Police Brutality / Individual record
Deng Manyoun
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Deng Manyoun in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-06-13 in Louisville, KY. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-194
- Incident date
- June 13, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Louisville, KY
- Agency
- Louisville Metro Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 35
What happened
Deng Manyoun, 35, a Sudanese refugee living in Louisville, Kentucky, was shot and killed by Louisville Metro Police Officer Nathan Blanford on June 13, 2015, near Fourth and Oak Streets. Blanford was investigating an assault complaint when he encountered Manyoun, who was holding a long metal flagpole. Surveillance video released by police showed a confrontation in which Manyoun swung the pole toward the officer, who fired twice. Community members asked whether the encounter could have been handled differently and raised questions about police responses involving mental-health crises. Manyoun was taken to University Hospital and died. Police placed the officer on administrative leave during the investigation; the reporting reviewed here does not establish a final criminal adjudication.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 548
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- blunt_object
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 583
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