Police Brutality / Individual record
Clifford Butler Jr.
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Clifford Butler Jr. in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-09-13 in McAlester, OK. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-261
- Incident date
- September 13, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- McAlester, OK
- Agency
- Medford Police Department; Grant County Sheriff's Office; Pond Creek Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 67
What happened
Clifford Butler Jr., 67, was shot and killed by a Grant County sheriff's deputy in Pond Creek, Oklahoma, on September 13, 2015. A homeowner called police about a man attempting to enter a residence. Responding officers described Butler as agitated and afraid someone was hiding in the bushes to hurt him. According to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation account, officers attempted to restrain Butler, who pulled a gun and seriously wounded Pond Creek Police Chief Tim Barwick. A deputy returned fire, fatally striking Butler. The armed confrontation and Barwick's injury are documented in contemporaneous reporting. The source does not establish a separate judicial determination of every disputed moment in the encounter.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 825
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 2964;781;782
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