Police Brutality / Individual record
Bennie Lee Tignor
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Bennie Lee Tignor in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-10-31 in Opelika, AL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-297
- Incident date
- October 31, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Opelika, AL
- Agency
- Opelika Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 56
What happened
Bennie Lee Tignor was shot and killed by law enforcement in Opelika, Alabama, on October 31, 2015. The Washington Post's national fatal police shooting database records the incident, and police-accountability compilations identify Tignor among people killed in 2015. The information reviewed establishes the recorded death but does not allow a reliable reconstruction of what led to the encounter or establish a final independent prosecutor's decision. A detailed account will require local investigative reporting or original Alabama agency files, particularly statements concerning the use of deadly force. This entry preserves the person and the known event while avoiding unsupported allegations about either Tignor or officers.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 970
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- car
- Agency IDs (source)
- 894
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