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List of people killed by law enforcement in Northern California

by Mahtin (themahtin [at] hotmail.com)
This is a list that the Stolen Lives Project in the Bay Area has compiled of people who were killed by police or other law enforcement in Northern California, from 2001-2004. I left some names out because I was unable to find more details about their deaths,a nd I am sure that there are others who have been killed. Please email me if you know of other people who were killed, or if you have corrections about any of these entries. We are also seeking longer entries that will go into the next edition of the book Stolen Lives: Killed by Law Enforcement
Jamil Wheatfall, 36 years old, Afro-American beaten to death by Oakland
police, 4/14/2001

Bruce Seward, 42 years old, shot and killed by BART police, 5/25/2001

Idriss Stelley, 23 years old, French-American shot to death by San
Francisco police, 6/13/2001

Fernando Aguilar-Garcia, 27 years old, shot and killed by Gilroy police,
9/11/2001

Ernesto Donald Smith, 65 years old, shot and killed by Martinez police,
9/30/2001

Michael Valdez, 41 years old, shot and killed by Richmond police, 11/23/2001

Richard Sharp, 53 years old, shot and killed by San Jose police, 12/23/2001

Pedro Calderon, 20 years old, shot and killed by Palo Alto police, 3/20/2002

Gregory Hooper, 37 years old, Afro-American man shot and killed by
off-duty San Francisco police. 2/2/2002

Richard Tims, 36 years old, Afro-American man, shot and killed by San
Francisco police, 3/15/2002

Unidentified man, shot and killed by Santa Clara police, 3/24/2002

Joshua Russell, 19 years old, Afro-American, shot and killed by Oakland
police, 3/27/2002

Rashan Hill, 18 years old, Afro-American, shot and killed by Oakland
police, 6/5/2002

Unidentified naked man, shot and killed by San Francisco police, 6/14/2002

Unidentified man, shot and killed by Vallejo police, 9/8/2002

Jihad Alim Akbar, 28 years old, shot and killed by San Francisco police,
10/09/2002

Fred Moraga, 38 years old, shot and killed by Burlingame police, 11/3/2002

Rick Escobedo, 39 years old, Chicano man brutally beaten and killed by
Redwood City Police, 11/17/2002

Gregory Lewis, 40 years old, beaten and killed by Hayward police, 11/28/2002

Michael Moll, 19 years old, Caucasian, shot and killed by San Francisco
Police, 2/19/2003

Homero Campos, 23 years old, shot and killed by San Jose police, 5/7/2003

Michael Vega, 25 years old, shot and killed by Concord police, 5/10/2003

Robert Freeman, 16 years old, killed by Richmond Police, 6/12/2003

Glennel Givens, African American man, 28 years old, killed by Berkeley
Police, 7/25/2003

Kevin Larson Smith, 27 years old. killed by Vallejo police on 8/2/2003

Glen Willis 47, Afro-American shot and killed by Oakland police on 8/7/2003

Cherie Wallace, Killed by police on 8/15/2003

Cary James Grimé, 47 year-old Caucasian man, beaten to death by Marin
County sheriffs department in San Rafael, CA on 8/17/2003

Terrance Mearis, 20 years old, African-American, killed by Oakland Police,
10/05/2003

Roland Tugade, 42 years old, shot and killed by Vallejo police on 10/19/2003

Deon Whitfield, 17, found hanged in his California Youth Authority (CYA)
cell On January 19th, 2004

Durrell Feaster, 18, found hanged in his California Youth Authority (CYA)
cell On January 19th, 2004

Roberto Lombana, 18, died after somehow ingesting a cleaning fluid in a
CYA Facility, January 12, 2004

Rudy Cardenas, Latino man, 43 years old, killed by a State Narcotics Agent
in San Jose, Calif 2/17/2004

Jaden Edward Soto, 34, was shot and killed by a California Highway Patrol officer in Sunol, 4/24/2004

Cammerin Boyd, African American man, 29 years old, killed by San Francisco
Police, 5/05/2004

Timothy Diaz, 32 years old, shot and killed by Vallejo police, 6/21/2004

Gustavus Rugley, 21 years old, shot and killed by San Francisco Police,
6/29/2004

Johnnie Nakao, 21 years old, shot and killed by San Jose Police on August
12th, 2004. He was the son of Santa Clara County Sheriff's Deputy John
Nakao

Dyron Mandell Brewer, 24 year-old African-American male, found dead in his
cell at N.A. Chaderjian Youth Correctional Facility (commonly known as
"Chad"), on 9/5/2004.

Zaim Bojcic, 40 year old male, Bosnian, concentration camp survivor;
tasered and then shot by the San Jose Police, 9/26/2004

Floyd Neamiah Strong, 23 year old male, shot by Vallejo police, 9/11/2004

Andrew Washington, 21, died in Vallejo police custody after foot chase and tasering, 9/15/2004. 2nd death in custody of Vallejo police that week.

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