Police Brutality / Individual record
Jaqwan Julius Terry
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Jaqwan Julius Terry in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-08-29 in Raleigh, NC. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-503
- Incident date
- August 29, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Raleigh, NC
- Agency
- Raleigh Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 24
What happened
Jaqwan Julius Terry, 24, was killed by Raleigh police on August 29, 2016, following a complaint that he displayed a handgun and threatened a former partner. Officers B.F. Burleson and B.S. Beausoleil chased him on foot. Wake County investigators said he struggled with Burleson, picked up a dropped gun and exchanged shots, wounding Burleson in the leg. Beausoleil also fired and Terry died. District Attorney Lorrin Freeman reviewed the evidence and determined in April 2017 that officers acted in lawful self-defense. That prosecutor finding documents the charging decision; the officers' actions and the reported domestic threat are attributed to the investigation.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1823
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1141
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