Police Brutality / Individual record
Peter Fanfan
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Peter Fanfan in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-02-12 in Boston, MA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-361
- Incident date
- February 12, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Boston, MA
- Agency
- Boston Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 29
What happened
Peter Fanfan, 29, was shot and killed by Boston police in Dorchester on February 12, 2016. Officers responding to a reported shooting at 107 Devon Street encountered Fanfan near Laredo Street while he was helping another injured man toward a vehicle. Police said Fanfan fired at Detective James Coyne and other responding officers, who ordered him to drop his handgun before returning fire. Suffolk County prosecutors released police-dispatch audio and video during the investigation; officials said a discharged gun was recovered beside Fanfan and a projectile was found in the tire of an unmarked police car. The authorities' reconstruction and the physical evidence should be distinguished from an independent criminal verdict. Prosecutors pledged to share their investigative materials with Fanfan’s family after review.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1262
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 3
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