Police Brutality / Individual record
Kimani Johnson
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Kimani Johnson in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-03-31 in Baltimore, MD. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-396
- Incident date
- March 31, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Baltimore, MD
- Agency
- Baltimore Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 18
What happened
Kimani Johnson, 18, was shot and killed by Baltimore police on March 31, 2016, during a confrontation with officers who were pursuing his father, Matthew Vincent Wood Jr., near East Baltimore. Police said Wood was being sought on an arrest warrant and that both men fired at officers; subsequent reporting and ballistic reviews challenged key elements of the police narrative. Officers fired dozens of rounds, killing Johnson and Wood. Baltimore's Civilian Review Board later criticized the police response and evidence handling, while the family disputed that either man fired a weapon. The two men have separate fatality records but were killed in the same incident; the officers' statements and independent forensic findings must not be conflated.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1424
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 149
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