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Shot by police after threatening to take his own life with a gun. [ 4] Helen Holland. 10 May 2023. West London, London. Metropolitan Police. Direct. A police motorcycle escorting Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh struck 81-year-old Helen Holland at an intersection. Holland was hospitalised and later died.
2024-06-30. Kelvin Lee Plain (35) Black. Waterloo, Iowa. Police responded to a report of a man armed with a firearm along a major street near Sullivan Park. A shootout then occurred in which the suspect was killed and two officers were wounded. [ 5][ 6] 2024-06-29. Brian Moody (16) Black.
A suicidal man allegedly brandished a handgun at officers, causing an officer to fire one round, fatally wounding the suspect. [ 6] 2024-01-30. Artell Cunningham (28) Black. New Carrollton, Maryland. Two officers shot and killed a man suspected of multiple carjackings and two homicides. [ 7][ 8] 2024-01-29.
2020-06-15. Nicholas Hirsh (31) Caucasian/White. Kansas (Lawrence) Hirsh was shot and killed by Kansas Highway Patrol officers pursuing Hirsh for a first-degree murder arrest warrant. According to police statements, Hirsh stole a car and pointed a gun at officers during pursuit, at which point he was shot and killed.
2023-08-31. Elizandro Vargas (31) Hispanic. El Centro, California. Vargas died he was shot and killed on 1900 block of Ocotillo Drive by a El Centro police. Vargas allegedly stole at a business on South Imperial Avenue. Police encountered Vargas walking down Ocotillo Drive, and at one point Vargas picked up a brick.
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.
The Officer Down Memorial Pagereports 436 deaths in the line of duty.[26] The leading cause of death for 2020 was COVID-19 at 281 deaths followed by gunfire at 46 deaths and 9/11-related cancers with 35 deaths. The state with the largest number of line-of-duty deaths was Texas with 78 followed by New York with 43.
2022-06-16. Joseph Maverick Nagle (22) White. Monterey Township, Michigan. Nagle was stopped by police on suspicion of impaired driving, and was arrested after failing a sobriety test. He was shot dead during a physical altercation with the officer. [5] 2022-06-13.