Police Brutality / Individual record
Jeffrey Adkins
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Jeffrey Adkins in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-04-29 in Emporia, VA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-167
- Incident date
- April 29, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Emporia, VA
- Agency
- Virginia State Police; Greensville County Sheriff's Office
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 53
What happened
Jeffrey Adkins, 53, was killed during a confrontation with law enforcement at his home near Emporia, Virginia, in late April 2015. Reporting summarized by The Guardian's police-killings project places Greensville County sheriff's deputies and Virginia State Police at the incident. Officers had arrived to serve a warrant and described Adkins as visibly agitated and holding a sawed-off shotgun. According to the law-enforcement version reproduced in the dataset, officers attempted to talk to him, and the encounter escalated after he reportedly fired at them. Those claims are police accounts rather than findings by an independent tribunal. The reviewed published material establishes the death and reported confrontation, but does not establish a final public criminal, internal-affairs, or civil judgment about the shooting.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 422
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 448;449
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