Police Brutality / Individual record
Jason Hendley
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Jason Hendley in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-07-06 in Los Angeles, CA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-205
- Incident date
- July 6, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
- Agency
- Los Angeles Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 29
What happened
Jason Hendley, 29, was killed by Los Angeles police on July 6, 2015, after officers responded to a report of a man with a knife and an injured woman at a Sylmar home. Police said Hendley, who appeared covered in blood and held a large kitchen knife, advanced toward responding officers despite commands, prompting them to fire. Afterward, investigators found the body of his mother's fiancé inside the residence with fatal stab wounds. The LAPD publicly identified the involved officers and retained the shooting in its release records. The Los Angeles Times' database of district attorney charging decisions lists the case as resulting in no action against officers. The documented death of another person and the alleged knife threat are necessary context, while the police reconstruction must be attributed to the agency.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 619
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- knife
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 38
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