Police Brutality / Individual record
Dominique Silva
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Dominique Silva in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-03-24 in Pawtucket, RI. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-391
- Incident date
- March 24, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Pawtucket, RI
- Agency
- Pawtucket Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 24
What happened
Dominique Silva was fatally shot by Pawtucket police in Rhode Island on March 24, 2016. National fatal-police-shooting data identifies the date and the Pawtucket Police Department. A fully sourced account requires original police incident reports, Rhode Island attorney general investigative findings, witness statements and any available video. The data reviewed does not independently establish the initiating encounter, Silva's actions at the time officers fired, a recovered weapon or the final outcome of any criminal review. This account records the confirmed fatal police shooting but avoids inventing a confrontation or attributing an unverified allegation to Silva or officers.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1405
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- replica
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1189
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