Police Brutality / Individual record
Allen Matthew Baker III
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Allen Matthew Baker III in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-08-15 in Sunnyvale, CA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-242
- Incident date
- August 15, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
- Agency
- Sunnyvale Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 23
What happened
Allen Matthew Baker III, 23, was shot and killed by Sunnyvale police near a Motel 6 on August 15, 2015. Officers went to the hotel following a report of possible prostitution activity involving young women and people arriving in a Jaguar. Police said Baker, from San Diego, pointed a firearm at an officer during an ensuing confrontation, prompting the fatal shot. Investigators also identified other people connected with the hotel call and described separate criminal suspicions against them. The police account of the threat must be attributed to the agency rather than treated as an independent finding. Contemporary reporting established Baker's identity, the motel setting, and the initial investigation but did not establish a later officer conviction.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 742
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 188
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