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Princess Young

December 18, 2005 · Eatontown, Monmouth County

Details as recorded

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

Name as recorded
Princess Young
Age as recorded
17
Gender as recorded
Female
Race as reported
Race unspecified
Date of the injury resulting in death
December 18, 2005
Location as recorded
Eatontown, Monmouth CountyNJ-35 and Industrial Way Eatontown NJ 07724 Monmouth
Highest level of force as recorded
Vehicle

Where the dataset places it

The location Fatal Encounters recorded for this death: Eatontown, Monmouth County

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: Ocean Township 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.

Princess Young was a passenger in an allegedly stolen car, driven by her 13-year-old cousin, who was arrested and charged after the wreck.

Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-l9Ys3cd80fVU9aOXI4b1pncWM/view?usp=sharing (external link, as recorded in the dataset).

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This is one of 30 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2005, and one of 17 it holds for Monmouth 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 Princess Young died on December 18, 2005 in Eatontown, Monmouth County, with "Vehicle" 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 "Ocean Township 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 Eatontown, Monmouth County, on December 18, 2005. The address as recorded is NJ-35 and Industrial Way Eatontown NJ 07724 Monmouth.

Sources

  1. [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 25491. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩