Charlene Fears

On August 1, 2012, Buffalo police officers Robert Yeates and John Michael Mulderig were on routine patrol. At 4:00 p.m. they were flagged down in front of the home of Charlene Fears, 37, who had just stabbed her grandson. Fears was covered in blood and wielding butcher knives in both hands. She refused to drop her weapons after repeated requests from the officers, forcing Officer Yeates, a 20 year veteran on the force, to shoot.

Both Fears and her four year old grandson, Roderick Geiger III, were pronounced dead at a local hospital. A good friend of Fears said the New York woman loved her grandson dearly but that she was bi-polar and had not been taking her medicine.