Police Brutality / Individual record
Dedrick Marshall
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Dedrick Marshall in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-05-08 in Harvey, LA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-171
- Incident date
- May 8, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Harvey, LA
- Agency
- Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 48
What happened
Dedrick Marshall, 48, was killed by a Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputy outside his Harvey, Louisiana, home on May 8, 2015. Deputies were investigating a reported confrontation at a grocery store involving Marshall and people he knew. The sheriff's office said Marshall had threatened the group with a weapon and later emerged from his residence with a pistol, pointing it toward a deputy, who fired one fatal shot. Marshall's relatives disputed the claim that he would have aimed a weapon at police and publicly demanded answers about the shooting. Local reporting documented both the department's account and the family's objections. A police report is not an independently established finding; the reviewed sources do not substantiate a later final criminal charge against the deputy.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 451
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 88
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