2015 Drug War Killings

A traffic stop for tinted windows turns fatal for a Florida man.

A New Orleans man is killed after shooting it out with police, and a South Carolina is killed during a drug raid at his home.

NYPD cops working a complaint chased a group of teens smoking pot in a building lobby onto the roof. One fell, and now he has died.

A Tulsa drug investigation morphed into a gun sting, then turned fatal when a reserve deputy "inadvertently" shot the suspect with his pistol instead of his Taser.

A Virginia man and a Florida man are the 14th and 15th drug war fatalities of the year.

A Northern California man becomes the year's 13th drug war death after he fled from police, crashed his motorcycle, and was then shot and killed when police said he was going for a weapon.

Another cop "fears for his life," another black man dies.

Putnam County sheriff's deputies were running reverse drug stings on their own citizens, and when one tried to flee, he ended up dead.

Decrim is moving in New Hampshire, Georgia families rally for medical marijuana, Louisianans will rally for Bernard Noble (13 years for two joints), roommates of a Florida man killed in a SWAT pot raid cry "murder," and more.

A 26-year-old Deltona man was shot in the face and killed in a SWAT raid over small-time marijuana sales. Police said he was a threat; his friends dispute that.