Police Brutality / Individual record
Paul Anderson
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Paul Anderson in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-04-04 in Orange, CA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-146
- Incident date
- April 4, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Orange, CA
- Agency
- Anaheim Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 31
What happened
On April 4, 2015, Anaheim police shot and killed 31-year-old Paul Anthony Anderson in the city of Orange, California. Police said officers had been trying to locate a woman wanted on a California Highway Patrol warrant, then followed a Toyota Prius carrying Anderson, the woman, and a driver. The car stopped near Lincoln Avenue and Glassell Street. According to the officers' account, Anderson exited holding a gun and was shot during the confrontation. Early reporting said investigators had not established whether he had fired his weapon. The Los Angeles Times reported that officers were wearing body cameras. The published reports document police's initial version of events; they do not, by themselves, establish a final criminal or administrative finding.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 300
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 79
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