Police Brutality / Individual record
Rodney Turner
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Rodney Turner in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-01-04 in Oklahoma City, OK. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-339
- Incident date
- January 4, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Oklahoma City, OK
- Agency
- Oklahoma City Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 22
What happened
Rodney Turner was killed by Oklahoma City police on January 4, 2016. The Washington Post's Fatal Force dataset records an on-duty fatal police shooting in Oklahoma City, but the data entry alone does not explain the dispatch call, the officers' approach or the nature of any alleged threat. A complete account requires contemporary local reporting or the Oklahoma City Police Department's investigative records, including witness statements and charging findings. Without those documents, it would be misleading to describe Turner as carrying a specific weapon, attacking an officer, or being cleared of wrongdoing. This entry therefore records the documented death and leaves the precise encounter and subsequent outcome unresolved.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1144
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- Agency IDs (source)
- 23
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