Shot by Police Timeline 1991-2009
Dartmouth, MA
August 11, 2009
Joseph M. Ramos, Jr. was killed by Dartmouth Police on Aug. 11, 2009. He was shot by Officer Jared White after becoming disoriented and wandering through his neighborhood asking for help. Read More
Boston, MA
November 21, 2007
38 yr old Father of five, Suffolk County Jail Officer at Nashua for 18 yrs. was killed Wednesday Novemver 21st, 2007 by Boston Police at Walgreen’s on Corner of Norfolk & Morton St. Barker had worked for the county as a jail officer for 18 years. Read More
Boston, MA
October 3, 2005
Police shot and killed Seney, a 28-year-old murder suspect, in Boston’s Theater District in 2005 after he reportedly opened fire on them, narrowly missing one officer who was taking cover behind a parked car. Read More
Boston, MA
July 2, 2004
Gonzalez, 57, who weighed no more than 110 pounds, was fatally shot inside the Tremont Street apartment he shared with his mentally disabled sister by two cops as he approached them with a knife. Read More
Boston, MA
June 27, 2004
The June 27 shooting angered the community because Bowen, 40, was shot three times (once in the back of the head) while fleeing after a traffic stop, and because some witnesses said he was unarmed. Read More
Boston, MA
January 31, 2004
A police officer fatally shot Vasquez-Robles as he was driving away from the Villa Victoria housing complex in the South End. Read More
Boston, MA
September 25, 2002
Eveline Barros-Cepeda was shot to death by a Boston Police Officer. She was riding in the back seat of a car that police tried to stop after it ran a stoplight. The car allegedly struck Boston Police Officer Michael Paillat prompting his partner Officer Thomas Taylor Jr. to fire five shots into the car as it sped away. Read More
Cambridge, MA
July 15, 2002
On July 15, 2002 Cambridge Police broke down the door of Daniel Furtado, and shot him dead in his home. He was accused of cutting a cable TV wire, a misdemeanor. Police had no warrant, nor a court order to enter his home. An 8 Man SWAT Team shot 3-4 rounds. Read More
Boston, MA
July 2, 2002
On July 2, 2002 Boston Police shot and killed LaVeta Jackson in her home. She suffered from mental illness. 3 officers fired 15-20 rounds. Read More
Boston, MA
May 23, 2002
In May 2002, two officers shot and killed Nelson Santiago after he allegedly rammed a stolen car into their cruiser in Roxbury. Read More
Boston, MA
February 12, 2002
37 yrs old killed in Roxbury, Crawford St. February 12th, 2002 by BPD officer Shawn West. Read More
Boston, MA
July 15, 2001
A Boston Globe article reported that a the mother of a Mattapan teenager, after seeing the medical report on her son, claims he was shot in the back last summer without justification by Boston police. Read More
Boston, MA
May 29, 2001
Jose Pineda, a Salvadoran immigrant who was shot and killed by plaintclothes Boston Police in East Boston. Read More
Boston, MA
December 27,2000
Shot in the back of the neck by officer Kyle Wilcox on Dec. 27 in a Roxbury park. Boston Municipal Police officer fired at 29-year-old Ricky Bodden of Dorchester. Read More
Boston, MA
November 27, 2000
Fanfan was killed in an exchange of gunfire with police, authorities said. Officers said they were responding to reports of a shooting nearby. Read More
Boston, MA
March 24,1994
Acting on a wrong address from a bad tip by an informant, the police conducted a no-knock raid on Retired Methodist minister Accelyne Williams’ Boston, MA apartment. Read More
Boston, MA
March 27, 2015
In June of 1991, Nathaniel Lackland, was shot in back of head by Boston police officer Leo J. Ronan. Read More
Boston, MA
April 5, 2014
Shot and killed by Boston Police officer James Hall in Dorchester in July 1991. Read More