Police killings
2013-2020

Dominic Graffeo

Male, White

Date of the incident: 6/26/2014

Chelsea, Suffolk, MA
Hawthorne Street

Graffeo was a mentally ill man with a long history of altercations with police. The manager of his rooming house called to report Graffeo was having an episode and had barricaded himself in his apartment. Galleo was behaving violently so police tasered him three times. Graffeo went into respiratory failure and died at the hospital. The cause of death remains under investigation.