Police Brutality / Individual record
Marco Loud
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Marco Loud in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-03-12 in Houston, TX. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-380
- Incident date
- March 12, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Houston, TX
- Agency
- Harris County Sheriff's Office
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 20
What happened
Marco Loud was fatally shot in an incident involving Harris County sheriff's deputies in Houston, Texas, on March 12, 2016. A contemporaneous Houston-area police-shootings log records Loud's encounter separately from the fatal Houston Police Department shooting of Peter Gaines the same day, identifying the Harris County Sheriff's Office as the involved agency. A full reconstruction of the deputies' response, claimed immediate threat, recovered evidence and eventual prosecutor review was not established from that log. It would be inaccurate to borrow the circumstances of Gaines's nearby incident simply because of their shared date. This record identifies Loud and the jurisdiction and leaves disputed details unasserted pending a case-specific investigation.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1365
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- other
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 160
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