Police Brutality / Individual record
Deravis Caine Rogers
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Deravis Caine Rogers in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-06-22 in Atlanta, GA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-455
- Incident date
- June 22, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Atlanta, GA
- Agency
- Atlanta Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 22
What happened
Deravis Caine Rogers, 22, was unarmed when Atlanta Officer James Burns shot and killed him on June 22, 2016, after a chase in the Monroe Place Apartments parking complex. An off-duty officer suspected Rogers of trying to break into vehicles and pursued him. Rogers entered a car that the off-duty officer believed belonged to an associate, where responding Burns fired a single shot into Rogers's head. Georgia Bureau of Investigation investigators reported recovering a handgun magazine but no firearm, and no evidence Rogers used a weapon. Burns was subsequently charged with felony murder, aggravated assault and violation of his oath; later criminal proceedings examined his account of perceiving the vehicle as a threat. The allegation of a break-in was not an adjudicated conviction of Rogers.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1647
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- unarmed
- Flee status (source)
- other
- Agency IDs (source)
- 447
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