List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, June 2016
This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in June 2016, 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 9 people.
June 2016[edit]
| Date | Name (age) of deceased | State (city) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-26 | Reyes, Daniel (27) | Connecticut (Thomaston) | Reyes was killed by a police officer at his house after moving towards them with a knife. Reyes told the officer to shoot him before his death.[1] |
| 2016-06-25 | Noble, Dylan (19) | California (Fresno) | Fresno Police shot and killed Dylan Noble. Police had been responding to reports of a man with a rifle when they pulled over Noble as he drove his pickup truck. After Noble stepped out of his truck, police say, he had one arm behind his back. Police shot him four times. He was later found to be unarmed. He died at a Fresno hospital.[2] His parents spoke to reporters on July 7. The family's lawyers are working on a wrongful death lawsuit against the Fresno Police Department.[3] The Fresno County District Attorney has decided that there will be no criminal charges against the officers involved in the shooting.[4] The City of Fresno settled the lawsuit by Noble's parents, agreeing to pay $2.8 million.[5] |
| 2016-06-24 | Sheats, Christy (42) | Texas (Fulshear) | Sheats was shot by a Fulshear police officer after she fatally shot her two daughters.[6] |
| 2016-06-22 | Rogers, Deravis Caine (22) | Georgia (Atlanta) | Atlanta police officer James Burns shot and killed Deravis Caine Rogers on Monroe Place in Midtown Atlanta. The following month, he turned himself into the Fulton County jail; the county district attorney has indicated he will face multiple charges, including felony murder.[7] |
| 2016-06-13 | Scism, Joshua (33) | New York (Schenectady) | Plainclothes police parked an unmarked van outside Scism's residence while preparing an informant to make a drug purchase. Scism walked up to the van and confronted them, before turning and walking away, pulling up his shirt to display a handgun in his waistband, with an officer shooting him in the back of the head. The officer claimed Scism had pulled the weapon in him.[8] |
| 2016-06-12 | Mateen, Omar Mir Seddique (29) | Florida (Orlando) | Omar Mateen, a New York-born US citizen of Afghan descent residing in Fort Pierce, Florida,[9] entered the Pulse nightclub at around 2:00 a.m. armed with a semiautomatic rifle and handgun. After committing what was at that point the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, Mateen was killed around 5:00 a.m. during a gunfight involving him and eleven SWAT officers.[10][11] |
| 2016-06-08 | Powell, William (63) | Georgia (Stockbridge) | Responding to a 911 call made in the late hours of June 7, three Henry County police officers entered the wrong home where they encountered Air Force veteran Powell, who had armed himself with a gun. After allegedly having been ordered to drop his gun, Powell was shot in the neck by Sgt. Patrick D. Snook and died the next day (June 9) at Atlanta Medical Center.[12][13] |
| 2016-06-07 | Villagomez, Omar (21) | California (Turlock) | Omar Villagomez was shot and killed by officers from the Stanislaus County, California, Drug Enforcement Agency in a parking lot on West Main Street in Turlock on Tuesday, June 7. Officers were trying to arrest Villagomez when the vehicle he was driving collided with an unmarked police vehicle. At that point the officers fired at Villagomez, killing him. The passenger, Juan Bulgara, 27, was not shot, but was taken to a hospital for injuries sustained in the vehicle crash.[14] |
| 2016-06-06 | Green V, Henry (23) | Ohio (South Linden) | Green was approached by Columbus police officers who were patrolling the corner of Duxberry and Ontario in the Linden area in civilian clothes in an unmarked car as part of the Summer Community Safety Initiative. Police said that Green had a gun and when asked to drop the gun, Green was shot. Green died of his wounds at the hospital. Ohio has an open-carry gun law.[15] |
References[edit]
- ^ "Connecticut State Police identify man shot to death by officer in Thomaston". registercitizen.com. June 29, 2016. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
- ^ "Calif. teen, apparently unarmed, fatally shot by police". CBSNews. June 27, 2016. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ Pablo Lopez (July 7, 2016). "Parents seek justice for Dylan Noble". Fresno Bee. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
- ^ Lopez, Pablo (16 December 2016). "District attorney declines to charge two Fresno police officers who shot Dylan Noble". fresnobee.com. The Fresno Bee, Fresno, California. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
- ^ "City of Fresno agrees to settle lawsuit with Dylan Noble's parents for $2.8-Million". ABC30 Action News. August 9, 2018.
- ^ "Texas mother fatally shoots 2 daughters; police kill her". bigstory.ap.org. June 25, 2016. Retrieved August 14, 2016.
Nehls says the two younger women had already been shot when a Fulshear police officer arrived and saw the mother with a gun in her hand, apparently preparing to shoot one of her daughters again. The officer shot and killed the woman.
- ^ Buchanan, Christopher (July 16, 2016). "Officer involved in fatal Midtown shooting booked into jail". 11Alive. Retrieved July 16, 2016.
- ^ DeMola, Pete (December 5, 2022). "Widow of man fatally shot by Schenectady police settles for $1.5M". Times Union. Retrieved December 11, 2022.
- ^ Gabriel Gatehouse (June 16, 2016). "Fort Pierce: Hometown of Orlando killer Omar Mateen". bbc.com. Retrieved June 19, 2016.
- ^ Jason Dearen, Terrance Harris (June 14, 2016). "Orlando killer appears to have been 'homegrown extremist'". msn.com. Archived from the original on June 16, 2016. Retrieved June 19, 2016.
- ^ Jamie Yuccas (June 18, 2016). "Orlando starts saying goodbye to nightclub massacre victims". cbsnews.com. Retrieved June 19, 2016.
- ^ "Homeowner shot after Georgia police went to wrong home dies". msn.com. June 11, 2016. Archived from the original on June 14, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
- ^ Jeff Martin (June 10, 2016). "Homeowner Shot After Georgia Police Went to Wrong Home Dies". msn.com. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
- ^ "Turlock police release name, other details in officer-involved shooting". Fresno Bee. June 7, 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2016.
- ^ Woods, Jim (6 June 2016). "Man dies in gunbattle with police in South Linden". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved July 9, 2016.