Police Brutality / Individual record
Bobby Daniels
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Bobby Daniels in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-12-21 in Douglasville, GA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-328
- Incident date
- December 21, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Douglasville, GA
- Agency
- Douglas County Sheriff's Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 48
What happened
Bobby Daniels, 48, died after a Douglas County sheriff's deputy shot him during a confrontation at Arbor Village Mobile Home Park in Douglasville, Georgia, on December 21, 2015. A security guard had reported being held at gunpoint. According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, deputies encountered Daniels's son Bias holding a firearm; Bias lowered it, but Bobby grabbed it and father and son wrestled for control. An officer fired a Taser at Bias, with little effect. As the weapon reportedly pointed toward the deputies during the struggle, one deputy fired and killed Bobby. Bias fled and was later arrested. The GBI opened an independent inquiry and said its findings would be referred to the district attorney; this initial investigative account is not a final adjudication.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1109
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 986
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