Police Brutality / Individual record
Najier Salaam
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Najier Salaam in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-09-30 in Newark, NJ. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-525
- Incident date
- September 30, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Newark, NJ
- Agency
- Newark Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 18
What happened
Najier Salaam, 18, was fatally shot alongside George Richards-Meyers during an encounter with Newark police on September 30, 2016. Officers responding to reports of robberies followed a red minivan; gunfire erupted near North Seventh Street and Abington Avenue. Six Newark officers participated in the shooting, and prosecutors opened a formal investigation. Authorities identified a third man arrested at the scene, but allegations about the robberies and specific threats posed by Salaam were not tried after his death. Both young men died during the same operation; Salaam's individual record should preserve that context while distinguishing police suspicions and any independently determined facts.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1930
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- undetermined
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1473
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