Police Brutality / Individual record
Christopher Sowell
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Christopher Sowell in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-09-28 in Philadelphia, PA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-521
- Incident date
- September 28, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA
- Agency
- Philadelphia Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 32
What happened
More information not yet recorded.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1919
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- unarmed
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 671
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