Police Brutality / Individual record
Eric Harris
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Eric Harris in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-02-08 in New Orleans, LA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-357
- Incident date
- February 8, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- New Orleans, LA
- Agency
- Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 22
What happened
Eric Harris was killed in a Jefferson Parish sheriff's encounter near New Orleans on February 8, 2016. This is a separate person and incident from Eric Harris, the Tulsa man killed by reserve deputy Robert Bates in 2015. The Washington Post's Fatal Force data lists this 2016 shooting with its date and local agency, but the precise reason for the encounter, the reported threat and any final legal disposition were not independently established in the sources reviewed. A narrative for this case must not borrow the well-publicized Tulsa facts merely because the two men share a name. The record preserves the documented death pending case-specific reconstruction.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1252
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Flee status (source)
- car
- Agency IDs (source)
- 88
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