Anthony Lowe Jr.

Anthony Lowe Jr., 36, a double amputee who used a wheelchair, was shot roughly 10 times and killed by two Huntington Park, California police officers on January 26, 2023, moments after he moved away from his wheelchair while holding a knife. Officers had responded to a report that Lowe stabbed a man in the chest; police said he ignored commands to drop the knife and threatened to throw it after Tasers failed to stop him. Cellphone video showed him on the sidewalk moving away from the wheelchair as officers approached. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman's office announced in December 2025, nearly three years after the shooting, that it would not file charges, concluding in a 28-page report that Lowe “despite his physical limitations, presented an imminent deadly threat.” No one has ever been charged in Lowe's death.

Huntington Park, CA · Los Angeles County

• 2023: Case opens — victim reported missing or found.
• Documented milestones (renewed investigation, media coverage, family advocacy) to be added as sourced.
• Present: case remains unresolved. No named suspect has been convicted.

• The stabbing report, the confrontation, and the shooting, per the Los Angeles County District Attorney's 28-page investigative report and surveillance video cited in it.
• Surveillance video showed Lowe stab a man in the chest, causing a collapsed lung and two broken ribs, in the block before police encountered him.
• Officers Paul Munoz and Joshua Volasgis fired approximately 10 rounds at Lowe after Tasers failed to stop him and he refused to drop a roughly 10-inch butcher's knife, per the DA's report.
• The District Attorney's Office, after an investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reviewing surveillance video, 911 recordings, witness interviews, and medical records, announced on December 30, 2025 that it would not file charges, concluding the officers reasonably believed deadly force was necessary.
• The DA's report separately acknowledged Lowe may have been experiencing a mental health crisis, describing him as “possibly suicidal,” while stating that did not change the legal analysis of the officers' actions.
• Lowe's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit; their attorney publicly questioned the DA's seriousness about police accountability, noting the same office had separately declined to charge officers in another high-profile 2023 shooting, that of Christopher Deandre Mitchell.

• Whether Lowe's physical limitations meaningfully changed the level of threat he could actually pose in the moments before the shooting, as his family's attorney argued given his inability to move on his own without the wheelchair he had left behind, was addressed in the DA's report but never tested at any criminal trial since none was brought.
• The specific distance between Lowe and the officers at the moment they opened fire, and whether that distance left room for less-lethal alternatives beyond the Tasers already attempted, has not been made fully clear in public reporting.
• Why the District Attorney's charging decision took nearly three years to reach has not been explained beyond the office's general description of a thorough investigation.

• Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office — official statement declining to file charges
• Police1 — “Calif. officers won't face charges in 2023 fatal OIS of knife-wielding amputee, D.A. says”
• ABC7 Los Angeles — “Huntington Park police officers who shot double amputee holding knife will not face charges, prosecutors say”
• Project Cold Case
• Murder Accountability Project
• NamUs