Police Brutality / Individual record
Martin Ryans Jr.
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Martin Ryans Jr. in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-10-15 in Houston, TX. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-279
- Incident date
- October 15, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Houston, TX
- Agency
- Houston Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 20
What happened
Martin Ryans Jr., 20, was shot and killed by Houston police on October 15, 2015. A police-shooting case compilation identifies Officers Hilario Torres and John Sanders in the incident and notes that other people, Chris Jones and Travis Curtner, were wounded during the confrontation. The Washington Post also records Ryans's death in Houston on that date. The available compiled material does not adequately explain which person posed what threat or establish a final prosecutor ruling; those details require the original Houston police investigative record or eyewitness reporting. The injuries to other people should be investigated separately and not folded into an invented account of Ryans's actions.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 923
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 102
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