Police Brutality / Individual record
Thaddeus Faison
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Thaddeus Faison in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-08-22 in Troy, NY. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-247
- Incident date
- August 22, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Troy, NY
- Agency
- Troy Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 39
What happened
Thaddeus Faison, 39, died after exchanging gunfire with Troy police officers in the Lansingburgh area of New York on August 22, 2015. Officers Joshua Comitale and Chad Klein were wounded in the confrontation; Faison was shot repeatedly and died after transport to St. Mary's Hospital. Relatives and friends spoke about his life and questioned the circumstances as police investigated the shootout. A Rensselaer County grand jury later declined to indict an involved officer in November 2015. The officers' injuries, documented armed confrontation, and later grand-jury finding are material context; declining charges does not turn every initial claim about the sequence of events into independently proven fact.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 763
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- Agency IDs (source)
- 738
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