Police Brutality / Individual record
Cedric Maurice Williams
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Cedric Maurice Williams in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-09-01 in Bluefield, WV. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-254
- Incident date
- September 1, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Bluefield, WV
- Agency
- Bluefield Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 33
What happened
Cedric Maurice Williams is listed in The Washington Post's Fatal Force database as having died in a fatal on-duty police shooting in Bluefield, West Virginia, on September 1, 2015. The dataset supplies the person's name, incident date and geographic location but does not furnish a complete case narrative. The underlying police response, officers involved, statements from witnesses or family, and subsequent prosecutorial findings were not reliably established in the sources reviewed for this entry. The documented death should remain visible in the archive while those details are researched, without substituting conjecture or implying that a charging decision was reached when it has not been verified.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 794
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- other;gun
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- Agency IDs (source)
- 757
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset