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

This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in January 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 102 people.

## January 2022

| Date | Name (age) of deceased | Race | State (city) | Description |
| 2022-01-31 | Michael Allen Haas (37) | White | Mishawaka, Indiana | Mishawaka police were called to Village Green Mobile Home Park twice on reports of a man threatening people with a firearm. On the second call, a man later identified as Michael Allen Haas fired at police. The police returned fire and shot Haas. Haas was then taken to a South Bend hospital where he later died. |
| 2022-01-31 | Joseph Wayne Butler (40) | White | Mesquite, TX | |
| 2022-01-31 | Michael J. Trappett (48) | White | Orofino, ID | |
| 2022-01-31 | Xueqi Li (67) | Asian | Covina, CA | |
| 2022-01-30 | Elijah Morley (22) | White | Andersonville, TN | |
| 2022-01-30 | Dustin Dienst | Unknown race | Andersonville, TN | |
| 2022-01-30 | Dyonta Quarles Jr. (20) | Black | Crofton, MD | |
| 2022-01-29 | Abigail Bieber (30) | White | St. Augustine, Florida | Bieber, a Hillsborough County deputy, was shot and killed by her boyfriend, a Hillsborough County detective, in a murder-suicide during a vacation in St. Augustine. |
| 2022-01-29 | David Christopher Chernosky (28) | White | Denton, TX | |
| 2022-01-29 | Joon Han (30) | Asian | West Buechel, Kentucky | An off-duty New Albany, Indiana Police officer shot and killed Han in a murder-suicide. Neighbors said Han was the officer's girlfriend. |
| 2022-01-29 | Donald Sahota (52) | White | Battle Ground, Washington | Sahota, an off-duty Vancouver Police officer, fought with a robbery suspect who had arrived at his home. After the suspect stabbed him, Sahota chased the suspect while holding his firearm as the suspect ran towards his house. Police say a Clark County Sheriff's Deputy arriving at the scene mistook Sahota for the suspect and shot him. The suspect was charged with the murder. The prosecutor's office declined to charge the deputy. |
| 2022-01-28 | Daniel Alfonso Perez-Comunidad (19) | Hispanic | Coachella, CA | |
| 2022-01-28 | Mitchell Ryan Hooe (28) | White | Springfield, MO | |
| 2022-01-27 | Landon Eastep (37) | White | Nashville, Tennessee | Nine officers shot Eastep after a standoff on a highway overpass. Body cam footage shows officers shoot Eastep after he made a swift motion with his arms. Eastep was carrying a box cutter. Of the nine officers, six were from the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, two were from the Tennessee Highway Patrol, and one was an off-duty Mt. Juliet officer. One of the Nashville officers was stripped of his police powers following the incident. |
| 2022-01-27 | Jerome Holman | Unknown | Parkland, Washington | Deputies responded to reports of a suspicious vehicle. Deputies shot and killed an individual. The department is withholding all additional details at this time. |
| 2022-01-26 | John Hunt (20) | Black | Cordova, TN | |
| 2022-01-26 | Wesley Chance (32) | White | Portland, OR | |
| 2022-01-26 | John Paul Romero (42) | Hispanic | Rio Rancho, NM | |
| 2022-01-26 | Equan Hopson (23) | Black | Ferguson, MO | |
| 2022-01-25 | Floyd Michael Woody (68) | White | Dandridge, TN | |
| 2022-01-25 | Derick Rock (30) | White | Aragon, GA | |
| 2022-01-25 | Ronnie D. Walker (58) | White | Fredricktown, MO | |
| 2022-01-24 | Peterson Kamo (23) | Unknown | Spokane, Washington | Police responded to a welfare check after dispatch received an emergency call from Kamo's mother. As officers approached the residence one officer observed Kamo holding a knife to the throat of a small child. Officers attempted to de-escalate the situation, at which point Kamo retreated upstairs with the child. Officers fired shots a short time later, striking Kamo. Kamo was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. |
| 2022-01-24 | Bradley James Ellison (48) | White | Priceville, AL | |
| 2022-01-24 | Amanda Alvarez-Calo (31) | Latino | Chicago, Illinois | An Illinois State Trooper shot and killed his wife before killing himself. |
| 2022-01-23 | Paul Courtemanche (42) | White | Burlington, MA | |
| 2022-01-23 | Bobby Lee Sutton (59) | Black | Atlanta, GA | |
| 2022-01-23 | Christopher "Chris" Jones (17) | Black | O’Fallon, MO | |
| 2022-01-23 | Tyron Coates (23) | Black | Lafayette, LA | |
| 2022-01-23 | Sean Michael Kinney (37) | Unknown race | Newnan, GA | |
| 2022-01-23 | William "Billy" Atkins (41) | White | Fort Knox, KY | |
| 2022-01-23 | Jeffrey Thomas (24) | Black | Ringold, GA | |
| 2022-01-23 | Francisco Junior Lopez (36) | Hispanic | Hallettsville, TX | |
| 2022-01-22 | Dedrick Garcia (37) | Hispanic | Phoenix, AZ | |
| 2022-01-22 | Tymel Bowman (43) | Black | Springfield, MO | |
| 2022-01-21 | Lashawn McNeil (47) | Black | New York City, New York | McNeil fired on two officers responding to a domestic call, fatally wounding both, before a third officer shot him. McNeil died in hospital on January 24. |
| 2022-01-20 | Nelson Szeto (37) | Asian | San Francisco, California | Szeto was shot and killed by police after a standoff at San Francisco International Airport. Szeto was carrying a knife and had two replica guns. Police say after Szeto set the knife down he pulled out the second replica gun and was shot by police. At one point Szeto allegedly told officers to shoot him. |
| 2022-01-20 | Yoskar Feliz (27) | Black | New York, NY | |
| 2022-01-19 | Ronald W. Flowers II | Unknown race | Perdido, AL | |
| 2022-01-19 | Robert Seth Carter (32) | Unknown race | San Jose, CA | |
| 2022-01-19 | Henry Richards Jr. (41) | Black | Contant, U.S. Virgin Islands | Richards shot four people at a bar in a drive-by shooting before being shot and killed by an off-duty officer. |
| 2022-01-18 | Joseph Thomas Tracy IV (20) | Hispanic | Hemet, CA | |
| 2022-01-18 | Tyler M. Marler (31) | Unknown race | Wood River, IL | |
| 2022-01-18 | Hector Armando Barba Jr. (33) | Hispanic | Huntington Park, CA | |
| 2022-01-18 | Unnamed man | Unknown race | Cypress, TX | |
| 2022-01-17 | Nathan Humphrey (28) | Black | Atascocita, TX | |
| 2022-01-17 | Moses Portillo (22) | Hispanic | Puyallup, Washington | A deputy pulled Portillo's vehicle over for a traffic stop. The deputy asked Portillo where the gun was in the car. The situation quickly escalated with the deputy shooting Portillo. |
| 2022-01-16 | Junnie Williams (35) | Black | North Charleston, SC | |
| 2022-01-16 | Ismael Montes (22) | Unknown race | Gillette, WY | |
| 2022-01-16 | Miguel Maldonado (36) | Hispanic | Harrisburg, PA | |
| 2022-01-16 | Steffon Griffin (31) | White | Toppers, OK | |
| 2022-01-15 | Malik Faisal Akram (44) | South Asian | Colleyville, Texas | Akram, a British national, took four people hostage at a synagogue in Colleyville, near Dallas. After six hours, one hostage was released, and the rest escaped after eleven hours. Akram was then shot and killed by an FBI Hostage Rescue Team. |
| 2022-01-15 | Unnamed man | Unknown race | Jurupa Valley, CA | |
| 2022-01-14 | Raishawn Jones (38) | Black | Durham, NC | |
| 2022-01-14 | Barry Dean Compton (64) | Unknown race | Woolwine, VA | |
| 2022-01-13 | Edgar Morfin Mendoza (26) | Hispanic | Fresno, CA | |
| 2022-01-13 | Alexander Bogusz (30) | Unknown race | Citrus Heights, CA | |
| 2022-01-12 | Charles Walker Piquet (51) | Unknown race | Durham, NC | |
| 2022-01-12 | Michael Neuman (31) | Unknown race | Jonesboro, AR | |
| 2022-01-12 | Michael Scott Meridith (35) | White | Sergeant Bluff, IA | |
| 2022-01-12 | Kenneth Delton Hutcheson (37) | White | Abbeville, CO | |
| 2022-01-12 | Autrey Davis (22) | Black | Houston, TX | |
| 2022-01-11 | Megan Joyce Mohn (40) | White | Salt Lake City, Utah | Police responded to a disturbance at a gas station and encountered Mohn holding a piece of rebar. Police restrained Mohn, who fell unconscious and died nineteen days later. Her death was ruled a homicide by a medical examiner. |
| 2022-01-11 | Jose Daniel Argueta Turcios (43) | Hispanic | Raleigh, NC | |
| 2022-01-11 | Nicholas D. Sebastian (43) | White | Port Barrington, IL | |
| 2022-01-11 | Jose Juan Marquez (43) | Hispanic | Calimesa, CA | |
| 2022-01-10 | Isaac Andrade (21) | Hispanic | San Diego, CA | |
| 2022-01-10 | Isaiah Tyree Williams (19) | Black | Las Vegas, Nevada | Police investigating a homicide entered an apartment on a search warrant when a shootout occurred between Williams and the police. Williams was not the suspect in the homicide, and the actual suspect was not at the apartment at the time. |
| 2022-01-10 | Name Withheld (50) | Unknown race | Rancho Cucamonga, CA | |
| 2022-01-09 | Denrick Demond Stallings (47) | Black | Roberta, GA | |
| 2022-01-09 | Orlando Taylor III (23) | Black | Springfield, MA | |
| 2022-01-09 | Unnamed man | Unknown race | Rialto, CA | |
| 2022-01-09 | Saul Betancourt (21) | Hispanic | NEWMAN, CA | |
| 2022-01-09 | Joshua Mathis (19) | Black | Hillsborough, NJ | |
| 2022-01-09 | Luis Ku Huitzil (45) | Unknown | Vancouver, Washington | Police responded to reports of a man inside a mobile home armed with knives. The individual reportedly set a fire in the home. Police fired 40mm less lethal rounds at the individual. Police then shot and killed the individual. |
| 2022-01-08 | Jason Walker (37) | Black | Fayetteville, North Carolina | Police say an off-duty Cumberland County Sheriff's Deputy shot and killed Walker after he allegedly jumped on the deputy's moving truck. Witnesses claim the deputy's truck struck Walker. |
| 2022-01-08 | Deaughn Willis (25) | Black | Baton Rouge, LA | |
| 2022-01-07 | Courtney Spraggins (26) | White | Huntsville, AL | |
| 2022-01-06 | Todd Fiepke | White | Wheat Ridge, CO | |
| 2022-01-06 | James Sutton (55) | Unknown race | Keansburg, NJ | |
| 2022-01-06 | Jose Brito Lopez (37) | Unknown | Calhoun, Georgia | Police responded to reports of a burglary and found Lopez holding a knife. An officer shot Lopez after he allegedly walked towards the officer while still carrying the knife. |
| 2022-01-06 | Ricardo Otero (30) | Hispanic | Las Vegas, NV | |
| 2022-01-05 | Tony Edwards (53) | Unknown race | Mayfield, KY | |
| 2022-01-05 | Unknown | Unknown race | Prescott, AZ | |
| 2022-01-05 | Unknown | Unknown | Seattle, Washington | Police shot and killed a man after he allegedly stabbed a police dog, killing it, and stabbing an officer in the face. |
| 2022-01-05 | Abdul Timmons (27) | Black | Florence County, South Carolina | Timmons was shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy at a mobile home park. Police say Timmons was armed. |
| 2022-01-05 | JD Javier Lane (28) | Latino | Victoria, Texas | After Lane was pulled over on suspicion of robbery, he fled on foot and was shot in the back by a U.S. Deputy Marshal. The deputy marshal stated he mistook a pipe scraper in Lane's hand for a gun. A grand jury declined to indict the marshal. |
| 2022-01-04 | Daniel Ackley (33) | White | Millville, NJ | |
| 2022-01-04 | Carl Schaede (53) | Unknown race | Paulden, AZ | |
| 2022-01-04 | Roman Ivan Kokhanevych (24) | White | Gresham, OR | |
| 2022-01-04 | Stephanie Wilson (28) | Unknown race | Bahama, NC | |
| 2022-01-04 | Vincenzo Rudi (44) | Unknown race | Philadelphia, PA | |
| 2022-01-04 | Clarence Little (45) | Black | Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2022-01-03 | John Sumter Horton (42) | White | Mooresboro, North Carolina | A state trooper arriving to a traffic stop accidentally struck and killed another trooper on scene, as well as the pulled over motorcyclist. The trooper in the patrol car was the brother of the trooper who was killed. |
| 2022-01-03 | Dusty Luke Beck (26) | White | Mooresboro, North Carolina | A state trooper arriving to a traffic stop accidentally struck and killed another trooper on scene, as well as the pulled over motorcyclist. The trooper in the patrol car was the brother of the trooper who was killed. |
| 2022-01-03 | Caleb Stanford (26) | Unknown race | Mesa, AZ | |
| 2022-01-03 | Charles Corey Castro (54) | Hispanic | Murphy, ID | |
| 2022-01-03 | James Schild (49) | White | Mesa, AZ | |
| 2022-01-02 | Matthew Elston (51) | Unknown race | Wildomar, CA | |
| 2022-01-02 | Kadeem Errol Livingston Smith (28) | Black | Pine Hills, FL | |
| 2022-01-01 | James Williams | Black | Canton, OH | |
| 2022-01-01 | Michael Dobbins (63) | Unknown race | Jonesboro, LA | |