Police Brutality / Individual record
Carlton Antonio Murphy
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Carlton Antonio Murphy in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-01-05 in Charlotte, NC. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-340
- Incident date
- January 5, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
- Agency
- Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 33
What happened
Carlton Antonio Murphy, 39, was killed in a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police shooting on January 5, 2016. The national Fatal Force database lists the Charlotte incident and records the law-enforcement agency involved. The case's initial call, the nature of any reported weapon, whether body-camera or other recordings captured the shooting, and the results of a North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation review were not independently established by the sources examined here. A definitive account cannot be reconstructed from a fatal-shooting index alone. This record preserves Murphy's identity and death while identifying the unanswered investigative questions rather than attributing unsupported statements to Murphy or an officer.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1147
- 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