Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Name withheld by police
April 24, 2014 · Bergenfield, Bergen County
Fatal Encounters records that police withheld this person's name.
Details as recorded
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
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: 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.
Department pages (matched by this site at high confidence)
What this site holds on the agencies named
Separate records, shown here so they can be found from this page. Nothing below is connected to this death. The Fatal Encounters dataset does not link the two, the Attorney General's releases do not, and neither does this site. The years each figure covers are printed for the same reason.
- Bergenfield Police Department
Reported 60 internal affairs investigations across 2021 to 2025. 4 major discipline records name officers at this agency.
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.
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).
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This is one of 19 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2014, and one of 32 it holds for Bergen County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Records from the same county and year
- Miguel Reyes (2014) October 8, 2014
- Kashad Ashford (2014) September 16, 2014
Questions and answers
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.
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.
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.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 13957. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩