Jessie Hernandez aka Jessica Hernandez
Name: Jessie Hernandez aka Jessica Hernandez
Age: 17
Gender: Transgender
Race: Hispanic/Latino
Date: 01/26/2015
Location: E. 25th Ave. and Newport St.
Denver, Colorado, 80207
County: Denver
Agency: Denver Police Department
Cause of Death:
Intended Use of Force:
Media summary: Witnesses say police shot the victim in a car from the side-corroborated by forensics; police say they shot in self-defense. Fatal Encounters apologizes for the occasional use of birth names for transgender people. Police and news media often report the birth names instead of the real names, so we have to have both in our name field to prevent duplications in the dataset. It's disrespectful, and we're sorry about the necessity.
Unique ID: 15664
News article: Link
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