Police killings
2013-2020

Tyrone Ryerson Lawrence

Male, Black

Date of the incident: 3/5/2015

Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
E. Plainfield Ave. and S. Jasper Ave.

Officers responded to a disturbance call about a man threatening his wife with a knife at her home. The subject had been issued a restraining order against seeing her. When officers arrived the man refused to drop his knife and, fearing he would stab his wife, shot the man dead.