Vanessa Facen

Less-than-lethal force

Vanessa Facen, a transsexual woman, died four days after a struggle with an unknown number of deputies just after arrival at the sally port of a men's jail. 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.