Police Brutality / Individual record
Carnell Snell Jr.
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Carnell Snell Jr. in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-10-01 in Los Angeles, CA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-526
- Incident date
- October 1, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
- Agency
- Los Angeles Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 18
What happened
Carnell Snell Jr., 18, was shot and killed by Los Angeles police on October 1, 2016, after fleeing a vehicle officers suspected might be stolen. Police pursued Snell into a residential yard and claimed he held and then pointed a handgun. Relatives and neighbors challenged the account, saying he was running away when officers shot him. The coroner confirmed Snell's death, and protests followed in South Los Angeles. The district attorney later reviewed physical evidence, video and the officers' perceptions. The initiating suspicion concerned the vehicle's temporary paper plates; it did not itself establish that Snell had committed a crime. The officer account and family's eyewitness assertions must remain attributed, not conflated.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1925
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- Agency IDs (source)
- 38
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