Police Brutality / Individual record
Christopher Nelms
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Christopher Nelms in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-03-17 in Houston, TX. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-385
- Incident date
- March 17, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Houston, TX
- Agency
- Houston Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 30
What happened
Christopher Nelms was shot and killed by Houston police on March 17, 2016. The national Fatal Force database records his identity and the agency's involvement, and the date coincides with another separate Houston police shooting involving Scott Bennett. Those incidents must not be confused simply because they occurred in the same city and on the same day. Available material did not establish Nelms's initiating encounter, the officers' stated reason for firing, the nature of any weapon or the outcome of criminal review. An individual Houston Police Department incident report and contemporary local reporting would be necessary before adding contested details.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1377
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 102
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