Police Brutality / Individual record
Kaleb Alexander
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Kaleb Alexander in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-10-15 in Columbus, OH. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-278
- Incident date
- October 15, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Columbus, OH
- Agency
- Columbus Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 25
What happened
Kaleb Alexander, 25, was killed by Columbus, Ohio, SWAT Officer Barry Kirby outside a Noe Bixby Road convenience store on October 15, 2015. Police said they stationed officers near the business following two recent robberies and confronted Alexander while he was allegedly attempting a third. Officers said Alexander had a weapon and disregarded commands to put it down; Kirby fired the fatal shot. A Franklin County grand jury declined to indict the officer, and in January 2017 the Columbus firearms review board found the shooting within police policy. Those are documented decisions on criminal charging and departmental policy, though they do not require treating every initial police assertion as independently adjudicated.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 917
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 90
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