Police Brutality / Individual record
Cornelius J. Parker
Cornelius J. Parker, 28, was shot and killed by a Boone County, Missouri sheriff's deputy on February 28, 2015 following a vehicle pursuit in snowy conditions.
- Record ID
- PB-112
- Incident date
- February 28, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Columbia, MO
- Agency
- Boone County Sheriff's Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 28
What happened
Officers attempted to stop a vehicle driven by Cornelius J. Parker near Columbia, Missouri on February 28, 2015. Parker did not pull over, and a pursuit continued toward Highway 63. Authorities said Parker's vehicle left the road in snow near the highway. A sheriff's deputy subsequently shot him. In the police account, Parker emerged with a handgun and fired, producing an exchange of shots; the local reporting carried into the Mapping Police Violence record attributes that description to the authorities. Parker was 28 when he died. The available records do not identify a separately verified eyewitness reconstruction or full ballistic review, so the asserted exchange should remain attributed. Neither a traffic pursuit nor an allegation about a gun is a substitute for documenting the precise final encounter.
Investigation & findings
The sheriff's account of an armed confrontation was reported, but a subsequent charging decision and independent final review were not verified.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 190
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- car
- Agency IDs (source)
- 398
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