Police Brutality / Individual record
Henry Bennett
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Henry Bennett in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-01-16 in Belle Glade, FL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-342
- Incident date
- January 16, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Belle Glade, FL
- Agency
- Palm Beach County Sheriff's Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 19
What happened
Henry Bennett, 44, was shot and killed by Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies near Belle Glade, Florida, on January 16, 2016. Deputies responded to an incident involving Bennett and reportedly confronted him with a weapon. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and sheriff's office investigated. The Washington Post records the date and the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office's role, but the available materials do not establish a reliable full sequence of commands and movements or a final prosecutor's decision. The reported threat is presented as an allegation rather than as a proven reconstruction. Case-specific records are needed to evaluate whether de-escalation or less-lethal options were available.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1181
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- Agency IDs (source)
- 842
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