Police Brutality / Individual record
Peter John
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Peter John in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-02-01 in Washington, DC. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-353
- Incident date
- February 1, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Agency
- Metropolitan Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 36
What happened
Peter John was shot and killed by Metropolitan Police Department officers in Washington, D.C., on February 1, 2016. The Washington Post's fatal-shooting database identifies the jurisdiction and date. The incident record alone does not establish why police approached John, the sequence of commands and shots, what officers believed about an imminent threat or any later decision by the U.S. Attorney's Office. Those details should be drawn from case-specific investigative releases rather than assumed from the fact of a fatal shooting. This entry preserves the documented death without assigning a weapon status or a prosecutor's finding not verified in the available source.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1219
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- replica
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- Agency IDs (source)
- 882
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