Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Diego Munoz-Colon
March 8, 2012 · Dover, Morris County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Diego Munoz-Colon
- Age as recorded
- 46
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- Hispanic/Latino
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- March 8, 2012
- Location as recorded
- Dover, Morris County37 N. Sussex St. Dover NJ 07801 Morris
- Highest level of force as recorded
- Asphyxiated/Restrained
Where the dataset places it
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Agencies as recorded
Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Dover Police Department
An agency appears here because it appears in the record's as-reported agency field, nothing more. Its presence is not a claim of fault or responsibility.
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.
Diego Munoz-Colon turned himself in at police headquarters about 7:30 a.m. and was placed in a holding cell, which is supposed to be monitored through a video feed by a staff member at the front desk, police said. At 11:50 a.m., a police officer brought lunch to Munoz-Colon and found him hanging by his shirt inside the cell. Media reports don't state categorically whether he was booked, so this incident may be outside of FatalEncounters dataset, which does not include individuals after they've been booked into the jail or prison system.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/03/man_dies_in_custody_of_dover_p.html (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 23 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2012, and one of 14 it holds for Morris 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 Diego Munoz-Colon died on March 8, 2012 in Dover, Morris County, with "Asphyxiated/Restrained" 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 "Dover 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 Dover, Morris County, on March 8, 2012. The address as recorded is 37 N. Sussex St. Dover NJ 07801 Morris.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 17509. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩