LVMPD officers cleared a burning house room by room. Behind a locked door, a round hit an officer in the chest. Her vest stopped it. A 14-year-old girl did not survive.
An armed robber took a mother and four children hostage in North Olmsted. An Elyria officer went through the door seconds behind him. Every hostage came out unharmed.
Eight officer-involved shootings broken down: a hostage rescue in North Olmsted, an officer shot through a door in Las Vegas, and a Dallas cop who fired on his own undercover.
A carjacker who took a man's car at rifle-point opened fire on Vallejo officers during the felony stop. Instead of rushing a man who'd already shot at them, they used cover, called for a shield, and let time work — until he tried to drive off. A textbook fatal shooting.
Downtown Louisville. Just after midnight, July 26. LMPD got an active break-in call near Fifth and York — a caller watching two men in all black break glass and climb through a ground-floor window.
Nine HPD officers opened fire on a felony-stop suspect who popped his door and simulated a pistol. He survived with a graze. It was a legal shooting — and a clinic in what not to do when the rounds start.