Police Brutality / Individual record
Terrance Kellom
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Terrance Kellom in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-04-27 in Detroit, MI. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-164
- Incident date
- April 27, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Detroit, MI
- Agency
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 20
What happened
On April 27, 2015, a multiagency fugitive-apprehension team entered a Detroit home looking for 20-year-old Terrance Kellom. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent assigned to the task force shot him, reportedly ten times, while Kellom's father and sister were inside. Police said Kellom threatened the agent with a hammer. His family disputed that version, saying he had been brought downstairs and shot while kneeling; relatives and reporters also challenged claims that he had fallen through the attic. Civil-rights advocates demanded an independent investigation and reforms to task-force oversight. Kellom's estate and relatives later brought federal civil-rights and wrongful-death litigation involving the federal agent and Detroit officers. Court opinions record the lawsuits but should not be mistaken for a criminal conviction or an adjudication of every allegation.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 405
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- blunt_object
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 428
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