Police killings
2013-2020

Cody Dempsey

Male, White

Date of the incident: 9/26/2014

Girard, Trumbull, OH
Tibbetts Wick Road and Ohio 11

Police from three Trumbull County agencies chased a blue 1983 Cadillac Eldorado that was reported stolen from a Kinsman auto yard. The Ohio State Highway Patrol set up stop spikes, near the Tibbetts Wick Road exit of Route 11 southbound. According to officials at an OSHP news conference, the spikes stopped the car. When officers approached the vehicle, Dempsey pulled out a semiautomatic handgun, and police shot and killed him.