Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Jose Luis Ives Jr.
July 16, 2003 · Union City, Hudson County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Jose Luis Ives Jr.
- Age as recorded
- 17
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- Hispanic/Latino
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- July 16, 2003
- Location as recorded
- Union City, Hudson CountyPleasant Avenue and 33rd Street Union City NJ 07087 Hudson
- Highest level of force as recorded
- Beaten/Bludgeoned with instrument
Where the dataset places it
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Agencies as recorded
Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Weehawken 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.
Off-duty officer confronted Ives, one of several youth reportedly setting off car alarms, with a physical battle that ended with Ives cracking his skull against the street paving. He died several days later. The officer was acquitted of manslaughter but received 8 years in prison for assault and another 7 for filing false reports.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/2408244/article-Cop-trial-begins-in-teen-s-death-Suspended-Weehawken-officer-faces-murder-charges-of-Union-City-teen (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 23 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2003, 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
- Abraham Santiago (2003) April 3, 2003
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Jose Luis Ives Jr. died on July 16, 2003 in Union City, Hudson County, with "Beaten/Bludgeoned with instrument" 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 "Weehawken 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 Union City, Hudson County, on July 16, 2003. The address as recorded is Pleasant Avenue and 33rd Street Union City NJ 07087 Hudson.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 28162. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩