Whitley, but he drove off. During the chase, a deputy shot at Whitley's car, hitting him and apparently causing a crash. Whitley died on the 19th.2018-04-18 Justin Oakes (32) Georgia (Douglasville) Oakes walked into a sheriff's office seeking shelter. A couple of hours later, Oakes went into a restroom in the office, called 911, and claimed officers were trying to radiate or poison him. When deputies began to force their way into the restroom, Oakes stabbed one of them, and another deputy then shot him.2018-04-18 William Ray Simcoe Missouri (Greene County) A sheriff's deputy tried to make a traffic stop on Simcoe, but Simcoe drove off. Eventually Simcoe stopped and got out of his car; he ran toward the deputy, pointing a gun and threatening, so the deputy shot him.2018-04-17 Justin Monjay (39) Oklahoma (Tishomingo) Police and sheriff's deputies responded to a domestic disturbance. Monjay drove his car into the deputies' car, and one of the deputies shot him.2018-04-17 Lonnie Marcel Bowen (41) Utah (Magna) Police received a 911 call, possibly made by Bowen, where the caller said he would kill his female hostage, demanding that police back off and negotiate. However, no hostage situation was in progress. Arriving at the location traced by the call, police found only a parked pickup truck. Later that day, they found from the license number that the truck's owner was wanted; police in a nearby city located the truck and pursued it. After they stopped the truck, which was being driven by Bowen, one of the officers shot him. (Two days earlier, Bowen had posted videos on Facebook saying police were out to kill him.)2018-04-17 Sanchez Lowe (25) Georgia (Austell) Police patrolling a motel found a room with an open door; they smelled marijuana and saw paraphernalia and radioed to get a warrant. While they waited outside, Lowe left the motel room and got in a car. As he tried to drive away, an officer who was stuck in the window of the car shot him.2018-04-15 Ruben Stewart (36) Montana (Lodge Grass) Stewart's grandmother called police, reporting that he was drunk and asking them to remove him from her home. When officers from the Bureau of Indian Affairs arrived, Stewart came out of the house with a knife and one of the officers shot him.2018-04-14 Jose Pietri (55) New Jersey (Millville) A man was found shot dead, a woman seriously injured, and two children missing. Police sought Pietri, who was the father of the children. They found him, driving, later that evening; after a long chase, Pietri stopped and got out, and police shot him.2018-04-14 Andre Lavance Rippy (39) Arizona (Phoenix) Police received reports of shots fired, then found Rippy driving a vehicle thought to be involved. He would not stop and led police on a long chase. At one point he did stop and tried to carjack another vehicle, in the process pointing a gun at officers. When Rippy finally did steal a third vehicle, the chase continued; and when it ended and Rippy got out, officers shot him.2018-04-14 Jessie Thedford (32) Georgia (Carrollton) Thedford was arrested for possession of meth. He was handcuffed and put in the back seat of a patrol car. He managed to get his hands in front of himself and crawl over into the driver's seat. Thedford drove the car at officers, who shot him.2018-04-14 Eduardo Andrade (44) Arizona (Phoenix) Police responded to a multicar accident with a suspected drunk driver. They found Andrade in one of the cars. Seeing a rifle in the car, they ordered Andrade to leave it alone; when he reached for the rifle, one of them shot at him. Andrade then returned fire with a handgun, and officers finally killed him.2018-04-13 Kenneth Warren Resendez (34) Texas (Waco) Police received a call that Resendez was holding his family at knifepoint in their home. When they arrived, he refused to disarm or stand down, and they shot him.2018-04-13 Bruce Arnold Allee (31) Colorado (Thornton) Allee stole a car, shooting one of the owners. That car was found later and, in a search of the area, police found and killed Allee. (It was found that US marshals were seeking Allee, to arrest him on outstanding warrants.)2018-04-12 Dashaun Shepard Georgia (Atlanta) Police received 911 calls about shots fired, and when they responded Shepard began shooting at them. Police surrounded the house; during the all-night standoff, Shepard communicated with family by text and posted on Facebook Live. When Shepard finally came out (apparently because of police gas canisters), he refused to surrender and police shot him.2018-04-12 Benjamin Evans (23) Minnesota (Lake Elmo) Evans was reported to be in an intersection, armed and s