Police Brutality / Individual record
Kenneth Dothard
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Kenneth Dothard in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-05-28 in Carrollton, GA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-186
- Incident date
- May 28, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Carrollton, GA
- Agency
- Carrollton Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 40
What happened
Kenneth Joel Dothard, 40, was killed by Carrollton Police Corporal Chad Cook near Bankhead Highway in Georgia on May 28, 2015. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation reported that officers responded to a call about a person with a gun near a bank, and Cook spoke with Dothard, who had a handgun in a holster. Audio of the encounter records Cook repeatedly warning him not to draw it. GBI investigators said Dothard moved to withdraw the gun and Cook fired two shots, striking him in the head. A revolver was found near the body. The GBI announced an independent investigation and planned to present its findings to prosecutors. The agency's initial press release is an official investigative account, not evidence of the final prosecutorial disposition.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 493
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 532
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