Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Willoysis M. Shaw
April 15, 2006 · Jersey City, Hudson County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Willoysis M. Shaw
- Age as recorded
- 48
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- Race unspecified
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- April 15, 2006
- Location as recorded
- Jersey City, Hudson County1309 Kennedy Blvd. Jersey City NJ 07305 Hudson
- Highest level of force as recorded
- Vehicle
Where the dataset places it
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Agencies as recorded
Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Jersey City Police Department
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Department pages (matched by this site at high confidence)
What this site holds on the agencies named
Separate records, shown here so they can be found from this page. Nothing below is connected to this death. The Fatal Encounters dataset does not link the two, the Attorney General's releases do not, and neither does this site. The years each figure covers are printed for the same reason.
- Jersey City Police Department
Reported 2,341 internal affairs investigations across 2021 to 2025. 92 major discipline records name officers at this agency.
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.
Jersey City police in a patrol car saw a black 1997 Toyota Camry speed through a red light at Audubon Avenue and John F. Kennedy Boulevard. Police gave chase and the Toyota twice feigned at pulling over only to race off again, police said. The driver lost control, slammed into the side of the General Plumbing and Supply building, and burst into flames, police said. One man was killed, another seriously injured.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u5yi-cx_YypNxHti0mGMdXcj7OCZVkHVlLp4ZZBTk74/edit?usp=sharing (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 22 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2006, and one of 34 it holds for Hudson County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Willoysis M. Shaw died on April 15, 2006 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 "Jersey 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 Jersey City, Hudson County, on April 15, 2006. The address as recorded is 1309 Kennedy Blvd. Jersey City NJ 07305 Hudson.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 25137. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩