Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Timothy J. Harden
September 5, 2015 · Freehold Township, Monmouth County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Timothy J. Harden
- Age as recorded
- 38
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- European-American/White
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- September 5, 2015
- Location as recorded
- Freehold Township, Monmouth County1017 NJ-33 Freehold Township NJ 07728 Monmouth
- Highest level of force as recorded
- Asphyxiated/Restrained
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: Howell 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.
Howell police were called to respond to a disorderly person at the festival, which was hosted at the New Jersey Latvian Society's center. When police arrived, the guards handed Harden over to them. Those officers, who have not been identified, were the last to see Harden alive, according to Mallon and Griffin Security LLC. According to the suit, at some point after he was turned over to police, Harden was choked to death. Exactly what transpired in Harden's final moments is unclear.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf/2016/03/cops_not_responsible_for_death_of_man_at_music_fes.html (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
If you are a family member of the person named here, or represent one, and something in this record is wrong, or you want the record removed, requests go through the corrections page. Every request is checked against the source record.
This is one of 31 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2015, and one of 17 it holds for Monmouth County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Records from the same county and year
- Tamara Seidle (2015) June 16, 2015
- Scott Ryan McAllister (2015) May 27, 2015
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Timothy J. Harden died on September 5, 2015 in Freehold Township, Monmouth County, with "Asphyxiated/Restrained" 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 "Howell 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 Freehold Township, Monmouth County, on September 5, 2015. The address as recorded is 1017 NJ-33 Freehold Township NJ 07728 Monmouth.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 11670. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩