Police Brutality / Individual record
Jeff Cornell Tyson
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Jeff Cornell Tyson in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-07-25 in Indianapolis, IN. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-484
- Incident date
- July 25, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN
- Agency
- Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 32
What happened
Jeff Cornell Tyson, 32, was killed by Indianapolis police on July 25, 2016, after a vehicle stop and chase turned into a gunfight. Officer Joseph Nunez linked Tyson's Oldsmobile to a reported vehicle theft and attempted a stop while Tyson was driving with his wife Dominique. Tyson fled and shots fired during the ensuing pursuit wounded Nunez and struck police cars; Tyson was killed in the exchange. His widow sued, disputing the stop and the force officers used. A March 2020 federal court opinion found reasonable suspicion to stop the car and substantial evidence that Tyson had fired at police. That court review and the family's allegations are distinct parts of the record.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1731
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- car
- Agency IDs (source)
- 77
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