Police Brutality / Individual record
Charlin Charles
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Charlin Charles in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-05-01 in Orlando, FL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-419
- Incident date
- May 1, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Orlando, FL
- Agency
- Orlando Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 25
What happened
Charlin Charles, 25, was shot and killed by two Orlando police officers on May 1, 2016, on Orange Blossom Trail near Carter Street. Officers responded to calls about a man walking with what witnesses thought was a chrome handgun. Police said Charles ignored commands to drop the object and raised it toward them, prompting officers to fire. The object was later identified as a simulated firearm, not a working gun. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement opened an investigation. The department identified four responding officers but did not clarify in the first release which two fired, and none had a body camera. The fact that the gun was a replica and that no body-camera recording existed is important to evaluating the police-reported threat.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1502
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- replica
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 482
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