Police Brutality / Individual record
Anthonie Smith
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Anthonie Smith in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-07-16 in Moreno Valley, CA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-215
- Incident date
- July 16, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Moreno Valley, CA
- Agency
- Moreno Valley Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 25
What happened
Anthonie Smith, 25, was killed by Riverside County sheriff's deputies in Moreno Valley, California, on July 16, 2015. A contemporary police-shootings chronology links the case to calls involving a family dispute and possible mental-health crisis. According to the account, deputies initially encountered Smith after a relative sought help, and a second confrontation followed allegations that he injured another person. Officers said he held a knife and a hand tool when they found him again; a Taser reportedly failed before shots were fired. The available secondary account does not independently establish the exact timing, force options, or later prosecutor's finding. Those limits remain important to evaluating the death rather than assuming the initial police version is settled fact.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 642
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- blunt_object
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 650
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