Police killings
2013-2020

Scott M. Murphy

Male, White

Date of the incident: 7/19/2013

Latrobe, Westmoreland, PA
400 Lloyd Avenue

Family and friends described Murphy as depressed and addicted to drugs after the passing of his wife of 21 years. He was the prime suspect in the afternoon robbery of hundreds of Oxycontin pills from a local drug store. Local police attempted to arrest him at his house around 7 p.m., starting a 17-hour armed standoff that left Murphy shot to death and a state trooper seriously wounded from a gunshot to the eye.