Police Brutality / Individual record
Osee Calix
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Osee Calix in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-05-30 in Tucson, AZ. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-440
- Incident date
- May 30, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Tucson, AZ
- Agency
- Tucson Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 33
What happened
Osee Calix, 33, was shot by Tucson Officer Ian Brown after a bicycle stop on May 30, 2016. Police said Calix struck a raised edge of sidewalk and fell; paramedics checked him and determined he did not need hospital care. Officers then sought to detain him after he allegedly provided false identifying information. Police said Calix produced a handgun during the resulting struggle, and Brown fired. Calix died from the gunshot wounds. The Tucson Police Department publicly identified Brown, a relatively new officer, and opened an investigation. The escalation from a bicycle infraction and minor fall to a fatal encounter, and the claimed firearm, are central to the case. The contemporary reports did not establish a subsequent criminal finding.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1575
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 397
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