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Dieugrand Dorcely

February 11, 2000 · Irvington, Essex County

Details as recorded

Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]

Name as recorded
Dieugrand Dorcely
Age as recorded
45
Gender as recorded
Male
Race as reported
Race unspecified
Date of the injury resulting in death
February 11, 2000
Location as recorded
Irvington, Essex County528 Mill Rd Irvington NJ 07111 Essex
Highest level of force as recorded
Vehicle

Where the dataset places it

The location Fatal Encounters recorded for this death: Irvington, Essex County

The marked point is the dataset's own geocoded location for this record, as recorded. Every other New Jersey record in the dataset is shown in gray. A point on a map is where a death was recorded, not a finding about anyone.

Agencies as recorded

Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Union Township 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.

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.

Dieugrand Dorcely, 45, was killed when a police car swerved into his 1994 Dodge Spirit, causing it to flip over. But Douglas Armstrong of Irvington, the driver of a second car struck by the police vehicle, said he saw no car being directly pursued when the police cruiser swerved out of control and struck Dorcely's vehicle before hitting his car.

Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19CrOEfTmhPB0Mp-r8pkO-rBb9UCIaHuW-kkkUyQmyKI/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.

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Questions and answers

What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?

Fatal Encounters records that Dieugrand Dorcely died on February 11, 2000 in Irvington, 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 "Union Township 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 Irvington, Essex County, on February 11, 2000. The address as recorded is 528 Mill Rd Irvington NJ 07111 Essex.

Sources

  1. [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 31382. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩