Police Brutality / Individual record
Dion Lamont Ramirez
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Dion Lamont Ramirez in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-10-19 in Los Angeles, CA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-283
- Incident date
- October 19, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
- Agency
- Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 53
What happened
Dion Lamont Ramirez was fatally shot by Los Angeles police on October 19, 2015. The Washington Post's Fatal Force database identifies the location and date, but does not alone provide a complete reconstruction of the police encounter. Available database fields establish that officers used deadly gunfire; they do not settle what prompted the contact, whether warnings were given, whether a weapon was recovered or whether an independent prosecutor reached a later finding. Without case-specific corroboration, a fuller account would risk attributing unverified acts to Ramirez or the officers. His death is documented here without treating missing evidence as proof either of justified or unlawful force.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 934
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 20
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset