Two and a half weeks after 15-year-old Jazmir Tucker was shot and killed, the City of Akron released the personnel file of the officer who fired that night — a five-year veteran of the department who had previously been involved in nearly three dozen use-of-force incidents.
According to Akron city records, officer Davon Fields started with Akron police in December 2019.
The 27-year-old Army Reserve veteran received high marks on his annual performance evaluations, including this comment from a supervisor, writing that Fields, “Uses sound and ethical judgment in making decisions.”
The records released don’t show any discipline in the five years Fields has been with the department.
But, it does show he was placed on paid administrative leave following a “critical incident” on Feb. 22, 2022. There aren’t any other details about that incident.
But records show it’s the same day two Akron police officers were involved in a deadly shooting on Ritchie Avenue .
In that case, investigators say Lawrence Rodgers pulled a gun on police, and one officer fired with a pistol and the other with a rifle. Police say Rodgers then shot and killed another man before he died. It is unclear what role Fields played in that incident because the officers’ names were redacted.