Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Juan Flores Palasios
April 12, 2006 · Passaic, Passaic County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Juan Flores Palasios
- Age as recorded
- 42
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- Hispanic/Latino
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- April 12, 2006
- Location as recorded
- Passaic, Passaic County370 Monroe St. Passaic NJ 07055 Passaic
- 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: Passaic 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.
Juan Palasios was shot in the back after he allegedly threatened a police officer. He was leaving Johnny's when patrol Officers Jose Irizarry and Emery Simmons warned him that he could not drink from an open container in the street. Palasios then pulled a knife from a homemade sheath and began threatening Irizarry, police said. The officers told him to drop the weapon, but when he appeared to reach for Irizarry's collar, and Simmons shot and killed Palasios.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u7mSuljXOoOLYuMcev2Mi3ZUuMl9umQvMwcKZETHAyA/edit?usp=sharing (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 22 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2006, and one of 36 it holds for Passaic 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 Juan Flores Palasios died on April 12, 2006 in Passaic, Passaic 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 "Passaic 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 Passaic, Passaic County, on April 12, 2006. The address as recorded is 370 Monroe St. Passaic NJ 07055 Passaic.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 25146. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩