Police Brutality / Individual record
Christopher Kalonji
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Christopher Kalonji in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-01-28 in Clackamas County, OR. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-348
- Incident date
- January 28, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Clackamas County, OR
- Agency
- Clackamas County Sheriff's Office
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 19
What happened
Christopher Kalonji, 19, died after Clackamas County sheriff's deputies shot him during a confrontation at a home in Oregon on January 28, 2016. Police had been called by relatives concerned about his welfare. Deputies reported an armed standoff and said Kalonji appeared with a weapon, prompting lethal gunfire. His family challenged aspects of the police response and questioned whether mental-health crisis intervention could have avoided the death. National data confirms the fatal shooting, but the initial officer account and later investigations require separate attribution. A specific final criminal or civil outcome was not independently verified in the materials reviewed for this entry.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1215
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 277
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