Police Brutality / Individual record
Charles Edward Rosemond Sr.
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Charles Edward Rosemond Sr. in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-12-10 in Taylors, SC. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-321
- Incident date
- December 10, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Taylors, SC
- Agency
- Greenville County Sheriff's Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 55
What happened
Charles Edward Rosemond Sr., 56, was killed in his Taylors, South Carolina, apartment on December 10, 2015, after Greenville County sheriff's deputies forced the door while responding to a reported robbery or assault. Officers believed someone inside might be injured. Rosemond, who investigators later learned had himself been the victim of a robbery, reportedly fired at the entrants, wounding Deputy Dave Dempsey in the head. Another deputy fired and Rosemond died from a wound to his leg. The family's lawsuit questioned both the deputies' entry and the medical aid provided after the shooting. Subsequent reporting said the deputies were cleared and the county settled the family's civil claim without admitting liability. Identifying Rosemond as the earlier robbery victim is essential to understanding why he may have perceived the entry as dangerous.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1072
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 395
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