Police killings
2013-2020

Nicholas Benjamin Salisbury

Male, White

Date of the incident: 10/7/2018

Auburn, Placer, CA
11084 B Avenue

Nicholas Salisbury called 9-1-1 at about 1:30 a.m. and told dispatchers he was planning to kill residents at an Auburn in-patient rehab facility and also threatened to shoot any deputies who arrived there, police said. He told the dispatcher he was high on marijuana and “speed.” The man was holding a firearm when deputies found him. Deputies reportedly ordered him to drop the gun, but he raised it toward the deputies, and they shot and killed him. The weapon was a replica firearm, and Salisbury allegedly had a suicide note.