Police Brutality / Individual record
Anthony Gomez
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Anthony Gomez in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-05-20 in Lancaster, PA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-177
- Incident date
- May 20, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Lancaster, PA
- Agency
- Lancaster City Bureau of Police
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 29
What happened
Anthony Gomez, 29, was shot and killed by a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, officer on May 20, 2015, during an attempt to serve a warrant at an apartment on East Chestnut Street. Police said officers were investigating earlier allegations of assault and threats. Authorities reported that one officer first used a less-lethal weapon, then was wounded by gunfire from Gomez; another officer returned fire, fatally striking him. Family members identified Gomez in local reporting. The case was initially investigated as an officer-involved shooting as well as a serious assault on a responding officer. The available news report records authorities' immediate account, not an independently adjudicated reconstruction of every moment. No specific subsequent conviction of an officer or civil-case outcome was confirmed in the reviewed reporting.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 466
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 500
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