Police Brutality / Individual record
Eugene McSwain
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Eugene McSwain in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-07-10 in Chicago, IL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-210
- Incident date
- July 10, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Chicago, IL
- Agency
- Chicago Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 25
What happened
Eugene McSwain, 26, was shot and killed by Chicago police on July 10, 2015, during a vehicle stop on the South Side. An officer claimed McSwain reached below the passenger seat of a truck, drew a handgun and threatened him. CBS Chicago subsequently reported that McSwain was struck in the back of his head, leading his family and attorney to question the official version. McSwain's father brought civil litigation and sought more evidence. Chicago's civilian oversight office published its investigative records under case 1076081. The wound evidence and disputed accounts require scrutiny; an officer's criminal conviction was not established in the reviewed reports.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1152
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 265
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