Police Brutality / Individual record
Crayton West
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Crayton West in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-01-17 in St. Louis, MO. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-343
- Incident date
- January 17, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- St. Louis, MO
- Agency
- St. Louis Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 52
What happened
Crayton West was shot and killed by St. Louis police on January 17, 2016. The Washington Post fatal-shooting index confirms the date and jurisdiction. Separate local investigative records are necessary to establish why officers approached West, what the officers and witnesses reported before gunfire, whether any weapon was recovered, and whether prosecutors or police oversight bodies later reached a finding. The limited dataset does not itself justify a conclusion about his conduct or an officer's culpability. This narrative records the identified person and fatal encounter without substituting a generic police-shooting scenario for evidence from the case.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1170
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 134
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