Jennifer Jean Patterson

How they died

Pursuit

Police were attempting to serve a warrant on a man operating a stolen tow truck. Officers surrounded the truck when the driver placed it in reverse and allegedly backed toward a detective who fired a single shot that did not hit anyone. The tow truck, with the fugitive and a female passenger, headed toward Baltimore with police in pursuit. Jennifer Jean Patterson, 42, who was the passenger in the tow truck, either jumped or was pushed from the moving truck and was struck and killed by the rear wheels. David Bogdanowicz, 52, was charged with second-degree murder, first-degree assault, unlawfully taking a motor other and resisting arrest.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Jennifer Jean Patterson, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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