# List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, October 2023

This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in October 2023, 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 94 people.

## October 2023

| Date | Name (age) of deceased | Race | Location | Description |
| 2023-10-31 | unidentified male | Unknown | Las Vegas, Nevada | Police responded to reports of a stabbing and encountered a suspect holding a knife. A police officer hit the man with a police car as he walked into the road, and he died on the scene. The stabbing victim later died at the hospital. |
| 2023-10-31 | unidentified male | Latino | San Jacinto, California | |
| 2023-10-31 | unidentified male | Unknown | Alamosa, Colorado | |
| 2023-10-31 | Sean Dyment (23) | Unknown | Rumford, Maine | Rumford Police officers were talking to a person in front of the Rumford Police station. The person said they were being followed by an unknown stranger. Suddenly, Dyment drove up to the police station and was shot after allegedly "confronting" officers with a rifle. |
| 2023-10-31 | unidentified male | Unknown | Cottonwood Heights, Utah | A man wielding swords was shot and killed by police responding to a domestic violence call. |
| 2023-10-30 | Timothy Thomas (21) | Unknown | Tok, Alaska | A trooper responded to reports of a man trying to break into a motel and encountered Thomas holding an AK-47. The trooper fatally shot Thomas with a handgun. |
| 2023-10-29 | LaVaughn Coleman (21) | Black | Odenton, Maryland | Coleman died on December 14 from injuries he sustained after being tased by an Anne Arundel County police officer. |
| 2023-10-29 | Christopher H. Whittle (49) | White | Aiken, South Carolina | |
| 2023-10-29 | Abigail Lopez (20) | Latino | Anaheim, California | Lopez was shot and killed at a bus stop on the 1200 block of S. Anaheim Blvd by Anaheim Police officers. She was shot she when pointed a rifle BB gun in their direction. |
| 2023-10-28 | Vernard Toney Jr. (13) | Black | Washington, D.C. | An off-duty federal security officer shot and killed Toney after he and another boy allegedly tried to carjack the officer while Toney held his hand in his pocket as if he had a gun. The security officer's gun was the only firearm recovered from the scene. |
| 2023-10-28 | David Rojas Sr. (53) | Unknown | San Bernardino, California | |
| 2023-10-27 | unidentified male | Unknown | Somerset, Kentucky | |
| 2023-10-27 | Lazaro Enriquez (36) | Unknown | Henderson, Nevada | Police responded to reports of a man cutting himself and vandalizing a home. During the confrontation the Enriquez told police to shoot him and briefly aggressed a nearby civilian. After the stand-off an officer tased Enriquez before officers shot and killed him. |
| 2023-10-26 | Frederick Davis (37) | Unknown | Indianapolis, Indiana | |
| 2023-10-26 | Gilbert Garibay (73) | Unknown | Merced, California | At around 1 AM, Garibay was reportedly jumping in front of passing vehicles in 3300 Block of M Street. When two Merced Police arrived , Garibay allegedly lunged at the with a knife & was then shot. |
| 2023-10-26 | unidentified male | Unknown | Clinton, North Carolina | Clinton Police were called to home in regarding a domestic disturbance in Clinton. While searching the home for the suspect, officers found the male hiding in a closet and, was shot & killed after he allegedly pointed a firearm at one of the officers. |
| 2023-10-26 | unidentified male | Unknown | Stockton, California | |
| 2023-10-25 | unidentified female | Unknown | Palm Coast, Florida | |
| 2023-10-25 | Brand Barry (22) | White | Round Lake Beach, Illinois | |
| 2023-10-25 | Christina McKinney (34) | White | Evansville, Indiana | |
| 2023-10-24 | Ronald Nelson Jr (54) | Black | West Palm Beach, Florida | |
| 2023-10-24 | Rasheem Edwards (26) | Black | Ocala, Florida | |
| 2023-10-24 | unidentified male | Unknown | Kent, Washington | |
| 2023-10-24 | Brayden Barnhouse (19) | White | New Pittsburg, Indiana | |
| 2023-10-24 | Darcel Edwards (35) | Black | Indianapolis, Indiana | Following a traffic stop and chase police surrounded Edwards' vehicle after he crashed. They located Edwards up in a nearby tree, where he told officers to kill him. Following a standoff Police shot Edwards after he allegedly reached for his pocket. Police found a gun holster but no gun on Edwards. |
| 2023-10-23 | Kevin Foy | White | Germantown, Wisconsin | Police were called to reports of a man acting erratically near a middle school. When officers arrived Foy climbed onto the school's roof and allegedly fired at police. Following a shootout Foy was killed. |
| 2023-10-23 | unidentified male | Unknown | Lincoln, Nebraska | |
| 2023-10-23 | Ruben Garcia (34) | Latino | San Antonio, Texas | Officers shot and killed Garcia at an apartment. Police Chief William McManus said an officer chased Garcia after seeing him flashing a gun in his waistband. According to McManus the officer and Garcia struggled over the gun before the officer stepped back and shot him. One neighbor disputed the police account and claimed Garcia had his hands behind his back when he was shot. |
| 2023-10-22 | Daniel Kempf (24) | White | Homestead, Florida | |
| 2023-10-22 | unidentified male | Unknown | Austin, Texas | |
| 2023-10-22 | unidentified male | Unknown | Vinton, Ohio | |
| 2023-10-20 | Michael Strenk (48) | White | Prospect, Connecticut | Police responded to reports of a disturbance at a home. Police encountered Strenk, who threw a knife at an officer through a window. Police then shot Strenk after he charged at officers with a second knife. Strenk's death was the third police shooting in Connecticut within a week. |
| 2023-10-20 | Marthely Theodore (26) | Unknown | Smyrna, Georgia | |
| 2023-10-20 | William Frank Lee (38) | Unknown | Killeen, Texas | Police responded after a report that Lee had stabbed his brother. Police shot and killed Lee, who allegedly had a knife. |
| 2023-10-19 | Arthur Porter (33) | Black | Washington DC | |
| 2023-10-18 | Yong Lin (46) | Asian | Round Lake, Illinois | A woman called police to report that her friend's relative had possibly committed suicide. Officers entered Lin's home and found him unconscious and bleeding on a mattress. As deputies provided aid Lin woke up and grabbed a meat cleaver. Police shot Lin as he allegedly ran towards them with the cleaver. |
| 2023-10-17 | Todd Pearce (30) | White | Centralia, Illinois | |
| 2023-10-17 | Richard Rodriguez (18) | Unknown | San Antonio, Texas | |
| 2023-10-16 | Donald Passmore (62) | White | Wallingford, Connecticut | Police responded to a report that Passmore had shot himself and encountered him lying in bed with a revolver. After a confrontation officers shot Passmore when he allegedly reached for the gun. |
| 2023-10-16 | Donald Guffey Jr. (59) | White | New Castle, Indiana | |
| 2023-10-16 | Leonard Cure (53) | Black | Camden County, Georgia | Police pulled over Cure on the I-95 for speeding. Cure was then tased by the officer when he refused to put his hands behind his back. A physical struggle then followed as the officer attempted to arrest him. The officer then fatally shot him. Cure had previously been exonerated for a wrongful conviction in Broward County, Florida in 2020. |
| 2023-10-16 | unidentified person | Unknown | Silverthorne, Colorado | |
| 2023-10-16 | unidentified male | Unknown | El Paso, Texas | |
| 2023-10-16 | Anthony Meyers (35) | White | Union, West Virginia | Police located Meyers, wanted on federal charges and suspected of breaking into homes. Finding him in a wooded area, police shot and killed Meyers when he allegedly pointed a rifle at police. |
| 2023-10-15 | Jamie Grant (44) | Black | Hartford, Connecticut | Police responding to reports of a man threatening people with a gun shot and killed the man following a shoot-out. |
| 2023-10-15 | Joseph Pate (39) | Unknown | Red Bluff, California | |
| 2023-10-14 | Sharron Sangster Lee (49) | Black | Shelby County, Tennessee | A sheriff's deputy killed his wife, a corrections officer, and himself in a murder-suicide. |
| 2023-10-14 | Kyle Massie' | Unknown | Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin | Massie sexually assaulted a woman, then proceeded to lead Fond Du Lac SO on a chase and engaged in a gunfight, during which he was killed. K-9 Iro was critically injured in the shootout. |
| 2023-10-14 | unidentified male | Unknown | De Leon, Texas | |
| 2023-10-14 | George Holland (68) | White | Sikeston, Missouri | Police responded to reports of an armed man at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Following a stand-off police shot and killed the man. |
| 2023-10-13 | Geoffrey Walker (30) | Black | Decatur, Georgia | |
| 2023-10-12 | Jesus Herman Madera-Duran (18) | Unknown | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Madera-Duran and several others were breaking into vehicles at a Philadelphia International Airport parking garage when two officers confronted them. The thieves and police entered a shootout, ending with both Madera-Duran and Officer Richard Mendez being shot. Mendez was taken to the hospital where he died, while Madera-Duran was dropped off at another hospital, where he also died. |
| 2023-10-12 | Ricco Acevedo (45) | Latino | Youngstown, Ohio | |
| 2023-10-12 | unidentified male | Unknown | Huntsville, Texas | |
| 2023-10-11 | Arnicious Odom Jr (20) | Black | Miami, Florida | |
| 2023-10-11 | Tyler McCleve (33) | White | Fairfield, Utah | |
| 2023-10-11 | Idelonso Janeiro Rodríguez (83) | Latino | Isabela, Puerto Rico | A Puerto Rican police officer, José Miguel Centeno Sánchez, killed Rodríguez and Cruzado at their home, where he had been employed as a handyman. Sánchez committed suicide as a SWAT team arrived at his home. |
| 2023-10-11 | Angélica Adorno Cruzado (77) | Latino | Isabela, Puerto Rico | A Puerto Rican police officer, José Miguel Centeno Sánchez, killed Rodríguez and Cruzado at their home, where he had been employed as a handyman. Sánchez committed suicide as a SWAT team arrived at his home. |
| 2023-10-10 | Thomas Evans (58) | White | Bonifay, Florida | |
| 2023-10-10 | Michael Bajorek (32) | Unknown | Sarasota, Florida | |
| 2023-10-10 | Alan Weber (54) | White | Elwood, New York | Police responded to Weber's home after a report of a man acting violently. When officers arrived, Weber, a former professional fencer, allegedly approached them wearing a fencing mask and holding a sword. Police tased Weber, then shot him when he allegedly charged at them. |
| 2023-10-10 | Caleb Hooten (22) | Black | Fort Valley, Georgia | |
| 2023-10-09 | Steven Zalewski (68) | White | East Syracuse, New York | Zalewski was struck and killed by a DeWitt police car responding to an unrelated call. |
| 2023-10-09 | unidentified male | Unknown | Pahrump, Nevada | |
| 2023-10-09 | Joshua Kersey (30) | White | Antioch, Tennessee | |
| 2023-10-09 | Zhanyuan Yang (31) | Asian | San Francisco, California | Yang drove a sedan through the entrance of the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco. According to a witness, Yang then exited the vehicle and shouted "Where is the CCP?". Police shot and killed Yang, who they stated had a crossbow and knives. |
| 2023-10-08 | James Cook (58) | Unknown | Rossville, Georgia | |
| 2023-10-08 | Mary Meister (69) | White | Willow Grove, Pennsylvania | |
| 2023-10-08 | unidentified male | Unknown | Rice Lake, Wisconsin | |
| 2023-10-07 | unidentified male | Unknown | Menasha, Wisconsin | |
| 2023-10-07 | Jeremy Rollenhagen (37) | White | Adolphus, Kentucky | |
| 2023-10-07 | Ricardo Fuentes (17) | Latino | Corpus Christi, Texas | |
| 2023-10-07 | Oscar Lopez (44) | Unknown | Los Angeles, California | |
| 2023-10-06 | unidentified male | Unknown | Shiprock, New Mexico | |
| 2023-10-05 | unidentified male | Unknown | Auburndale, Florida | |
| 2023-10-06 | Jeffrey Severn (54) | White | Cut Bank, Montana | Police responded to a protection order violation and found Severn attempting to enter a home with a rifle. Following a pursuit and traffic stop, an officer shot Severn after he allegedly exited his vehicle wielding a rifle. |
| 2023-10-05 | unidentified female | Unknown | Moorestown, Michigan | |
| 2023-10-04 | unidentified male | Unknown | Childress, Texas | |
| 2023-10-04 | Michael Hwang (42) | Asian | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | According to police, Hwang and his 12-year-old son were playing video games when they got into an argument. When the boy's uncle attempted to intervene, Hwang shot him in the face. As police arrived on scene, Hwang shot at them, injuring three officers, before police shot and killed him. Police said Hwang was wearing a bulletproof vest and had extra ammunition at the time. The three officers were expected to recover and the boy's uncle was listed in critical but stable condition. |
| 2023-10-04 | Nicholas Lopez (44) | Black | Charlotte, North Carolina | |
| 2023-10-03 | Joseph Potts (34) | White | Taylorsville, Utah | |
| 2023-10-03 | Robert Singleton (66) | Unknown | Ballantine, Montana | |
| 2023-10-03 | Randy Sharpe Jr (30) | Black | Jacksonville, Florida | |
| 2023-10-03 | John Cicalo (33) | White | Lawrenceville, Georgia | |
| 2023-10-03 | Teresa Gomez (45) | Latino | Las Cruces, New Mexico | An officer approached Gomez and a man as they sat in a parked vehicle. After angrily confronting the man over trespassing and stating he would arrest him, the officer shot Gomez as she attempted to drive away. |
| 2023-10-03 | Luis Muñoz (29) | Unknown | Anaheim, California | |
| 2023-10-02 | Shawn Thomas (55) | White | Hubbard, Ohio | |
| 2023-10-02 | Sylvester Selby (44) | Black | Manteo, North Carolina | |
| 2023-10-02 | Christopher Jones (24) | Unknown | Mobile, Alabama | |
| 2023-10-02 | Jahad Snead (41) | Black | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | |
| 2023-10-01 | Richard Johnson (35) | Unknown | Jonesboro, Georgia | |
| 2023-10-01 | Donald Bonner Jr (46) | Black | Ailey, Georgia | |
| 2023-10-01 | Matthew Rose (30) | Unknown | Knoxville, Tennessee | |
| 2023-10-01 | unidentified male | Unknown | Westminster, Colorado | |