Police Brutality / Individual record
Anthony McKinney
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Anthony McKinney in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-09-26 in Baton Rouge, LA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-269
- Incident date
- September 26, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Baton Rouge, LA
- Agency
- East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 46
What happened
Anthony McKinney, 46, was fatally shot by an East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputy responding to a domestic violence call on Maplewood Drive on September 26, 2015. Investigators said first responders found McKinney stabbing a woman and that a deputy fired to stop the assault. The woman survived but was reported in critical condition at a hospital. WAFB reported that McKinney had been arrested on domestic-abuse-related charges days earlier and released on bond the previous day; those pending charges were not convictions. The reported ongoing stabbing and the injured woman's condition are essential context. The reviewed contemporary report documents the opening of an investigation but not a later separate officer prosecution.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 869
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- knife
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 818
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