Fatal Encounters

A step toward creating an impartial, comprehensive and searchable national database of people killed during interactions with police

Hernan J. Brito-Alvarado

Name: Hernan J. Brito-Alvarado
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Race: Race unspecified
Date: 08/10/2000
Location: Seventh Avenue NE and University Avenue NE
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55413
County: Hennepin
Agency: Minneapolis Police Department
Cause of Death: Vehicle
Intended Use of Force: Vehic/Purs
Media summary: Hernan J. Brito-Alvarado, 17, and his cousin Javier Cedillo-Brito, 25, died after a Cambridge, Minn., man drove through a stop sign in northeast Minneapolis on Aug. 10, police said. An officer had lost sight of Jeffrey J. Hookham's car and had turned off lights and siren before the crash with Cedillo-Brito's car. Hookham was charged with second-degree murder.
Unique ID: 378

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