Police Brutality / Individual record
Javon Hawkins
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Javon Hawkins in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-07-09 in Kansas City, MO. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-208
- Incident date
- July 9, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Kansas City, MO
- Agency
- Kansas City Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 21
What happened
Javon M. Hawkins, 21, was killed by Kansas City, Missouri, police in Blenheim Park, near Gregory Boulevard and The Paseo, on July 9, 2015. A local compilation of police shootings describes Hawkins walking through the park while swinging a sword toward passersby and cars. Police said a responding officer told him to drop it and fired when Hawkins appeared to threaten the officer. Hawkins was struck in the torso and died after transport to a hospital. The account establishes the police-reported weapon and fatal encounter but does not independently document any crisis-intervention efforts or a final prosecutor's decision about the officer.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 634
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- knife
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 201
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