Police Brutality / Individual record
Ali Eisa Abdalla Yahia
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Ali Eisa Abdalla Yahia in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-02-13 in Urbandale, IA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-363
- Incident date
- February 13, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Urbandale, IA
- Agency
- Urbandale Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 29
What happened
Ali Eisa Abdalla Yahia, 29, was fatally shot by Urbandale, Iowa, police on February 13, 2016, during an early-morning response to a reported drug complaint at the Holiday Inn on Merle Hay Road. Sergeant Jeff Casey and officers Anthony Brooks and Justice Weaver arrived and confronted three people in the hotel lobby. Police said a struggle began and Yahia drew a gun and fired one round, after which officers returned fire. Yahia died from his injuries. Investigators later obtained a material-witness warrant for a teenage woman they believed could provide information about the encounter. The initial account of Yahia firing is attributed to police; a final public criminal finding regarding the officers was not confirmed in the contemporary report reviewed.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1268
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1100
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