Police Brutality / Individual record
Damien A. Harrell
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Damien A. Harrell in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-06-24 in York County, VA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-199
- Incident date
- June 24, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- York County, VA
- Agency
- York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 26
What happened
Damien Alexander Harrell, 26, was shot by a York-Poquoson sheriff's deputy during a June 24, 2015, vehicle-crash investigation on Fort Eustis Boulevard in York County, Virginia. Sheriff Danny Diggs said Harrell displayed a handgun during a confrontation and the deputy fired six rounds, striking Harrell twice. Harrell died at Mary Immaculate Hospital. A body camera reportedly captured the event, and the sheriff publicly defended the deputy. The account available in contemporaneous reporting is principally from law enforcement; a final independent criminal or civil finding about the shooting was not confirmed in the reviewed material.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 569
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 599
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