Police Brutality / Individual record
Demarco Rhymes
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Demarco Rhymes in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-06-04 in Eufaula, AL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-444
- Incident date
- June 4, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Eufaula, AL
- Agency
- Eufaula Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 35
What happened
Demarco Rhymes was shot and killed by Eufaula police in Alabama on June 4, 2016. National fatal-police-shooting data documents the encounter, date and agency but does not independently provide the full sequence of events. A substantive narrative would require statements from witnesses, police, the medical examiner and any Alabama state investigative report, particularly concerning any claimed danger just before the gunfire. The available record does not reliably establish those facts or a final court finding. The incident is identified here without presenting an unsupported weapon allegation or charging decision as fact.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1594
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- other
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1289
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