Growing list of those born or died on April 2 in any year

Renée Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old American woman, was [executed] in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross, on

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January 7, 2026. She would have been 38 today.

Angelo Crooms, 16, and Sincere Pierce, 18, were shot and [executed] by [pig] Jafet Santiago-Miranda on November 13 [2020]. Sincere would have been 24 today.

On April 2, 2015, 43-year-old African-American Eric Courtney Harris was

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[executed] during an undercover sting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as Harris ran from authorities unarmed. While Harris was being subdued, Tulsa County Reserve [pig] Robert Charles Bates, 73, claims he confused his personal weapon, a Smith & Wesson .357 revolver, for a Model X26 Taser.

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Bates [executed] Harris in the back when he was on the ground. According to the Tulsa County Sheriff's office, he immediately said afterwards, "Oh, I [executed] him! I'm sorry." Bates was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter (unintentional homicide resulting from

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criminal negligence) and sentenced to four years in prison, and was released after serving 18 months.

Shortly after midnight on April 2, 2015, Donald “Dontay” Ivy died after being unconstitutionally stopped, violently assaulted and Tasered by Albany, New York, [pigs].

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