# List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, 2001

This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in 2001, 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 97 people.

## 2001

| Date | Name (age) of deceased | State (city) | Description |
| 2001-12-28 | Unnamed man | Oklahoma (McAlester) | |
| 2001-12-27 | Thomas Acker | Virginia (Newport) | |
| 2001-12-24 | Norris Patrick Webb (25) | California (Westminster) | |
| 2001-12-23 | Robert Clingenpeel (76) | Iowa (Indianola) | |
| 2011-12-23 | Charles Crowder (31) | North Carolina (Cherryville) | |
| 2001-12-23 | Richard Sharp (53) | California (San Jose) | An advocate for worker's rights and known for his friendly personality, Richard's demeanor changed suddenly after a hospital visit and then a car crash into a tree. A couple of days later, a call to 911 from his wife reported that he had attacked her and was threatening the family with a hammer. After police arrived, Richard was in his front yard staring at the sky, slowly spinning, with wife and kids watching from the door. He was holding a knife and hammer up to the sky, talking to the sky, when he was shot about 10 times from the back by several officers. Richard's wife later initiated a lawsuit for inappropriate action by the police. |
| 2001-12-22 | Unnamed man | Michigan (Detroit) | |
| 2001-12-22 | Unnamed man (39) | Hawaii (Leilani Estates) | |
| 2001-12-21 | Jones, Melanie (22) | Virginia (Newport) | Shot after she allegedly ignored orders to drop the gun she was holding. |
| 2001-12-13 | Robert Brown (37) | Florida (Orlando) | |
| 2001-12-10 | Jake Thomas (19) | Nevada (Owyhee) | |
| 2001-12-08 | Gary Brent Claytor | Virginia (Williamsburg) | |
| 2001-12-07 | Mark Moore (30) | North Carolina (Gastonia) | |
| 2001-12-07 | Unnamed man | Missouri (St. Charles) | |
| 2001-11-23 | Michalacos, Steven (67) | New York (Brooklyn) | Hit and killed by a NYPD car responding to another scene. |
| 2001-11-08 | Bryon Swenson (36) | Texas (Houston) | |
| 2001-11-07 | Unnamed man | California (Waukena) | |
| 2001-11-06 | Hood, Timothy | Georgia (Athens) | Shot after placing a gun to officer's head. |
| 2001-10-29 | Robert Bruce Meadours (38) | Texas (Houston) | |
| 2001-10-24 | Tayvone Kinney (17) | Ohio (Dayton) | |
| 2001-10-09 | Hatcher, Richard (19) | New York (Brooklyn) | |
| 2001-10-08 | Vinson, Shannon (28) | New York (Queens) | Vinson, who was wanted for homicide, was shot in his car by police. He had been pulled over and allegedly reached for a handgun. His girlfriend and her two children were sitting in the backseat |
| 2001-10-03 | Rhett Carter Barrington | Texas (Houston) | |
| 2001-09-28 | Medina Diaz, David Eric | U.S. Virgin Islands (St. Croix) | Following reports of gunshots, an officer shot Medina Diaz in the chest following a fight. |
| 2001-09-28 | Jeremy Todd Seifert | Virginia (Norfolk) | |
| 2001-09-26 | Maguadog, Peter Aguon | Guam (Tamuning) | Maguadog shot and killed his estranged wife and another woman and wounded four others at a clinic before being shot and killed by police. |
| 2001-09-24 | Elisei Borlovan (43) | Vermont (Williston) | |
| 2001-09-24 | Timothy Terry (22) | Texas (Houston) | |
| 2001-09-21 | Bostic, Stacy Rondell | Georgia (Athens) | Shot after shooting at officer. Police were responding to report of an armed robbery of a hotel. A man running from the scene matched suspects description and was commanded to stop. |
| 2001-09-20 | Brodie, Gwendulina (34) | New York (Suffolk) | NYPD detective Ezra Leslie broke into Gwendulina Brodie's home and shot her several times. Brodie was an NYPD sergeant and allegedly had disapproved of a romantic relationship between her sister and Leslie. |
| 2001-09-07 | Rudes Chacon Diaz (21) | Texas (Houston) | |
| 2001-08-23 | Michael Schatzhuber | Virginia (Chesapeake) | |
| 2001-08-22 | Harris, Daniel (47) | Ohio (Cleveland) | Harris was shot while grabbing a police officer's gun and refusing to let go, after a car chase with police. |
| 2001-08-13 | McLoren Anthony Jones (21) | Texas (Houston) | |
| 2001-08-08 | Martinez, Nelson | Bellevue, Washington | Mike Hetle, a Bellevue, Washington police officer, confronted Martinez as he was driving away from the scene of an alleged domestic dispute with his cousin. Hetle was given erroneous information by a dispatcher who claimed that Martinez was known for being a repeat offender for domestic violence. Hetle ordered Martinez, in English, to get out of the car and, in Spanish, to put his hands up. Martinez did not comply and began to pull something from his waistband, which was later found out to be a wallet. Hetle then shot Martinez two times, believing he was in danger |
| 2001-08-04 | Pena, Dilcia (16) | New York (Brooklyn) | Hit and killed by Joseph Gray. |
| 2001-08-04 | Herrera, Maria (24) | New York (Brooklyn) | Hit and killed by Joseph Gray. |
| 2001-08-04 | Thomas, Leanna (17) | New York (Brooklyn) | Hit and killed by Joseph Gray. |
| 2001-08-04 | Herrera, Andy (4) | New York (Brooklyn) | Hit and killed by Joseph Gray. |
| 2001-08-01 | Haywood Louis Ogburn Jr. (32) | Texas (Houston) | |
| 2001-07-29 | Joseph Dwayne Mason (20) | Texas (Houston) | |
| 2001-07-28 | Unnamed man (81) | California (San Bernardino) | |
| 2001-07-27 | Andrea Nicole Reedy | Virginia (Hampton) | |
| 2001-07-27 | Ricky Moore (21) | Ohio (Cincinnati) | |
| 2001-07-26 | Unnamed man | Florida (Hialeah) | |
| 2001-07-16 | Anthony Jerome Downing | Virginia (Norfolk) | |
| 2001-07-14 | Rene Romain | Massachusetts (Boston) | |
| 2001-07-14 | Johnson, Tyron (30) | California (Bakersfield) | Johnson was killed by Bakersfield Police officers. They were investigating gunshots and chased Johnson. He fired at them several times, striking an officer and a woman. The wounded officer shot and killed Johnson. |
| 2001-07-11 | Jerome Walker (57) | Arkansas (DeWitt) | |
| 2001-06-30 | Curtis, Scott Andrew | Oklahoma (Washita County) | Shot and killed after leading troopers on a car chase. |
| 2001-06-17 | Alphaeus Dailey (30) | Florida (North Miami Beach) | Dailey, a paralyzed wheel chair user, was fatally shot while trying to flee police. |
| 2001-06-09 | Beau Blain (28) | California (Oxnard) | |
| 2001-06-06 | Richard Beatty (55) | Florida (Miami) | |
| 2001-06-03 | Rogers, Asie (17) | U.S. Virgin Islands (St. John) | Police responded to a domestic dispute and shot Rogers after he allegedly threatened his mother and officers with a knife. |
| 2001-06-03 | Jose Antonio Medina | Texas (Houston) | |
| 2001-05-28 | Herman Joseph Dartez Jr. (31) | Texas (Houston) | |
| 2001-05-26 | Jose Pineda | Massachusetts (Boston) | |
| 2001-05-16 | Brown, Thomasina (44) | Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh) | Shot by two officers after shooting and killing 37-year-old Carmen Collins. |
| 2001-05-07 | Rutilio Gracida Castillo (23) | California (Oxnard) | |
| 2001-05-07 | Cleophis Craver (20) | Ohio (Dayton) | |
| 2001-04-30 | Nicholas Singleton (18) | Florida (Miami) | |
| 2001-04-11 | Mi Young Blain (41) | Texas (Houston) | |
| 2001-04-10 | Teklai, Michael (27) | New Jersey (Kearny) | Teklai returned to the post office where he formerly worked and stabbed three people with a knife. Officers shot and killed Teklai when he refused to drop his weapons, including three knives and a handgun. |
| 2001-04-07 | Timothy Thomas (19) | Ohio (Cincinnati) | |
| 2001-04-03 | Justin Ronchetti | Massachusetts (Boston) | |
| 2001-03-27 | John Franklin Aycox (36) | Oklahoma (Midwest City) | |
| 2001-03-20 | Fields, Joseph (46) | New York (Ridge) | Shot after a standoff. |
| 2001-03-17 | James Levier (60) | Maine (Scarborough) | |
| 2001-03-11 | Dante Meniefield (23) | California (Moreno Valley) | |
| 2001-02-27 | Scott Brown (37) | Pennsylvania (Lindenwold) | |
| 2001-02-26 | Unnamed man | California (Sunnyvale) | |
| 2001-02-26 | Austin Riley (87) | Florida (Miami) | |
| 2001-02-26 | Andrena Kitt (21) | Florida (Pensacola) | |
| 2001-02-24 | Mark Venuti (36) | New Jersey (Elizabeth) | Officers killed Venuti after he charged at them holding a "dark object" above his head, which turned out to be a bible. |
| 2011-02-23 | Joe Anthony Zuniga (24) | Texas (Houston) | |
| 2001-02-23 | Robert Tale (39) | Ohio (Dayton) | |
| 2001-02-18 | Jose Mendoza (21) | California (Long Beach) | |
| 2001-02-17 | Unnamed man | California (San Diego) | |
| 2001-02-16 | Gary Baker (30s) | New York (Hornell) | Shot after stabbing his wife to death. |
| 2001-02-14 | Joey Kessinger (27) | Tennessee (Nashville) | |
| 2001-02-09 | Unnamed man | California (Los Angeles) | |
| 2001-02-07 | Antwan Bryant (20) | Kentucky (Louisvillle) | |
| 2001-02-06 | Michelle King (39) | California (Fountain Valley) | |
| 2001-02-03 | Unnamed man (32) | Colorado (Denver) | |
| 2001-02-?? | Peter Aguon Maguadog | Guam (Tamuning) | |
| 2001-01-29 | Corey Paul Rice (30) | Florida (Gainesville) | |
| 2001-01-16 | Alexander, Juliette (29) | New York (Brooklyn) | Alexander was shot in the head by NYPD Sergeant Martin Peters, the estranged father of her two children. Peters also shot Alexander's friend Nigel Callender, leaving him paralyzed. |
| 2001-01-16 | Unnamed man (44) | Michigan (Detroit) | |
| 2001-01-18 | Charles Valdez (22) | California (Oxnard) | |
| 2001-01-14 | David Geisler (28) | Ohio (Dayton) | |
| 2001-01-12 | William Wilkins (29) | California (Oakland) | |
| 2001-01-10 | Richard Lopez (17) | California (Oxnard) | |
| 2001-01-05 | Unnamed man (39) | Louisiana (Shreveport) | |
| 2001-01-04 | Unnamed man (21) | New York (Rochester) | |
| 2001-01-03 | Mark Guerrero (33) | Arizona (Tucson) | |
| 2001-01-01 | Juan Hernandez Anzaldua (25) | Texas (Belton) | |
| 2001-01-?? | Clifford Lewis (18) | Kentucky (Louisville) | |