Police Brutality / Individual record
Frederick Farmer
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Frederick Farmer in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-07-13 in Stone Mountain, GA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-213
- Incident date
- July 13, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Stone Mountain, GA
- Agency
- DeKalb County Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 20
What happened
Frederick Farmer was killed by DeKalb County police near the Marquis Pointe Apartments in Stone Mountain, Georgia, on July 12, 2015. Residents had reported repeated gunfire into an apartment building. Responding officers said a man fired at them during a return visit to the complex, wounding Officer Chester Lamb five times. Lamb returned fire and the suspect, later identified by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation as Farmer, died at the scene. GBI investigators assumed responsibility for reviewing the shooting. The documented injury to Lamb and reported exchange of gunfire are critical context. A later final independent legal disposition was not established by the contemporary reports examined.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 629
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 329
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