# List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, May 2011

This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in May 2011, 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 52 people.

## May 2011

| Date | Name (Age) of Deceased | Race | State (city) | Description |
| 2011-05-31 | Anthony Alberto Ponce (29) | White | Texas (Beeville) | |
| 2011-05-31 | Calvin Cross (19) | Black | Illinois (Chicago) | |
| 2011-05-30 | Byron Elliot Carter Jr. (20) | Black | Texas (Austin) | Carter was a passenger in a car that police say sped toward and hit an officer. Another officer fired at the car, injuring the driver and killing Carter. A civil suit filed by Carter's family was still in the courts as of May 2013. |
| 2011-05-30 | Jennifer Louise Carter Agee (30) | White | Virginia (Roanoke) | |
| 2011-05-30 | Raymond Herisse (22) | Black | Florida (Miami Beach) | Shot in vehicle after striking multiple officers and other vehicles with vehicle. Police were in the area due to annual Urban Beach Week celebration. |
| 2011-05-30 | Michael Minick (39) | Race unspecified | Tennessee (Nashville) | |
| 2011-05-29 | Merlyn Arthur "Mike" King (32) | Race unspecified | California (Yucca Valley) | |
| 2011-05-29 | Rodolfo "Rudy" Medrano (35) | Hispanic/Latino | California (Bakersfield) | About 9:30 p.m. Madrano called 911 from his motel room, threatening suicide. He claimed to have several guns. Four deputies from the Kern County Sheriff's Department responded. The deputies negotiated with Medrano for about 45 minutes while he was in his wheelchair in the motel parking lot and holding a large knife. When he charged the deputies, in his wheelchair, with the knife in his hand, the four deputies shot and killed him. In June 2011, the Kern County Sheriff's Incident Review Board ruled the shooting justified. |
| 2011-05-28 | Adrian Quevedo (25) | Hispanic/Latino | Tucson, Arizona | |
| 2011-05-27 | Alberto Castillo (35) | Hispanic/Latino | Nevada(Las Vegas) | Police responded to a 911 call and found Castillo holding a silver object to his wife's neck. Castillo allegedly kicked an officer and grabbed his Taser, and the officer shot Castillo to death. |
| 2011-05-27 | Roxanne Taylor (58) | White | Georgia (DeKalb) | Shot after car chase and firing a shot. Police were pursuing Taylor as the prime suspect in recent armed robberies of stores. |
| 2011-05-26 | William Jimmy Page Jr. (39) | White | Florida (St. Petersburg) | |
| 2011-05-25 | Donald Ray Moore (64) | Black | North Carolina (Winston-Salem) | |
| 2011-05-25 | Willie Danelle Gibbons (33) | Black | New Jersey (Bridgeton) | |
| 2011-05-25 | Jonathan Montano (65) | Hispanic/Latino | California (Loma Linda) | |
| 2011-05-25 | Tatioun Williams (15) | Black | Illinois (Chicago) | |
| 2011-05-25 | Christopher Coronel (21) | Hispanic/Latino | California (South Gate) | |
| 2011-05-25 | William Lusk (19) | Hispanic/Latino | California (Los Angeles) | |
| 2011-05-24 | Antonio "Tony" L. Cooks (32) | Black | Florida (Jacksonville) | |
| 2011-05-24 | Paul Ryan Robbins (60) | White | Texas (Washington) | |
| 2011-05-24 | Jeremy Dee Atkinson (38) | White | California (Modesto) | |
| 2011-05-23 | Stacey Lee Burris (46) | White | Texas (Fort Worth) | |
| 2011-05-23 | Terrence Boatwright (18) | Race unspecified | Florida (Lauderdale Lakes) | |
| 2011-05-22 | Spencer Everett Posey (34) | Native American | Colorado (Towaoc) | |
| 2011-05-20 | William "Corey" Jackson (33) | Black | New York (Geneva) | Fatally shot during a traffic stop. Was wanted after allegedly stealing $150, a cell phone, and a pack of cigarettes at knifepoint that morning. Jackson was in the backseat of a two door car. Officer saw Jackson reaching around on the floor and thought he observed a gun. A knife and two cell phones were found in the car. Jackson died two days later at a hospital in Rochester, NY. |
| 2011-05-19 | Matthew R. Murdock (34) | White | Georgia (Mableton) | Shot after scuffling with police officer and when it appeared Murdock was reaching for a weapon. Police had stopped Murdock as a "suspicious person". |
| 2011-05-19 | Shelly Dianne Naroian (47) | White | Hillsboro, New Hampshire | |
| 2011-05-18 | Timothy Steven Morris (33) | White | Georgia (Newton County) | Shot after threatening to kill officer while having his hands in his pockets. A state trooper had attempted to stop Morris for speeding. Morris abandoned his vehicle and fled into a heavily wooded area where the trooper cornered him. Knives were found on Morris. |
| 2011-05-18 | Ross Steven Nager (18) | White | Washington (Selah) | Shot after exiting vehicle with shotgun or rifle in hand. Police were responding to report that Nager was making threats to people inside a home and firing his weapon. After SWAT team arrive Nager attempted to leave in a vehicle but was blocked. |
| 2011-05-16 | Albert "Bert" Reeves (40) | White | South Carolina (Cottageville) | Shot during an aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer. |
| 2011-05-13 | Manuel Bueno (34) | Hispanic/Latino | Florida (North Miami Beach) | Shot after brandishing a knife. |
| 2011-05-11 | Jeff Wilson (30) | Black | Illinois (Chicago) | Shot during armed robbery of store and after shooting at police. |
| 2011-05-10 | Michael Palomino Jr. (28) | White | Glendale, Arizona | |
| 2011-05-10 | Dale Garrett (51) | Black | California (Los Angeles) | Shot twice in the back by Los Angeles Police Department Detective Arthur Gamboa. Det. Gamboa claimed that Garrett pulled a knife and threatened to kill him during an attempted drug bust. The Los Angeles Police Commission ruled that the shooting violated the LAPD's policy on lethal force. |
| 2011-05-10 | Allen Kephart (43) | White | California (Lake Arrowhead) | After allegedly running a stop sign, Allen Kephart was beaten and tasered two dozen times by three San Bernardino County Sheriff Deputies in a parking lot in the unincorporated area of the San Bernardino Mountains near Lake Arrowhead. |
| 2011-05-09 | Adrian Perez (26) | Hispanic/Latino | California (Bakersfield) | Bakersfield police officers, responding to a residence for a report of trespassing found Adrian Perez. During the encounter Perez drew a handgun from his pocket and fired on the officers. Three officers returned fire, killing Perez. |
| 2011-05-08 | Jay Allen Johnson (52) | Race unspecified | Alaska (Anchorage) | |
| 2011-05-08 | Henry Lee Jones Jr. (20) | Black | Arkansas (North Little Rock) | |
| 2011-05-07 | Brian Edward Scaman (48) | White | Washington (State) (Auburn) | |
| 2011-05-07 | James D. Breton (50) | White | Manchester, New Hampshire | |
| 2011-05-06 | Jeremy Michael Lundquist (32) | White | Phoenix, Arizona | |
| 2011-05-06 | Jimmy James (62) | Race unspecified | Ohio (Canton) | |
| 2011-05-06 | Ed Jermolowicz (69) | Race unspecified | Illinois (Beecher) | |
| 2011-05-06 | Daniel McDonnell (40) | White | New York (West Babylon) | |
| 2011-05-05 | Jose Guerena (26) | Hispanic/Latino | Arizona (Tucson) | Marine and Iraq war veteran shot by SWAT team conducting forced-entry search of home involving a marijuana smuggling investigation. No drugs nor anything illegal was found and widow and children received $3.4 million settlement from agencies involved in raid. |
| 2011-05-04 | Robert Alonzo Raucci (58) | White | Washington (Kent) | Shot while pulling a long gun out of a taxi cab at a transit center. Police were responding to a report from the cab driver that his passenger had a shotgun or rifle across his knees. |
| 2011-05-04 | Jeffrey A. Wolfe (56) | White | Pennsylvania (Schuylkill Haven) | |
| 2011-05-03 | Antonio Tyler (18) | Black | Georgia (Marietta) | Shot after refusing to drop weapon. Police had confronted Tyler regarding the two people Tyler and two other men had forced into their home at gunpoint. |
| 2011-05-02 | Bernard Bailey (54) | Black | South Carolina (Eutawville) | A police chief for the town of Eutawville shot and killed Bernard Bailey who came to Town Hall to complain about his daughter's traffic ticket. Police chief Richard Combs tried to arrest Bailey for a charge of obstruction of justice, and Bailey walked towards his truck and they both briefly fought each other. Combs then shot Bailey twice in the chest in Bailey's truck. On December 4, 2014, prosecutors charged Combs with murder. |
| 2011-05-01 | Cesar Tomas Quiroz-Leon (27) | Hispanic/Latino | Buckeye, Arizona | |
| 2011-05-01 | Roderick Dewayne Thomas (23) | Black | Mississippi (Durant) | |
| 2011-05-01 | Marcus G. Brown (26) | Black | Connecticut (Waterbury) | |