Police Brutality / Individual record
Scott Bennett
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Scott Bennett 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-386
- Incident date
- March 17, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Houston, TX
- Agency
- Houston Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 29
What happened
Scott Bennett was killed by Houston police on March 17, 2016. His entry in The Washington Post's national fatal police shooting database is separate from the shooting of Christopher Nelms on the same date. The source confirms his name, location, date and fatal police involvement, but does not by itself identify what prompted officers' contact, how the gunfire unfolded, whether a firearm or other weapon was recovered, or the disposition of any independent investigation. These issues require a verified, case-specific source; it would be misleading to import circumstances from Nelms's incident or assume a final ruling was reached.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1376
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- 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