List of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States

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This is a list of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States. The listing documents the date the incident resulting in conviction occurred, the date the officer(s) was convicted, the name of the officer(s), and a brief description of the original occurrence making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or officer involved.

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Incident Date Name of officer Conviction date Agency Description of Incident
11 April 2021 Kim Potter 23 December 2021 Brooklyn Center Police Department (Minnesota) During a traffic stop Potter attempted to arrest Daunte Wright for a warrant. She shot him, claiming that she meant to use her taser.[1]
25 May 2020 Derek Chauvin 20 April 2021 Minneapolis Police Department (Minnesota) Chauvin knelt on the neck of George Floyd for about nine minutes while Floyd was handcuffed and lying face down on the street calling out "I can't breathe" during an arrest made with three other officers.[2]
1 May 2020 Aaron Russell 7 January 2022 (pleaded guilty) San Diego County Sheriff's Department (California) Russell fatally shot Nicholas Bils from behind after Bils escaped a state parks patrol car and ran away.[3]
3 December 2019 Eric J. DeValkenaere 20 November 2021 Kansas City Police Department (Missouri) DeValkenaere shot Cameron Lamb, 26, in his own backyard after police responded to a report of a traffic incident involving Lamb's truck. Prosecutors argued DeValkenaere did not have a warrant or probable cause to be in Lamb's backyard at the time of the shooting and planted evidence at the scene. [4]
4 July 2019 Joshua Taylor and Brandon Dingman 8 November 2021 Wilson Police Department (Oklahoma) Taylor and Dingman tased 28-year-old Jared Lakey 53 times, resulting in his death.[5]
11 November 2018 Andrew Hall 26 October 2021 Danville Police Department (California) Hall shot and killed 33-year-old Filipino-American Laudemer Arboleda as he slowly maneuvered his car between two police vehicles. Hall was convicted on assault with a firearm, but the jury deadlocked on charges of manslaughter.[6]
26 July 2018 Andrew Delke Pleaded guilty Nashville Police Department (Tennessee) Delke shot and killed 25-year-old Daniel Hambrick as he fled on foot.[7]
3 April 2018 William Darby 7 May 2021 Huntsville Police Department (Alabama) Darby was convicted of shooting and killing Jeffrey Parker, 49. Parker had been having suicidal ideations and was pointing a gun at his head when Darby entered his residence and shot him.[8]
15 July 2017 Mohammad Noor 30 April 2019 Minneapolis Police Department (Minnesota) While responding to a 911 call about a possible assault, Noor shot and killed Australian-American Justine Damond through the window of his patrol car after he was startled when Damond approached the vehicle.[9][10]
29 April 2017 Roy Oliver 28 August 2018 Balch Springs Police Department (Texas) Oliver fired three rounds from his rifle into a vehicle full of people leaving a party, killing 15-year-old Jordan Edwards.[11]
25 February 2016 Aaron Cody Smith 22 November 2019 Montgomery Police Department (Alabama) Shot 58-year-old Greg Gunn seven times, killing him, after Gunn fled a stop-and-frisk search. Smith claimed that Gunn had attacked him with a pole, a claim prosecutors disproved during the trial.[12][13]
3 November 2015 Derrick Stafford
Norris Greenhouse Jr. 		31 March 2017 (Stafford)
Pleaded guilty (Greenhouse) 		Marksville Police Department (Louisiana) Stafford and Greenhouse fired eighteen rounds into the car of Christopher Few after a brief road chase resulting in the death of Few's six-year-old son, Jeremy Mardis who was sitting in the backseat.[14][15]
18 October 2015 Nouman K. Raja 7 March 2019 Palm Beach Gardens Police Department (Florida) While on duty as a plainclothes officer, Raja shot and killed 31-year-old Corey Jones as he awaited a tow truck for his broken down vehicle on a highway exit ramp. Raja claimed that he was investigating an abandoned vehicle when Jones confronted him, armed.[16][17]
4 April 2015 Michael Slager Pled guilty North Charleston Police Department (South Carolina) Slager fatally shot 50-year-old Walter Scott in the back as he fled after being stopped for an inoperative brake light. Slager then dropped his Taser by Scott's lifeless body.[18]
20 November 2014 Peter Liang 11 February 2016 New York City Police Department (New York) Liang was patrolling a stairwell in a public housing development in Brooklyn when he fired one round at 28-year-old Akai Gurley, killing him. Liang claimed that he was startled and had fired accidentally.[19][20]
20 October 2014 Jason Van Dyke 5 October 2018 Chicago Police Department (Illinois) Van Dyke shot and killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald after officers stopped him while carrying a knife in the middle of the street. Dashcam video released later showed that McDonald was walking away when Van Dyke opened fire.[21]
7 March 2012 Joshua Colclough Pleaded guilty New Orleans Police Department (Louisiana) Colclough was executing a drug raid when he fired a single round, killing Wendell Allen as he was unarmed and shirtless.[22][23]
9 February 2012 Daniel Harmon Wright 29 January 2013 Culpeper Police Department (Virginia) Wright shot and killed Patricia Cook, 54, in her own vehicle as he was investigating reports of a suspicious vehicle. Wright had claimed that Cook had rolled her window up, trapping his arm, and began to drive away. However this was discredited by witness statements and the fact that Cook's vehicle had manual roll-up windows.[24][25]
5 October 2010 Richard Chrisman Pleaded guilty Phoenix Police Department (Arizona) Chrisman was responding to a report of a domestic dispute in a mobile home park when he shot and killed 29-year-old Daniel Rodriguez and his dog at point-blank range. A fellow officer testified that Rodriguez posed no threat and was intent on leaving when Chrisman shot and killed him.[26][27]
30 November 2009 Reginald Jones Pleaded guilty Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia Jones was on-duty while acting as a lookout during a drug robbery that resulted in the murder of Arvel Alston, 40, and the shooting of one other person.[28]
1 January 2009 Johannes Mehserle 8 July 2010 Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department (California) Mehserle shot and killed 22-year-old Oscar Grant after an altercation on a train platform. Grant was on the ground and restrained when Mehserle drew his service weapon and fired one round into Grant's back, fatally injuring him. Mehserle claimed that he believed Grant was reaching for a weapon in his waistband.[29]
21 November 2006 Greg Junnier
Jason Smith
Arthur Tesler 		Pleaded guilty Atlanta Police Department (Georgia) While executing a drug raid based on faulty information from an informant, plainclothes officers shot and killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston and later planted marijuana in her home.[30]
30 November 2005 Kenneth Bowen
Robert Faulcon, Jr
Robert Gisevius, Jr.
Anthony Villavaso II 		5 August 2011 New Orleans Police Department (Louisiana)
Further information: Danziger Bridge shootings

Four NOPD officers, not in uniform at the time, opened fire on a family on the Danziger Bridge killing 17-year-old James Brissette and 40-year-old Ronald Madison, and wounding four others. The officers claimed that they had been fired upon when they responded to a call about an officer under fire.[31][32]
4 September 2005 David Warren 10 December 2010 (overturned) New Orleans Police Department (Louisiana) 31-year-old Henry Glover was shot with a .223 rifle by NOPD officer David Warren from a second-story balcony. Glover had been retrieving loot at the time.[33][34]
7 March 2006 Larry P. Norman 28 June 2007 Arkansas State Police (Arkansas) Trooper Larry P. Norman shot Joseph Erin Hamley, a man with cerebral palsy, as he lied on his back, after Hamley was mistaken for a fugitive. The trooper pled guilty to negligent homicide.[35]
20 July 2003 Elias Perocier Morales, Eliezer Rivera Gonzalez, Aaron Vidal Maldonado, Juan Morales Rosales, and Carlos Pagan Ferrer June 2009 (Perocier Morales and Rivera Gonzales), 14 August 2009 (Vidal Maldonado, Morales Rosales, and Pagan Ferrer) San Juan Police Department (Puerto Rico) Officers beat Jose Antonio Rivera Robles during an arrest at a gas station, resulting in his death. Two officers were sentenced to 10 and six and a half years in prison, respectively.[36][37]
22 May 2003 Brian Conroy 22 October 2005 New York City Police Department (New York) Plainclothes officer Brian Conroy shot and killed Burkinabé immigrant Ousmane Zongo during a raid on a warehouse. Zongo was unarmed and running away from police when Conroy opened fire.[38]
4 July 1996 Paolo Colecchia 30 May 1997 New York City Transit Police (New York) Officer Colecchia shot and killed Nathaniel Levi Gaines on a subway station platform after an altercation. Colecchia shot Gaines multiple times in the back and later admitted he was not in fear of his life when he did so.[39]
16 January 1989 William Lozano 7 December 1989 (overturned) Miami Police Department (Florida) Lozano shot and killed 23-year-old Clement Lloyd as he fled police in his vehicle. Allan Blanchard, 24, was killed in the resulting crash. Lozano later claimed that Lloyd was attempting to run him over.[40]
13 June 1975 Thomas Ryan 1977 New York City Police Department (New York) Officer Ryan beat to death 25-year-old burglary suspect Israel Rodriguez in the back of his patrol car parked at the 44th Precinct station house.[41]
24 July 1973 Darrell L. Cain 15 November 1973 Dallas Police Department (Texas) Cain shot and killed 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez after arresting him on suspicion of having burglarized a local gas station. Cain shot Santos in the head after pointing his gun at the child in an attempt to extract a confession from him.[42]

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