Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Joselin Breton
November 25, 2008 · Newark, Essex County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Joselin Breton
- Age as recorded
- 34
- Gender as recorded
- Female
- Race as reported
- Race unspecified
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- November 25, 2008
- Location as recorded
- Newark, Essex CountyOrange Street and Myrtle Street Newark NJ 07107 Essex
- 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: East Orange Police Department
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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.
Joselin Breton, 34, and Anevdy Breton, 10, were heading to their home a few blocks away after visiting Joselin's mother when their 2001 Toyota Corolla was struck by an Acura at 11 p.m. Breton and her son were thrown from the vehicle, according to authorities. The 2006 Acura, which was stolen out of Clifton, was being chased by East Orange police just 15 minutes before it struck Breton's vehicle. Police said the officers cut off the chase at the Newark border, but they continued to speed
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://www.nj.com/newark/index.ssf/2008/12/newark_mom_dies_of_crash_injur.html (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 23 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2008, and one of 118 it holds for Essex County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Records from the same county and year
- Anevdy Breton (2008) November 25, 2008
- Joao "John" Marques (2008) July 12, 2008
- Francisco Taveras aka Francisco Martes (2008) July 9, 2008
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Joselin Breton died on November 25, 2008 in Newark, Essex 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 "East Orange 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 Newark, Essex County, on November 25, 2008. The address as recorded is Orange Street and Myrtle Street Newark NJ 07107 Essex.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 21835. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩