Police killings
2013-2020

Abraham Ortiz

Male, Hispanic

Date of the incident: 11/4/2016

Palm Springs, Riverside, CA
366 S. Palm Canyon Drive

Police received multiple calls about a man who was acting erratically, shouting homophobic and racial slurs, urinating in public and exposing himself to passersby. One caller said the man was possibly armed. After two uniformed officers found the man in the parking lot of Rite Aid there was a struggle that went to the ground, and Ortiz was shot and killed.