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Chacarion Avant
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Chacarion Avant in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-07-14 in Mascotte, FL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-214
- Incident date
- July 14, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Mascotte, FL
- Agency
- Lake County Sheriff's Office
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 20
What happened
Chacarion Avant, 20, was shot by a Lake County sheriff's deputy during a reported armed home invasion in Mascotte, Florida, on July 14, 2015. A woman had called 911 reporting armed men inside a residence where relatives and children were present. Deputies said Avant came out of the home carrying an assault rifle and pointed it at them; a deputy fired, and Avant died at the hospital. Authorities arrested another suspected participant and described injuries suffered by occupants. These events are presented as the sheriff's investigative account. The reporting does not establish a criminal prosecution of the officer or an independent finding concerning each shot fired.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 639
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 545
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