Police Brutality / Individual record
Kendar del Rosario
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Kendar del Rosario in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-04-28 in Miami, FL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-418
- Incident date
- April 28, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Miami, FL
- Agency
- Miami Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 37
What happened
Kendar del Rosario, 37, was killed by Miami police Officer Juan Herrera early on April 28, 2016, near Northwest Seventh Avenue and Second Street. A Miami Police Department release says Herrera encountered del Rosario carrying a knife and a bloodied woman seeking help. Investigators later identified the woman as Joenny Maribel Medina Feliz, who died from her injuries, and said her two-year-old daughter had also been stabbed; the child underwent emergency surgery. Del Rosario was shot at the scene and died. The official release identifies the officer, the woman and the injured child, and notes the investigation was continuing. The fatal attacks reported at the nearby apartment and the police claim of a knife threat must be documented without treating the initial investigation as a completed adjudication.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1498
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- knife
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 957
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