Police Brutality / Individual record
Tremaine Dantzler
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Tremaine Dantzler in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-07-07 in Atlantic City, NJ. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-207
- Incident date
- July 7, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Atlantic City, NJ
- Agency
- Atlantic City Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 37
What happened
Tremaine Dantzler, 37, was shot and killed by an Atlantic City police officer on July 7, 2015, near a grocery store on North Pennsylvania Avenue in New Jersey. Fatal Encounters identifies the shooting and reports that Dantzler had stabbed a store clerk before trying to flee. According to the source account, he held a knife and ignored commands to put it down as an officer confronted him; the officer then fired. The case appears in New Jersey's fatal-encounters record, whose methodology makes clear that inclusion is not itself a finding of police misconduct. A contemporary news story cited by the dataset reports that authorities later cleared the officer in the shooting. Because the detailed chronology comes largely from official statements collected in a third-party dataset, that account should be attributed and distinguished from any independently tested findings.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 616
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- knife
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- Agency IDs (source)
- 636
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