Kenwin Garcia

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Name as recorded

Kenwin Garcia

Age as recorded

25

Gender as recorded

Male

Race as reported

African-American/Black

Date of the injury resulting in death

July 15, 2008

Location as recorded

Parsippany, Morris CountyMilepost 40.1 on Interstate 287 South Parsippany NJ 07054 Morris

Highest level of force as recorded

Beaten/Bludgeoned with instrument

Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Hanover Township Police Department, New Jersey State Police

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Fatal Encounters' description of the incident, verbatim. This is the source project's own third-party narrative, not this site's reporting.

Troopers and local police found Garcia walking alongside a highway; they took him in on old warrants for stealing candy and jumping a turnstile. Garcia kicked out the window of a patrol car. He was pepper-sprayed, placed in leg restraints, and broke another car window with his head. Taken off life support a week later, an autopsy showed extensive and severe internal injuries consistent with a fatal beating (six cups of blood in his abdomen), contrary to the police narrative. The family won a $700K settlement.

Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/09/nj_attorney_general_pays_500k_to_family_of_newark_man_who_died_in_state_police_custody.html (external link, as recorded in the dataset).

What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?

Fatal Encounters records that Kenwin Garcia died on July 15, 2008 in Parsippany, Morris 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.

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Which agency or agencies were recorded as involved?

The record's agency field reads "Hanover Township Police Department, New Jersey State Police". 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.

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Where did this happen?

The record places the death in Parsippany, Morris County, on July 15, 2008. The address as recorded is Milepost 40.1 on Interstate 287 South Parsippany NJ 07054 Morris.

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Does this record mean police caused or were at fault for this death?

No. Fatal Encounters documented deaths that occurred during police encounters of any kind, including vehicle pursuits and crashes, suicides that occurred in police presence, and medical emergencies. This record documents that a death occurred during an encounter; it is not a finding of fault, misconduct, or wrongdoing, and it has no connection to the discipline records elsewhere on this site.

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