# List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, October 2022

This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in October 2022, 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 98 people.

## October 2022

| Date | Name (age) of deceased | Race of deceased | Location | Description |
| 2022-10-31 | Donathy Wayne Doddy (61) | Black | Dallas, TX | |
| 2022-10-31 | Denzil Ollen Broadhurst (61) | White | Sacramento, California | Broadhurst died after his motorcycle was struck by a police vehicle. The officer was responding to a felony in progress and did not have lights or sirens on. The officer was later charged with vehicular manslaughter. |
| 2022-10-31 | Eugene Reed (69) | White | Sherwood, Arkansas | |
| 2022-10-31 | James Templeton (55) | Unknown | Saddle Ridge, Wyoming | |
| 2022-10-31 | Zachary Cervice (50) | White | Fawn Township, Pennsylvania | |
| 2022-10-31 | Unnamed man (65) | Unknown race | Taylor, MI | |
| 2022-10-30 | William Salgado (30) | Latino | Huntington Park, California | |
| 2022-10-30 | Salvador Maceda (36) | Latino | Santa Maria, California | Police encountered Maceda while conducting an investigation as he displayed two knives near some trash cans. After being hit by two beanbag rounds, Maceda threw a knife at an officer and fled to an apartment, where he climbed to the second-story balcony as a resident armed with a gun called 911. After 90 minutes, Maceda put the second knife on the floor of the balcony, after which police fired pepper balls at him. Maceda then allegedly threw several objects at officers, including a bicycle and a chair, then allegedly broke a front window with a small folding table. Police then shot Maceda once. |
| 2022-10-30 | Name Withheld | Hispanic | San Luis, AZ | |
| 2022-10-30 | Randall Bass (47) | White | Hammond, LA | |
| 2022-10-30 | Jeramyah Wilson (23) | Black | Omaha, NE | |
| 2022-10-30 | Kenneth Jamel Carrol (24) | Black | Davenport, IA | |
| 2022-10-28 | Willie Williams (35) | Black | Atlanta, GA | |
| 2022-10-28 | Richard Quave Jr. (49) | White | Vancleave, MS | |
| 2022-10-28 | Name Withheld (16) | Unknown race | Seguin, TX | |
| 2022-10-28 | Name Withheld | White | Boaz, AL | |
| 2022-10-27 | Ivan Hinojosa (23) | Hispanic | Alice, TX | |
| 2022-10-27 | Breen Reiss (41) | White | Mesa, AZ | |
| 2022-10-27 | Carlos Trotter (36) | Black | Lawrence, IN | |
| 2022-10-26 | Joshua Bailes (40) | White | Kansas CIty, MO | |
| 2022-10-25 | Javier Manuel Soto (25) | Hispanic | Gillsville, GA | |
| 2022-10-25 | James Wilborn (35) | Black | Atlanta, GA | |
| 2022-10-25 | David Strain (31) | White | Lone Tree, CO | |
| 2022-10-25 | Clarissa Daws (29) | White | Lone Tree, CO | |
| 2022-10-25 | Alfredo Gonzalez-Garza (26) | Hispanic | Houston, TX | |
| 2022-10-24 | Orlando Harris (19) | Black | St. Louis, Missouri | Harris shot six people, killing a teacher and student, at the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School, before dying in a shootout with police. |
| 2022-10-24 | Ezekiel Lamar Love (22) | Black | Adelanto, CA | |
| 2022-10-24 | Xavier Benson (20) | Unknown race | Castro Valley, CA | |
| 2022-10-24 | Name Withheld (58) | Unknown race | Detroit, MI | |
| 2022-10-23 | Lynn Fredericksen (57) | White | Louisville, CO | |
| 2022-10-23 | Justin Harrod (40) | White | Kingsland, TX | |
| 2022-10-23 | Jose C. Jimenez (21) | Hispanic | Oregon, WI | |
| 2022-10-23 | Ronnie Lee Martin (42) | White | Senatobia, MS | |
| 2022-10-22 | Desman LaDuke (22) | Black | Nicholasville, Kentucky | Police responded to reports that LaDuke was suicidal and possessing firearms. Police stated that after two hours, police were confronted by an armed individual, but later clarified that LaDuke allegedly pointed two handguns at the rear window of his residence, where officers were outside. |
| 2022-10-21 | Christopher David Roldan (33) | White | Johnstown, CO | |
| 2022-10-21 | Luis Alfredo Ferro-Sanchez (20) | Latino | Salinas, California | An off-duty Santa Cruz Police officer was cleaning his personal weapon when it discharged, striking him in the hand and Ferro-Sanchez in the upper torso. |
| 2022-10-21 | Aaron Linke (48) | White | Morrison, IL | |
| 2022-10-19 | Jason Smith (44) | Unknown race | Oxford, MS | |
| 2022-10-19 | Thomas Christopher Wheeler (26) | White | Easley, SC | |
| 2022-10-19 | Jorge Arias (35) | Latino | Miami-Dade County, Florida | Arias, a United States Customs and Border Protection officer, was accidentally shot during a training scenario. According to the Miami Herald another agent mistakenly replaced his training pistol with his handgun and accidentally shot Arias. |
| 2022-10-19 | Mark Edward Evers (64) | Unknown race | Rockdale, TX | |
| 2022-10-18 | Vincent Martinez (55) | Hispanic | Oak Park, CA | |
| 2022-10-18 | Derrick Weatherspoon (33) | Black | San Diego, CA | |
| 2022-10-18 | Jason Thorpe (36) | White | Sparks, NV | |
| 2022-10-18 | Unnamed person | Unknown race | Paragould, AR | |
| 2022-10-18 | Wilma Taft (69) | White | Midwest City, OK | |
| 2022-10-17 | Name Withheld (28) | Unknown race | North Richland Hills, TX | |
| 2022-10-17 | Gabriel Thone (24) | White | Louisiana, MO | |
| 2022-10-16 | Christopher Blount (45) | Black | Augusta, GA | |
| 2022-10-16 | Angel Jimenez (26) | Hispanic | Anadarko, OK | |
| 2022-10-16 | Sergio Gruver (21) | Black | Oklahoma City, OK | |
| 2022-10-16 | Joel Capellan (29) | Black | New York, NY | |
| 2022-10-15 | Taylor Grimes (29) | Black | Fort Worth, TX | |
| 2022-10-15 | Nelson Amos (71) | White | Decatur, AR | |
| 2022-10-13 | Quantaze Campbell (46) | Black | Windsor, WI | |
| 2022-10-13 | Christopher Ardoin (31) | Black | Lake Charles, LA | |
| 2022-10-13 | Taylor L. Lowery (33) | Black | Topeka, KS | |
| 2022-10-12 | Jeffery J. Smith (52) | Unknown | Loon Lake, Washington | Officers responded to an incident where Smith held a man at gunpoint. He fired a shot next to his head. Officers heard these gunshots and told Smith he was under arrest. Smith was asked to surrender and refused and instead threatened to shoot deputies. SWAT team members confronted Smith and two members shot and killed him. |
| 2022-10-12 | Nicholas Brutcher (40) | White | Bristol, Connecticut | Brutcher called police to report a domestic dispute with his brother, but authorities believe the call was made to lure officers to his home. When officers arrived, Brutcher shot at them, killing two and wounding another before the third officer shot and killed him. Brutcher's brother was also shot during the incident. |
| 2022-10-12 | Jamontey O. Neal (32) | Black | Decatur, IL | |
| 2022-10-12 | Raheem Lee (19) | Black | Philadelphia, PA | |
| 2022-10-11 | Jason Sanderson (41) | White | Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2022-10-10 | Hui Zhang (33) | Asian | Paterson, New Jersey | Zhang, of Pensacola, Florida, was involved in a vehicle crash. After allegedly trying to enter several vehicles with an imitation firearm, a detective shot Zhang. |
| 2022-10-10 | Daniel Francis Scott (30) | White | Clarksville, IN | |
| 2022-10-10 | Christopher Earl Smith (44) | Black | North Las Vegas, NV | |
| 2022-10-10 | Unnamed person | Native American | Checotah, OK | |
| 2022-10-10 | Terry Hinton (60) | White | Tuscumbia, Alabama | A marked police cruiser struck a pedestrian, Hinton, who was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver, a Tuscumbia police officer, was indicted for murder in March 2023. The indictment stated that the officer was under the influence of alcohol during the crash. |
| 2022-10-09 | Johnny Devin James (62) | Unknown race | Lumberton, TX | |
| 2022-10-09 | Bryar Everett Wolfe (19) | White | Angola, IN | |
| 2022-10-09 | David Arnold (54) | Unknown race | Jenny Lind, CA | |
| 2022-10-08 | Stephaun Jones (25) | Black | Hamilton, Ohio | Police searched for Jones, who was suspected of killing another man in Hamilton after a car accident. He encountered two Fairfield Township Police officers and pointed a gun at them, but the officers did not fire at Jones, writing in a report that shooting at him would risk accidentally hitting a nearby man mowing his lawn. Jones fled and later encountered two Hamilton officers, who shot him when he allegedly pulled the gun out. The two Fairfield Township officers later resigned for not shooting Jones. |
| 2022-10-07 | Thomas Henzler | Unknown race | Black Canyon City, AZ | |
| 2022-10-07 | Christopher Allen Boggess (49) | White | Lorain, OH | |
| 2022-10-07 | Dexton Bolden (33) | Black | College Park, GA | |
| 2022-10-07 | Unknown | Unknown | El Segundo, California | A man died after he was struck by a patrol car while crossing a street. The California Highway Patrol is investigating. |
| 2022-10-06 | Jaheim McMillan (15) | Black | Gulfport, Mississippi | Police responded to reports that several people in a car were brandishing weapons and chasing another vehicle. Two of the vehicle's five occupants fled, and one, McMillan, was shot by police. Police stated McMillan had turned around with a weapon and refused to drop it after repeated commands, although some witness accounts claimed he was unarmed with his hands raised. In February 2023 a grand jury cleared the officer involved, and bodycamera footage was released, showing the officer shot McMillan as he ran holding what appeared to be a gun. |
| 2022-10-06 | Jonas Drew Gonzales (33) | Hispanic | San Antonio, TX | |
| 2022-10-05 | Ronald Dunigan Burdine (56) | Unknown race | Port Neches, TX | |
| 2022-10-05 | Ron Welch (33) | White | Baytown, TX | |
| 2022-10-05 | Bobby Johnston (40) | Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander | Claremore, OK | |
| 2022-10-05 | Jeremy McCracken (38) | White | Springfield, OH | |
| 2022-10-05 | Troy Garcia (51) | Unknown race | Colorado City, CO | |
| 2022-10-05 | Terrance Robinson (31) | Black | Lansing, Michigan | Robinson was shot and killed by Lansing Police Department officers. LPD reported that they arrived to investigate potential vehicle thefts at the property when Robinson fired at them, though Robinson's mother – a former LPD employee – questioned the event and said his killing was preventable. |
| 2022-10-05 | Gershun Freeman (33) | Black | Memphis, Tennessee | Correctional officers fought with Freeman, an inmate at 201 Poplar. Freeman was restrained by officers and went into cardiac arrest. His death was ruled a homicide, with the cause of death being cardiovascular disease exacerbated by the restraint. |
| 2022-10-04 | Manuel Gonzalez-Moran (33) | Hispanic | El Paso, TX | |
| 2022-10-04 | Colin West (36) | White | Warrington, FL | |
| 2022-10-04 | Blane Lane (21) | White | Polk City, Florida | Lane and several other Polk County Sheriff's deputies served a warrant against a woman for failure to appear on meth charges. According to police the woman had a BB gun mistaken for a real handgun, which led deputies to shoot. One deputy fired a round that struck Lane, who died at Lakeland Regional Hospital. |
| 2022-10-03 | Samuel Richmond (59) | Black | Peoria, Illinois | Police responded to reports of a suicidal man and encountered Richmond holding a gun. Four officers shot Richmond after he pointed the gun at them. |
| 2022-10-03 | Gary DeSanctis (51) | White | Bernalillo, NM | |
| 2022-10-02 | Thomas Talley (40) | Unknown race | Indianapolis, IN | |
| 2022-10-02 | Antonio Calmese (20) | Black | Chicago, IL | |
| 2022-10-02 | Michael Scott Blanck (43) | White | Lawrence, KS | |
| 2022-10-02 | Alexander Collins (35) | White | Aurora, CO | |
| 2022-10-02 | Talley, Thomas (40) | Unknown | Indianapolis | |
| 2022-10-01 | Farthing, Bobby (62) | Unknown | Mountain View, North Carolina | |
| 2022-10-01 | Yohannes, Abel (30) | Hispanic | Aurora, Colorado | |
| 2022-10-01 | Carrell, Carl (64) | White | Excelsior Springs, Missouri | |
| 2022-10-01 | Porter Burks (22) | Black | Detroit, Michigan | Police responded to reports of a man with a knife having a mental health crisis at an apartment. After a crisis intervention officer spoke to Burks, video shows him charge at officers with the knife. Five officers then shot 38 rounds at Burks, hitting him up to fifteen times. |