Police Brutality / Individual record
Jabril Robinson
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Jabril Robinson in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-05-16 in Riverdale, GA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-431
- Incident date
- May 16, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Riverdale, GA
- Agency
- Clayton County Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 23
What happened
Jabril Robinson, 23, was shot and killed by Clayton County police on May 16, 2016, after officers answered a domestic-disturbance call on Cheryl Leigh Drive in Riverdale, Georgia. A woman reported an argument; Robinson was not at the residence when officers arrived. One officer located him, and he ran through the area and attempted unsuccessfully to enter another house. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said responding police saw Robinson with a handgun and fired during a confrontation in the yard of a home on West Fayetteville Road. Robinson died at a hospital; no officers were injured. The GBI opened an independent review for referral to the district attorney. The initial release does not provide a final criminal charging decision, and the alleged handgun threat remains attributed to investigators.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1542
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1263
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