Police Brutality / Individual record
Anthony Briggs
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Anthony Briggs in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-05-25 in Huntsville, AL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-183
- Incident date
- May 25, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Huntsville, AL
- Agency
- Huntsville Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 36
What happened
Anthony Briggs, 36, was shot by Huntsville police on May 25, 2015, after a violent confrontation at an apartment complex in Alabama. Police and witnesses said Briggs attacked his brother Quinten with a knife and also stabbed a neighbor, Matthew Hooks, when the neighbor intervened. Officers arrived after emergency calls. The neighbor's father told WAFF he witnessed Briggs approach police with the knife while shouting threats; he said officers repeatedly ordered Briggs to drop the weapon before firing. Briggs later died at a hospital, while the two men who were stabbed were treated for their injuries. The contemporaneous reporting documents an armed confrontation and an eyewitness supporting the officers' account; it does not establish a separate later criminal or civil adjudication concerning the shooting.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 476
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- knife
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 531
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