Police Brutality / Individual record
Kevin Brunson
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Kevin Brunson in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-10-26 in Frederick, MD. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-289
- Incident date
- October 26, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Frederick, MD
- Agency
- Maryland State Police; Frederick Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 45
What happened
Kevin Brunson was killed in a Frederick, Maryland, police shooting on October 26, 2015, according to The Washington Post's Fatal Force record. The available database documentation confirms the incident date and jurisdiction, but offers limited evidence of what precipitated the confrontation or the sequence of warnings and shots. An account asserting a particular threat, weapon or final charging decision without original records would misrepresent the state of the available evidence. This entry therefore records the fatal police shooting while leaving the initiating incident, involved officers, eyewitness accounts, forensic findings and any later legal disposition for case-specific verification.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 954
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- knife
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 736;881
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