Police Brutality / Individual record
Dalton Branch
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Dalton Branch in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-05-26 in Queens, NY. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-184
- Incident date
- May 26, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Queens, NY
- Agency
- New York Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 51
What happened
Dalton Branch, 51, was shot and killed by New York City police in East New York, Brooklyn, on May 26, 2015. Earlier that morning, authorities suspected Branch of killing Patsy Mohammed in the parking lot of Resorts World Casino in Queens and shooting at another man there. Police located a white vehicle associated with the suspect near Stanley and Pennsylvania Avenues at approximately 6 a.m. Officers fired during the subsequent encounter; Branch was taken to Brookdale University Hospital and pronounced dead. ABC7 reported investigators' allegations about phone calls and threatening messages made after the casino shooting. Those allegations are attributed to law enforcement, and the reviewed reporting does not independently establish every detail of the final police confrontation.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 477
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 298
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