Police Brutality / Individual record
Theodore Johnson
Theodore Johnson was shot and killed during an encounter with police in Cleveland, Ohio on March 10, 2015.
- Record ID
- PB-126
- Incident date
- March 10, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Cleveland, OH
- Agency
- Cleveland Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 64
What happened
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database lists Theodore Johnson as a person shot and killed by on-duty police in Cleveland, Ohio on March 10, 2015. This evidence establishes his inclusion in the national database but does not establish an officer's legal justification or describe the incident in human detail. A sufficiently reliable independent account of Johnson's final encounter, including the origin of the police contact, witnesses and the investigation, was not established during the present pass. Cleveland-area 2015 contemporaneous reporting and the applicable county prosecutor's documents need to be checked before attributing any alleged act to Johnson. His death should remain documented without invented facts or unsupported conclusions.
Investigation & findings
No final independent investigation, charging decision or civil disposition confirmed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 206
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 55
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