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Michael Gabriele

January 28, 2014 · Passaic, Passaic County

Details as recorded

Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]

Name as recorded
Michael Gabriele
Age as recorded
46
Gender as recorded
Male
Race as reported
European-American/White
Date of the injury resulting in death
January 28, 2014
Location as recorded
Passaic, Passaic County200 Pennington Avenue Passaic NJ 07055 Passaic
Highest level of force as recorded
Gunshot

Where the dataset places it

The location Fatal Encounters recorded for this death: Passaic, Passaic County

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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.

Police were called to a senior citizen home where Gabriele was arguing with his mother. When police arrived at the apartment, Gabriele grabbed a kitchen knife and charged them. One officer fired one shot, killing Gabriele. Gabriele had a criminal history, including burglary and drug possession charges. More information needed about this encounter.

Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://www.nj.com/passaic-county/2014/01/knife-wielding_man_fatally_shot_by_police_at_passaic_senior_complex_prosecutors_say.html (external link, as recorded in the dataset).

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This is one of 19 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2014, and one of 36 it holds for Passaic County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.

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Questions and answers

What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?

Fatal Encounters records that Michael Gabriele died on January 28, 2014 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 January 28, 2014. The address as recorded is 200 Pennington Avenue Passaic NJ 07055 Passaic.

Sources

  1. [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 14357. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩