Police Brutality / Individual record
Tyrone Ryerson Lawrence
Tyrone Ryerson Lawrence died in a police shooting in Milwaukee on March 5, 2015.
- Record ID
- PB-118
- Incident date
- March 5, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Milwaukee, WI
- Agency
- Milwaukee Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 45
What happened
Tyrone Ryerson Lawrence was killed by police in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on March 5, 2015 according to the Washington Post Fatal Force index. While the database documents the fatal incident, its coding is not a substitute for investigative documents, witness accounts or a careful examination of the circumstances that brought officers into contact with Lawrence. Case-specific reporting identified in this pass was too limited to reliably reconstruct the use of force minute by minute. Key unanswered questions include the nature of the call or stop, whether Lawrence was experiencing a crisis, whether others witnessed the encounter and what the district attorney ultimately concluded. Until those materials are independently obtained, police allegations should not be recast as established facts.
Investigation & findings
The final legal or investigative outcome remains unverified in the reviewed sources.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 200
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- knife
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 253
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