Police Brutality / Individual record
James Craig Simpson
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records James Craig Simpson in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-03-31 in Las Vegas, NV. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-395
- Incident date
- March 31, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Las Vegas, NV
- Agency
- Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 31
What happened
James Craig Simpson was killed by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers on March 31, 2016. The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records the death, agency and date. The dataset does not by itself explain the original call, how Simpson interacted with officers, any reported weapon or whether the Clark County district attorney issued a public use-of-force review. Those findings need a case-specific police or prosecutor document. This account identifies the recorded fatal shooting without inventing reasons for the use of force or claiming that a criminal or civil disposition occurred when no reliable individual source was confirmed.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1846
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- Agency IDs (source)
- 375
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