Police Brutality / Individual record
Sadiq Bishara-Abaker Idris
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Sadiq Bishara-Abaker Idris in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-09-07 in Wyoming, MI. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-509
- Incident date
- September 7, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Wyoming, MI
- Agency
- Wyoming Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 25
What happened
Sadiq Bishara-Abaker Idris, 25, a Sudanese man believed to be living in Grand Rapids, was shot and killed by Wyoming, Michigan, police on September 7, 2016. According to police, Idris took a semiautomatic pistol from Al & Bob's Sports and fled the store on a bicycle. Employees said he had not threatened them or broken a display to obtain the gun. Responding officers approached Idris after the theft report; police said he pointed the weapon at one officer, who fired. An autopsy confirmed a single fatal gunshot wound. The Kent County Sheriff's Department investigated. The account of the alleged gun threat comes from officers, while the store employee observations and medical findings are separately reported.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1871
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 512
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