Police Brutality / Individual record
Calvin McKinnis
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Calvin McKinnis in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-12-14 in New Orleans, LA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-325
- Incident date
- December 14, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- New Orleans, LA
- Agency
- New Orleans Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 33
What happened
Calvin McKinnis, 33, was shot and killed by a New Orleans police officer along Chef Menteur Highway on December 14, 2015. The Orleans Parish coroner identified McKinnis and reported a gunshot wound to his rear and another to his back; one bullet passed through abdominal organs and his heart. Those anatomical findings make the direction and sequence of shots important questions for reconstructing the encounter. Police opened an investigation into the circumstances, but the reviewed WDSU report does not establish why the officer fired or document a final charging decision. The coroner's evidence is distinguishable from any assertion by officers about perceived danger; no unsupported claim that McKinnis threatened officers or that the force was justified is added.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1085
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 145
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