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Vanessa Facen
United States · Aged 35 · Died 11/17/2005
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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.
Alleged responsible partySan Diego County Sheriff's Office, La Mesa Police DepartmentReported by the cited sources. “Alleged” is used pending verification.
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