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John A. Johns

September 28, 2010 · Pennsauken Township, Camden County

Details as recorded

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

Name as recorded
John A. Johns
Age as recorded
54
Gender as recorded
Male
Race as reported
African-American/Black
Date of the injury resulting in death
September 28, 2010
Location as recorded
Pennsauken Township, Camden County2400 Bethel Ave. Pennsauken Township NJ 08109 Camden
Highest level of force as recorded
Asphyxiated/Restrained

Where the dataset places it

The location Fatal Encounters recorded for this death: Pennsauken Township, Camden County

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Agencies as recorded

Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Pennsauken 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.

John A. Johns used his shirt to hang himself inside a jail cell at the Pennsauken Police Department. He hanged himself 14 minutes after being arrested on outstanding warrants and for threatening his girlfriend, police said. 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/2010/09/pennsauken_man_hangs_himself_i.html (external link, as recorded in the dataset).

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This is one of 29 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2010, and one of 52 it holds for Camden 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 John A. Johns died on September 28, 2010 in Pennsauken Township, Camden 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 "Pennsauken 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 Pennsauken Township, Camden County, on September 28, 2010. The address as recorded is 2400 Bethel Ave. Pennsauken Township NJ 08109 Camden.

Sources

  1. [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 19481. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩