Police Brutality / Individual record
Kevin Allen
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Kevin Allen in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-05-29 in Lyndhurst, NJ. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-187
- Incident date
- May 29, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Lyndhurst, NJ
- Agency
- Lyndhurst Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 36
What happened
Kevin Allen, 36, was killed by Lyndhurst police inside the town's public library in New Jersey on May 29, 2015. Police said they recognized Allen as someone wanted on a contempt-of-court matter related to a work-release program. Officers followed him inside the library and confronted him on the upper floor. Chief James O'Connor said Allen tried to flee, became violent, and produced a knife before officers shot him. Library patrons, including a child, were reportedly present; the building was evacuated. Bergen County prosecutors investigated the shooting. Contemporary reports document the officers' account, witness concerns, and the traumatic public setting, but the reviewed sources do not establish a later conviction or final civil judgment concerning the officers' actions.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 497
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- knife
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 523
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