Police Brutality / Individual record
Freddie Blue
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Freddie Blue in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-07-10 in Covington, GA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-211
- Incident date
- July 10, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Covington, GA
- Agency
- Newton County Sheriff's Office
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 20
What happened
Freddie Blue, 20, was killed by Newton County sheriff's deputies near Covington, Georgia, on July 10, 2015. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution identified Blue and documented a deputy-involved shooting under investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The GBI said its findings would be provided to the district attorney for review. The local record confirms his death, his age, and the involvement of law enforcement, but the material reviewed does not establish the detailed sequence immediately before shots were fired. An independent reconstruction or final decision regarding criminal liability was not located, so those facts should not be invented or assumed.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 630
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 643
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