Police Brutality / Individual record
Carlumandarlo Zaramo
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Carlumandarlo Zaramo in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-12-06 in Richmond Heights, OH. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-318
- Incident date
- December 6, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Richmond Heights, OH
- Agency
- Richmond Heights Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 46
What happened
Carlumandarlo Zaramo, 46, was fatally shot by a Richmond Heights police officer in Ohio on December 6, 2015, during a welfare check requested by his wife. Police said Zaramo had threatened suicide but initially cooperated and agreed to go to a psychiatric hospital. While gathering clothes from an upstairs closet with two officers present, he reportedly retrieved a handgun and shot one officer in the chest. The second officer returned fire and killed him. The injured sergeant survived. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation reviewed the shooting for referral to the county prosecutor. That the officers were responding to a mental-health emergency, and that the situation initially appeared cooperative, are important to understanding how the visit escalated; the gunfire account is drawn from the department's investigation.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1064
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 956
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