Police Brutality / Individual record
Kevin Hicks
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Kevin Hicks in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-04-05 in Indianapolis, IN. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-399
- Incident date
- April 5, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN
- Agency
- Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 44
What happened
Kevin Hicks was killed by Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officers on April 5, 2016. The Washington Post's Fatal Force records identify the person, agency and incident date. They do not offer a verified, detailed chronology of the encounter or a final judicial or prosecutorial assessment of deadly force. It would be inappropriate to infer that Hicks possessed a firearm, attacked officers or was unarmed solely from the source used here. The original reason for police contact, witness evidence, officer statements and any subsequent internal review remain unconfirmed. This entry documents the fatal shooting without inventing those missing facts.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1438
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- unarmed
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 77
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