Police Brutality / Individual record
Colby Robinson
Colby Robinson, 26, was shot and killed by DeSoto, Texas police on April 14, 2015 after a pursuit associated with warrants in an Oregon homicide case.
- Record ID
- PB-152
- Incident date
- April 14, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- DeSoto, TX
- Agency
- DeSoto Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 26
What happened
DeSoto authorities and U.S. Marshals sought Colby Robinson, who faced warrants alleging he killed two people and wounded a third in Portland, Oregon. A clerk at a DeSoto convenience store recognized Robinson and called police. Officers pursued a U-Haul and then Robinson on foot, eventually shooting him in southeast Dallas. Contemporaneous reporting also described a bystander, a woman near a fast-food restaurant, who was shot during the incident, while authorities initially declined to identify the source of that injury. Robinson died without a trial on the Oregon allegations. The outstanding accusations should not be treated as adjudicated facts, and the dangerous circumstances do not erase the need to identify who fired each shot and how the nearby bystander was injured.
Investigation & findings
A fatal police shooting and an injured bystander were reported. Criminal allegations underlying the warrant were not adjudicated against Robinson after his death; a final officer-use-of-force determination was not verified.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 363
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- undetermined
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- Agency IDs (source)
- 216
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
- Fatal Force methodology and data limitationsThe Washington Post · Methodology