Police Brutality / Individual record
Jeremy McDole
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Jeremy McDole in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-09-23 in Wilmington, DE. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-266
- Incident date
- September 23, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Wilmington, DE
- Agency
- Wilmington Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 28
What happened
Jeremy McDole, 28, a paraplegic man who used a wheelchair, was fatally shot by four Wilmington, Delaware, police officers on September 23, 2015, after a 911 call reported a man with a handgun who may have shot himself. A video of the encounter fueled concern that officers escalated the confrontation rather than providing medical help. State investigators found serious deficiencies in department use-of-force training and responses to people with disabilities and mental-health needs. The Delaware and federal criminal reviews did not produce charges; federal prosecutors said the evidence was insufficient to prove willful excessive force. McDole's family and Wilmington reached a $1.5 million civil settlement in 2016, without admission of wrongdoing.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 862
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 812
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