List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, December 2020

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This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in December 2020, 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 101 people.

December 2020

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DateName (age) of deceased RaceState (city)Description
2020-12-31 Rodolfo Caraballo Moreno Unknown Florida (Miami) Police were called after reports of gunshots on New Year's Eve. Relatives say that police shot Caraballo Moreno several times with a rifle. Relatives also said that he was holding two guns, but may have thought he was defending himself.[1]
2020-12-31 David Randall Shephard (39) White Beaumont, TX [2]
2020-12-31 Jeffrey L. Marvin (63) Unknown race Unincorporated, IN [3]
2020-12-30 Christian Hall (19) Asian Pennsylvania (Monroe County) Christian Hall was shot and killed by law enforcement while standing on an overpass on Interstate 80. Police responded to a call of a mental health crisis, and he was suspected to be suicidal.[4] His relatives and viewers on the internet expressed that they felt the shooting was an inappropriate response by Law Enforcement.[5][6]
2020-12-30 Peter K. England (21) Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Ammon, ID [7]
2020-12-30 Jason Williams (37) White Wichita, KS [8][9]
2020-12-30 Dolal Idd (23) African-American Minnesota (Minneapolis) A Community Response Team of Minneapolis Police stopped a vehicle at the Holiday Gas Station in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood of Minneapolis. According to a police spokesperson, the officers believed a felony suspect, an adult male, was in the vehicle along with an adult woman. The police had their body cameras on, and the felony suspect in the vehicle exchanged shots with the officers and was killed. The woman was uninjured. A crowd of activists began gathering within the hour after the shooting. The shooting was the first police killing in Minneapolis since the murder of George Floyd in May, and it happened less than 1 mile (1.6 km) from the site where it occurred.[10][11] On December 31, the Minneapolis Police released the footage from the body cams, which showed three police vehicles attempting to stop a car in the gas station parking lot. The driver attempted to ram through the police vehicles, which then blocked it in. Then the glass of the driver side window appears to break outward as shots are heard.[12]
2020-12-29 Trevor Seever (29) White California (Modesto) An unarmed man was shot and killed by police after being told to put his hands up. The officer entered the scene and shot Seever, then made him sit on the ground with his hands up. Seever kept his hands raised but then put his hand on his chest to stop the bleeding to which Seever was shot multiple more times, fatally.[13] Body camera footage has been released by Modesto Police Department. Seever's is heard saying, “I can’t breathe!” in the video.[13] On March 18, 2021, Modesto Officer Joseph Lamantia was fired, arrested, and charged with voluntary manslaughter.[14]
2020-12-29 Jaquan Haynes (18) Black Atlanta, GA [15]
2020-12-29 Jason Cooper (28) Black Charleston, SC [16]
2020-12-29 Shyheed Robert Boyd (21) Black Highland, CA [17]
2020-12-29 Samuel Lorenzo (18) Hispanic Brooklyn, NY [18]
2020-12-28 Jordan Crawford (30) White Arizona (Phoenix) At his ex-girlfriend’s house, Crawford told police that he had a gun, then acted as if he were pulling the weapon, according to police body cam footage.[19]
2020-12-28 Alaina Burns (31) Unknown race Warrenton, OR [20]
2020-12-28 Name Withheld Unknown race Holyoke, CO [21]
2020-12-28 Helen Jones (47) Black Phoenix, AZ [22]
2020-12-28 Name Withheld (33) Unknown race Hesperia, CA [23]
2020-12-28 Bryan Cruz-Soto (28) Hispanic Brockton, MA [24]
2020-12-28 Caillen Paoakea Gentzler (45) Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander Kaneohe, HI [25]
2020-12-28 Larry Hamm (47) Black Denver, CO [26]
2020-12-27 Marquavious Rashod Parks (26) Black Davisboro, GA [27]
2020-12-27 Cole Blevins (40) White Lewiston, ID [28]
2020-12-26 Shamar Ogman (30) Black Connecticut (Hartford) Police were called after reports of a man holding two guns in the middle of a street. Several officers responded, and one shot the man after he allegedly pointed an assault rifle at the officers.[29]
2020-12-26 Aliana Burns (31) Black Oregon (Astoria)

Bruns was burglarizing a home, and was killed by a State Trooper when she "brandished a gun in an officer's direction".[30][31][32]

2020-12-25 Sheikh Mustafa Davis (20) Black Midway, GA [33]
2020-12-25 Jesus Perez (43) Hispanic Philadelphia, PA [34]
2020-12-25 John Moreno (32) Hispanic Rio Rico, AZ [35][36]
2020-12-25 Isaac Frazier (31) Black Houston, TX [37]
2020-12-24 Michael B. Joyner (39) White Oakland, TN [38]
2020-12-24 Tara Rae Liubakka (39) White Redding, CA [39]
2020-12-23 Angelo Quinto (30) Asian California (Antioch) Quinto's family called police to his home after he had an episode of paranoia. When police arrived, several officers restrained him, with one officer putting his knee on Quinto's neck. Quinto fell into unconsciousness and died at a hospital three days later.[40]
2020-12-23 Mark Clermont (45) White Dalton, NH [41]
2020-12-22 Christopher Cuevas (45) Hispanic Glendale, AZ [42]
2020-12-22 Andre Maurice Hill (47) Black Ohio (Columbus) Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther dismissed police officer Adam Coy after the white officer, who has a history of complaints, shot and killed Andre Hill inside a home garage as Hill showed his phone. Coy reportedly failed to activate his body camera and to initiate life-saving measures in timely fashion. The killing followed weeks of protest over the police killing of Casey Goodson, earlier the same month, also in Columbus.[43][44][45]
2020-12-22 Monica Goods (11) Black New York (Ulster) New York State Trooper Christopher Baldner pursued Tristin Goods' vehicle after he allegedly fled a traffic stop for speeding. According to Goods, the father of the victim, the trooper "pulled him and his family over, maced them, and then rammed their car twice at high speed before the crash that took his daughter’s life." Goods also stated that Baldner screamed at him and didn't warn the family before using pepper spray. Fearing for the safety of his family, Goods instinctively drove off, and Baldner gave chase.[46] After the Goods' vehicle was hit by Baldner twice, Monica Goods was ejected from her father's SUV and died at the scene.[47] In the aftermath of the crash, Tristin Goods tried to leave the SUV to rescue Monica, but Baldner pulled a gun on him. Later, troopers interviewed Tristina, Monica's surviving 12-year-old sister, for four straight hours without a parent present.[46]
2020-12-22 Joseph Tanner Casten (19) White Joliet, IL [48]
2020-12-21 Larry Taylor (39) Black Mobile, AL [49]
2020-12-21 Paul Peraza (50) Hispanic Wichita, KS [50][51]
2020-12-20 William A. Riley-Jennings (34) White Anchorage, AK [52]
2020-12-19 Moises Arreola Hispanic Lennox, CA [53]
2020-12-18 Daniel Russell (38) White Oshtemo Township, MI [54]
2020-12-18 Leonel Salinas (34) Hispanic Nampa, ID [55]
2020-12-18 Jacob E. McClure (41) White Jefferson, ME [56]
2020-12-18 Johnathan George Brown White Bakersfield, CA [57]
2020-12-18 Name Withheld Unknown race Lucerne Valley, CA [58]
2020-12-17 Johnny Lorenzo Bolton (49) Black Georgia (Smyrna) Bolton was shot and killed by police during a no-knock warrant. When Bolton stood up, a deputy shot him twice. A jury recommended charges against the deputy who shot Bolton.[59][60]
2020-12-17 Nicholas Ellingson (37) Unknown race Auburn, WA [61]
2020-12-17 Andrew Mansilla (25) Hispanic Daytona Beach, FL [62]
2020-12-17 Joshua Hoffpauir (33) White Sevierville, TN [63]
2020-12-15 Ernie Serrano (33) Native American California (Jurupa Valley) Serrano was held down by several sheriff's deputies in a Jurupa Valley grocery store. Deputies claim Serrano tried to grab a security guard's gun during the incident. The Riverside County sheriff said an initial autopsy found Serrano had methamphetamine, marijuana and other drugs in his system. Ernie's family says that his death was caused by asphyxia due to the position he was in, disallowing him to breathe, with the drugs making breathing even more difficult, leading him to die of oxygen starvation.[64]
2020-12-16 Jeremy Maurice Daniels (29) Black Concord Mills, NC [65]
2020-12-16 Adam Robertson (34) White Orlando, FL [66]
2020-12-16 Benjamin Marley Manley aka Christopher Reeves (36) White Deming, NM [67]
2020-12-15 David John Donelli (42) White Greenfield, IN [68]
2020-12-15 Reno E. Casanova (25) Hispanic Kennewick, WA [69]
2020-12-15 Julian Rose Native American Glenpool, OK [70]
2020-12-15 Name Withheld (85) White Pearland, TX [71]
2020-12-14 Michael Anthony Dilbeck White Houston, TX [72]
2020-12-13 Matthew T. Melzoni Unknown race Huntington, IN [73]
2020-12-13 Luis Vasquez (52) White/Latino New York (New York City) A man was fatally shot by police after he opened fire near a crowd outside the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine at the end of a Christmas choral concert.[74] He was shooting in the air and at police, and was carrying a backpack which contained rope, a can of gasoline, multiple knives, and a bible, as well as multiple handguns and cartridges. He was killed after being shot in the head, and had been shouting 'Kill me, kill me!'.[75][76]
2020-12-13 Jordan Zenka Unknown California (Sacramento) A man crashed his car into a store and started threatening shoppers. He stabbed himself, and got into a standoff with officers. He had critically injured himself with the knife, was acting erratically, and injured three people, but it is unknown if they were injured by the knife or the vehicle. He was shot and killed by two policemen, and the entire store was evacuated. Police had apparently tried to use less-than-lethal tactics, but the situation escalated.[77][78][79][80]
2020-12-13 Robert Joseph Evans (29) White Utah (Farmington) Evans was shot and killed by Utah Highway Patrol officers after he rammed a patrol car, got out, and 'started advancing aggressively towards officers'. It is reported that the car may have been stolen, and that 'he was armed', but the weapon has not been specified by UHP. Police initiated life saving measures, which failed.[81][82][83]
2020-12-11 Name Withheld (35) Unknown race Trout Creek, MT [84]
2020-12-11 Charles E. Jones (36) Black Houston, TX [85]
2020-12-11 Bennie Edwards (60) Black Oklahoma (Oklahoma City) A merchant called 911 because Edwards was causing a disturbance. When an officer arrived, Edwards approached him with a knife. Additional police were called, and Edwards was instructed multiple time to drop his knife, and pepper spray and a taser were used. Edwards continued to be combative, and was shot. Edwards' family said he suffered mental illness and was scared.[86]
2020-12-10 Whitney J. Crawley (23) Unknown race Gary, IN [87]
2020-12-10 Kurtis Kay Frevert (79) White Montclair, VA [88]
2020-12-10 Eric Drake Feenstra (47) White Bivins, TX [89]
2020-12-10 Evelio Rivera (37) Hispanic Rehoboth Beach, DE [90]
2020-12-10 Earl Robert Caperton (55) White Middleway, WV [91]
2020-12-10 Augustin “Gus” Mormann (31) White Manchester, IA [92][93][94]
2020-12-10 Thomas Reeder III (44) Black Michigan (Flint) Reeder was shot and killed by police after a standoff; he was the main suspect and perpetrator in the December 7 fatal shooting of 30-year-old Brittney N. Chatman. Police tried to enter his house after getting a warrant for his arrest in her murder, but he fired at them and a shootout ensued, which ended his death by shooting.[95][96]
2020-12-09 Joshua Feast (22) Black La Marque, TX [97]
2020-12-09 Kenneth Dale Miller (47) White Oxford, MS [98]
2020-12-09 Joseph R. Crawford (23) Black Fort Atkinson, WI [99]
2020-12-08 Nathaniel Sironen (40) White Las Vegas, NV [100]
2020-12-08 Brad Tyler Masters (27) White Gates, OR [101]
2020-12-08 Dylan Ray Scott (27) White Riverview, FL [102]
2020-12-07 Amy Ambercrombie (26) Unknown Texas (Conroe) Amy Ambercrombie, 26, was accidentally struck and killed by a Montgomery County Patrol car. She had been wearing all black and was walking in the middle of the highway.[103][104]
2020-12-06 Christian Juarez (28) Hispanic Rowland Heights, CA [105]
2020-12-06 Mark Brewer (28) Black St. Louis, MO [106]
2020-12-06 Donald Edwin Saunders (37) Black Dayton, OH [107]
2020-12-05 Kwamaine O'Neal (47) Black Toledo, OH [108]
2020-12-05 Oldrich Fejfar Unknown race Savannah, GA [109]
2020-12-05 Estavon Dominic Elioff (19) Hispanic Mountain Iron, MN [110]
2020-12-05 Name Withheld (30) Unknown race Mesquite, TX [111]
2020-12-05 Herschel Turner Jr. (54) Black Missouri (Moline Acres) An officer from Bellefontaine Neighbors pursued a stolen vehicle driving fifty miles over the speed limit without his emergency lights on. The officer struck Turner, an officer from Moline Acres, who was standing outside his vehicle while helping with a vehicle stop. The pursuing officer was charged with involuntary manslaughter in 2022.[112]
2020-12-04 Casey Goodson (23) Black Ohio (Columbus) Police had finished an unsuccessful search for a fugitive (not Goodson) when Goodson supposedly "drove by and waved a gun" at an officer. The off duty officer (Jason Meade) followed Goodson to his home. According to the officer, he commanded Goodson to drop his gun, and when Goodson did not comply, he was shot five times in the back and buttocks outside his home. Police said a gun was recovered from the scene. Goodson's family said he was holding a sandwich, not a gun. He was licensed to carry a gun. The house keys were in the door of the home, Goodson was shot through the door, and the sandwiches were confirmed at the scene.

[113] In December 2021 the deputy who shot Goodson was charged with murder.[114]

2020-12-04 Andre K. Sterling (35) Black Bronx, NY [115]
2020-12-04 Leonard Francis Kieren (60) White Buckeye, AZ [116]
2020-12-04 Randy Ward (34) White Prichard, WV [117]
2020-12-04 Nancy King (70) Unknown race Spokane, WA [118]
2020-12-03 Maurice Jackson (42) Black Phoenix, AZ [119]
2020-12-03 Larry Eugene Boyd (43) Unknown race East Nashville, TN [120]
2020-12-03 Craig Steven Wright (60) White Mansfield, OH [121]
2020-12-03 Tyrone Washington (39) Black Little Rock, AR [122]
2020-12-02 Dolores Hernandez (62) White/Latino California (Redding) Police were called after Hernandez allegedly yelled at store patrons at Discovery Village shopping center. When police arrived, they say that Hernandez hit an officer with a car and pinned him under the front tire, leading one of the officers to shoot.[123]
2020-12-02 Dominique Harris (20) Black St. Petersburg, FL [124]
2020-12-01 James David Hawley (47) Black Pineville, LA [125]
2020-12-01 Kevin Fox (28) Black Detroit, MI [126]
2020-12-01 Ethan Tyler Calton (28) White Rutherfordton, NC [127]
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