Police Brutality / Individual record
Cedrick Lamont Bishop
Cedrick Lamont Bishop was fatally shot in Cocoa, Florida, on March 9, 2015 during an on-duty law-enforcement encounter.
- Record ID
- PB-124
- Incident date
- March 9, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Cocoa, FL
- Agency
- Brevard County Sheriff's Office; Cocoa Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 30
What happened
Cedrick Lamont Bishop was killed by police in the Cocoa, Florida area on March 9, 2015. His name appears in the Washington Post's national compilation of fatal on-duty shootings. The record establishes the reported date, locality and police involvement, but lacks the fuller human story: why police approached Bishop, who witnessed the shooting, what the officers reported and whether the family's account differed. No sufficiently corroborated narrative or final prosecutor's findings were identified during this pass. The responsible approach is to leave those important questions unresolved while preserving his name and the documented fatal incident. Brevard County agency records and local 2015 news archives warrant additional research.
Investigation & findings
Individual charging, disciplinary and civil-case outcome not independently verified.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 276
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 28;29
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