Police Brutality / Individual record
Willis N. Walker Jr.
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Willis N. Walker Jr. in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-06-07 in Norman, VA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-446
- Incident date
- June 7, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Norman, VA
- Agency
- Culpeper County Sheriff's Office
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 49
What happened
Willis N. Walker Jr. was killed in a confrontation with Culpeper County sheriff's deputies in Virginia on June 7, 2016. The Washington Post's fatal shooting database records the name and agency but lists a locality that requires reconciliation against the county's own records. The initiating call, reported threat, any recovered weapon and the prosecutor's final assessment were not independently verified through case-specific sources reviewed here. The death is documented but it would be misleading to attribute detailed actions to Walker or the deputies on the basis of the database entry alone. Additional local reporting is needed to substantiate the full chronology.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1601
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1294
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