Police Brutality / Individual record
Isiah Hampton
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Isiah Hampton in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-06-10 in Bronx, NY. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-191
- Incident date
- June 10, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Bronx, NY
- Agency
- New York Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 19
What happened
Nineteen-year-old Isiah Hampton was killed by New York City police on June 10, 2015, during a response to a reported domestic-violence incident on Valentine Avenue in the Bronx. Police said Hampton held his former girlfriend at gunpoint when officers entered the apartment. Two responding officers discharged approximately 25 shots in the confrontation, and Hampton died after being transported to St. Barnabas Hospital. The former girlfriend was also wounded; investigators said they were examining whether an officer's gunfire had struck her. Contemporary reporting documents the police allegations and the significant number of shots fired, but the reviewed article does not establish the ultimate ballistics finding or any later disciplinary or court disposition. Those investigative uncertainties should remain explicit rather than be replaced by an assumed outcome.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 540
- 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