Police Brutality / Individual record
Tyrie Cuyler
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Tyrie Cuyler in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-10-27 in Savannah, GA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-291
- Incident date
- October 27, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Savannah, GA
- Agency
- Savannah Chatham Metropolitan Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 25
What happened
Tyrie Cuyler was fatally shot by police in Savannah, Georgia, on October 27, 2015. The Washington Post's national record confirms his name, date and city but does not independently supply a fully verified account of the incident or its eventual legal disposition. To establish a trustworthy narrative, the underlying call for service, law-enforcement agency, witness statements and any Georgia Bureau of Investigation or prosecutor documents must be examined. Without those specific documents, this entry does not assign a weapon, allege an attack on police or claim that a grand jury found the shooting justified. The uncertainty reflects incomplete public documentation, not uncertainty that the recorded death occurred.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 960
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 887
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