Police Brutality / Individual record
John Williams
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records John Williams in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-06-12 in Hiseville, KY. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-450
- Incident date
- June 12, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Hiseville, KY
- Agency
- Barren County Sheriff's Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 61
What happened
John Williams was fatally shot by Barren County sheriff's deputies in the Hiseville area of Kentucky on June 12, 2016. The Washington Post recorded the death as an on-duty police shooting involving the county sheriff's department. The source alone does not explain the initiating contact, what deputies said constituted an immediate threat or the findings of Kentucky State Police and prosecutors. Those questions cannot be resolved by inference from a fatal-shooting dataset. A full case history requires contemporaneous individual reporting and investigative records; no unsupported account of resistance or officer exoneration is asserted.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1617
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- car
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1305
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