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Deja Farrior-Quinones
September 12, 2016 · Hamilton Township, Mercer County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Deja Farrior-Quinones
- Age as recorded
- 22
- Gender as recorded
- Female
- Race as reported
- African-American/Black
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- September 12, 2016
- Location as recorded
- Hamilton Township, Mercer CountySouth Broad Street Hamilton Township NJ 08610 Mercer
- 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: New Jersey State Police
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Department pages (matched by this site at high confidence)
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.
Chandler Heaviside, 23, of Jackson, faces a 15-count indictment in the death of Deja Farrior-Quinones. Heaviside he rammed into her car during a bid to flee from police who were trying to stop him for being involved in an alledged drug transaction.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2017/05/man_indicted_for_killing_woman_in_crash_after_cop.html (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 21 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2016, and one of 32 it holds for Mercer County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Records from the same county and year
- Alfred Toe (2016) August 27, 2016
- Dominic M. Neal (2016) August 13, 2016
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Deja Farrior-Quinones died on September 12, 2016 in Hamilton Township, Mercer 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 "New Jersey State Police". 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 Hamilton Township, Mercer County, on September 12, 2016. The address as recorded is South Broad Street Hamilton Township NJ 08610 Mercer.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 10014. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩