Fatal Encounters

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

Homero Rosales Jr.

Name: Homero Rosales Jr.
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Race: Race unspecified
Date: 01/10/2009
Location: S 79th St & Elwood Street
Houston, Texas, 77012
County: Harris
Agency: Houston Police Department
Cause of Death: Vehicle
Intended Use of Force: Vehic/Purs
Media summary: Rosales was struck and killed in his Ford Expedition after a brief police chase of a teenager in a stolen F-350 in black. The teen suspect said that he'd "found" the F-350, that he didn't want to go to jail, that he didn't "have no driver's license or nothing."
Unique ID: 7776

News article: Link






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