Police Brutality / Individual record
Andre Green
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Andre Green in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-08-09 in Indianapolis, IN. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-236
- Incident date
- August 9, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN
- Agency
- Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 15
What happened
Andre Alexander Green, 15, was killed by Indianapolis police on August 9, 2015, after officers pursued a vehicle reported stolen in an armed carjacking. Police blocked the car at a dead-end street and said Green attempted to accelerate toward officers; a responding officer fired. Green's family disputed whether the force was necessary. Later federal litigation described the police formation and disputed sequence in detail. In 2021 the Seventh Circuit affirmed judgment against the estate's federal excessive-force claim on the evidentiary record before it. The court's decision is a legal outcome, while Green's age, the officers' tactical choices and the limits of the video and witness evidence remain relevant to understanding the fatal encounter.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 715
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 77
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