Police Brutality / Individual record
Jermonte Fletcher
Jermonte Fletcher, 33, was shot and killed during a January 27, 2015 Columbus, Ohio operation involving federal marshals and other law-enforcement agencies.
- Record ID
- PB-093
- Incident date
- January 27, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Columbus, OH
- Agency
- U.S. Marshals Service
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 33
What happened
Law-enforcement officers located Jermonte Fletcher inside a house on Buffalo Court on Columbus's south side on January 27, 2015. Fletcher had been named in a 2013 federal drug-trafficking indictment and was sought by authorities. Columbus police, Ohio Highway Patrol personnel and U.S. Marshals participated in the operation. Marshals said Fletcher fired at officers before they shot him inside the residence. A later Drug Enforcement Administration account likewise characterized the incident as a shootout. Reporting available in this pass comes predominantly from law-enforcement statements rather than a complete independent reconstruction, and it does not establish that a court reviewed every use-of-force decision. Fletcher was killed before the criminal accusations against him could be adjudicated at trial.
Investigation & findings
Federal authorities reported Fletcher died during the arrest operation. The indictment was pending when he was killed; the searched material does not establish a criminal case against any shooting officer.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 350
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 3084
Last reviewed: October 25, 2026
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Additional 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