Khalid Bouaiti

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Name as recorded

Khalid Bouaiti

Age as recorded

44

Gender as recorded

Male

Race as reported

African-American/Black

Date of the injury resulting in death

March 8, 2013

Location as recorded

Jersey City, Hudson County239 Fowler Avenue Jersey City NJ 07305 Hudson

Highest level of force as recorded

Gunshot

Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Jersey City Police Department

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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.

Khalid Bouaiti, a mentally ill man, was shot and killed by a Jersey City police officer when he allegedly charged the officer with a knife. Bouaiti had shut himself in his apartment after speaking with a therapist from Jersey City Medical Center. Officer forced their way into his home, and say that he attacked one of them with a knife. The officer fired several shots from his handgun, and Bouaiti was pronounced dead at Jersey City Medical Center.

Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2013/03/authorities_id_mentally_ill_ma.html (external link, as recorded in the dataset).

What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?

Fatal Encounters records that Khalid Bouaiti died on March 8, 2013 in Jersey City, Hudson 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.

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Which agency or agencies were recorded as involved?

The record's agency field reads "Jersey City 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.

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Where did this happen?

The record places the death in Jersey City, Hudson County, on March 8, 2013. The address as recorded is 239 Fowler Avenue Jersey City NJ 07305 Hudson.

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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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