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Carl Jordan
August 14, 2000 · Newark, Essex County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Carl Jordan
- Age as recorded
- 30
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- Race unspecified
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- August 14, 2000
- Location as recorded
- Newark, Essex CountyUniversity Avenue and Raymond Boulevard Newark NJ 07102 Essex
- Highest level of force as recorded
- Vehicle
Where the dataset places it
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Agencies as recorded
Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Newark Police Department
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The source's account
Fatal Encounters' description of the incident, verbatim. This is the source project's own third-party narrative, not this site's reporting.
Angel Rosario and Carl Jordan were killed when they lost control of a stolen Buick Park Avenue and crashed into a newspaper truck at University Avenue and Raymond Boulevard. Rosario was driving the car, police said. Police pursued the men, but ended the chase. Rosario continued speeding for several blocks, crashing into driver's side of the newspaper truck.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11v66MptH7iZmluLtnajbhY_M5Pjh8YrqOkimI5myc54/edit?usp=sharing (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 25 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2000, and one of 118 it holds for Essex County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Records from the same county and year
- Angel Rosario (2000) August 14, 2000
- Willie L. Williams (2000) August 6, 2000
- Matthew Richard Greene (2000) May 6, 2000
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Carl Jordan died on August 14, 2000 in Newark, Essex County, with "Vehicle" as the highest level of force. Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced dataset of deaths that occurred during police encounters of any kind; a record is not a finding of fault or misconduct.
Which agency or agencies were recorded as involved?
The record's agency field reads "Newark Police Department". Presence in that field means the agency appears in the record as reported, nothing more; it is not a claim of fault or responsibility by any officer or agency.
Where did this happen?
The record places the death in Newark, Essex County, on August 14, 2000. The address as recorded is University Avenue and Raymond Boulevard Newark NJ 07102 Essex.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 30961. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩