Police Brutality / Individual record
Demetrius Bryant
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Demetrius Bryant in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-11-17 in Cayce, SC. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-306
- Incident date
- November 17, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Cayce, SC
- Agency
- Cayce Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 21
What happened
Demetrius Bryant was fatally shot in a police encounter in Cayce, South Carolina, on November 17, 2015, according to The Washington Post's national fatal-shooting database. That evidence establishes the indexed incident but does not resolve the initial reason for police contact, whether a firearm or other weapon was recovered, or whether the shooting was investigated by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. A reliable narrative of the encounter requires contemporaneous reporting and investigation documents rather than inference from the fatality dataset. This entry records the death and its location without claiming a final legal finding that has not been independently verified.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1011
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 921
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