Police Brutality / Individual record
John Allen
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records John Allen in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-11-04 in Houston, TX. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-299
- Incident date
- November 4, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Houston, TX
- Agency
- Houston Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 57
What happened
John Allen was shot and killed by Houston police on November 4, 2015. The Washington Post identifies a fatal shooting on that date in Houston, but a dataset entry is insufficient to determine which agency units took part, why police approached Allen, whether any weapon or immediate threat was documented, or how the incident was subsequently reviewed. This record preserves the fatal encounter without claiming a specific allegation was proven or that officers faced or escaped criminal liability. Original Houston police releases, medical examiner documentation and any civil filings are needed to establish the detailed sequence and investigation outcome.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 978
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- car
- Agency IDs (source)
- 102
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