Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Name withheld by police
September 12, 2018 · Union City, Hudson 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
- 57
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- Race unspecified
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- September 12, 2018
- Location as recorded
- Union City, Hudson County2022 Bergenline Ave Union City NJ 07087 Hudson
- 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: Union City 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)
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 responded to the apartment building on the report of a sexual assault that morning and were met by the alleged victim, who directed them to suspect's second-floor apartment, police said. There, they were confronted by the armed man, who allegedly fatally shot himself in the head. An officer reportedly discharged his Taser, apparently to no effect.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2018/09/cops_were_responding_to_sex_assault_when_man_shot.html (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 29 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2018, and one of 34 it holds for Hudson County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Records from the same county and year
- Joshua Nunez aka Frank Hernandez (2018) March 13, 2018
- Umar King (2018) January 23, 2018
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 September 12, 2018 in Union City, Hudson 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 "Union City 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 Union City, Hudson County, on September 12, 2018. The address as recorded is 2022 Bergenline Ave Union City NJ 07087 Hudson.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 6434. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩