Police Brutality / Individual record
John Robert Smith
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records John Robert Smith in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2024-01-29 in Decatur, GA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-2326
- Incident date
- January 29, 2024
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Decatur, GA
- Agency
- Department of Veterans' Affairs Police
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 58
What happened
More information not yet recorded.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 10104
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- photo
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- knife
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 28850
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