Police Brutality / Individual record
Orville Edwards
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Orville Edwards in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-07-11 in New York, NY. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-477
- Incident date
- July 11, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- New York, NY
- Agency
- New York Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 39
What happened
Orville Edwards, 39, was shot and killed by New York City police in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, on July 11, 2016, during officers' response to a reported home invasion on 78th Street. Police alleged that two armed men disguised as construction workers entered a house, restrained residents including a baby, and searched the property for valuables. Investigators said Edwards escaped through a window or fire escape after dislodging an air conditioner, but encountered responding officers outside. According to the NYPD account reported by WABC, Edwards pointed a gun toward officers, who opened fire and killed him at the scene. Police searched for a second man believed to have escaped, while detectives canvassed for video and interviewed witnesses. The home-invasion allegations and Edwards's alleged act of pointing a gun were the authorities' accounts, not findings from an adversarial court proceeding. Contemporary reporting does not identify a final review disposition for the shooting.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1706
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- Agency IDs (source)
- 298
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