Fatal Encounters

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

Elisha Clark

Name: Elisha Clark
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Race: African-American/Black
Date: 12/23/2010
Location: Belvidere Road and Green Bay Road
Waukegan, Illinois, 60085
County: Lake
Agency: Waukegan Police Department
Cause of Death: Vehicle
Intended Use of Force: Vehic/Purs
Media summary: Elisha Clark was killed when her car was struck by a Mazda fleeing police. Police had pursued Donald Mischke, 54, after he allegedly used his car to break into a Target and steal a flat-screen television. Police claimed the officers had called off the chase by the time Mischke ran a red light and struck Clark's Buick Century. Police said an off-duty officer was at the intersection of Belvidere and Green Bay roads and called the crash into dispatch. Clark was pronounced dead at the scene at around 3:30 a.m.
Unique ID: 9727

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