Police Brutality / Individual record
Antronie Scott
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Antronie Scott in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-02-04 in San Antonio, TX. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-354
- Incident date
- February 4, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- San Antonio, TX
- Agency
- San Antonio Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 36
What happened
Antronie Scott, 36, was unarmed when San Antonio police Officer John Lee shot and killed him on February 4, 2016, during an attempted arrest at an apartment complex. Lee said Scott spun toward him holding an object that he mistook for a gun. The object was a cellphone. Body-camera and witness evidence complicated the officer's explanation and prompted demands for accountability. Bexar County prosecutors declined criminal charges after reviewing the case, and the department disciplined Lee for policy violations. The killing illustrates the fatal consequences of mistaking an ordinary object for a firearm. The family's objections to the tactics and the no-charge decision are separate from the fact that Scott had no weapon.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1237
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- unarmed
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 44
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Additional source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset