Police Brutality / Individual record
Darrin Langford
Darrin Langford, 32, was shot and killed by Rock Island, Illinois police on April 2, 2015.
- Record ID
- PB-143
- Incident date
- April 2, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Rock Island, IL
- Agency
- Rock Island Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 32
What happened
On April 2, 2015, Darrin Langford died in a police shooting around 12th Avenue and Glenhurst Court in Rock Island, Illinois. A compiled police-killings database records Langford as unarmed, a detail requiring follow-up in local agency reports and contemporaneous testimony. Available material in this pass did not provide a complete independent account of what preceded the shooting, officers' warnings or the medical response. Without those materials it would be inappropriate to supply a supposed sequence of aggression, a motive or a settled justification. The essential known context is that a 32-year-old man lost his life to police gunfire and is recorded by a national database as having no weapon. The incident deserves further archival investigation and a search for his family's public statements.
Investigation & findings
The case's final investigative and litigation outcome remains unverified; the recorded 'unarmed' classification originates in a secondary compilation.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 286
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- Agency IDs (source)
- 40
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