Police Brutality / Individual record
Demetrius Dorsey
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Demetrius Dorsey in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-04-18 in Mableton, GA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-411
- Incident date
- April 18, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Mableton, GA
- Agency
- Cobb County Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 18
What happened
Demetrius Dorsey, 18, was fatally shot by a Cobb County SWAT officer during an April 17–18, 2016, standoff at a Marathon convenience store on Mableton Parkway in Georgia. Police responded to an armed-robbery alarm and reported that Dorsey barricaded himself inside, taking two employees hostage. SWAT officers and crisis negotiators arrived; an officer shot Dorsey after midnight. He was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he died. The two employees escaped without injury, and investigators recovered a handgun they said belonged to Dorsey. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation opened an independent inquiry for referral to the Cobb County district attorney. The initial GBI release establishes the reported hostage situation and fatal gunfire but does not itself provide a final charging decision.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1479
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 2851
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