Police Brutality / Individual record
Jason King
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Jason King in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-10-28 in Sacramento, CA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-539
- Incident date
- October 28, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Sacramento, CA
- Agency
- California Highway Patrol
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 38
What happened
Jason Bradley King, 38, was shot and killed by California Highway Patrol officers Hector Arroyo and Stephen Rice near Date Avenue and Tyler Street in Sacramento County on October 28, 2016. An officer first contacted King over crossing outside a crosswalk, and said King revealed an object that appeared to be a handgun. Officers followed and ordered King to show his hands, then fired after reporting he raised the object toward them. King died at a hospital; no officers were hurt. Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert reviewed the scene, witness accounts and video and concluded in December 2017 that the shooting was legally justified. The encounter originated as an everyday pedestrian contact, a central fact in evaluating escalation.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 2001
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 266
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