Sonya Massey
Sonya Massey, 36, was shot dead in her Springfield, Illinois, home after deputies responded to her call about a possible prowler in the early morning hours of July 6. In the body cam footage released by the Illinois State Police on Monday, former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson is seen yelling at Massey in a tense moment as…
Fanta Bility
Eight-year-old Fanta Bility was shot and killed in August 2021 as she was leaving a high school football game with her family in Sharon Hill, a suburb of Philadelphia. Gunfire rang out near the Academy Park High School stadium as people were leaving the game. Officials say the shooting happened after a verbal confrontation between a…
Holly Barlow-Austin
At the time of her arrest on April 5, 2019, Barlow-Austin was living with HIV and getting treatment for substance addiction, according to the family’s lawsuit. She also had been diagnosed with depression and bipolar disorder, according to the suit. After Barlow-Austin was arrested for a probation violation, she was taken to the Bi-State jail…
Bobby Barrick
On March 13 of last year, Bobby, 45, was found bound and beaten up at a local store in Eagletown, Okla., according to the complaint obtained by PEOPLE. Bobby had allegedly broken a door at the store and climbed on a vehicle that evening. After authorities found Bobby tied up, the complaint alleges that they…
Tyre Nichols
Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, was stopped by five Memphis Police Department officers, also black, at approximately 8:30 p.m. on January 7, 2023. Police alleged that he was pulled over for reckless driving. He was reportedly about 250 feet (75 m) from his home at the time. According to police, after an initial confrontation with police, Nichols…
Keenan Anderson
A D.C. teacher died hours after he was shocked with a stun gun in a struggle with police officers in Los Angeles. Keenan Anderson, a cousin of Black Lives Matter cofounder Patrisse Cullors, taught 10th-grade English at Digital Pioneers Academy in Southeast, according to a statement from the school. He was visiting family in Los…
Rajan ‘Raj’ Moonesinghe
At around 12.30am, Moonesinghe told a neighbor that someone was in his house and he was going to call 911, the WSJ reported. Police arrived on the scene just five minutes later, moments after Moonesinghe fired two shots into his own living room — and fired four shots that killed the businessman. Across the street…
Christian Glass
The killing of Christian Glass occurred on June 11, 2022, in Clear Creek County, Colorado, near the town of Silver Plume, at approximately 12:30 am. Glass, aged 22, was driving alone in a vehicle in the evening of June 10 when the vehicle went off the road. Unable to get it back on the road, he called 911 for…
Mario Gonzalez
Police in Northern California released bodycam video that shows officers pinning a man to the ground for more than five minutes during an arrest that ended in his death. The footage of the incident shows officers putting their weight onto Mario Arenales Gonzalez, then doing chest compressions after he became unresponsive. The bodycam video, released late Tuesday,…
Daunte Wright
On April 11, 2021, Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old African-American man, was fatally shot by Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer Kim Potter during a traffic stop in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area. After being shot, Wright drove several blocks before crashing his vehicle into another and hitting a cement barrier. He was pronounced dead at the…
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