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

This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in October 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 110 people.

## October 2020

| Date | Name (age) of deceased | Race | State (city) | Description |
| 2020-10-31 | John Pacheaco Jr. (36) | White | Colorado (Glendale) | Police were called to perform a wellness check on Pacheaco, who was asleep in a pick-up truck that was reported stolen. When officers arrived, the truck move forwards and hit a police vehicle, before moving backwards and hitting several other vehicles, causing police to open fire. No firearms were found in the truck. |
| 2020-10-31 | Matthew Daniel Johnston (44) | Unknown race | Maryville, TN | |
| 2020-10-30 | Name Withheld (42) | Black | Detroit, MI | |
| 2020-10-30 | Frank Murphy (43) | White | El Paso, TX | |
| 2020-10-30 | Brandon Keith Davis (27) | Unknown race | Chattanooga, TN | |
| 2020-10-29 | Rodolfo "Rudy" Martinez-Cortez (30) | Hispanic | Salem, OR | |
| 2020-10-29 | Kevin Peterson Jr. (21) | Black | Washington (Hazel Dell) | A narcotics task force chased Peterson into a bank parking lot after a drug sting involving Xanax. Peterson ran away from the police while armed with a handgun, and it is uncertain if he fired his weapon. The officers fired a total of 34 shots at Peterson, four of which hit and killed him. Protests occurred in the nearby cities of Portland and Vancouver. |
| 2020-10-28 | Justin Esqueda (30) | Hispanic | Bakersfield, CA | |
| 2020-10-28 | Charles Robert Arviso (35) | Hispanic | Tucson, AZ | |
| 2020-10-28 | Bennie Biby (44) | White | Cadiz, KY | |
| 2020-10-27 | Clifton Gorman Spencer (35) | Unknown race | Chattanooga, TN | |
| 2020-10-27 | Ryan Fallo (20) | White | Lake Worth, FL | |
| 2020-10-27 | Isaac Lemoine Christensen (38) | White | Herriman, UT | |
| 2020-10-27 | Maurice Parker (34) | Black | Las Vegas, NV | |
| 2020-10-26 | Michael K. Nelson (27) | Unknown race | Alexandria, VA | |
| 2020-10-26 | Walter Wallace Jr. (27) | Black | Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) | Wallace was shot as he approached officers holding a knife which he refused to drop. Video shows Wallace's mother running over to him after he was shot. Protests were held in response to the shooting, and witnesses say that the police should have used less deadly force. |
| 2020-10-26 | Karon Hylton-Brown (20) | Black | Washington, D.C. | Karon Hylton-Brown was riding an electric scooter when police attempted to pull him over for not wearing a helmet. Over the course of the next few minutes they pursued him into an alleyway, where he was hit by a vehicle. |
| 2020-10-26 | Bruce Allan Shumaker (64) | Unknown race | Citrus Heights, CA | |
| 2020-10-25 | Paul Sarver (53) | White | Phoenix, AZ | |
| 2020-10-24 | Brandon Evans (33) | White | Lawrenceburg, IN | |
| 2020-10-24 | Name Withheld (36) | Unknown race | Warren, MI | |
| 2020-10-24 | Richard "RJ" James Jones (35) | White | Garden City, MO | |
| 2020-10-24 | Jakerion Shmond Jackson (19) | Black | Sylvester, GA | |
| 2020-10-23 | John Lipski (62) | White | Goodman, WI | |
| 2020-10-23 | Marc Nevarez (25) | Hispanic | Chicago, IL | |
| 2020-10-23 | Daniel Angel Villalobos-Baldovinos (30) | Hispanic | San Diego, CA | |
| 2020-10-23 | Name Withheld | Unknown race | Loma Linda, CA | |
| 2020-10-23 | Cody Jay Hadley (32) | White | Huntsville, UT | |
| 2020-10-23 | Ennice "Lil Rocc" Ross Jr. (26) | Black | Kansas City, MO | |
| 2020-10-23 | Name Withheld | Hispanic | Laredo, TX | |
| 2020-10-22 | Michael Nichols (63) | Unknown race | Kettle, WV | |
| 2020-10-22 | Name Withheld (35) | White | Barstow, CA | |
| 2020-10-22 | Keith Beecroft (43) | Unknown | Alaska (Anchorage) | Beecroft, who was armed with a shotgun, was shot and killed by a SWAT team. Five SWAT officers fired their weapons. |
| 2020-10-22 | Mark Bender (35) | Black | California (San Bernardino) | Police responded to a call of a man with a gun jumping on cars. Bender refused to follow verbal commands from the officer, and engaged in a physical confrontation with him. Bender was shot when he pulled a gun from his pocket and turned toward the officer. |
| 2020-10-22 | Francisco Danny Flores (30) | Hispanic | Casa Grande, AZ | |
| 2020-10-22 | Sook Hee Lee (65) | Asian | Clifton, NJ | |
| 2020-10-21 | Gregory Jackson (45) | Black | Moss Point, MS | |
| 2020-10-21 | Steven Belville (35) | White | Bradenton, FL | |
| 2020-10-20 | Dominique Mulkey (26) | Black | Florida (Tampa) | Mulkey was confronted by two officers on suspicion of armed robbery of a Dollar General store. The officers told Mulkey to drop his gun, at which point he turned toward the officers, leading them to open fire. |
| 2020-10-20 | Emmett Cocreham (44) | Hispanic | Phoenix, AZ | |
| 2020-10-20 | George Cocreham (43) | Hispanic | Phoenix, AZ | |
| 2020-10-20 | James Collins (61) | White | Spring Hill, FL | |
| 2020-10-20 | Name Withheld | Unknown race | Perdido Key, FL | |
| 2020-10-20 | Marcellis Stinnette (19) | Black | Illinois (Waukegan) | At 11:55 p.m., Waukegan police stopped a car in which the passenger, Marcellis Stinnette, was wanted on a warrant. The driver fled and her vehicle was chased. When the car stopped a second time, the vehicle reversed toward the officers, and one officer fired his pistol in fear for his safety. Both the driver and passenger were struck by gunfire. The driver, a Black woman in her 20s from Waukegan, was taken to a hospital with serious injuries and is expected to recover, police said. The male passenger, Marcellis Stinnette, 19, was taken to an area hospital and died. |
| 2020-10-19 | Bryan Selmer (38) | Unknown | Maryland (Emmitsburg) | Selmer was fleeing with another man, who was wanted for attempted murder in Hanover, Pennsylvania. Police attempted to arrest Selmer at a gas station and say they shot him when he turned around in a "shooting stance". Selmer was not armed at the time, although deputies say they believed he could have been due to police being fired upon earlier. |
| 2020-10-19 | Ethan Freeman (37) | White | New Hampshire (Thornton) | Freeman had a history of mental illness, and charged at an officer multiple times holding a piece of broken furniture, and threatened to kill the officer. The officer repeatedly yelled at Freeman to back up, and shot him dead on one of his charges. |
| 2020-10-19 | Paul Sulkowski (46) | Unknown race | Coram, NY | |
| 2020-10-19 | Jose Alfredo Castro-Gutierrez (39) | Hispanic | San Diego, CA | |
| 2020-10-19 | Name Withheld (43) | White | South Milwaukee, WI | |
| 2020-10-18 | Gregory Putnik (32) | White | Fresno, CA | |
| 2020-10-18 | Chistopher John Kitts (43) | White | Lakeview, GA | |
| 2020-10-18 | Tutuila Pine Koonwaiyou (37) | Asian | Tooele, UT | |
| 2020-10-18 | Name Withheld (56) | Unknown race | Sunrise, FL | |
| 2020-10-17 | Bradley Pugh (41) | White | Huntsville, AL | |
| 2020-10-17 | Paul Bailey (21) | White | Davisville, WV | |
| 2020-10-17 | Darren W. Randolph (53) | White | Greenville, KY | |
| 2020-10-17 | Richard Romero | Hispanic | Laguna, NM | |
| 2020-10-16 | Fred Williams III (25) | Black | California (Willowbrook) | At about 5:30 p.m., deputies saw a group of about 10 to 15 people in the parking lot, according to a news release from the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. The deputies said one of the people in the group was holding a firearm and when he saw the deputies, he ran out of the parking lot. One of the deputies chased the man, identified as Williams, down a driveway and into a strangers backyard. Authorities said that Williams pointed his gun at a deputy, "at which point a deputy involved shooting occurred." Williams was pronounced dead at the scene. The department said it recovered a semiautomatic handgun from the scene. The bodycam footage appears to show Williams climbing the fence when he was shot, and that he did not have his gun pointed at the officer who shot him. |
| 2020-10-16 | Jason Edward Galliart (41) | Unknown race | Albuquerque, NM | |
| 2020-10-16 | Justin Dawley | White | Callahan, FL | |
| 2020-10-16 | Alberto Rivas (57) | Hispanic | Huntsville, AL | |
| 2020-10-16 | George Ludrou Job (19) | White | Sioux Falls, SD | |
| 2020-10-16 | Akbar Muhammad Eaddy (27) | Black | Rock Island, IL | |
| 2020-10-15 | Christopher Allen Kanouff (48) | White | Clearfield, PA | |
| 2020-10-15 | William Earl Lane (46) | White | Riesel, TX | |
| 2020-10-15 | Armando Sabat (71) | Unknown race | Los Alamitos, CA | |
| 2020-10-15 | Dana Mitchell Young Jr. (47) | Black | Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2020-10-14 | Kevin Carr (23) | Black | Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2020-10-14 | Jericho Wynos (45) | Native American | Cookson, OK | |
| 2020-10-14 | Yoel Arnaldo Mejia Santel (28) | Hispanic | Frostproof, FL | |
| 2020-10-14 | Jason Arpad Peters (45) | White | Kingman, AZ | |
| 2020-10-14 | Edwin Morales (29) | Hispanic | Hyattsville, MD | |
| 2020-10-14 | Steven Vest (30) | White | Chico, CA | |
| 2020-10-13 | Miguel A. Nevarez Jr. (36) | Hispanic | Houma, LA | |
| 2020-10-13 | Jose Marcos Ramirez (27) | Hispanic | Bakersfield, CA | |
| 2020-10-13 | Rodney Ross (30) | White | South Bend, IN | |
| 2020-10-12 | Anthony Jones (24) | Black | Bethel Springs, TN | |
| 2020-10-12 | Cole F. Stump (29) | Native American | Billings, MT | |
| 2020-10-12 | Matthew Montoya (52) | Hispanic | Albuquerque, NM | |
| 2020-10-12 | Julie Fandino (58) | White | Vermont (Barre Town) | An on-duty Berlin police officer, Jeffrey Strock, shot and killed his ex-girlfriend, Julie Fandino, before killing himself. |
| 2020-10-10 | Shawn Campbell (29) | Unknown race | Kingman, AZ | |
| 2020-10-10 | Cesar Vargas (21) | Hispanic | San Francisco, CA | |
| 2020-10-09 | Kalun Purucker (29) | White | Salina, KS | |
| 2020-10-09 | Sylvia Kirchner (41) | White | Myrtle Beach, SC | |
| 2020-10-09 | Anthony Michael Legato (25) | White | Hinkley, MN | |
| 2020-10-09 | Ariel Esau Lujan (29) | Hispanic | Houston, TX | |
| 2020-10-08 | Shayne Sutherland (29) | White | California (Stockton) | Police responded to a call that Sutherland was threatening people with a bottle at a gas station. Sutherland told officers he was "high on cocaine" and tried to flee. Several officers held Sutherland down, where he fell unconscious, and later died in hospital. |
| 2020-10-08 | Stanley Cochran (29) | Black | Philadelphia, PA | |
| 2020-10-08 | William Sendelbach (32) | White | Wabash, IN | |
| 2020-10-08 | Tyran Dent (24) | Black | Queens, NY | |
| 2020-10-08 | Justin Caldwell (47) | Unknown race | Palm City, FL | |
| 2020-10-06 | Chester McDonald (44) | Unknown race | Georgetown, KY | |
| 2020-10-06 | Douglas Sanchez (54) | Hispanic | Sterling, CO | |
| 2020-10-06 | Nick Burgos (34) | Hispanic | Torrance, CA | |
| 2020-10-06 | John Hare (62) | White | Fayetteville, NC | |
| 2020-10-06 | Crystal Renee Starling Mcclinton (48) | White | Hillard, FL | |
| 2020-10-05 | Juan Adrian Garcia (47) | Hispanic | Napa, CA | |
| 2020-10-05 | Sofia Gomez Aguilon (20) | Hispanic | New York, NY | |
| 2020-10-04 | Andrew A. Williams (41) | Unknown race | Vancouver, WA | |
| 2020-10-04 | Christopher Ulmer (30) | Unknown race | Chula Vista, CA | |
| 2020-10-04 | Diego Eguino-Alcala (27) | Hispanic | Las Cruces, NM | |
| 2020-10-04 | Austin Manzano (24) | Unknown race | Camarillo, CA | |
| 2020-10-03 | Jonathan Price (31) | African American | Texas (Wolfe City) | Price was killed by Officer Shaun Lucas after breaking up a fight at a gas station. Lucas tasered Price, before shooting him. Officer Lucas was arrested for the murder on October 5, 2020. Lucas was acquitted of all charges in September 2022. |
| 2020-10-03 | John Aycoth (20) | Unknown race | Myrtle Beach, SC | |
| 2020-10-02 | Mickel Erich Lewis Sr. (39) | Unknown race | Mojave, CA | |
| 2020-10-02 | Jason Rodriguez (46) | Hispanic | Fresno, CA | |
| 2020-10-02 | James Edward Baker (38) | White | Tallahassee, FL | |
| 2020-10-02 | Justin Lee Tofte (33) | White | Longview, WA | |
| 2020-10-02 | Eric Marc-Matthew Allport (43) | White | Madison Heights, MI | |
| 2020-10-01 | Name Withheld | Unknown race | Coal City, WV | |