Police Brutality / Individual record
Tyrone Bass
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Tyrone Bass in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-09-15 in Chalmette, LA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-264
- Incident date
- September 15, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Chalmette, LA
- Agency
- St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 21
What happened
Tyrone Bass, 21, was shot and killed by a St. Bernard Parish sheriff's deputy at St. Bernard Highway and Andres Street in Chalmette, Louisiana, on September 15, 2015. Louisiana State Police said deputies encountered Bass and that he struck one of them in the head with an object. Another responding deputy fired the fatal shots. Later reporting described the object as a railroad spike; the initial account did not identify why officers approached Bass in the first place. The injured deputy was treated at a hospital and released. Louisiana State Police assumed responsibility for the investigation. The police explanation and the unresolved reason for the original approach should both appear in the record.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 830
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- blunt_object
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 786
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