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Eddie Velazquez
December 23, 2011 · Pennsauken Township, Camden County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Eddie Velazquez
- Age as recorded
- 29
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- Hispanic/Latino
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- December 23, 2011
- Location as recorded
- Pennsauken Township, Camden County2007 Admiral Wilson Blvd. Pennsauken Township NJ 08109 Camden
- 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: 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.
As part of a drug sweep, NJ trooper encountered Velazquez in his vehicle. Police allege Velazquez put the vehicle in reverse and struck the trooper, who was also briefly dragged. The two then scuffled before Velazquez was shot. Police report Velazquez had a loaded gun in his sweatshirt but no proof it was used.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://www.app.com/article/BZ/20111224/NEWS01/312240033/Trooper-kills-suspect-near-Camden-liquor-store (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 32 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2011, and one of 52 it holds for Camden County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Records from the same county and year
- Jeffrey Thomas (2011) November 12, 2011
- Dwayne Tribbett (2011) July 18, 2011
- Albert Lane (2011) January 4, 2011
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Eddie Velazquez died on December 23, 2011 in Pennsauken Township, Camden 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 "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 Pennsauken Township, Camden County, on December 23, 2011. The address as recorded is 2007 Admiral Wilson Blvd. Pennsauken Township NJ 08109 Camden.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 17773. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩