Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Barry Lee Bush
April 5, 2007 · Somerville, Hunterdon County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Barry Lee Bush
- Age as recorded
- 52
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- European-American/White
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- April 5, 2007
- Location as recorded
- Somerville, Hunterdon County3535 U.S. Hwy 22 Somerville NJ 08876 Hunterdon
- Highest level of force as recorded
- Gunshot
Where the dataset places it
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Agencies as recorded
Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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The source's account
Fatal Encounters' description of the incident, verbatim. This is the source project's own third-party narrative, not this site's reporting.
Working for the FBI's Newark office as a special agent, Bush was killed by friendly gunfire during the attempted arrest of three bank robbery suspects. Agents fired at the three while they switched getaway vehicles. In the "dynamic arrest situation" Bush was killed, the suspects did not fire weapons, and one of the three temporarily escaped.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/05/fbi.agent.killed/index.html?eref=yahoo (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 22 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2007, and one of 5 it holds for Hunterdon County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Barry Lee Bush died on April 5, 2007 in Somerville, Hunterdon County, with "Gunshot" as the highest level of force. Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced dataset of deaths that occurred during police encounters of any kind; a record is not a finding of fault or misconduct.
Which agency or agencies were recorded as involved?
The record's agency field reads "U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation". Presence in that field means the agency appears in the record as reported, nothing more; it is not a claim of fault or responsibility by any officer or agency.
Where did this happen?
The record places the death in Somerville, Hunterdon County, on April 5, 2007. The address as recorded is 3535 U.S. Hwy 22 Somerville NJ 08876 Hunterdon.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 23865. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩