Police Brutality / Individual record
Tyrone Holman
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Tyrone Holman in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-09-09 in Kansas City, MO. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-259
- Incident date
- September 9, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Kansas City, MO
- Agency
- Kansas City Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 37
What happened
Tyrone L. Holman, 37, was shot and killed by Kansas City police after an approximately 12-hour standoff at a condemned house on Monroe Avenue on September 9, 2015. Deputies had arrived to carry out an eviction and reported seeing him with a gun. Police evacuated nearby homes as negotiators worked to secure his surrender. Officers said he repeatedly threatened to shoot them and detonate explosives, then emerged holding what appeared to be a grenade; the device was reportedly not live. His family said Holman had schizophrenia and took medication for it, raising the significance of the mental-health response. The account comes from contemporaneous reporting and the department's statements; it does not establish that every threat was independently verified.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 815
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- other;gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 201
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