Police Brutality / Individual record
Lyndarius Cortez Witherspoon
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Lyndarius Cortez Witherspoon in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-06-11 in Tupelo, MS. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-449
- Incident date
- June 11, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Tupelo, MS
- Agency
- Tupelo Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 27
What happened
Lyndarius Cortez Witherspoon was shot and killed by Tupelo police in Mississippi on June 11, 2016. The Washington Post's national fatal shooting dataset records the incident and agency. That listing cannot establish why police were called, whether Witherspoon was carrying a gun, the chronology of any pursuit or exchange, or the outcome of a grand jury or federal review. Original local reports and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation file are needed before those details could be stated as fact. The incident is kept distinct from the June 18 shooting of Antwun Shumpert by a Tupelo officer.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1612
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- car
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1302
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