Police Brutality / Individual record
Mohamed Barry
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Mohamed Barry in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-02-11 in Columbus, OH. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-360
- Incident date
- February 11, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Columbus, OH
- Agency
- Columbus Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 30
What happened
Mohamed Barry, 30, was killed by Columbus police after attacking diners at the Nazareth Restaurant in northeast Columbus, Ohio, on February 11, 2016. Police and restaurant witnesses said a man carrying a machete wounded four patrons before fleeing in a car. Officers intercepted Barry nearby and attempted to use a Taser; authorities said he then lunged at them with a machete and a knife and was shot. The weapons were reportedly recovered. Federal agents investigated whether the restaurant attack had an extremist motive, but early inclusion of Barry in a federal database did not establish the motive as a proven fact. The armed restaurant attack, injured patrons, attempted less-lethal force and final police confrontation are all necessary context for a fatal-shooting record.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1263
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- knife
- Flee status (source)
- car
- Agency IDs (source)
- 90
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