Police Brutality / Individual record
Edward Foster III
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Edward Foster III in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-07-16 in Homestead, FL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-216
- Incident date
- July 16, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Homestead, FL
- Agency
- Homestead Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 35
What happened
Edward Foster III, 35, was killed by Homestead Officer Anthony Green near Southwest 328th Street and 187th Avenue, Florida, on July 16, 2015. Green was in his patrol car after responding to a call about an armed man near a construction site. Police said Foster reached for a gun and that a pistol was recovered. Foster's mother and sisters said he was on his way home from work and contested the assertion that he threatened the officer. The Miami Herald reported that Green had participated in earlier shootings, including fatal incidents. Miami-Dade police investigated the encounter; the family's objections and the official description should be kept distinct, and no later criminal conviction was confirmed in these sources.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 647
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 653
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