TRENTON The Attorney General's Office has released a recording from a private security camera that captured video footage of a fatal encounter involving a police vehicle and a bicyclist that occurred on June 18 at The Walk in Atlantic City. The bicyclist, Everett Stern, 63, of Atlantic City, was critically injured and died in the hospital one week later. The fatal police encounter remains under investigation by the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability. The video is being released pursuant to policies established by the Attorney General in 2019 that are designed to promote the fair, impartial, and transparent investigation of fatal police encounters. Investigators met today with the decedent's family and attorney to review the video recording.
According to the preliminary investigation, a uniformed Atlantic City Police Officer Ahmed Waqar was responding to a routine call for service in a marked patrol vehicle, with no lights or siren activated, when the accident occurred at approximately 8:30 p.m. at the intersection of Arkansas and Arctic avenues. Waqar was traveling northbound on Arkansas Avenue, and Stern was traveling eastbound on Arctic Avenue when his bicycle collided with the driver side of the police vehicle. The officer immediately called for emergency medical personnel and rendered aid. Stern was taken by ambulance to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, where he died on June 25.
The investigation is ongoing and no further information is being released at this time.
