Fatal Encounters

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

Edward James Moore

Name: Edward James Moore
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Race: Race unspecified
Date: 08/03/2000
Location: 800 block E 216th St
Bronx, New York, 10467
County: Bronx
Agency: City of New York Police Department
Cause of Death: Chemical agent/Pepper spray
Intended Use of Force: Less-than-lethal force
Media summary: During the incident, police said Moore " tore off his clothes, rammed his head through his car windows and attacked his mother," before being pepper-sprayed into submission by responding officers. Moore went into cardiac arrest while being pepper-sprayed, and later died at a nearby hospital.
Unique ID: 369

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