Police Brutality / Individual record
Greg Gunn
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Greg Gunn in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-02-25 in Montgomery, AL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-375
- Incident date
- February 25, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Montgomery, AL
- Agency
- Montgomery Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 56
What happened
Gregory “Greg” Gunn, 58, was shot and killed by Montgomery police Officer Aaron Cody Smith on February 25, 2016, after Smith stopped him while he was walking home in his neighborhood. Gunn, who was unarmed when he died, fled a confrontation involving a Taser and police gunfire. His family questioned why he had been stopped at all, and the shooting prompted protests and a prosecution of Smith. A jury convicted Smith of manslaughter in November 2019, rejecting his self-defense argument; he was sentenced to 14 years in prison in January 2020. The conviction and sentence are established criminal outcomes, rather than simply accusations by Gunn's family. The case is an important example of an officer being convicted for unjustified deadly force.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1315
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- blunt_object
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1131
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