# List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, March 2025

This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in March 2025, 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 56 people.

## March 2025

| Date | Name (age) of deceased | Race | Location | Description |
| 2025-03-19 | unidentified male (mid-20s to early 30s) | Unknown | Pinehurst, North Carolina | While investigating a house fire, a man exited the home and grabbed an axe left by a firefighter. Police shot the man after he allegedly charged at them with the axe and a taser failed to work. |
| 2025-03-18 | unidentified male | Unknown | Pueblo, Colorado | Police received a call that an officer had been shot. Additional officers arrived and a shoot-out occurred between them and the suspect. Two additional officers were injured and the suspect was killed. |
| 2025-03-17 | Jedidiah S. Skinner (30) | Unknown | Kuttawa, Kentucky | A person called emergency services, saying that a man had approached his vehicle, pulled out a gun, and fired the weapon once. An officer arrived to the scene and shot and killed Skinner in unclear circumstances. |
| 2025-03-16 | Brian George (34) | Unknown | Knik-Fairview, Alaska | George allegedly threatened two family members with a firearm before fleeing and engaging in a police pursuit. He reportedly stopped his car and began firing a rifle at an officer, who returned fire and killed him. |
| 2025-03-16 | unidentified male | Unknown | San Antonio, Texas | A SAPD officer attempted to stop a driver, but he fled on foot. During the foot chase, he reportedly produced a knife and the officer shot him dead after the taser failed. The knife was recovered at the scene and a gun was found in the vehicle. |
| 2025-03-16 | Shawn Antonio Ware (48) | Hispanic | Ravenna, Ohio | According to RPD, officers responded to a report and found a man lying on the floor with a firearm in his waistband. Officers ordered him to drop the gun but he closed the door. He later exited the apartment, holding another man as a human shield and pointed the gun at police, prompting them to fatally shoot him. RPD later confirmed the gun he was holding is a BB gun. |
| 2025-03-16 | Christopher Lucrisia (39) | Hispanic | Mountain View, Hawaii | Lucrisia, a subject of a manhunt in the attempted murder of a police officer in Hilo, was shot dead in a shootout with Hawaii Police Department officers in Mountain View. |
| 2025-03-16 | Patrick Martinez (39) | Unknown | Crofton, Kentucky | Martinez allegedly shot at police officers responding to a domestic violence situation. Officers fatally shot Martinez. |
| 2025-03-15 | unidentified | Unknown | Miami, Florida | A Miami Police officer who was traveling through an intersection hit another car while the car was making a left turn. Police stated that the impact left a pedestrian dead and another injured. |
| 2025-03-15 | James Combs (42) | Unknown | Prunedale, California | Combs crashed his vehicle along U.S. Route 101, causing a California Highway Patrol officer to respond to the scene. He shot and killed Combs in unclear circumstances. Police said a knife was recovered from the scene. |
| 2025-03-15 | Jayden Michael Arthurs (19) | White | Huntington, West Virginia | Arthurs allegedly drove off when an officer attempted to pull him over. The chase ended in the Guyandotte neighborhood, where the officer shot and killed Arthurs in unclear circumstances. |
| 2025-03-15 | unidentified male (65) | Unknown | Wind Gap, Pennsylvania | Several departments were chasing a man in a vehicle. After the pursuit, an officer shot and killed the armed man during a scuffle. Police said the man also shot himself. |
| 2025-03-15 | Pedro Garcia (19) | Hispanic | Fullerton, California | A man called police to report Garcia, his brother, was attacking his father with a knife. A family member took the knife from Garcia. Police responded and fatally shot Garcia when he reportedly refused to listen to commands and pulled out a gun. The weapon was later determined to be a pellet gun. |
| 2025-03-14 | Danielle Moore (36) | Unknown | Helena, Montana | Police responded to reports of a woman making threats with a pistol outside of a courthouse. Officers arrived and fatally shot Moore after a confrontation. |
| 2025-03-14 | unidentified male | Unknown | Los Angeles, California | LAPD fatally shot an allegedly armed suspect. |
| 2025-03-13 | Freddie Ware (43) | Unknown | McKinney, Texas | Officers responded to a shooting at a Red Roof Inn and found a woman in her 50s with a gunshot wound; she was transported to hospital in stable condition. The suspect in the shooting barricaded himself in a motel room and allegedly threatened to "shoot everyone." After a half-hour standoff, he exited the room and reportedly brandished a gun as a K-9 was deployed to apprehend him. During the resulting exchange of gunfire, the suspect and the K-9 were fatally shot. |
| 2025-03-13 | unidentified male | Unknown | Rye, Arizona | Gila County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call about someone taking equipments from a business. When they attempted to contact the pickup driver who was loading and towing UTVs, he reportedly refused to comply and a deputy fatally shot him under unknown circumstances. Another two suspects who were involved in the incident are still on the run. |
| 2025-03-12 | unidentified male | Unknown | Evanston, Wyoming | US Marshals Fugitive Task Force and Uinta County Sheriff's Office shot and killed a man wanted on felony warrants. |
| 2025-03-12 | unidentified male | Unknown | Elbert County, Colorado | According to police report, Elbert County deputies responded to a domestic dispute and encountered a suspect who was armed with a gun in a fifth wheel trailer. The suspect fired at the deputies after they used pepper balls and other less-lethal devices on him. They returned fire, killing the suspect. |
| 2025-03-12 | unidentified male | Unknown | Jacksonville, Florida | As an officer pulled a man over for a traffic stop, the man pulled into a driveway and allegedly began shooting at the officer. The officer returned fire and killed the suspect. Police say the man was wearing a bulletproof vest and possessed two firearms. |
| 2025-03-11 | Jermaine Terrell Jackson Jr. (21) | Unknown | Cadiz, Kentucky | Jackson reportedly failed to pull over for a traffic stop and crashed his car near a Red Roof Inn. After a foot chase, an exchange of gunfire between Jackson and police allegedly occurred in which a sheriff's deputy was wounded and Jackson killed. |
| 2025-03-10 | Kenny Beno (41) | White | Warren, Michigan | A woman called police to report her boyfriend, Beno, had showed up outside her home with a knife. Police found Beno walking near some nearby train tracks and shot him after a taser failed to work. Police said Beno was holding an ice pick. |
| 2025-03-09 | Jacob Tyler Sobieraj (24) | Unknown | Lancaster, South Carolina | Sobieraj called police to report he killed a woman and her six-year-old son. Deputies arrived and killed Sobieraj in a shoot-out. |
| 2025-03-08 | David Allen Dunford (54) | Unknown | Guthrie, Oklahoma | Dunford was shot by officers from the Guthrie Police Department outside of an Billy Sims BBQ restaurant. The reason why police shot Dunford is currently unknown. |
| 2025-03-08 | Anthony Virginia (41) | White | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | Police responded to two suspects with guns conducting a robbery on Milwaukee's North Side. They approached Virginia, who police say was armed, and shot him in unclear circumstances. The second suspect, a 34-year-old man, was arrested. |
| 2025-03-07 | Julie Knehans (53) | White | Jefferson City, Missouri | Police officers shot and killed an armed suspect who was involved in a burglary incident. |
| 2025-03-07 | Joseph Santos (42) | Unknown | Scottsdale, Arizona | Santos fled from the police twice after police responded to a report of someone threatening another person with a gun. When they located him, he reportedly did not follow commands and a K9 was deployed. At some point, an officer shot at the K9 and Santos. Santos died and the K9 was injured. |
| 2025-03-07 | Reggie Knight (28) | White | Charlotte, North Carolina | CMPD officers and SWAT team were serving a warrant on Knight. During the encounter, Knight shot two police officers before being killed in the shootout. |
| 2025-03-07 | Melanie Udell (53) | Unknown | Bismarck, North Dakota | Bismarck Police responded to a report of a woman who appeared to be high in her vehicle, later identified as Udell. When officers attempted to stop her, she began swerving her SUV in the parking lot, eventually striking one of the officers. Officers shot and killed her. |
| 2025-03-07 | Robert Tate (40) | Unknown | Lexington, Tennessee | Officers responded to a domestic incident and found Tate following a female subject. A shootout occurred between him and officers, which left Tate dead and an officer injured. |
| 2025-03-06 | Joseph Blair (41) | White | Twin Groves, Arkansas | Blair, an absconder, was located by US Marshals, Arkansas Department of Corrections officers, and County Police. During the encounter, police said he was armed with a gun and was fatally shot by DOC. |
| 2025-03-06 | Brian Padilla (36) | Unknown | Albuquerque, New Mexico | County Police responded to a call about a person, Padilla, arming themselves. Police fatally shot Padilla. |
| 2025-03-06 | David Plagmann (36) | Unknown | Harlan, Iowa | Plagmann was armed during a standoff with Shelby County deputies. According to a press release, Plagmann "made an aggressive move towards law enforcement" before deputies shot him. Police later found a woman dead inside the residence, who police believe was killed by Plagmann. |
| 2025-03-06 | Gregory Dylan Sheppard (43) | White | Frisco, Texas | Police fatally shot Sheppard while serving a warrant in a gated community. Few details were released |
| 2025-03-06 | Christine Lewis (36) | Unknown | Lawson, Colorado | Clear Creek deputies attempted to stop Lewis in a vehicle for a felony arrest warrant in Oklahoma. She fled the traffic stop and crashed her vehicle. She reportedly exited the vehicle with a gun after less-lethal devices were used on her. Deputies shot and killed her after she reportedly pointed the gun at them. |
| 2025-03-06 | William Bowen (21) | Black | Hartford, Connecticut | Officers approached Bowen, who had live-streamed himself holding a gun on Instagram. Three officers shot Bowen as he emerged from an alleyway. He later died at a hospital. According to a preliminary report, police recovered two guns along the path Bowen had fled, though they did not find a gun on his person after he was shot. |
| 2025-03-06 | Disnime Mitchell (23) | Unknown | Charleston, West Virginia | Mitchell was wanted on first-degree robbery charges. He was confronted by SWAT team members outside a Dollar General store, where he reportedly pulled out a gun and pointed it at them. A SWAT officer fired one shot, killing him. |
| 2025-03-06 | unidentified male | Unknown | Phoenix, Arizona | DEA agents and Glendale Police officers were involved in a shooting at an apartment complex which left a suspect dead. |
| 2025-03-06 | unidentified male | Unknown | Glenside, Pennsylvania | Abington Police officers responded to a call from a child for a domestic disturbance. Upon arrival, they broke down the door and fatally shot the man who was holding hostages. The victims and officers were uninjured. |
| 2025-03-06 | Winston Johnson (55) | Unknown | New York City, New York | Police responded to a man with a gun in a Home Depot parking lot in Tottenville, Staten Island. The man allegedly fired multiple shots as police arrived and pointed the gun at officers, causing them to shoot him dead. A Smith & Wesson revolver was recovered. |
| 2025-03-05 | Patrick Sargent (25) | Unknown | Boylston, Massachusetts | The Worcester County DA confirmed police fatally shot a man and that they were investigating. No further details were released. |
| 2025-03-04 | Mercedes Smith (28) | Black | Glenview, Illinois | Smith was struck by a Cook County Sheriff's Office squad car in unclear circumstances and died in the hospital the following day. |
| 2025-03-04 | Jesus Corona Uribe (39) | Unknown | Mammoth Lakes, California | Officers responded to reports of a man throwing rocks at passing cars. They encountered the individual at the entrance of the library and shot him dead after he reportedly ran toward them while he was armed with rocks. |
| 2025-03-04 | Tyler Layton (28) | Unknown | Clinton, Oklahoma | OHP troopers located a homicide suspect, Layton, and initiated a traffic stop. Officials stated that Layton was armed when he was fatally shot by troopers. |
| 2025-03-04 | Isaiah Fourshey (28) | Pacific Islander | Volcano, Hawaii | Fourshey, a murder suspect, was involved in a confrontation with Hawaii Police Department officers at a campground within Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park which led to officers shooting and killing Fourshey. |
| 2025-03-04 | Homero Rosales Corona (42) | Hispanic | Bakersfield, California | Kern County deputies were serving an emergency protective order. Rosales Corona flagged down the deputies after the protective order was granted. He allegedly picked up a shotgun and raised it at them before he was shot. |
| 2025-03-04 | Jody Tollet (42) | Unknown | Crossville, Tennessee | Tollet, a domestic violence suspect, led police on a pursuit and crashed his vehicle. He allegedly shot at an officer as he advanced towards police, causing police to shoot him dead. |
| 2025-03-04 | Timothy L. Johnston (39) | Unknown | Jefferson County, Missouri | Police responded to a home north of Hillsboro for reports of a man banging on a door. Johnston made suicidal statements and placed a handgun to his head. Officers shot and killed him after he allegedly fired on them following negotiations. |
| 2025-03-03 | unidentified | Unknown | Moenkopi, Arizona | A person was shot and killed by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the Hopi Reservation. |
| 2025-03-02 | Michael Oxley (43) | White | Chico, California | Oxley, suspected in the shooting of a barber on February 28, engaged in a standoff with police at a parking garage. He was shot and killed by officers after he allegedly fired a gun at them. |
| 2025-03-02 | Daniele McDowell (39) | Black | Hiram, Georgia | Police were responding to an aggravated assault where the suspect was stabbing a man. Police attempted to use less lethal force on the suspect but failed, prompting them to fatally shoot the suspect after the suspect kept approaching them with a knife. |
| 2025-03-01 | Jhoser Sanchez (20) | Hispanic | Richland, Washington | An off-duty Washington State Patrol officer struck and killed a motorcyclist, Sanchez, with her vehicle. The officer was charged with vehicular homicide while driving under the influence. |
| 2025-03-01 | Messiah Nantwi (22) | Black | Marcy, New York | Prison guards at the Marcy Correctional Facility beat Nantwi to death. Nantwi's death happened about a week after six guards at the same facility were indicted for beating another prisoner to death. Eleven employees were placed on administrative leave. |
| 2025-03-01 | Lemark Jaramillo (32) | Hispanic | Boston, Massachusetts | An off-duty police officer shot and killed a man at a Chick-fil-A restaurant after he allegedly ran at two other people with a knife. |
| 2025-03-01 | Nick Raymond Bingham (62) | White | Orlando, Florida | Police responded to a man beating on a person's door with a gun. They encountered a man allegedly armed with an AR-15 rifle and shot him dead when he reportedly refused to listen to commands. |
| 2025-03-01 | unidentified male | Unknown | Concho, Arizona | Apache County deputies attempted to pull over the suspect, but he fled, leading them on a pursuit. Deputies later found the vehicle engulfed in flames and heard gunshots. The suspect reportedly pointed a 9mm pistol at them before deputies shot him. |