Every day in the U.S. about 108 people are shot dead in one way or another. At GunMemorial.org we try to post pages for all of these people even though the circumstances of their deaths can be drastically different.

John Birkeland, age 52

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Fatally shot on February 10, 2016 in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Shot by police after he stabbed a police dog.

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