Port Arthur, Texas Police Shoot and Kill Shayne Lyons

The Port Arthur Police Department recently filed a custodial death report regarding the death of Shayne Delmair Lyons. Mr. Lyons was 35 years of age at the time of his death, and the incident occurred on December 28, 2018. We have no personal information about what occurred, but are simply providing information included in the report.

It appears that the Port Arthur Police Department failed to file the custodial death report within the 30-day window required by Texas law. We are uncertain as to why that did not occur. Moreover, the custodial death report, in the summary section, contains only one sentence: “Shayne Lyons approached an officer while displaying a machete so an officer discharged his weapon to stop the threat to his safety.” The report does, in another section, indicate that Mr. Lyons physically attempted to or in the alternative did assault an officer, and also exhibited mental health problems. No additional details about the interaction are provided in the report.

Written By: Dean Malone

Dean Malone

Dean Malone is the founder of Law Offices of Dean Malone, P.C., a jail neglect civil rights law firm. Mr. Malone earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Texas at Dallas, graduating summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA, and from Baylor University School of Law with a general civil litigation concentration. Mr. Malone served in several staff positions for the Baylor Law Review, including executive editor. Mr. Malone is an experienced trial lawyer, trying a number of cases to jury verdict and also handling arbitrations through final hearing. He heads the jail neglect section of his law firm, in which lawyers litigate cases involving serious injury and death resulting from jail neglect and abuse. Lawyers frequently refer cases to Mr. Malone due to his focus on this very complicated civil rights practice area.