Police Brutality / Individual record
Jimmy Ray Robinson Jr. Jr.
Jimmy Ray Robinson Jr., 51, was fatally shot by law enforcement near Lorena, Texas on February 4, 2015 during an encounter involving a vehicle.
- Record ID
- PB-099
- Incident date
- February 4, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Lorena, TX
- Agency
- Waco Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 51
What happened
The Washington Post's Fatal Force case entry identifies Jimmy Ray Robinson Jr. as a Black man shot and killed on February 4, 2015 in the Lorena, Texas area. Its record describes a firearm and a vehicle-related movement, but the data labels are categories rather than a narrative of what officers or witnesses saw. Separate 2015 police-killings compilations agree on his name, age, date and place. The published sources located during this pass did not provide a detailed contemporaneous eyewitness account, clear sequence of commands and gunfire, or a final documented prosecutor's decision. Those evidentiary gaps should remain visible rather than be filled with speculation. A database classification alone cannot establish that Robinson threatened anyone, that force was unavoidable, or that official accounts were corroborated.
Investigation & findings
Source-indexed death confirmed; exact sequence, agency attribution and ultimate charging outcome remain unverified. Further local archival research required.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 126
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- car
- Agency IDs (source)
- 521
Last reviewed: October 25, 2026
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Additional source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset