Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Leray Herring
January 9, 2010 · Newark, Essex County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Leray Herring
- Age as recorded
- 37
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- Race unspecified
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- January 9, 2010
- Location as recorded
- Newark, Essex CountyClinton Ave & Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd Newark NJ 07114 Essex
- Highest level of force as recorded
- Vehicle
Where the dataset places it
The marked point is the dataset's own geocoded location for this record, as recorded. Every other New Jersey record in the dataset is shown in gray. A point on a map is where a death was recorded, not a finding about anyone.
Agencies as recorded
Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Union Township Police Department
An agency appears here because it appears in the record's as-reported agency field, nothing more. Its presence is not a claim of fault or responsibility.
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.
Union Township Police attempted to stop Leray Herring in his Honda Accord, just before midnight, police said. He accelerated away and police followed him into Newark. Minutes later, he crashed into a 35-year-old woman and her 6-year-old daughter, injuring both and killing himself.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/suspect_fleeing_police_dies_wh.html (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 29 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2010, 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
- Dawud Culver (2010) December 20, 2010
- James Callaway Sr. (2010) December 18, 2010
- Rajon Chambers (2010) November 6, 2010
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Leray Herring died on January 9, 2010 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 "Union Township 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 January 9, 2010. The address as recorded is Clinton Ave & Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd Newark NJ 07114 Essex.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 20420. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩