Police Brutality / Individual record
James Covington Jr.
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records James Covington Jr. in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-11-02 in Washington, DC. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-298
- Incident date
- November 2, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Agency
- Prince George's Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 62
What happened
James Covington Jr. was shot and killed during a police encounter in Washington, D.C., on November 2, 2015. Black Lives Matter D.C.'s memorial list identifies him among Black residents killed by police in the city, and The Washington Post's fatal-shooting data separately records the date. The sources available here identify the death and jurisdiction but do not establish the complete immediate circumstances or any ultimate legal determination. Any allegation about weapons, resistance, justification or wrongdoing would need original investigative material or reliable individual reporting. The memorial listing documents community recognition of Covington's death; it does not replace a formal reconstruction of the shooting.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 975
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- car
- Agency IDs (source)
- 471
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