Name withheld by police

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

Name as recorded

Name withheld by police

Age as recorded

not reported

Gender as recorded

Male

Race as reported

Race unspecified

Date of the injury resulting in death

April 24, 2014

Location as recorded

Bergenfield, Bergen County10 block Hunt Walk Bergenfield NJ 07621 Bergen

Highest level of force as recorded

Gunshot

Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Bergenfield 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.

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

The Bergen County Police SWAT team and bomb squad responded at 12:15 p.m. to a report of a man who was armed and possibly suicidal, police said. After securing the neighborhood, police waited almost two hours before entering the garage. The man, who has not been named, killed himself with a gun.

Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_RMyaH2LPcJGqZoob538ZD48qbt8T-C9Os4cJAmpq08/edit?usp=sharing (external link, as recorded in the dataset).

What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?

Fatal Encounters records that a person whose name police withheld died on April 24, 2014 in Bergenfield, Bergen 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 "Bergenfield 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 Bergenfield, Bergen County, on April 24, 2014. The address as recorded is 10 block Hunt Walk Bergenfield NJ 07621 Bergen.

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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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