Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Xzavier Wells
December 18, 2017 · Tabernacle, Burlington County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Xzavier Wells
- Age as recorded
- 18
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- African-American/Black
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- December 18, 2017
- Location as recorded
- Tabernacle, Burlington CountyFlyatt Rd & Carranza Rd Tabernacle NJ 08088 Burlington
- 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: New Jersey State Police
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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.
Troopers responded to a report of a stolen vehicle from the Pic-a-Lilli Inn, a restaurant in Shamong, just before noon. While patrolling nearby on Route 206, troopers saw the allegedly stolen vehicle pass them, and turned to follow it. After a short pursuit, the vehicle crashed into a utility pole in Tabernacle Township and caught fire, police said. Xzavier Wells, 18, Nichole Ross, 16, and Tatiana Carter, 16, were killed.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://6abc.com/traffic/driver-wraps-suv-around-utility-pole-attempting-to-evade-police-3-dead/2795439/ (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 36 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2017, and one of 19 it holds for Burlington County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Records from the same county and year
- Nichole Ross (2017) December 18, 2017
- Tatiana Carter (2017) December 18, 2017
- Kassidy Brooke Bush (2017) November 15, 2017
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Xzavier Wells died on December 18, 2017 in Tabernacle, Burlington 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 "New Jersey State Police". 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 Tabernacle, Burlington County, on December 18, 2017. The address as recorded is Flyatt Rd & Carranza Rd Tabernacle NJ 08088 Burlington.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 7840. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩