Police Brutality / Individual record
Johnathan Bratcher
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Johnathan Bratcher in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-01-27 in Memphis, TN. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-347
- Incident date
- January 27, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Memphis, TN
- Agency
- Memphis Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 32
What happened
Johnathan Bratcher was killed by Memphis police on January 27, 2016. The Washington Post's Fatal Force dataset places his death in Memphis and identifies the police department. The limited publicly corroborated material used here does not resolve the reason for the police response, the sequence of the encounter, whether a weapon was present, or whether the officers' use of force was reviewed by state or federal prosecutors. A fuller narrative needs case-specific investigative reports, witness testimony or body-camera evidence. The record does not infer a weapon, dangerous action or charging outcome from a national database entry.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1205
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- other
- Agency IDs (source)
- 31
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