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Name Not Disclosed

Age : 33

Gender : Female

Race : Unknown

Date : 07/30/2021

Location : Denison Avenue and West 73rd Street

City : Cleveland

County : Cuyahoga

State : Ohio

Agency : Brooklyn Police Department

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Vehicle

Event : Passenger killed by police chase crash

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

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REASON FOR POLICE CHASE:
Vehicle believed connected to a reported shooting. At approximately 2:30 a.m., Brooklyn Police Department officers responded to the Tavern on Biddulph at 7104 Biddulph Road after receiving a report of shots fired. Officers found spent shell casings, and witnesses provided a description of a white Nissan believed connected to the gunfire. Officers later located the Nissan near Ridge Road and Associate Avenue and conducted a traffic stop. The driver initially stopped, then drove away at high speed, and Brooklyn police pursued north on Ridge Road toward Cleveland.
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EVENT NARRATIVE:
On 07/30/2021, a 33-year-old woman was killed while riding as a passenger in a white Nissan pursued by Brooklyn Police Department officers from Brooklyn into Cleveland following a shooting investigation. The driver lost control near Denison Avenue and West 73rd Street, and the Nissan overturned. Both the woman and the driver were ejected.
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The police encounter began approximately 30 minutes earlier at the Tavern on Biddulph, where Brooklyn officers responded to reports of gunfire. Officers recovered shell casings, and witnesses described a white Nissan believed to have been involved. Police later located a Nissan matching that description and stopped it on Ridge Road near Associate Avenue.
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Police said the 32-year-old driver initially complied with the stop but then drove away at high speed. Brooklyn officers pursued north on Ridge Road toward Cleveland. Public reporting does not provide a measured maximum speed, exact pursuit distance, precise duration, or the number of Brooklyn police vehicles involved.
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At approximately 3:00 a.m., the Nissan reached the Denison Avenue area. Police said the driver lost control, struck a concrete barrier and overturned near West 73rd Street. Both people inside were ejected from the vehicle.
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The 33-year-old passenger was pronounced dead at the scene. Officers pulled the critically injured driver from the wreckage and extinguished a fire involving the Nissan. Cleveland EMS transported the driver to MetroHealth Medical Center.
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Brooklyn police subsequently reported recovering a firearm from the wreckage. Police said the firearm's caliber matched the spent shell casings recovered from the Tavern on Biddulph. The weapon was recovered after the fatal crash; the available reporting does not establish that the deceased passenger fired the weapon or participated in the earlier shooting.
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No PIT/TVI maneuver, stop-stick deployment, roadblock or intentional police-vehicle contact immediately before the crash was reported. Available public accounts also do not establish whether the pursuit was formally terminated before the Nissan overturned or whether a supervisor ordered or approved continuation of the chase.
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The Cleveland Division of Police investigated the fatal crash because the collision occurred within Cleveland. Brooklyn Police Department continued investigating the original shots-fired incident. Brooklyn Police Chief Scott Mielke publicly confirmed the basic pursuit chronology.
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The deceased woman was recorded contemporaneously as a 33-year-old passenger. Fatal Encounters also records the fatality as the female passenger killed during the Brooklyn police pursuit. Her full name was not publicly provided in the available contemporary reporting.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The Brooklyn Police Department officers who stopped the Nissan and participated in the pursuit have not been publicly identified in the available news reports or indexed public records.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/1-person-dies-in-crash-on-denison-avenue-in-cleveland
https://www.cleveland19.com/2021/07/30/one-person-dead-following-police-chase-that-ends-cleveland/
https://fatalencounters.org/view/person-csv/csv/?pagenum=62