Police Brutality / Individual record
Rodney Watts
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Rodney Watts in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-04-13 in Stockton, CA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-406
- Incident date
- April 13, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Stockton, CA
- Agency
- Stockton Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 35
What happened
Rodney Watts was killed by Stockton police in California on April 13, 2016. The Washington Post's national fatal-police-shooting database establishes the incident date and Stockton department's involvement. The source alone does not resolve why officers encountered Watts, their alleged perception of a weapon or threat, the sequence of shots or the final district attorney's review. Those details must be checked against a specific Stockton Police Department release, coroner record or contemporaneous coverage. This narrative does not substitute claims about other Stockton shootings or infer an exoneration from the absence of a documented prosecution.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1459
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- undetermined
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 168
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