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Hussan Shakur aka Hassan Shakur aka Hassian Hosendove
July 16, 2009 · Jersey City, Hudson County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Hussan Shakur aka Hassan Shakur aka Hassian Hosendove
- Age as recorded
- 32
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- African-American/Black
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- July 16, 2009
- Location as recorded
- Jersey City, Hudson County24 Reed St. Jersey City NJ 07304 Hudson
- 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: Jersey City Police Department
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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.
Officers were watching a stolen vehicle when a man and a woman exited a nearby building, and the man opened fire with a shotgun, shattering the passenger window of an unmarked police car, police said. Amanda G. Anderson, 22, and Hassan Skakur, 32, then ran back to the building, and Hosendove turned around and fired at another officer and struck him in the leg. Police evacuated the building and called in Emergency Services from Jersey City and Port Authority police. When police entered the building, gunfire erupted from inside the apartment, going through the door. All told, five Jersey City cops were shot, three others injured and Anderson and Skakur were killed.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2009/07/5_police_officers_shot_in_jers.html (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 19 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2009, and one of 34 it holds for Hudson County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Records from the same county and year
- Martina Brown (2009) July 21, 2009
- Amanda G. Anderson (2009) July 16, 2009
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Hussan Shakur aka Hassan Shakur aka Hassian Hosendove died on July 16, 2009 in Jersey City, Hudson 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 "Jersey City 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 Jersey City, Hudson County, on July 16, 2009. The address as recorded is 24 Reed St. Jersey City NJ 07304 Hudson.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 21022. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩