Police Brutality / Individual record
Jason Day
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Jason Day in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-10-12 in Lawton, OK. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-276
- Incident date
- October 12, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Lawton, OK
- Agency
- Lawton Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 40
What happened
Jason Day, 40, was killed by a Lawton, Oklahoma, police officer after calls about a person displaying a gun at motorists on October 12, 2015. Lawton Police Chief James Smith said officers arrived and had a brief encounter with Day before a shot was fired. Day was taken to a hospital and died. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation independently opened a review and said it would submit its findings to the district attorney; the officer was placed on paid leave. The available Associated Press account does not establish Day's precise movements or a final charging decision. The original reports of gun-pointing are the callers' and department's allegations, rather than proven findings about every moment of the encounter.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 908
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 853
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