Possible duplicate case

[moxboxwa]

Cases # 8416 and 8617 may be the same case.

• 8617 is identified as Derrick Ameer Ellis-Cook 9/9/2022
• 8416 was unnamed until the V2 dataset, where he is now identified as Christopher Rudolf 9/10/2022.

Both are reported shot by Burien Police Dept.

I believe there is only one case in Burien in that time frame, Derrick Ameer Ellis-Cook 8617. News reports were inconsistent about the date, one saying "Friday" (9/9) but others saying "Saturday" (9/10). Both his gofundme site https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-derrick-ameer-ellis-cook and the official Burien PD report to the WA CJTC say 9/10/2022, so I believe that is the correct date.

I have not been able to verify that anyone named Christopher Rudolf was shot by police in WA, or that anyone else was shot by Burien PD in September 2022. No one by that name appears in the Mapping Police Violence dataset. So I think that 8416 may have initially been a duplicate entry caused by the inconsistent dates reported in the media for Ellis-Cook, before he was identified. But I don't know where you would have sourced the name Christopher Rudolph and age 39.

If you do have evidence for case 8416, please let me know. That would mean the Burien PD has not reported this case to the WA CJTC, which they are required by law to do.

Otherwise this case should be deleted.