Police Brutality / Individual record
Rico Don Rae Johnson
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Rico Don Rae Johnson in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-04-18 in Greenbelt, MD. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-412
- Incident date
- April 18, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Greenbelt, MD
- Agency
- Greenbelt Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 28
What happened
Rico Don Rae Johnson, 28, was shot by Greenbelt, Maryland, police after reports of gunfire from a third-floor apartment balcony on Springhill Court on April 18, 2016. Police said Johnson had been discharging a gun for an extended period, sometimes at random, and fired toward arriving officers. A Greenbelt officer returned fire; a Prince George's County tactical team later entered the apartment and detained Johnson. He died at a hospital. The community's Greenbelt News Review published the detailed police blotter and noted that no other residents or officers were injured. The department's account of the balcony shooting and return fire should be attributed, while an independent later criminal or civil finding was not established in the reviewed reporting.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1475
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1227
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