Police Brutality / Individual record
Khari Westly
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Khari Westly in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-07-26 in Shreveport, LA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-225
- Incident date
- July 26, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Shreveport, LA
- Agency
- Shreveport Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 33
What happened
Khari Westly, 33, was killed by Shreveport police on July 26, 2015, after a domestic hostage complaint. Officials said his sister reported that he held her and another relative at gunpoint. Responding officers encountered Westly nearby; police said he fired two shots at them. Four officers returned fire, fatally wounding him. The Associated Press placed the incident among several Louisiana officer-involved killings occurring over three days that July. The reported threat and officer gunfire come from police accounts, while the reviewed reporting does not establish a final independent criminal or civil judgment about the officers' actions.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 679
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 772
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