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Umar King

January 23, 2018 · Jersey City, Hudson County

Details as recorded

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

Name as recorded
Umar King
Age as recorded
33
Gender as recorded
Male
Race as reported
African-American/Black
Date of the injury resulting in death
January 23, 2018
Location as recorded
Jersey City, Hudson CountyCommunipaw Avenue and Kennedy Boulevard Jersey City NJ 07304 Hudson
Highest level of force as recorded
Vehicle

Where the dataset places it

The location Fatal Encounters recorded for this death: Jersey City, Hudson County

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Agencies as recorded

Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Hudson County Sheriff's Office

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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.

Police were trying to pull over the stolen vehicle, which was seen speeding and running traffic lights when it slammed into a light post and crashed into a bus shelter, police said. Umar King was standing inside waiting for the bus. He was killed on impact.

Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/01/23/pedestrian-killed-jersey-city/ (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.

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Questions and answers

What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?

Fatal Encounters records that Umar King died on January 23, 2018 in Jersey City, Hudson 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 "Hudson County Sheriff's Office". 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 Jersey City, Hudson County, on January 23, 2018. The address as recorded is Communipaw Avenue and Kennedy Boulevard Jersey City NJ 07304 Hudson.

Sources

  1. [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 7655. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩