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

This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in January 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 115 people.

## January 2023

| Date | Name (age) of deceased | Race | Location | Description |
| 2023-01-31 | Daemen Perea (23) | White | Rio Rancho, New Mexico | |
| 2023-01-31 | William Beach (31) | Unknown | Jackson, Ohio | |
| 2023-01-31 | Brian McCourry Jr. (37) | White | White Marsh, Maryland | Died 3/3/2023. |
| 2023-01-31 | unidentified male | Unknown | Edwards, Colorado | |
| 2023-01-31 | Joseph Jones (32) | White | Omaha, Nebraska | Police responded to reports of an active shooter at a Target store and killed Jones, who was carrying an AR-15 style rifle. Aside from Jones no casualties were reported, although shell casings indicated he had fired inside the store. Jones had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and had bought the rifle four days earlier. |
| 2023-01-30 | Robert Bigney (63) | Unknown | Pompano Beach, Florida | |
| 2023-01-30 | James Dopson (29) | White | Goodyear, Arizona | |
| 2023-01-30 | Steven Docken (38) | White | Omaha, Nebraska | |
| 2023-01-30 | Gleise Firmiano (30) | Hispanic | Big Bear, California | |
| 2023-01-30 | Craig Byl (48) | Unknown | Virginia Beach, Virginia | |
| 2023-01-30 | Joe Frasure (28) | White | Wyoming, Ohio | Police responded to a report of a burglary at a home where Frasure was cleaning out his late grandmother's belongings. When officers arrived, Frasure allegedly refused commands to exit his minivan and drove towards officers, who shot him. He was placed on life-support and died two days later on February 1. |
| 2023-01-29 | Hendrix Washington (39) | Black | Surfside Beach, South Carolina | |
| 2023-01-29 | Obob Ochan (47) | Black | Nashville, Tennessee | |
| 2023-01-29 | Terry L. Noel (50) | White | Dyersburg, Tennessee | |
| 2023-01-28 | Brandon Duvall (32) | White | Mineola, Texas | |
| 2023-01-27 | Matthew Planer (52) | White | Pocatello, Idaho | |
| 2023-01-26 | Elbert Miller (31) | White | Little Rock, Arkansas | |
| 2023-01-26 | Miguel Lopez (70) | Hispanic | Maywood, California | |
| 2023-01-26 | Anthony Mitchell (33) | White | Jasper, Alabama | Mitchell was arrested on January 12 after allegedly firing a gun during a mental health check. While in jail, correctional officers kept Mitchell in a cell with no sink, toilet, mat, or blanket. He froze to death on January 26, and his death was ruled a homicide. Multiple correctional officers were charged with depriving his rights. |
| 2023-01-25 | Anthony Lowe Jr. (36) | Black | Huntington Park, California | Police responded to reports that a man in a wheelchair stabbed another man and encountered Lowe, a double amputee whose legs were amputated below the knees after a previous police encounter. Lowe got off his wheelchair and attempted to flee using his arms while holding a knife, and officers attempted to use a taser twice, which failed. Police then shot Lowe as he brandished the knife. Police said Lowe was shot after he "attempted to throw the butcher knife at the officers again". |
| 2023-01-25 | Kyle Mills (22) | White | New Castle, Virginia | |
| 2023-01-25 | Jason Means (47) | White | Toledo, Ohio | |
| 2023-01-25 | Kenneth Lassiter (59) | White | Melbourne Beach, Florida | |
| 2023-01-25 | Joey Cesar Fraire (18) | Hispanic | Dallas, Texas | |
| 2023-01-24 | Shane Cousins (33) | White | Detroit, Michigan | |
| 2023-01-24 | Billy Couch (51) | White | Sugar Valley, Georgia | |
| 2023-01-24 | Edward E. Gant (43) | Black | Gary, Indiana | |
| 2023-01-23 | Jaahnavi Kandula (23) | Indian | Seattle, Washington | Kandula was killed when crossing at a crosswalk by Seattle Police officer Kevin Dave going 74 mph without a siren while responding to a "priority-one" call in a marked SPD police cruiser. Kandula's death spurred protests in September when body camera footage surfaced of the Seattle Police Officers Guild's vice president Daniel Auderer laughing over her death and calling her "of limited value". |
| 2023-01-23 | Leroy Malone (39) | Hispanic | Dodge City, Kansas | |
| 2023-01-23 | Eli Nash (32) | Unknown | Meridian, Idaho | |
| 2023-01-23 | Edward Nandin | White | San Antonio, Texas | |
| 2023-01-23 | Michael Compton | Unknown | Salem, Oregon | |
| 2023-01-22 | unidentified male | Unknown | Clinton, Mississippi | |
| 2023-01-22 | Daniel Nevius Sr (55) | White | Sewell, New Jersey | |
| 2023-01-22 | Charles Towns (47) | Black | Altadena, California | |
| 2023-01-22 | Patrick J Boatwright (44) | Hispanic | Cuero, Texas | |
| 2023-01-21 | Harley Bagby (30) | White | Wellington, Kansas | |
| 2023-01-21 | Nicholas Ciccarelli (45) | White | Menomonie, Wisconsin | |
| 2023-01-21 | unidentified male | Unknown | Homestead, Florida | |
| 2023-01-20 | Donald Brady (69) | Unknown | Clermont, Florida | |
| 2023-01-20 | Christopher Dearman (37) | Unknown | San Diego, California | |
| 2023-01-20 | Leon Burroughs (39) | Black | Jacksonville, Florida | Burroughs was asleep in his car—with a loaded gun on the roof—when officers approached him regarding a burglary. Police removed the gun and woke Burroughs, and he did not comply when instructed multiple times to show his hands and exit the vehicle. Burroughs then fired a shot which grazed one of the officers, and he was shot dead when five officers returned fire. |
| 2023-01-19 | Eric Nathaniel Thornton (37) | White | Jacksonville, Florida | |
| 2023-01-19 | unidentified person | Unknown | Rapid City, South Dakota | |
| 2023-01-19 | unidentified male | Unknown | Laveen, Arizona | |
| 2023-01-19 | Ronald Ray Mosley II (25) | Black | Evansville, Indiana | Mosley shot a former coworker at the Walmart he was fired from in May 2022. After chasing another employee, Mosley was shot and killed by police. |
| 2023-01-18 | Jackson Lieber (21) | White | Liberty Hill, Texas | According to police Lieber crashed his car on RM 1869 before trespassing on someone's property. Few details were released about the shooting, other than that Lieber was unarmed. |
| 2023-01-18 | Manuel "Tortuguita" Esteban Paez Terán (26) | Hispanic | Atlanta, Georgia | During the Stop Cop City protest, where demonstrators protested the construction of a police training center, Georgia State Troopers attempted to clear the forest. According to police, Terán, a protester, shot a state trooper and was killed by other officers. According to other protestors who witnessed the shooting, Teran was unarmed. An independent autopsy ordered and released by Terán's family stated they were sitting cross-legged with their hands raised when they were shot 57 times. An official autopsy found that Terán did not have gunpowder residue on their hands. |
| 2023-01-18 | Joseph Smith (39) | Black | North Little Rock, Arkansas | Smith was found dead in his residence after a standoff in the 4700 block of Locust St. It's unclear if police shot Smith or he committed suicide. |
| 2023-01-17 | Darryl Tyree Williams (32) | Black | Raleigh, North Carolina | Police observed marijuana and open alcohol in Williams' car and ordered him out, where suspected cocaine was found while searching him. Williams physically resisted four officers trying to arrest him, and was told he would be tased. Williams told officers he had a heart problem after being tased and then fled with police in chase, tasering the combative Williams twice more while attempting to arrest him. Drugs and two stolen guns were found in his car. Williams died in hospital an hour later. The county's district attorney did not seek any charges. On March 18, 2024, Williams's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the police office. |
| 2023-01-17 | Unknown (40s) | Latino | Houston, Texas | An officer responding to a double shooting call without lights or sirens struck a woman who had stepped off the curb. The woman was not identified, although the Houston Police's Assistant Chief stated she may have been homeless. |
| 2023-01-11 | Donna Dale (47) | White | Hilliard, Florida | Deputies responded to reports of a woman threatening to harm herself. When police found her, she was in thick brush and allegedly holding a BB gun modified to look like a rifle. According to deputies Dale then pointed the BB gun at herself, and a deputy fired. |
| 2023-01-17 | Sonny Vincent (36) | White | Wentzville, Missouri | |
| 2023-01-17 | Frank Brower (77) | Unknown | El Cajon, California | |
| 2023-01-17 | Frederick Lee Fonner Jr (47) | White | McDonald, Pennsylvania | |
| 2023-01-16 | Hunter Hanson (24) | White | Union Grove, Wisconsin | |
| 2023-01-16 | Michael Bernard Emch Jr (47) | White | Seal Beach, California | |
| 2023-01-15 | Anthony Marquis Franklin (31) | Black | Austin, Texas | |
| 2023-01-14 | James Klembara | Unknown | Mcalester, Oklahoma | |
| 2023-01-13 | Penisimani Halai | Unknown | Salt Lake City, Utah | |
| 2023-01-13 | unidentified person | Unknown | Lamar County, Alabama | |
| 2023-01-13 | unidentified male | Unknown | Dos Palos, California | |
| 2023-01-13 | unidentified male | Unknown | Lake Stevens, Washington | |
| 2023-01-11 | William Henry Jr. (43) | White | Charleston, West Virginia | |
| 2023-01-11 | Jordan Pruyn (28) | White | Columbia, Missouri | |
| 2023-01-11 | Lamont Lee Lewis (46) | Black | Hampton, Virginia | |
| 2023-01-11 | Lamont Lee Lewis (46) | Black | Hampton, Virginia | |
| 2023-01-11 | unidentified male | Unknown | Joshua Tree, California | |
| 2023-01-11 | Donna Dale | White | Hilliard, Florida | |
| 2023-01-10 | Daylen Oatts | Black | Lawrence, Indiana | |
| 2023-01-10 | Christopher Torres (34) | Unknown | Southeast, New York | |
| 2023-01-10 | Christopher Lee Mercurio (50) | Unknown | Santa Clarita, California | Deputies responded to reports of a man refusing to leave a bank near the Valencia Town Center. When deputies arrived, the man allegedly started punching one of them, and police shot him. |
| 2023-01-10 | Rico Ruiz-Altamirano (33) | White | Stockton, California | |
| 2023-01-10 | Christopher Temple (40) | White | Auburn, California | |
| 2023-01-10 | Joseph Francis | White | Pompano Beach, Florida | |
| 2023-01-09 | Chiewelthap Mariar (26) | Black | Guymon, Oklahoma | The Guymon Police Department responded to a call about a disgruntled employee at a pork processing plant. Police began talking to Mariar, who allegedly produced a knife or band-cutter, and advanced toward officers. Police tried to de-escalate the situation before deploying a taser. Mariar continued advancing on officers and was shot dead. |
| 2023-01-09 | Jackie Haynes (52) | Unknown | Newnan, Georgia | The Coweta County Sheriff's Office and the Whitesburg Police Department engaged in a high-speed chase when Hayes was found driving on the wrong side of the road. The police successfully stopped him and attempted to take Hayes into custody. Hayes was tasered and pepper sprayed when he refused to leave his vehicle. When he attempted to drive away again, he was shot multiple times by a deputy. Hayes later died in the hospital, and no officers were injured. |
| 2023-01-09 | unidentified male | Unknown | Sanger, Texas | |
| 2023-01-09 | Christopher Sallee (50) | Unknown | Sanger, Texas | |
| 2023-01-09 | Douglas Price (61) | Black | Richmond, Virginia | |
| 2023-01-08 | Scott Kennedy | Native American | Reno, Nevada | |
| 2023-01-08 | Alon Foster (44) | Hispanic | Santa Clarita, California | |
| 2023-01-08 | Scotty Helton (53) | White | Mayflower, Arkansas | |
| 2023-01-08 | unidentified male | Unknown | Tustin, California | |
| 2023-01-07 | Tyre Nichols (29) | Black | Memphis, Tennessee | On January 7, Nichols was stopped by police for alleged reckless driving. Officers pulled Nichols from his car and used pepper spray and a taser on him, after which he attempted to run away. When officers caught up with Nichols they punched and kicked him in the head and struck him on the back with a baton while restraining him; the beating continued for about three minutes. Afterwards, Nichols was taken to St. Francis Hospital where he died from his injuries on January 10. A preliminary autopsy commissioned by his family found that he had suffered "extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating". |
| 2023-01-07 | Jules Robert Lee (32) | Unknown | Statesboro, Georgia | Two deputies responded to a 911 call alleging that Lee assaulted his father. The officers deployed tasers in an attempt to arrest Lee, which did not work. Lee pulled a firearm and the deputies fired shots at him. Both officers were uninjured, while Lee later died at the hospital. |
| 2023-01-07 | Kenneth Hearne (37) | Black | Phoenix, Arizona | |
| 2023-01-07 | Robert Bradshaw (37) | Unknown | Fort Worth, Texas | |
| 2023-01-07 | Clinton Eli Burkhalter (42) | Unknown | Athens, Georgia | While investigating a stolen car, two ACCPD officers encountered two men in a shed. One of the men, Burkhalter, put a gun to his own head, then fired shots into the ceiling of the shed. When he began to exit the building, his gun was allegedly pointed at the officers, who then shot and killed him. |
| 2023-01-06 | Aaron Schwartz | Unknown | Watauga, Texas | |
| 2023-01-06 | Ray Dean King (50) | White | Hazel Green, Alabama | |
| 2023-01-06 | Nikolas Acosta (20) | Hispanic | Roswell, New Mexico | |
| 2023-01-05 | Christopher Walker (37) | Black | Fresno, California | Walker, a pedestrian, was struck and killed by a Fresno police vehicle as he crossed the street. |
| 2023-01-05 | Mark Capps (54) | White | Hermitage, Tennessee | Capps woke his wife and stepdaughter up and held them at gunpoint, threatening to kill them. After he fell asleep, the two escaped and called police. After a SWAT team arrived on his front porch, Capps opened the front door with a gun, and an officer shot him. Capps was a sound engineer who had previously won four Grammy Awards. |
| 2023-01-05 | Nicolas Micko (35) | Unknown | Lansing, Michigan | |
| 2023-01-05 | Brian Mummert (44) | Unknown | Laurie, Missouri | |
| 2023-01-05 | Jeremy Russell Stumpf (59) | Unknown | Frederick, Colorado | |
| 2023-01-04 | Sayed Faisal (20) | South Asian | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Police were called after Faisal, a junior at the University of Massachusetts Boston, was reported jumping out an apartment window with a knife, later determined to be a kukri. After being confronted by police while holding the kukri to his neck, Faisal allegedly moved towards officers with the kukri, leading an officer to shoot. |
| 2023-01-04 | Jose Iruegas (44) | Hispanic | San Antonio, Texas | |
| 2023-01-04 | Caleb Swafford (24) | Black | Houston, Texas | Swafford was standing in the street when he was struck by an officer responding to a non-emergency call. |
| 2023-01-03 | unidentified male | Hispanic | Phoenix, Arizona | |
| 2023-01-03 | Oscar Sanchez (35) | Hispanic | Los Angeles, California | Officers responded after Sanchez was reported throwing a knife and other objects at cars. Officers found Sanchez, holding a chain and makeshift spear, and spoke to him in English and Spanish. He entered an abandoned residence, and after following him up a flight of stairs, officers confronted and shot him. A utility knife was recovered from the scene. |
| 2023-01-03 | Keenan Anderson (31) | Black | Los Angeles, California | Anderson was restrained due to suspicion of a hit-and-run following a traffic collision and due to a witness testimony of an individual attempting to get in their car without their permission. Police ordered Anderson to sit down, which he initially did, but later Anderson ran away on a road, leading to police holding him down and tasing him six times in 42 seconds. |
| 2023-01-03 | Kenneth Dexter Watkins | White | Ridgecrest, California | |
| 2023-01-03 | unidentified male | Unknown | San Jacinto, California | |
| 2023-01-02 | Randy Tadlock (43) | White | Sulphur Springs, Texas | |
| 2023-01-02 | Lucas Gainforth (24) | White | East Lansing, Michigan | |
| 2023-01-02 | Jerry Preston (49) | White | Hazard, Kentucky | |
| 2023-01-02 | Aaron Swan Jr (28) | Black | Brackenridge, Pennsylvania | |
| 2023-01-02 | Lee Dawson Jr (68) | White | Lillington, North Carolina | |
| 2023-01-02 | Baltazar Rubio (43) | Unknown | Gridley, California | |
| 2023-01-02 | Takar Smith (45) | Black | Los Angeles, California | Police were called after Smith was reported to be in a woman's home, off his medication for schizophrenia, and holding a knife. After speaking to Smith for several minutes, Smith grabbed a knife from a counter but put it down when an officer pointed his gun at Smith. Smith then grabbed one of two bicycles placed between him and police, leading an officer to fire a stun gun. Smith then picked up the knife again. Police stunned Smith, then shot him when he briefly raised it above his head. LAPD Chief Michel Moore raised concerns over the officers and dispatcher not contacting a mental evaluation unit or mental assessment response team. |
| 2023-01-01 | unidentified male (32) | Unknown | Redlands, California | |
| 2023-01-01 | Mischa Fay (17) | White | Gilford, New Hampshire | |
| 2023-01-01 | Juan Nikely Avalo (33) | Unknown | Ranlo, North Carolina | Police responded to reports of a stabbing and shooting and found that an off-duty officer had shot a man, Avalo, after the officer was stabbed multiple times. The officer was later charged with first-degree murder. |