# List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, December 2021

This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in December 2021, 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.

## December 2021

| Date | Name (age) of deceased | Race | Location | Description |
| 2021-12-31 | Dennis McHugh (44) | White | Beaumont, California | |
| 2021-12-31 | Unnamed man | Unknown | Meridian, Mississippi | Police shot and killed a man "covered in blood with a gun in each hand" and also killed a bystander. |
| 2021-12-31 | Unnamed woman | Unknown | Meridian, Mississippi | Police shot and killed a man "covered in blood with a gun in each hand" and also killed a bystander. |
| 2021-12-29 | Osman Sesay (27) | Black | Silver Spring, Maryland | |
| 2021-12-29 | Thelonious McNight (25) | Black | Paterson, New Jersey | |
| 2021-12-28 | Dwayne McDonald (62) | Black | Detroit, Michigan | |
| 2021-12-27 | Alex Clukey (15) | Unknown | Onslow County, North Carolina | A Jacksonville police officer called police to report accidentally shooting his teenage son in the head while playing with toy guns. The teenager was hospitalized until his death on January 4, 2022. |
| 2021-12-27 | Lyndon McLeod (47) | White | Lakewood, Colorado | McLeod (aka Roman McClay) committed several shootings in Denver and Lakewood, killing five civilians, before being killed by police during a shootout. McLeod targeted most of the people he shot. He had self-published a novel where the protagonist - named after himself - killed two of his eventual real-life victims. |
| 2021-12-27 | Kevin Dubois (31) | Unknown | Savannah, Georgia | |
| 2021-12-27 | Christopher Johnson (41) | Unknown | Houston, Texas | |
| 2021-12-27 | Sorin Ardelean (43) | White | Algona, Washington | |
| 2021-12-27 | Roberto Salgado Cazares (39) | Latino | Escondido, California | |
| 2021-12-27 | Christopher Thomas (22) | Unknown | Lake Charles, Louisiana | |
| 2021-12-26 | James Lowery (40) | Black | Titusville, Florida | Police chased Lowery following an assault. As Lowery climbed up a fence, an officer fired both his gun and taser, killing Lowery. Lowery was unarmed when he was shot. The officer was later charged with manslaughter. |
| 2021-12-26 | Vincent Black (31) | White | Buckeye, Arizona | |
| 2021-12-26 | Matthew Snyder (38) | Unknown | Simpsonville, South Carolina | |
| 2021-12-26 | Enrique Ruiz (33) | Latino | Los Angeles County, California | |
| 2021-12-26 | Charles Payne (75) | Black | Houston, Texas | |
| 2021-12-24 | Benny Hood (30) | Black | Atlanta, Georgia | |
| 2021-12-24 | Carson Dobson (24) | White | Dolgeville, New York | |
| 2021-12-23 | Daniel Elena Lopez (24) | Latino | Los Angeles, California | Police responded to reports of assault with a deadly weapon and a possible shooting at a Burlington store in North Hollywood. Police say that when officers arrived, a male suspect was in the process of assaulting a victim with a bike lock and they fired, fatally wounding him. A 14-year-old girl who was hiding with her mother in a nearby dressing room was struck by police gunfire and killed. Police say no gun was found on the assault suspect. |
| 2021-12-23 | Valentina Orellana-Peralta (14) | Latino | Los Angeles, California | Police responded to reports of assault with a deadly weapon and a possible shooting at a Burlington store in North Hollywood. Police say that when officers arrived, a male suspect was in the process of assaulting a victim with a bike lock and they fired, fatally wounding him. A 14-year-old girl who was hiding with her mother in a nearby dressing room was struck by police gunfire and killed. Police say no gun was found on the assault suspect. |
| 2021-12-23 | Steven Matze (44) | White | South Hill, Virginia | |
| 2021-12-23 | James Gross (58) | White | Akron, Ohio | |
| 2021-12-23 | Richard McCormick (62) | Unknown | Springfield, Missouri | |
| 2021-12-23 | Kokou Fiafonou (38) | Black | Austin, Minnesota | |
| 2021-12-22 | Mark Beilby (24) | White | Unadilla, New York | |
| 2021-12-22 | Brian Laxton (44) | White | Battle Creek, Michigan | |
| 2021-12-22 | James Culver (59) | White | Colorado Springs, Colorado | |
| 2021-12-22 | Jessie Gaither (48) | Black | Fordoche, Louisiana | |
| 2021-12-22 | Ronald Hoffman (57) | Unknown | Foster Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania | |
| 2021-12-21 | Brendan Pinkston (23) | White | Burton, Michigan | |
| 2021-12-21 | Chantel Myers (44) | White | Pitkin, Louisiana | |
| 2021-12-21 | Chawn Martin (45) | White | Savannah, Georgia | |
| 2021-12-21 | Robert Rushton (42) | Unknown | Brandon, Mississippi | |
| 2021-12-20 | Eudes PIerre (26) | Black | Brooklyn, New York | |
| 2021-12-20 | Alexander Wheeler (21) | White | New Lenox, Illinois | |
| 2021-12-20 | Marc "Barney" Barnhart (68) | White | Yorkville, Illinois | |
| 2021-12-19 | Nakita Williams (33) | Black | Detroit, Michigan | |
| 2021-12-19 | Eric Nelson (28) | Black | Bogalusa, Louisiana | |
| 2021-12-18 | David Herbert | White | Charlotte, North Carolina | |
| 2021-12-18 | Rosendo Olivio (34) | Latino | Los Angeles, California | |
| 2021-12-18 | Margarito Lopez (22) | Latino | Los Angeles | |
| 2021-12-18 | Joshua Gonzalez (20) | Latino | Vineland, New Jersey | |
| 2021-12-17 | Jeremy Yates (21) | Black | Culpeper, Virginia | |
| 2021-12-17 | Chatuma Crawford (20) | Black | Cicero, New York | Crawford was a pedestrian who was struck by an off-duty officer. |
| 2021-12-16 | John Taylor (18) | Black | Memphis, Tennessee | |
| 2021-12-16 | Terrance Dogan (27) | Black | Memphis, Tennessee | |
| 2021-12-16 | Unnamed man | Unknown | Flushing, Queens, New York | |
| 2021-12-16 | Anthony Phillips (39) | Unknown | Nashville, Tennessee | |
| 2021-12-16 | Christopher Alexander (32) | Unknown | Clinton, Utah | |
| 2021-12-15 | Kayla Lucas (25) | White | Memphis, Tennessee | |
| 2021-12-15 | Sergio Escalera-Valdez (45) | Unknown | North Richmond, California | |
| 2021-12-15 | Keith Hinrichsen (52) | White | North Platte, Nebraska | |
| 2021-12-15 | Brandon "BJ" Mauldin (32) | White | Liberty, South Carolina | |
| 2021-12-15 | Jahad Patterson (20) | Black | Elkhart, Indiana | |
| 2021-12-14 | William Gardner (21) | Black | Dayton, Ohio | |
| 2021-12-14 | Kevin Swinson (45) | White | Currie, North Carolina | |
| 2021-12-13 | Unnamed man | Unknown | Estancia, New Mexico | |
| 2021-12-13 | Harry Welter (84) | White | St. Michael, Minnesota | Welter, a former mayor of St. Michael, was fatally struck by a Wright County Sheriff's Department vehicle in a driveway. |
| 2021-12-12 | Jeremi Moore (35) | Black | Ferguson, Missouri | |
| 2021-12-12 | Amanuel Moreno (29) | Black | San Pablo, California | |
| 2021-12-12 | George Hollins (26) | Black | Jennings, Missouri | |
| 2021-12-12 | Patrick Horton (39) | Unknown | Cleveland, Ohio | |
| 2021-12-12 | Cristian Anguiano (32) | Latino | Corona, California | |
| 2021-12-11 | Robert Engle (64) | Unknown | Frankfort, Kentucky | |
| 2021-12-11 | Christopher Sterusky (28) | Black | Elizabethtown, Kentucky | |
| 2021-12-10 | Mark Peters (59) | White | Simms, Texas | |
| 2021-12-10 | Guadalupe, Zavala (55) | Latino | Antioch, California | |
| 2021-12-10 | Christopher Raborn (40) | White | Waverly, Georgia | |
| 2021-12-10 | Xavier Miller | Unknown | Colorado Springs, Colorado | |
| 2021-12-10 | David Talbert (55) | Unknown | Crossville, Tennessee | |
| 2021-12-10 | John "Amoo" Za Moua (28) | Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander | Pine River, Wisconsin | |
| 2021-12-10 | Michael Dingman (43) | Unknown | Spokane, Washington | |
| 2021-12-10 | Terence Caffey (30) | Black | Little Rock, Arkansas | |
| 2021-12-09 | Arnett Carr (64) | Unknown | Ellenwood, Georgia | |
| 2021-12-08 | Michael Pantoja (45) | Latino | Colorado Springs, Colorado | |
| 2021-12-08 | Angelo Weitz (42) | Unknown | Stockton, California | |
| 2021-12-08 | Ronta Stewart (18) | Black | Columbus, Ohio | |
| 2021-12-08 | Jared Risius (35) | White | Iowa Falls, Iowa | |
| 2021-12-08 | Unnamed woman (42) | Unknown | Hermitage, Missouri | |
| 2021-12-08 | Andris Wofford (29) | Black | Chicago, Illinois | |
| 2021-12-07 | Gary McCormick | Black | Elizabethtown, Kentucky | |
| 2021-12-07 | Ronald Ehrich (88) | White | Riverview, Florida | A deputy responded to Ehrich's home after a neighbor reported not seeing him for two days. According to police, the deputy shot and killed Ehrich after he walked towards her with a firearm. Ehrich was a veteran of the Tampa Police Department. |
| 2021-12-07 | Mario Diaz (41) | Latino | Albuquerque, New Mexico | |
| 2021-12-07 | Mitchell Davis (29) | White | Fort Worth, Texas | |
| 2021-12-06 | Douglas Halphin | White | Blue Springs, Missouri | |
| 2021-12-06 | Brandon Keck (30) | White | Portland, Oregon | |
| 2021-12-06 | Dale Query (38) | White | Basin, Wyoming | |
| 2021-12-05 | Quadry Sanders (29) | Black | Lawton, Oklahoma | Police responded to reports of a man with a gun. Two officers shot Sanders 15 times. Sanders was unarmed and was holding a ball cap. The two officers were later fired and charged with manslaughter. |
| 2021-12-05 | Unnamed person | Unknown | Westminster, Colorado | |
| 2021-12-05 | Michael Guillory | Unknown | Las Vegas, Nevada | |
| 2021-12-05 | Miguel Perez Gonzalez (38) | Latino | Morrow, Georgia | |
| 2021-12-04 | Michael Wayne Jackson (62) | Black | Houston, Texas | A Houston Police officer was responding to a call from another officer to assist in apprehending a group of suspected carjackers. When his vehicle neared an intersection, the officer turned to avoid hitting other cars and jumped the sidewalk, striking Jackson, who died. |
| 2021-12-03 | Michael Graves (39) | Unknown | St. Louis, Missouri | |
| 2021-12-03 | Alhaji M. Sow (18) | Black | Melbourne, Florida | Sow had reportedly assaulted multiple fellow Florida Institute of Technology students with a knife, and injured a law enforcement officer before being fatally shot by officers. |
| 2021-12-02 | Arlin Bordeaux (29) | Native American | Rosebud County, Montana | A man was killed in a shooting involving a Bureau of Indian Affairs officer. Few details were released. The FBI is investigating. |
| 2021-12-02 | Brian Howard (25) | White | Buffalo Grove, Illinois | |
| 2021-12-02 | Anei Joker (20) | Black | Taylorsville, Utah | |
| 2021-12-02 | Unnamed man | Unknown | McDowell, Kentucky | |
| 2021-12-01 | Edward Gatling (38) | Black | Redan, Georgia | |
| 2021-12-01 | Billy Bizzell (52) | Black | Yellow Bluff, Alabama | |