A federal grand jury indicted Thomas Earl Steffens, 72, on August 28 on five counts of attempted murder of a federal officer after he opened fire on United States Marshals attempting to arrest him in Vero Beach, Florida, wounding one deputy in the chest.

A Las Vegas Metro officer was shot responding to a domestic barricade call on August 10, marking the second LVMPD officer casualty in eight days and the 10th officer-involved shooting in the jurisdiction this year.

Two armed suspects opened fire on ATF agents conducting a firearms enforcement operation at a Nashville storage facility on August 6 and were killed; no agents were reported injured.

A GEO Group contractor employee shot an anti-ICE protester in a residential street adjacent to the Aurora detention facility on July 16, resulting in an attempted murder arrest and a likely surge in protest activity at the site.

The Memphis federal crime task force fatally shot a second person in four days while serving a drug warrant at a hotel, bringing the unit's death toll to four since September 2025; the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is independently reviewing both recent incidents.