Police Brutality / Individual record
Eric John Senegal
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Eric John Senegal in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-01-04 in Ragley, LA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-338
- Incident date
- January 4, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Ragley, LA
- Agency
- Beauregard Parish Sheriff's Office
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 27
What happened
Eric John Senegal, 31, was killed by Beauregard Parish sheriff's deputies near Ragley, Louisiana, on January 4, 2016. Authorities reported responding to a call about a confrontation at a home and encountering Senegal while attempting to take him into custody. A deputy fired the fatal shots; Louisiana State Police were asked to investigate. The Washington Post recorded the death as an on-duty police shooting. The record reviewed does not conclusively establish the actions immediately preceding the shooting, a final toxicology or forensic reconstruction, or the ultimate criminal review. The initiating complaint and any police assertions about Senegal's behavior require confirmation against a case-specific investigative report rather than inference from the national dataset.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1142
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- unknown
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1007
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