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Killing of Jordan Neely
Killing of Jordan Neely: the May 1, 2023 F-train chokehold death of the 30-year-old homeless Michael Jackson impersonator by Marine veteran Daniel Penny, ruled homicide by the medical examiner, ending in Penny's December 2024 acquittal.
Killing of Kevin Mullins
Killing of Kevin Mullins: the September 19, 2024 fatal shooting of Letcher County District Judge Kevin R. Mullins in his Whitesburg, Kentucky chambers by Sheriff Shawn "Mickey" Stines, charged with murder; motive officially undetermined, case in pretrial.
Killing of Kim Sun-il (김선일)
Kim Sun-il (김선일), a 33-year-old South Korean translator for Gana General Trading, was kidnapped near Falluja on May 31, 2004 by Jamaat al-Tawhid wal Jihad and beheaded June 22 after Seoul refused to cancel its 3,000-troop Iraq deployment.
Killing of Lacey Fletcher
Lacey Ellen Fletcher, autistic 36-year-old of Slaughter, Louisiana, died January 3, 2022, fused to a couch after about 12 years of neglect; parents Clay and Sheila Fletcher pleaded no contest to manslaughter in 2024 and got 40 years each, 20 suspended.
Killing of Latasha Harlins
Killing of Latasha Harlins: 1991 fatal shooting of a 15-year-old Black girl by Korean American shopkeeper Soon Ja Du at Empire Liquor Market, South Los Angeles; Du's probation-only manslaughter sentence fueled the 1992 LA riots.
Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo: ICE agent fatally shot the 52-year-old Mexican construction contractor on July 7, 2026, in Houston's Magnolia Park; he was not the operation's target, and accounts of the shooting are disputed.
Killing of Lucas Leonard
Killing of Lucas Leonard: 19-year-old beaten to death October 11, 2015 during a Word of Life Christian Church 'counseling session' in New Hartford, New York; brother Christopher survived; pastor Tiffanie Irwin and family members prosecuted.
Killing of Malice Green
Killing of Malice Green: the November 5, 1992 fatal flashlight beating of a 35-year-old Black Detroit motorist by officers Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn, their 1993 second-degree murder convictions, and the appeals that followed.
Killing of Marvin Gaye
Killing of Marvin Gaye: the soul singer behind "What's Going On" and "Sexual Healing," shot dead by his father Marvin Gay Sr. on April 1, 1984 in Los Angeles with a revolver Gaye had given him; the father received a suspended sentence for voluntary manslaughter.
Killing of Mary Theresa Simpson
Killing of Mary Theresa Simpson: 1964 murder of a 12-year-old Elmira, New York girl, solved in 2026, the oldest case solved with DNA, identifying deceased truck driver Alfred Raymond Murray Jr. via a preserved 0.4-nanogram sample and genetic genealogy.
Killing of Mary Yoder
Killing of Mary Yoder: 2015 colchicine poisoning death of a 60-year-old Whitesboro, New York chiropractor; receptionist Kaitlyn Conley was convicted of manslaughter in 2017, then had the conviction vacated in 2025.
Killing of Mitchell Moore
Killing of Mitchell Moore: the 2019 fatal shooting of Marty Moore by Aaron Mitchell in Columbus, Mississippi, tried as Mitchell v. State; second-degree murder conviction, 40-year sentence, affirmed 2023 after an autopsy-report dispute.
Killing of Monique and Spencer Tepe
Killing of Monique and Spencer Tepe: Columbus, Ohio couple shot dead in their Weinland Park home December 30, 2025. Monique Tepe's ex-husband, vascular surgeon Michael David McKee, indicted for aggravated murder; case pending.
Killing of Morris Black
Killing of Morris Black: the September 28, 2001 shooting death of 71-year-old Galveston neighbor Morris Black by Robert Durst, who dismembered the body and dumped it in Galveston Bay; acquitted of murder in 2003 on self-defense claims.
Killing of Nguyễn Xuân Đạt
Killing of Nguyễn Xuân Đạt, the "Vietnamese Butcher" case: January 25, 2025 murder and dismemberment in Lạng Sơn, Vietnam, by former market surveillance officer Đoàn Văn Sáng, exposed by internet sleuths; Sáng arrested November 29, 2025.
Killing of Nurul Amin Shah Alam
Killing of Nurul Amin Shah Alam: 2026 death of a 56-year-old nearly blind Rohingya refugee from Myanmar, found dead in Buffalo, New York, five days after Border Patrol released him at a closed Tim Hortons; ruled a homicide, cause a perforated duodenal ulcer precipitated by hypothermia and dehydration.
Killing of Oscar Grant
Killing of Oscar Grant: BART officer Johannes Mehserle shot unarmed 22-year-old Oscar Grant III in the back at Oakland's Fruitvale Station on January 1, 2009; viral cellphone video, involuntary manslaughter conviction, Pirone controversy, protests, and police reforms.
Killing of Philando Castile
Killing of Philando Castile: the July 6, 2016 fatal shooting of the 32-year-old St. Paul cafeteria worker by St. Anthony officer Jeronimo Yanez during a Falcon Heights traffic stop, livestreamed by Diamond Reynolds; Yanez was acquitted in 2017.
Killing of Quentin Deranque
Quentin Deranque, a French far-right activist, died in Lyon in February 2026 after being beaten by ultra-left activists, leading to a national political crisis and 11 arrests.
Killing of Rachel Nickell
Killing of Rachel Nickell: 1992 Wimbledon Common murder; Colin Stagg wrongly prosecuted after honey trap; Robert Napper convicted 2008 via DNA; IPCC errors, £706,000 compensation, Broadmoor detention.
Killing of Rayshard Brooks
Killing of Rayshard Brooks: June 12, 2020 fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks at an Atlanta Wendy's by officer Garrett Rolfe; charges dropped August 2022.
Killing of Rebekah Baptiste
Rebekah Baptiste, 10, died July 30, 2025 after being found unresponsive near Holbrook, Arizona. Father Richard Baptiste and Anicia Woods face murder charges; DCS had received years of abuse reports.
Killing of Rob and Michele Reiner
Double homicide of filmmaker Rob Reiner, 78, and wife Michele Singer Reiner, 70, found stabbed in their Brentwood, Los Angeles home on December 14, 2025; son Nick Reiner, 32, charged with first-degree murder.
Killing of Sam Nordquist
Killing of Sam Nordquist: 2025 torture-murder of a 24-year-old Black transgender man from Oakdale, Minnesota, in Ontario County, New York; seven defendants, four guilty pleas, two life sentences without parole.
Killing of Sandra Birchmore
Killing of Sandra Birchmore: 2021 death of 23-year-old Stoughton, Massachusetts teacher's assistant, ruled suicide then reclassified; former police officer Matthew Farwell faces federal charges.
Killing of Satomi Mitarai (御手洗怜美)
The killing of Satomi Mitarai (御手洗怜美), also known as the Sasebo Slashing, was the 2004 stabbing of a 12-year-old Japanese schoolgirl by her 11-year-old classmate at Okubo Elementary School in Sasebo, Nagasaki.
Killing of Silverio Villegas González
Silverio Villegas González, 38, Mexican cook killed by an ICE agent September 12, 2025, in Franklin Park, Illinois, during Operation Midway Blitz; video contradicted DHS's dragged-agent account; ISP probe and 2026 FTCA claim follow.
Killing of the Clancy children
Killing of the Clancy children: Cora (5), Dawson (3), and Callan (8 months) Clancy, strangled by their mother Lindsay Clancy in Duxbury, Massachusetts on January 24, 2023; her postpartum psychosis insanity-defense murder trial ended in a September 2026 mistrial.
Killing of Tim McLean
Killing of Tim McLean: 2008 Greyhound bus beheading near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, by Vince Li (Will Baker), found not criminally responsible, discharged absolutely in 2017.
Killing of Trayvon Martin
Killing of Trayvon Martin: February 26, 2012 shooting of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida's Retreat at Twin Lakes; led to a second-degree murder trial, 2013 acquittal, DOJ review, and Black Lives Matter.