Police Brutality / Individual record
Kenneth Robledo
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Kenneth Robledo in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-12-12 in Philadelphia, PA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-567
- Incident date
- December 12, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA
- Agency
- U.S. Marshals Service
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 28
What happened
Kenneth Robledo was fatally shot by a member of a U.S. Marshals fugitive task force in Northeast Philadelphia on December 12, 2016, outside a home on Hellerman Street. Investigators said the task force was watching a basement apartment to arrest Robledo on a warrant relating to a July shooting in which another man had been wounded. When Robledo emerged with a woman, police reported that he carried a handgun, pointed it toward officers and ignored commands to put it down. A deputy U.S. marshal fired several shots, striking him fatally. Authorities stated that a recovered handgun had an obliterated serial number. Neighbor Frankie Nieves described hearing gunfire and seeing Robledo on the ground afterward. Both Philadelphia police and federal marshals were involved in reviewing the confrontation. The claims about Robledo's possession and positioning of the gun reflect the law-enforcement account, and the outstanding warrant was an allegation, not a conviction.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 2125
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 26254
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