This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in April 2023, whether in the line of duty or not, and regardless of reason or method. The listing documents the occurrence of a death, making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or officer involved. Killings are arranged by date of the incident that caused death. Different death dates, if known, are noted in the description. The table below lists 33 people.
Date | Name (age) of deceased | Race | Location | Description |
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2023-04-30 | Nathaniel Naki (40) | Kaunakakai, Hawaii | [1] | |
2023-04-28 | unidentified adult male (24) | Greeley, Colorado | The male was slain during a shootout with officers [2] | |
2023-04-28 | Yenitza Arroyo Torres (44) | Latino | Fayetteville, North Carolina | A Fayetteville Police officer shot and killed his wife at their home before killing himself.[3] |
2023-04-27 | Chue Feng Yang (33) | Asian | Minneapolis, Minnesota | An FBI agent shot and killed Yang, a 33-year old Asian man, while serving an arrest warrant for him at a home near Dowling and DuPoint avenues in North Minneapolis. According to the FBI, Yang had barricade himself inside the house for several hours and he was holding a firearm when he later emerged from the home.[4][5] |
2023-04-24 | Christopher Ochs | White | Saint Ignatius, Montana | Lake County Sheriff's deputies were performing a welfare check on Ochs at a home in Saint Ignatius. When they arrived Ochs emerged wielding a large Bowie knife and charged at the officers. The officers shot and killed Ochs. The Montana Department of Criminal Investigation is reviewing the shooting.[6][7] |
2023-04-19 | Henry Najdeski (52) | White | Fort Wayne, Indiana | An officer driving in downtown Fort Wayne struck Najdeski while turning a corner while Najdeski crossed the street. The officer involved had been involved in four previous crashes in a squad car, one of which resulted in a suspension.[8] |
2023-04-12 | Zachary Wayne Pace (36) | White | Blackfoot, Idaho | Blackfoot police were searching for Zachary Pace in connection to an eluding, kidnapping, and aggravated assault case. After locating Pace's vehicle at a hotel, Pace lead police in a vehicle chase. The Bingham County Sheriff's Department and Fort Hall police joined the chase. Pace crashed his vehicle on Highway 91. As police approached Pace's vehicle, shots were fired and Pace was struck along with two other passengers in Pace's vehicle. Authorities say Pace was armed at the time of the shooting. Pace was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.[9] |
2023-04-12 | Matvey Klimenko | White | Jacksonville, Florida | Klimenko was terrorizing a woman with knife inside a Jacksonville home. She escaped through a bathroom window and called police. When the Jacksonville police arrived, they tried to talk Klimenko out of the home with a bullhorn. After that they deployed a K-9 to apprehend Klimenko. After Klimenko appeared to attack the K-9 with the knife, the police shot and killed him.[10] |
2023-04-11 | Brandon Zapata (20) | Latino | Fort Worth, Texas | Police were called to a mall by security, including an off-duty officer. Police restrained Zapata, who fell unconscious and died; his death was later ruled a homicide.[11] |
2023-04-10 | Connor Sturgeon (25) | White | Louisville, Kentucky | Sturgeon shot several people at a bank he formerly worked at, killing five, before being killed by police.[12] |
2023-04-09 | unidentified adult male | Smithdale, Mississippi | [13] | |
2023-04-09 | Lacorvis Daley (28) | Black | Lafayette, Louisiana | [14] |
2023-04-09 | Deiondre Solomon (28) | Black | Lafayette, Louisiana | Solomon was shot and killed by an off-duty officer working security, shortly after shooting and wounding a man.[15] |
2023-04-08 | Glenn Perry (50) | White | Cameron, Wisconsin | [16] |
2023-04-08 | Homea Spencer (44) | Black | Plantation, Florida | [17] |
2023-04-07 | Mark Wadsworth (62) | Edgewater, Florida | [18] | |
2023-04-07 | Christian Torrez (18) | Latino | Oxnard, California | [19] |
2023-04-06 | John Wilburn (52) | Madisonville, Tennessee | [20] | |
2023-04-06 | unidentified adult male | Eugene, Oregon | [21] | |
2023-04-05 | unidentified adult male | Houston, Texas | [22] | |
2023-04-05 | unidentified adult male | Los Angeles, California | [23] | |
2023-04-05 | Robert Dotson (52) | Farmington, New Mexico | Police were responding to a domestic violence call at a house around 11:30 p.m., but instead arrived at a house diagonally across the street. Police knocked on the door and announced "Farmington Police" three times, but not loudly. The officers realized they had the wrong address and began backing away from the house, one joking about the mistake. When the officers were about 20 feet away, Dotson, the homeowner, opened the screen door with a handgun held in his right hand beside his waist and the officers shot him several times. Dotson's wife, not initially realizing the people outside her home were police, fired at the officers from the same doorway, allegedly with Dotson's handgun, but put the gun down after realizing they were in fact police officers. Dotson died at the scene. His wife and the police officers were not injured.[24] | |
2023-04-03 | James Corey Donald (45) | White | Laurel, Mississippi | Donald and an off-duty sheriff's deputy got into an argument at a church, where the deputy was volunteering as a security guard. According to authorities, the deputy chased Donald into the parking lot before shooting him in the back. The deputy was charged with second-degree murder.[25] |
2023-04-03 | Brandon Harris (19) | Colorado Springs, Colorado | [26] | |
2023-04-02 | Jose Luis Hernandez (66) | Livingston, Texas | [27] | |
2023-04-03 | Michael L. Rogel (39) | White | Bozeman, Montana | Michael Rogel called 911 and stated he belied "people were coming to kill him." Rogel suffered from paranoid schizophrenia which may have been related. When police officers approached his vehicle, Rogel allegedly produced a firearm which led to police shooting him.[28] |
2023-04-02 | Eduardo Lee Hoover (38) | Washington, Pennsylvania | Hoover was shot by police following a chase. According to police, officers shot Hoover after he drove his truck in reverse towards police.[29] | |
2023-04-02 | Jose Luis Hernandez (66) | Unknown | Livingston, Texas | [30] |
2023-04-02 | unidentified adult male | Las Cruces, New Mexico | [31] | |
2023-04-01 | Dwight Cornwell (76) | Phoenix, Arizona | [32] | |
2023-04-01 | Tyler Raymer (28) | Versailles, Missouri | [33] | |
2023-04-01 | Zachery Polk (53) | White | Wayne, Michigan | Police were called to the Ford Stamping Plant in Wayne, Michigan. When the officers arrived, Polk allegedly pointed a gun at them, which caused an officer to shoot Polk. Polk was taken to a hospital where he later died.[34] |
2023-04-01 | Erick Jara (27) | Unknown | Grand Junction, Colorado | [35] |