Police Brutality / Individual record
Vernell Bing Jr.
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Vernell Bing Jr. in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-05-22 in Jacksonville, FL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-436
- Incident date
- May 22, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Jacksonville, FL
- Agency
- Jacksonville Sheriff's Office
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 22
What happened
Vernell Charles Bing Jr., 22, was fatally shot by Jacksonville Sheriff's Officer Tyler Landreville after a car chase and collision at Ninth and Liberty Streets on May 22, 2016. Officers were pursuing a Camaro reported stolen and linked to another shooting; police said Bing crashed into Landreville's cruiser. Bing exited unarmed. Landreville fired five shots and struck him once in the head. Witnesses and family attorneys disputed the claim that Bing posed an immediate threat, saying he was moving away when shot. The family's federal lawsuit challenged the gunfire and pursuit tactics. In September 2017, Florida prosecutors ruled Landreville's shooting justified. That charging decision did not resolve the family's contrary eyewitness allegations.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1562
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- unarmed
- Flee status (source)
- car
- Agency IDs (source)
- 17
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