Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Steven McCrae
July 25, 2012 · Newark, Essex County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Steven McCrae
- Age as recorded
- 20
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- African-American/Black
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- July 25, 2012
- Location as recorded
- Newark, Essex County300 block 7th Avenue Newark NJ 07107 Essex
- Highest level of force as recorded
- Gunshot
Where the dataset places it
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Agencies as recorded
Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Essex County Department of Corrections
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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.
An unidentified off-duty corrections officer fatally shot Steven McCrae who the officer said tried to carjack him in Newark. The two exchanged gunfire, and both suffered gunshot wounds.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://nj1015.com/off-duty-officer-fatally-shoots-newark-carjacking-suspect/ (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 23 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2012, and one of 118 it holds for Essex County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Records from the same county and year
- Marvin Coleman (2012) November 20, 2012
- Shegan Anthony Rubin (2012) November 10, 2012
- Darroll Morris (2012) August 27, 2012
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Steven McCrae died on July 25, 2012 in Newark, Essex 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 "Essex County Department of Corrections". 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 Newark, Essex County, on July 25, 2012. The address as recorded is 300 block 7th Avenue Newark NJ 07107 Essex.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 16918. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩