Police Brutality / Individual record
Yonas Alehegne
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Yonas Alehegne in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-08-27 in Oakland, CA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-251
- Incident date
- August 27, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Oakland, CA
- Agency
- Oakland Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 30
What happened
Yonas Alehegne, 30, was shot and killed by Oakland officer Jennifer Farrell on August 27, 2015, near MacArthur Boulevard and Van Buren Avenue. Police said Alehegne repeatedly struck Farrell with a metal chain, injuring her head, before she fired her weapon. The officer was hospitalized for treatment. Oakland's official officer-involved-shooting records list the encounter at the 200 block of MacArthur Boulevard. News reporting reviewed Alehegne's history, but past allegations do not decide the legality of force on the day he was killed. The reported assault on the officer is central to the incident, while a final separate judicial finding about the officer's conduct was not confirmed.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 782
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- other
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 558
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