Police Brutality / Individual record
Deaunte Lamar Bell
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Deaunte Lamar Bell in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-10-29 in Columbus, OH. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-294
- Incident date
- October 29, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Columbus, OH
- Agency
- Columbus Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 25
What happened
Deaunte Lamar Bell was shot and killed by police in Columbus, Ohio, on October 29, 2015. The Washington Post's national fatal-shooting database records his name, date and location. Its inclusion alone is not enough to determine whether Bell posed a threat, whether a less-lethal intervention occurred, or what departmental and prosecutor reviews concluded. Rather than treating the source database as an eyewitness account, this entry identifies the recorded death and the material still needing independent verification: dispatch records, officer statements, physical evidence, any video, and the disposition of the shooting investigation. No unsupported finding of misconduct or justification is asserted.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 964
- 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
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset