Fatal Encounters

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Name withheld by police

Name: Name withheld by police
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Race: Race unspecified
Date: 07/12/2018
Location: 8 Sterling St.
Middletown, New York, 10940
County: Orange
Agency: Middletown Police Department
Cause of Death: Vehicle
Intended Use of Force: Pursuit
Media summary: At 12:53 a.m., an officer saw a black 2000 Lexus GS300 commit a traffic infraction. The officer attempted to stop the vehicle, which took off at a high rate of speed. The officer pursued with his emergency lights on in an effort to get the driver to stop, police said. The driver lost control of the vehicle, and left the road, striking a telephone pole and then a concrete porch of an unoccupied house. The driver was killed.
Unique ID: 24618

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