Police Brutality / Individual record
Keith Montgomery Jr.
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Keith Montgomery Jr. in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-03-13 in Chester, PA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-383
- Incident date
- March 13, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Chester, PA
- Agency
- Chester Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 24
What happened
Keith Montgomery Jr. was killed by Chester police in Pennsylvania on March 13, 2016. The Washington Post's Fatal Force database establishes the date, Chester location and involvement of local officers. Available case-specific evidence reviewed for this entry did not reliably establish why police approached Montgomery, what happened immediately before they fired, whether any weapon was recovered, or the ultimate findings of investigators. This death should remain individually recorded, not conflated with the nearby February shooting of Shalamar Longer. Without a corroborating local report, attributing a violent action to Montgomery or claiming that the force was justified would exceed the source record.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1361
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1081
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