Police Brutality / Individual record
Deviere Ernel Ransom
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Deviere Ernel Ransom in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-08-19 in Bloomfield Township, MI. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-245
- Incident date
- August 19, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Bloomfield Township, MI
- Agency
- Oakland County Sheriff's Office; Bloomfield Hills Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 24
What happened
Deviere Ernel Ransom appears in The Washington Post's fatal police shooting dataset for an encounter in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, on August 19, 2015. This national record documents that Ransom was killed during an on-duty police shooting and supplies a date and jurisdiction. It does not, without a corroborating local investigative record, establish the initiating call, whether the person had a weapon, the sequence of officer commands or the legal outcome. These questions require reporting or agency documents particular to the case. A dataset designation should never be converted into an invented account of a confrontation or an assumption about the officers' conduct.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 752
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- car
- Agency IDs (source)
- 728;727
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset