Police Brutality / Individual record
Germonta Wallace
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Germonta Wallace in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-01-03 in Charlotte, NC. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-337
- Incident date
- January 3, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
- Agency
- Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 30
What happened
Germonta Wallace, 22, was killed by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police on January 3, 2016, after officers responded to a domestic disturbance at a residence. Police said Wallace had a knife and posed a danger to other occupants, prompting officers to confront him. He was shot during the encounter. The Washington Post's Fatal Force database confirms the fatal shooting and date. The specific timeline of commands and shots and any later district attorney finding require consultation of the original police and State Bureau of Investigation reports; the broad description of an alleged knife threat is not independently adjudicated here. The record retains Wallace's name and the fatal force used without inventing a criminal outcome.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1140
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 354
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