Police Brutality / Individual record
Rodney Rodriguez Smith
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Rodney Rodriguez Smith in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-06-02 in Charlotte, NC. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-442
- Incident date
- June 2, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
- Agency
- Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 18
What happened
Rodney Rodriguez Smith was fatally shot by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police on June 2, 2016, in Charlotte, North Carolina. His name appears in the Washington Post's national database of fatal on-duty police shootings, with the date and agency identified. The dataset alone does not provide a reliably verified detailed account of the initial encounter, officer commands, reported weapon status or final charging decision. Those details require individual contemporary reporting and investigative evidence. The recorded death is not in doubt, but the source reviewed does not support a definitive claim about Smith's actions or an officer's legal culpability.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1589
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 354
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