Police Brutality / Individual record
Salvado Ellswood
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Salvado Ellswood in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-07-12 in Plantation, FL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-212
- Incident date
- July 12, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Plantation, FL
- Agency
- Plantation Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 36
What happened
Salvado Ellswood, 36, was shot and killed by Plantation police Officer Erik Carlton outside a medical office complex on July 12, 2015. Carlton testified that he encountered Ellswood after hearing an argument, ordered him to leave, and fired a Taser when Ellswood charged him. He said the stun gun had little effect and Ellswood struck him in the face, breaking a tooth. After another unsuccessful Taser deployment, Carlton fired his handgun, killing Ellswood. APM Reports examined the grand-jury account in a broader investigation of lethal force after Taser use. The reconstruction relies heavily on the officer's testimony; it should not be confused with independent firsthand verification of every action.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 631
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- unarmed
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 644
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