Police killings
2013-2020

Jose Gonzales Lera

Male, Hispanic

Date of the incident: 2/3/2017

Olympic Valley, Placer, CA
Squaw Valley Rd & CA-89

CHP officers attempted to pull over a suspected DUI driver. Officers terminated a pursuit a few minutes later for safety reasons. Roughly an hour later, a sheriff's office deputy saw the vehicle again driving erratically on Highway 28 and attempted to pull him over. The male driver refused to stop, and a chase began. CHP officers eventually stopped the vehicle with spike strips on Highway 89. The driver got out of the car, holding his female passenger hostage at gunpoint, and walked away. Fearing for the safety and lives of the hostage and people inside the home where he was headed shot and killed him.