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Francis De La Cruz Abad
May 25, 2021 · Trenton, Mercer County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Francis De La Cruz Abad
- Age as recorded
- 21
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- African-American/Black
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- May 25, 2021
- Location as recorded
- Trenton, Mercer County228 NJ-33 Trenton NJ 8619 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: Hamilton Township Police Department
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Department pages (matched by this site at high confidence)
What this site holds on the agencies named
Separate records, shown here so they can be found from this page. Nothing below is connected to this death. The Fatal Encounters dataset does not link the two, the Attorney General's releases do not, and neither does this site. The years each figure covers are printed for the same reason.
- Hamilton Township Police Department
Reported 148 internal affairs investigations across 2021 to 2025. 3 major discipline records name officers at this agency.
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.
Francis De La Cruz Abad was operating a Yamaha scooter when Officer Brian Davis, driving an unmarked vehicle, tried to stop him shortly after 9 p.m. De La Cruz Abad continued traveling westbound and collided with a Dodge Caravan, whose driver was attempting to turn left into the Mercerville Shopping Center. De La Cruz Abad was thrown from the scooter and struck the windshield of the van, killing him.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/mercer/police-fire/nj-attorney-general-ids-scooter-rider-21-killed-in-mercer-police-chase-crash/811378/ (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 25 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2021, 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 Francis De La Cruz Abad died on May 25, 2021 in Trenton, 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 "Hamilton 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 Trenton, Mercer County, on May 25, 2021. The address as recorded is 228 NJ-33 Trenton NJ 8619 Mercer.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 1162. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩