Police killings
2013-2020

Romello Barnes

Male, Black

Date of the incident: 12/12/2019

Tampa, Hillsborough, FL
8024 Hidden River Dr

Around 10 a.m., deputies responded to a 911 call from a mother reporting her son had stabbed her. Deputies arrived to find the woman with a cut hand. Deputies found her son, Romello Barnes outside an apartment with an undisclosed weapon. Barnes reportedly ran back into his apartment and deputies followed, including one with a dog. Barnes failed to comply with their commands to drop the weapon, even after the officer sicced the dog on him. Deputies Deputies Matthew Moyer, Miguel Guerra and Jamar Colon shot and killed Barnes.