Jessie Hernandez aka Jessica Hernandez

How they died

Deadly force

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.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Jessie Hernandez aka Jessica Hernandez, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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