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This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in November 2022, 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 22 people.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.


November 2022

Date Name (age) of deceased Race of deceased Location Description
2022-11-30 Delfino Avila Unknown San Bernardino, California Police shot Avila after he allegedly set a palm tree on fire and charged at officers holding a piece of wood after a stun gun was ineffective. Police did not specify what object Avila was holding. [1]
2022-11-29 Kenneth Knotts (41) Black Dallas, Texas Police took Knotts to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center after he told police government agents were trying to kill him and his son. At the hospital Knotts escaped his room and tried to run away. Officers with the hospital's police department tased Knotts several times, and his condition worsened and he died. His death was later ruled a homicide. [2]
2022-11-29 Raul Cuen (48) Latino Susanville, California Two correctional officers shot and killed Cuen and Nunez, both serving sentences for separate murders, after they allegedly began stabbing another inmate at the High Desert State Prison. [3]
Frank Nanez (32)
2022-11-25 Mark Winek (69) White Riverside, California Austin Lee Edwards, a former Virginia State Trooper and current law enforcement officer in Washington County, Virginia, drove across the country to meet a teenage girl he catfished online, before killing her mother and grandparents and kidnapping the girl. When police found his vehicle in San Bernardino County a shootout occurred, and Edwards shot himself. [4] [5] [6]
Sharie Winek (65)
Brooke Winek (38)
2022-11-22 Kevin Dizmang (63) White Colorado Springs, Colorado A mental health team was called after Dizmang was reported walking into traffic. Police and a paramedic handcuffed Dizmang and restrained him. He stopped moving and fell unconscious. An autopsy found Dizmang died from cardiac arrest due to physical restraint with methamphetamine use, asthma, and obesity as contributing factors. His death was ruled a homicide. [7]
2022-11-21 Eric Holmes (19) Black Morrow, Georgia An officer was investigating a stolen vehicle found in a parking lot when Holmes approached him and began a conversation, giving no indication of any connection to the vehicle. While speaking to the officer, Holmes walked away and entered the vehicle before starting the engine. As Holmes drove away, the officer shot him in the back, and Holmes crashed nearby. Two guns were found inside the vehicle, although the Georgia Bureau of Investigation did not state who they belonged to. The officer resigned before he could be terminated. [8] [9] [10]
2022-11-19 Immanuel Clark-Johnson (30) Black Portland, Oregon Police approached Clark-Johnson's vehicle in connection with an armed robbery, though Clark-Johnson was not one of the people involved. As Clark-Johnson ran away an officer shot him with an AR-15 rifle when he reached into his pocket, later saying he believed Clark-Johnson was reaching for a gun. [11]
2022-11-18 Neil Alexander Costin (32) Unknown Lacey, Washington Costin allegedly carjacked a semi truck and crashed it. After a standoff, police say he came towards them with a box cutter. They shot and killed him. [12]
2022-11-17 Unknown Unknown Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico A suspected drug smuggler on a ship was killed during a shootout with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents off the coast of Puerto Rico. A CBP agent was also killed in the shootout. [13]
2022-11-15 Rajan Moonesinghe (33) South Asian Austin, Texas Police were called by a neighbor who reported Moonesinghe pointed a rifle into his home and fired. Relatives stated Moonesinghe believed there was a burglar in his home. When police arrived, an officer ordered Moonesinghe to drop his weapon, then immediately fired. [14]
2022-11-14 Matthew Teears (31) White Spokane County, Washington Deputies shot and killed Teears after a lengthy standoff. The Spokane County Sheriff's Office say several Deputies were involved in the shooting. Three deputies shot a man who was running away while wearing a gas mask and allegedly holding a handgun. Police claim the man started a fire inside a home he was barricaded in, and also fired several shots inside the home. [15]
2022-11-14 Angely Solis (27) Unknown Rochester, New York An off-duty Greece Police Officer shot two women, killing Solis and wounding the other, before killing herself. [16]
2022-11-14 Phymor Tenry (21) Asian Tenino, Washington Officials said two men, who were wanted in Oregon, were spotted in a stolen car in Lewis County, Washington. Law enforcement officers attempted to stop the vehicle which resulted police pursuit. After the pursuit concluded, one man from the stolen vehicle allegedly fired shots at deputies. Deputies returned fire and shot and killed Tenry. [17]
2022-11-10 Ki'Azia Miller (27) Black Detroit, Michigan Miller's mother called police to report that her daughter, who had schizophrenia, was having a mental health crisis and had hit her child. Police surrounded Miller's home and two officers entered. One officer shot Miller, saying she reached for his gun. The two officers who entered Miller's home were suspended without pay. [18]
2022-11-06 Tyree Moorehead (46) Black Baltimore, Maryland Police responded to reports of a man assaulting a woman with a knife. Police say they saw Moorehead lying on top of a woman while holding a knife, and an officer shot him. Moorehead was an activist known for spray-painting “No Shoot Zones” at shooting scenes. [19] [20]
2022-11-06 Kenneth Vineyard (48) White Monaca, Pennsylvania After a man was shot and wounded in the parking lot of a Walmart, Vineyard went to the man's side to deliver aid. When paramedics arrived, a man in plainclothes told Vineyard to step away from the victim, then shoved him backwards, causing his head to hit the pavement. Vineyard was found with no pulse and sent to a hospital, where he died. According to an attorney hired by Vineyard's family and Pennsylvania State Police, the man who shoved Vineyard is an off-duty Center Township Police officer. [21]
2022-11-06 Derrick Kittling (45) Black Alexandria, Louisiana A deputy pulled Kittling over for a window tint and modified exhaust. After ordering Kittling to stand outside his vehicle, the deputy grabbed Kittling's arm, before pulling out his taser. Following a struggle over the taser, in which it was fired twice, the deputy shot Kittling. [22]
2022-11-04 Kelvontae Zikel Banks (24) Black Riverdale, Georgia An officer responding to a call without his emergency equipment activated crashed into Bank's car as he was driving to pick up his child's mother. [23]
2022-11-02 Wyatt Maxwell Beckler (18) White Fort Wayne, Indiana Fort Wayne officers responded to an armed disturbance call. When the officers arrived on scene, they found a man who matched the caller's description. He was later identified as Wyatt Beckler. Beckler did not comply with the officer's verbal commands, and then brandished a weapon. This prompted officer Andrew Fry to shoot Beckler. Beckler was taken to Lutheran Hospital where he later died. [24]

See also

This section is an excerpt from Lists of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States § See also.

References

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