Police Brutality / Individual record
Thomas Allen Jr.
Thomas Allen Jr. was fatally shot by police in the St. Louis area on February 28, 2015; the case remains sparsely documented in readily available reporting.
- Record ID
- PB-114
- Incident date
- February 28, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- St Louis, MO
- Agency
- Wellston Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 34
What happened
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Thomas Allen Jr. as killed in a police shooting in the St. Louis, Missouri area on February 28, 2015. The compilation provides a name, place and shooting date, but does not itself answer why officers initially encountered him, how the confrontation escalated or whether an independent witness observed the shooting. No adequately corroborated long-form account of Allen's final moments was identified in this pass. Rather than translate database shorthand into invented behavior or treat an agency description as proven fact, the record identifies the information gap. The critical next sources would be the department's incident and investigative files, medical examiner records, any prosecutor's decision and statements by family or witnesses.
Investigation & findings
Final investigative and legal outcome not verified. Additional independent archival reporting required.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 188
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- unarmed
- Flee status (source)
- car
- Agency IDs (source)
- 167
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