Police Brutality / Individual record
Willie Demetrius James
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Willie Demetrius James in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-06-02 in Norfolk, VA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-443
- Incident date
- June 2, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Norfolk, VA
- Agency
- Norfolk Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 43
What happened
Willie Demetrius James was killed by Norfolk, Virginia, police on June 2, 2016. The Washington Post's Fatal Force record identifies James and the police agency involved. Without a detailed individual investigation or newspaper account, the initiating call, number of shots fired, any reported weapon, and eventual prosecutor's decision remain unverified. The fact that his death appears in a police shooting database does not by itself establish the reason for deadly force or whether department policy was violated. This record preserves his identity and the fatal incident without assigning invented conduct to him or the officers.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1588
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- knife
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1027
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