Police Brutality / Individual record
Talif Scudder
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Talif Scudder in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-11-22 in Newark, NJ. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-553
- Incident date
- November 22, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Newark, NJ
- Agency
- Newark Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 23
What happened
Talif Scudder, 23, was shot and killed by a Newark, New Jersey, police officer on November 22, 2016, near 18th Avenue and Alexander Street. According to contemporary reporting summarized by Fatal Encounters, police were responding to a shooting involving a 16-year-old boy when an officer encountered Scudder, whom authorities alleged had shot the teenager. The officer fired, killing Scudder. The reported attack on the teenager and officers' actions require distinction from a conviction or a finding that Scudder was responsible for the earlier shooting, because he died at the scene. New Jersey's fatal-encounters record confirms the person, location, date and agency; a final prosecutor ruling on the officer's actions was not independently established from that record.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 2068
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- 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