Police Brutality / Individual record
Keshawn Dominique Hargrove
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Keshawn Dominique Hargrove in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-08-05 in Richmond, VA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-228
- Incident date
- August 5, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Richmond, VA
- Agency
- Richmond Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 20
What happened
Keshawn Dominique Hargrove, 20, died during an August 5, 2015, foot pursuit in Richmond, Virginia. Police responding to a report of a man with a gun said Hargrove ran near West Cary Street and opened fire as officers pursued him. Officer Ryan Bailey was shot in the arm; Richmond police fired back, killing Hargrove. Police Chief Alfred Durham described the encounter as an armed exchange of gunfire, and local television interviewed witnesses to the shooting. The officer's injury and the department's account are key context, while a final separate adjudication concerning the use of lethal force was not established by the sources reviewed.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 706
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- Agency IDs (source)
- 696
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