Jerame Reid

Jerame Reid, 36, was shot and killed by Bridgeton, New Jersey Police Officer Braheme Days on December 30, 2014, moments after Reid stepped out of a car with his hands raised during a traffic stop for running a stop sign. Dashcam video, released publicly in January 2015, showed Days and his partner Roger Worley ordering Reid to stay in the vehicle and not move; Reid exited anyway with his hands up, and Days opened fire, striking him fatally as Worley also fired but missed. A Cumberland County grand jury declined to indict either officer in May 2015. Federal prosecutors separately reviewed the case and announced in August 2016 that the evidence was insufficient to bring civil rights charges. No one has ever been charged in Reid's death.

Bridgeton, NJ · Cumberland County

• 2014: Case opens — victim reported missing or found.
• Documented milestones (renewed investigation, media coverage, family advocacy) to be added as sourced.
• Present: case remains unresolved. No named suspect has been convicted.

• The traffic stop, Reid exiting the vehicle with his hands raised, and the shooting, captured in full on the patrol car's dashcam and released publicly in January 2015.
• Officer Braheme Days fired the fatal shot; Officer Roger Worley also fired but did not strike Reid.
• Days had arrested Reid months earlier, in August 2014, and recognized him during the stop; Reid had served roughly 13 years in prison as a teenager for shooting at state troopers.
• Nine prior municipal court complaints had been filed against Days between 2012 and the shooting alleging he stopped, searched, or charged people without cause; all were dismissed for lack of probable cause.
• A Cumberland County grand jury declined to indict either officer on May 1, 2015; the family's attorney publicly stated the prosecutor's press release on the decision omitted the officers' own statements, autopsy results, and their prior use-of-force complaint history.
• The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey announced on August 22, 2016 that federal civil rights charges were not warranted, finding insufficient evidence that Days acted with willful criminal intent.
• Cumberland County settled a federal wrongful death lawsuit with Reid's widow for $340,000.

• Why Days opened fire on Reid, who was visibly complying by raising his hands as he exited the vehicle — as opposed to the driver, who exited the same way without incident — has never been resolved beyond Days's own account that he feared for his life.
• The full autopsy results and officer statements that the family's attorney said were omitted from the prosecutor's public announcement of the grand jury's decision have not been comprehensively made public in the years since.
• Whether Days's prior use-of-force complaint history factored into either the grand jury's or federal prosecutors' review has not been detailed publicly.

• U.S. Department of Justice — “New Jersey U.S. Attorney's Office Closes Investigation Into The Death Of Jerame C. Reid”
• Wikipedia — “Killing of Jerame Reid” (sourced case history)
• NBC10 Philadelphia — “No Federal Charges Against Police Officer in Deadly New Jersey Traffic Stop Shooting”
• Project Cold Case
• Murder Accountability Project
• NamUs