Police killings
2013-2020

Andrew James Moore

Male, White

Date of the incident: 11/2/2018

Charleston, Kanawha, WV
1100 Griffin Dr

Officers responded to the Orchard Manor housing complex after a call to Metro 9-1-1 just before 3 p.m., police said. The person who called 9-1-1 was a relative of a woman who reported Moore had taken the woman's child and ran into the woods while threatening to harm the child. The relative told dispatchers there possibly were weapons involved. When officers arrived, Moore placed a knife to the woman's neck and was threatening to hurt her, and and he allegedly refused to comply with officers' commands, and he was shot and killed.