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Moshowon D. "Fat Daddy" Leach
March 21, 2010 · Penns Grove, Salem County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Moshowon D. "Fat Daddy" Leach
- Age as recorded
- 31
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- African-American/Black
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- March 21, 2010
- Location as recorded
- Penns Grove, Salem County200 S Smith Ave Penns Grove NJ 08069 Salem
- Highest level of force as recorded
- Beaten/Bludgeoned with instrument
Where the dataset places it
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Agencies as recorded
Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Penns Grove 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.
Penns Grove police officers responded to an anonymous call of an unruly male wearing a white T-shirt in the area of Penn Village Apartments. As officers found MoShowon Leach, he allegedly refused to comply with police requests, which resulted in his being placed under arrest, police said. He fought and ended up with a broken neck.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://www.nj.com/salem/index.ssf/2010/04/investigation_into_death_of_ma.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 6 it holds for Salem 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 Moshowon D. "Fat Daddy" Leach died on March 21, 2010 in Penns Grove, Salem 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.
Which agency or agencies were recorded as involved?
The record's agency field reads "Penns Grove 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 Penns Grove, Salem County, on March 21, 2010. The address as recorded is 200 S Smith Ave Penns Grove NJ 08069 Salem.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 20175. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩