Police Brutality / Individual record
India Beaty
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records India Beaty in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-03-19 in Norfolk, VA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-387
- Incident date
- March 19, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Norfolk, VA
- Agency
- Norfolk Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 25
What happened
India M. Beaty, 25, was shot and killed by two plainclothes Norfolk police officers in Virginia on March 19, 2016, near a convenience store. Officers assigned to a vice and narcotics investigation said they observed a group fighting and approached. According to the department, Beaty displayed what appeared to be a handgun, and officers fired. Police subsequently identified the object as a non-firing replica firearm. The officers were placed on administrative duty pending investigation, and the department released a photograph of the replica. Beaty's family and advocates questioned the lethal response, particularly because she had no functioning firearm. The police description of her movements is an official account, not a criminal court finding.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1382
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- female
- Armed status (source)
- replica
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1027
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