Police Brutality / Individual record
Bobby Gross
Bobby Gross died after an on-duty police shooting in Washington, D.C. on March 12, 2015.
- Record ID
- PB-128
- Incident date
- March 12, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Agency
- Metro Transit Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 35
What happened
The Washington Post's national Fatal Force database identifies Bobby Gross as having been killed by police in Washington, D.C., on March 12, 2015. The database is a starting point for establishing that a death occurred, not a complete account of the person's last encounter with officers. No sufficiently detailed independent report was confirmed in the present pass to establish what sparked the encounter, whether witnesses disputed officers' claims or what subsequent legal proceedings occurred. A complete entry will need contemporaneous District coverage, Metropolitan Police Department records and the relevant review by prosecutors or other authorities. Until then, uncertainty is explicit rather than concealed behind a formulaic story about a justified confrontation.
Investigation & findings
Final legal or administrative outcome unverified; further review required.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 282
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- unarmed
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 202
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