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Cumberland County (Maine) Sheriff's Deputy Richard Kimball helped disarm and detain a suicidal man who was waving a handgun toward passing rush-hour traffic.
Read More →The fatal shooting of a student at the University of California, Berkeley, last month was most likely suicidal, the UC Berkeley Police Department has announced.
Read More →A Denver Police officer shot a suicidal man who attacked him with a hammer, as the officer sat in his squad doing paperwork on Sunday. Police found evidence on the man indicating that he may have wanted to be killed by an officer.
Read More →A gunman who taunted Houston Police officers to "Shoot Me! Shoot Me!" near the camp of the city's Occupy protesters got his wish, as officers shot him twice when he refused to drop a .40-caliber rifle.
Read More →A Schenectady (N.Y.) Police officer shot a knife-wielding man in the lobby of an upstate New York newspaper Saturday afternoon in an apparent suicide-by-cop encounter.
Read More →South Dakota's attorney general and criminal investigation division have cleared a highway patrolman who fatally shot a man who told a dispatcher he wanted to kill a law enforcement officer.
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A Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety officer responding to a shots-fired call was shot and killed when he confronted a fleeing suspect between two houses.
Read More →Sgt. James Kelemen Sr. recounted the encounter with a man he knew wanted "suicide by cop," when he responded to the call of a man threatening an employee at a bakery.
Read More →Sgt. David Powell, a 22-year veteran of the force, had earlier been called to the station after a report that he violated a restraining order. He was recently divorced from his second wife.
Read More →Craig Brewster Thompson, 43, apparently committed "suicide by cop" after emerging at 3 a.m. Friday from the house where he had been keeping his 4-year-old twin daughters hostage for nearly four hours.
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