Police Brutality / Individual record
Raufeal M. Bostick
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Raufeal M. Bostick in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-06-20 in Hardeeville, SC. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-454
- Incident date
- June 20, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Hardeeville, SC
- Agency
- Hardeeville Police Department; Jasper County Sheriff's Office
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 23
What happened
Raufeal M. Bostick was killed in an encounter involving Hardeeville police and Jasper County sheriff's deputies in South Carolina on June 20, 2016. The Washington Post identifies both agencies and the incident date. Because the data do not provide the full incident narrative, the role of each agency, initiating call, claimed weapon or threat, and eventual investigative outcome require original South Carolina law enforcement and prosecutor documents. The fact of fatal police gunfire is documented, but no individual action is attributed to Bostick or officers beyond the source record.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1632
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1317;1318
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