Police Brutality / Individual record
Rolly Thomas
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Rolly Thomas in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-10-24 in Cape Coral, FL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-288
- Incident date
- October 24, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Cape Coral, FL
- Agency
- Cape Coral Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 34
What happened
Rolly Thomas, 34, was shot and killed by Cape Coral police on October 24, 2015, after a domestic-violence complaint involving the home of his estranged partner, Marsha Alexander. Police said an active no-contact injunction barred him from visiting. Responding officers first arrived after Thomas left, then returned to another domestic disturbance call. In June 2016, the department announced that the State Attorney's Office and internal review had found the involved officer's use of deadly force justified. The publicly documented investigation provides the department's account and review outcome; it does not erase the significance of how officers handled the domestic-violence response or make every initial report an independently tested fact.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 948
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1188
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