Police killings
2013-2020

Samir Nicholson

Male, Black

Date of the incident: 4/29/2017

East Orange, Essex, NJ
200 South Clinton Street

An off-duty Jersey City police officer shot and killed Samir Nicholson in East Orange, police said. The prosecutor's office did not immediately release more information about the circumstances leading up to the killing, which was under investigation by the agency's Professional Standards Bureau. The off-duty Jersey City police officer, Titus Johnson, has been involved in at least two other fatal shootings since 1999.