Police Brutality / Individual record
Shane Whitehead
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Shane Whitehead in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-11-15 in Germantown, PA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-305
- Incident date
- November 15, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Germantown, PA
- Agency
- Philadelphia Housing Authority
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 16
What happened
Shane Whitehead was fatally shot by Philadelphia police in the Germantown neighborhood on November 15, 2015. The Washington Post's Fatal Force database lists the death, but a verified case-specific account is needed to determine what preceded the shooting, which officers fired, what evidence supported their stated perception of danger and what subsequent oversight found. The national dataset supplies a date and location, not a definitive judgment on conduct. The available material does not support saying Whitehead was armed or unarmed, that he threatened someone, or that officers were exonerated. Those facts remain to be established through individual reporting and records.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1009
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 920
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