Police Brutality / Individual record
Michael Johnson
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Michael Johnson in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-06-01 in Newnan, GA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-441
- Incident date
- June 1, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Newnan, GA
- Agency
- Coweta County Sheriff's Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 21
What happened
Michael Johnson was shot and killed by Coweta County sheriff's deputies near Newnan, Georgia, on June 1, 2016. The Washington Post fatal-police-shooting dataset documents the date, name and agency. That entry is not sufficient to establish why deputies encountered Johnson, what officers said led them to fire, whether a weapon or an immediate threat was corroborated, or the final investigation outcome. Any specific allegations require a local investigative report or trustworthy contemporaneous coverage. This entry records the known death and leaves those material questions unresolved rather than treating a national data line as a completed case history.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1586
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1285
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset