Police Brutality / Individual record
Laronda Sweatt
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Laronda Sweatt in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-04-06 in Gallatin, TN. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-400
- Incident date
- April 6, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Gallatin, TN
- Agency
- Sumner County Sheriff's Office; Gallatin Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 40
What happened
Laronda Sweatt was shot and killed by law enforcement during a confrontation in Gallatin, Tennessee, on April 6, 2016. The Washington Post lists the Sumner County Sheriff's Office and Gallatin Police Department as agencies involved. The dataset does not independently explain the reason for police contact, the sequence leading to gunfire or any final prosecutorial judgment. A case-specific Tennessee Bureau of Investigation report and contemporaneous reporting are needed to verify claims about Sweatt's actions and any weapon. Her death is recorded without attributing an unverified assault or a particular legal outcome to the incident.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1441
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- female
- Armed status (source)
- blunt_object
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1213;1214
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