List of people killed by law enforcement in Santa Clara County in last several years

Yi Tzu Chen, a 43 year-old female,
43 year-old female Killed by SJPD Bruce Young when he rammed his cruiser into her
stalled
car on I680 in Fremont. CHP reported Young did 86 in 65mph zone and was
primarily at fault. As a result, DA charged Young with vehicular
manslaughter but police attorneys convinced DA to dismiss charges. She was killed on June 19th, 2001.

Fernando Aguilar-Garcia, 27 years old, shot and killed by a Santa Clara Sheriff's
deputy just outside the city limits of Gilroy, and after Garcia allegedly displayed
a stolen Gilroy Police Officer's handgun and pointed it at the deputy during a foot
chase, 9/11/2001

2001: "white" person
According to San Jose police auditor's report, at some time in 2001
before shooting Richard Sharp, SJPD fatally shot another "white", who
was allegedly armed with rifle and pistol. I haven't been able to find
any other reports of this.

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

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

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

Cau Thi Bich Tran, 25 year-old Vietnamese mother of two, shot and killed by Chad Marshall of the San Jose Police while she was standing in her kitchen holding a vegetable peeler, 07/13/03

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

Francisco Reyes, 25, Hispanic male. He was shot by the SJPD while he was in an
allegedly stolen car. He died when the car crashed into a tree. The police auditor
reported he was unarmed, 2/18/2004

Alfred Farrar, 59 year old white male, shot by San Jose police. The police auditor
reported he shot at SJPD with a handgun. 3/6/2004

John Ho, 43, Asian male, killed by San Jose police after a standoff. The police
auditor reported that he did not shoot at the police. 6/4/2004

Johnnie Nakao, 21 years old, shot and killed by San Jose Police, 08/12/04. He was the son of Santa Clara County Sheriff's Deputy John Nakao.

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

Eric Kleemeyer, a 22 year-old white man, was killed by Santa Clara Police on January 4th, 2005. He allegedly did not pull over, as he was driving to his mother's house. He was unarmed and feared for his life, due to a previous beating that had gone unreported. The family later learned of a third car that had pinned Eric in when he was shot. His family believes that after the shooting, the cars were moved to make the scene look like Eric had rammed a police car. 1/4/05

Samuel Martinez, 34 year old Latino man. Martinez was tasered and then shot and killed by a San Jose police officer after police were calledduring a domestic dispute, 5/27/05

Brian Patrick O'Neill, 33, was pepper-sprayed, shot twice with a taser, and struck on the chin with a baton by San Jose police. When police began to tie his arms and legs with nylon restraints, he collapsed and stopped breathing, 8/1/2005

Steven L. Fountain. 24 year old white man, tased and fatally shot by Campbell police. He had been yelling outside of his hotel room, saying that there was someone in his room. 9/7/2005

Hai Nguyen, 22, a Vietnamese young man, was shot and killed by San Jose police officer Richard Foster. He was killed after aalleged standoff in which he allegedly pointed his gun at the police. Nguyen's stepmother had called police after coming home about 11 p.m. Friday and hearing what she thought were shots being fired inside. 1/22/2005


Pedro Calderon, a 20 year-old Latino man, was shot and killed by Palo Alto police officer Jessica Perryman. He supposedly matched the physical description of a prior burglary suspect. He was allegedly driving a stolen car to flee from the police, and they said that he had pinned Perryman against a car before she and Officer Jeff Bell of the Stanford Department of Public Safety shot at him. A grand jury declined to indict either officer, but Bell did not return to patrol duty- he used his accrued vacation time to wait for his retirement to begin. His family was not informed of his death until 36 hours later. Calderon was killed on March 20th, 2002.

Armando Quintana Aguilar, 33, of East Palo Alto was fatally shot by a Santa Clara County sheriff's deputy shot , a 33-year-old East Palo Alto man, in an exchange of gunfire during a raid on a marijuana farm near Los Gatos. 08/05/2005

An unnamed man was fatally shot by a Santa Clara County sheriff's deputy. He had allegedly been wandering through a Los Altos Hills neighborhood with a bloody machete on a Wednesday morning. The police had responded to a 911 call that a man had assaulted a woman with a large knife. The man was found near the Los Altos Golf and Country Club and shot. 09/14/2005