Police Brutality / Individual record
Jeffery McCallum
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Jeffery McCallum in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-10-04 in Chicago, IL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-272
- Incident date
- October 4, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Chicago, IL
- Agency
- Chicago Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 31
What happened
Jeffery McCallum, 31, was fatally shot by Chicago police on October 4, 2015, after officers responded to gunfire at a home in North Lawndale. Authorities said officers forced entry after hearing that someone inside had been shot. Police claimed McCallum held a handgun, disregarded repeated directions to drop it, and pointed it at officers, who fired. Officers found a woman inside who had sustained gunshot and stab wounds; she survived and was hospitalized in serious condition. Chicago's civilian oversight agency investigated, logging the case as 1077428 and publishing records and the final report. The violent circumstances reported at the residence and the investigative documents are part of the public record, but the claims immediately preceding police gunfire must be attributed to investigators.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 891
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 265
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