Police Brutality / Individual record
Tyre King
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Tyre King in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-09-14 in Columbus, OH. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-513
- Incident date
- September 14, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Columbus, OH
- Agency
- Columbus Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 13
What happened
Tyre King, 13, was shot and killed by Columbus Officer Bryan Mason on September 14, 2016, during a response to an armed-robbery report. King ran from officers, and Mason said he reached toward his waistband with what appeared to be a handgun. The recovered object was a BB pistol designed to resemble a real firearm. The family's lawyers and witnesses questioned whether King posed an immediate threat. A Franklin County grand jury declined criminal charges. In 2022, a federal jury rejected the family's civil-rights lawsuit against the officer. Those criminal and civil outcomes do not change King's age or the fact that the weapon was a replica; the family's allegations and officer testimony must remain separately attributed.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1883
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- replica
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- 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