Police Brutality / Individual record
Hashim Hanif Ibn Abdul-Rasheed
Hashim Hanif Ibn Abdul-Rasheed, 41, was fatally shot by airport police at Port Columbus on January 7, 2015 after an encounter in a restricted terminal area.
- Record ID
- PB-079
- Incident date
- January 7, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Columbus, OH
- Agency
- Columbus Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 41
What happened
Airport and Columbus police reported investigating a suspicious vehicle left in a restricted area while airline staff refused to sell Abdul-Rasheed a ticket because of identification questions. Police said he was holding or wielding a knife when officers confronted and fatally shot him. Contemporary reporting described a history of serious mental illness and prior court-ordered psychiatric treatment. His case illustrates the importance of separating the immediate claim about a weapon from questions of crisis recognition and whether a coordinated mental-health response might have prevented the death.
Investigation & findings
The Columbus police statement described an ongoing multi-agency investigation. The report does not provide a final independent finding on the necessity of lethal force.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 22
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- knife
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 90
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset
- Fatal Force methodology and data limitationsThe Washington Post · Methodology