Police Brutality / Individual record
Alva Burnett Braziel
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Alva Burnett Braziel in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-07-10 in Houston, TX. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-474
- Incident date
- July 10, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Houston, TX
- Agency
- Houston Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 38
What happened
Alva Burnett Braziel, 38, was shot and killed by Houston officers L. Lopez and E. Macias at Cullen Boulevard and Ward Street overnight on July 9–10, 2016. The department said Braziel stood in the roadway carrying a pistol and pointed it toward their approaching patrol vehicle. Officers took cover behind open vehicle doors and repeatedly ordered him to lower the gun. They fired when, according to the officers, he again pointed it at them. The Houston Police Department identified the involved officers and opened parallel homicide and internal investigations, while the Harris County district attorney examined the shooting. The exact timing varies between dataset entries and the department's report; the police description of the threat is not itself an independent courtroom finding.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1702
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 102
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Additional source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset