Police Brutality / Individual record
Jason Brooks
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Jason Brooks in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-07-11 in East St. Louis, IL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-475
- Incident date
- July 11, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- East St. Louis, IL
- Agency
- Illinois State Police
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 41
What happened
Jason Brooks, 41, was fatally shot in East St. Louis, Illinois, on July 11, 2016, after officers responded around 6 a.m. to a report of a naked man carrying a gun near 16th Street and Gaty Avenue. According to an Illinois State Police news release, responding East St. Louis officers encountered Brooks carrying multiple weapons. State police said Brooks discharged a weapon toward bystanders and then in the direction of two officers, who returned fire. Brooks was seriously wounded and later pronounced dead at a hospital in the St. Louis area. No law enforcement personnel were reported hurt. The East St. Louis Police Department requested an independent investigation by Illinois State Police Zone 6. The public description of Brooks's actions came from the police release; contemporary coverage described the inquiry as open and did not establish a later prosecutorial finding.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1704
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 41
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