Police Brutality / Individual record
William J. Banks Jr.
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records William J. Banks Jr. in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2024-06-26 in Melbourne, FL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-2447
- Incident date
- June 26, 2024
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Melbourne, FL
- Agency
- Brevard County Sheriff's Office; Palm Bay Police Department; Melbourne Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 47
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
- 10619
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- photo
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 28;206;556
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