Police Brutality / Individual record
Charles M. Smith
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Charles M. Smith in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-01-30 in Chicago, IL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-351
- Incident date
- January 30, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Chicago, IL
- Agency
- Chicago Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 29
What happened
Charles M. Smith was killed by Chicago police on January 30, 2016. The Washington Post catalogues the incident as a fatal on-duty shooting in Chicago. The source record does not establish the initiating dispatch, the number of involved officers, the direction of the shots, whether a weapon was recovered or the outcome of an independent police-accountability investigation. Chicago's police civilian oversight records and city settlement database are relevant next sources, but no specific disposition was confirmed for this record. The account preserves the documented death without inventing a detailed confrontation or a legal finding.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1221
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 265
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