Police Brutality / Individual record
Kawme Dejuan Patrick
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Kawme Dejuan Patrick in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-06-30 in Columbus, OH. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-466
- Incident date
- June 30, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Columbus, OH
- Agency
- Columbus Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 25
What happened
Kawme Dejuan Patrick, 25, was fatally shot by Columbus police in Ohio on June 30, 2016. National police-shooting records classify him as having a firearm and describe his reported threat as movement rather than confirmed gunfire. Those database fields are shorthand for a recorded case, not a detailed independent reconstruction of what officers saw or what commands were issued. The record establishes the identity, jurisdiction and date of his death, but the initiating police contact and final prosecutor findings require additional verified Columbus reporting. In particular, the classification should not be expanded into a claim that Patrick shot at officers or that a court determined their force lawful.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1676
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Agency IDs (source)
- 90
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