Police Brutality / Individual record
Deion Fludd
Seventeen-year-old Deion Fludd was severely injured after fleeing NYPD officers into a Brooklyn subway tunnel on May 5, 2013 and died July 12 following paralysis.
- Record ID
- PB-063
- Incident date
- May 5, 2013
- Date of death
- July 12, 2013
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- New York, NY
- Category
- Death after disputed subway police encounter
What happened
At Brooklyn's Rockaway Avenue subway station on May 5, 2013, Deion Fludd and his girlfriend were confronted by officers over an alleged fare-evasion incident. He fled into a subway tunnel. Police maintained a train struck him; Deion and his family alleged officers assaulted him, causing devastating spinal and head injuries. He was left quadriplegic and received prolonged hospital care before his July 12 death. His mother Karen Fludd filed a lawsuit alleging excessive force, battery, wrongful death and other claims. In a 2021 appellate opinion, a New York court discussed the procedural disposition of several claims without conclusively resolving the contested physical cause of his injuries.
Investigation & findings
CRITICAL DATE CORRECTION: police encounter was May 5, 2013, and death was July 12, 2013. The train-impact explanation and the family's assault allegations remain contested. A 2021 New York appellate decision addressed summary-judgment issues.
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- Historical source-derived record, pre-2015
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Additional source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Published historical compilation of Black people killed in police custody (1999–2014)SAGE journal / cited NAACP LDF memorial listing · 2016 · Secondary scholarly source