Police Brutality / Individual record
Christopher J. Davis
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Christopher J. Davis in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-02-24 in East Troy, WI. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-373
- Incident date
- February 24, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- East Troy, WI
- Agency
- Walworth County Sheriff's Office
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 21
What happened
Christopher J. Davis, 21, was fatally shot by a Walworth County sheriff's deputy near East Troy, Wisconsin, on February 24, 2016. The Washington Post's Fatal Force dataset identifies Davis as unarmed and records that officers encountered him in a vehicle. Those details establish the presence of deadly police gunfire but do not supply a verified reconstruction of the initial stop, the movements that prompted the deputy to shoot or the final district attorney's finding. Because the victim was recorded as unarmed, any assertion that officers faced an immediate lethal threat requires a case-specific explanation rather than an assumption based on the shooting itself. The detailed chronology and outcome need corroboration from local investigative records.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1318
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- unarmed
- Flee status (source)
- car
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1133
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