Police Brutality / Individual record
Dazion Flenaugh
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Dazion Flenaugh in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-04-08 in Sacramento, CA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-401
- Incident date
- April 8, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Sacramento, CA
- Agency
- Sacramento Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 40
What happened
Dazion Jerome Flenaugh, 40, was shot and killed by three Sacramento police officers near Center Parkway and Lerner Way on April 8, 2016. Officers had been dispatched after a caller reported a man looking into yards and windows. Flenaugh fled on foot when approached, and the police response grew into a search involving multiple officers. Officers Jeffrey Carr, Dustin Southward and Eric Toomey ultimately fired. The Sacramento County District Attorney's Office reviewed dispatch calls, body-camera and patrol-car video, witness interviews, forensic work and the coroner's report, concluding in January 2017 that the shooting was legally justified. That criminal assessment expressly did not decide civil liability, tactics or compliance with department policies; those questions remain separate from the charging outcome.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1444
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- knife
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- Agency IDs (source)
- 486
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