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Darnell Dayron Stafford
November 13, 2014 · Trenton, Mercer County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Darnell Dayron Stafford
- Age as recorded
- 31
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- African-American/Black
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- November 13, 2014
- Location as recorded
- Trenton, Mercer County10 Wilson St. Trenton NJ 08618 Mercer
- Highest level of force as recorded
- Gunshot
Where the dataset places it
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Agencies as recorded
Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Trenton 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.
Officers were dispatched after police received a 911 call reporting a man with a gun who had just invaded a home. Police say the call was made by an adolescent who escaped from the house. When the officers arrived, they saw Stafford, who fired at them while they were sitting in their police vehicle. Officers Robert Albanowski and Marlon Parrot then returned fire, killing him.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://www.trentonian.com/news/trenton-cops-cleared-in-2014-fatal-shootout/article_3a5cd448-1bc3-5778-8740-32c7ef45c9c1.html (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 19 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2014, and one of 32 it holds for Mercer County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Darnell Dayron Stafford died on November 13, 2014 in Trenton, Mercer County, with "Gunshot" 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 "Trenton 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 Trenton, Mercer County, on November 13, 2014. The address as recorded is 10 Wilson St. Trenton NJ 08618 Mercer.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 13002. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩