Police Brutality / Individual record
Randolph McClain
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Randolph McClain in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-01-29 in Lynn, MA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-350
- Incident date
- January 29, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Lynn, MA
- Agency
- Lynn Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 33
What happened
Randolph McClain was fatally shot by Lynn police in Massachusetts on January 29, 2016. The Washington Post's Fatal Force database documents an on-duty police shooting in Lynn on that date. More detailed conclusions would require original Essex County prosecutor materials, witness accounts, evidence of any weapon and the police department's final investigative findings. The reviewed database entry does not establish how the encounter began or what officers observed when they fired. This account therefore does not assign unverified actions or criminal culpability to McClain or responding officers.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1216
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- other
- Agency IDs (source)
- 648
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