Police killings
2013-2020

Cameron Lupton

Male, White

Date of the incident: 1/28/2014

DeKalb, DeKalb, IL
1020 Quail Run

Lupton was an Afghanistan War veteran with a history of mental illness. Police were in the process of conducting a well-being check on Lupton when they received a call he was attacking his father and step-mother with a knife at their residence. Upon their arrival, one officer tasered Lupton, to no effect, after which the second officer shot and killed him. Lupton's father and step-mother survived the attack.