Police Brutality / Individual record
Terry Garnett Jr.
Terry Garnett Jr. was killed by police in Elkton, Maryland on March 11, 2015.
- Record ID
- PB-127
- Incident date
- March 11, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Elkton, MD
- Agency
- Cecil County Sheriff's Office
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 37
What happened
The national Fatal Force index records Terry Garnett Jr.'s death in a police shooting in Elkton, Maryland on March 11, 2015. The presently located sources do not permit a sufficiently detailed independent reconstruction of the event, including what brought officers to the scene and whether Garnett posed an immediate threat. Nor do they document a final decision concerning officer culpability. Those uncertainties are important: a recorded fatal police shooting is not evidence that every part of an officer's account has been corroborated. This entry preserves Garnett's identity, place and death in the national record while directing further attention to Cecil County reporting, Maryland investigative files and any surviving family statements.
Investigation & findings
Final review and disposition require further archival verification.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 248
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 279
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