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Bernard Brandon Powers
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Bernard Brandon Powers in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-10-11 in Taylors, SC. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-275
- Incident date
- October 11, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Taylors, SC
- Agency
- Greenville County Sheriff's Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 23
What happened
Bernard Brandon Powers, 23, was killed in a law-enforcement shooting in the Taylors area of Greenville County, South Carolina, on October 11, 2015. The Washington Post fatal police-shooting dataset records the date, location and an armed confrontation; the published entries do not provide a reliable detailed reconstruction of commands, distance or force alternatives. Powers's obituary identifies him by his full name, records that he died October 11, and describes relatives who survived him. The record therefore documents a named person and a fatal encounter while leaving the sequence and any final prosecutor review unresolved. Without an original agency report or independent eyewitness account, additional claims about his intentions would be speculation.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 901
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 395
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