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.

Christopher Nelms, age 30

Fatally shot on March 17, 2016 in Houston, Texas.

Shot by police. Nelms was one of five men engaged in an armed robbery of a furniture store.

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