Police Brutality / Individual record
Terrozza Tyree Griffin
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Terrozza Tyree Griffin in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-12-24 in Lansing, MI. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-333
- Incident date
- December 24, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Lansing, MI
- Agency
- Lansing Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 24
What happened
Terrozza Tyree Griffin, 30, was fatally shot by Lansing police officers on December 24, 2015, after a confrontation near the 500 block of North Pennsylvania Avenue. Investigators said officers responded to reports of a disturbance and encountered Griffin during an attempted arrest. The police version described a struggle and an apparent weapon threat; his family called for answers about the decision to use lethal force. Michigan State Police were asked to review the incident. The Washington Post database confirms his death and the Lansing department's involvement, but the contemporary material examined does not establish a court ruling or prosecutor's final account of each shot. The claimed threat remains attributed to police rather than treated as a trial finding.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1126
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 999
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