Police Brutality / Individual record
Terrell Walker
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Terrell Walker in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-11-27 in Baton Rouge, LA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-558
- Incident date
- November 27, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Baton Rouge, LA
- Agency
- East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 48
What happened
Terrell Walker, 48, was killed by East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies on November 27, 2016, following a violent series of incidents in Baton Rouge. Investigators alleged Walker fatally shot his girlfriend, April Peck, pushed her from a car near Essen Lane and United Plaza Boulevard, then returned and attacked people and emergency responders trying to help her. A teenage EMT trainee and others were injured during the attack. Deputies searched for Walker for hours and said he opened fire when they located him; deputies Benjamin Friedman and Shawn Anderson returned fire, striking Walker five times. The Louisiana State Police investigated the police shooting for District Attorney Hillar Moore III. Authorities later disclosed the officers' identities, and Moore said the deputy who shot Walker would not face a grand jury. Anderson was subsequently killed in a separate 2017 incident while investigating a reported assault. The allegations against Walker and the account of his final confrontation come from investigators and prosecutors, not a criminal trial.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 2082
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 818
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