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Bradley G. Pullman

April 26, 2020 · Wayne, Passaic County

Details as recorded

Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]

Name as recorded
Bradley G. Pullman
Age as recorded
48
Gender as recorded
Male
Race as reported
Race unspecified
Date of the injury resulting in death
April 26, 2020
Location as recorded
Wayne, Passaic County320 NJ-23 Wayne NJ 7470 Passaic
Highest level of force as recorded
Gunshot

Where the dataset places it

The location Fatal Encounters recorded for this death: Wayne, Passaic County

The marked point is the dataset's own geocoded location for this record, as recorded. Every other New Jersey record in the dataset is shown in gray. A point on a map is where a death was recorded, not a finding about anyone.

Agencies as recorded

Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Mountain Lakes Police Department, Fairfield Police Department, Wayne Police Department

An agency appears here because it appears in the record's as-reported agency field, nothing more. Its presence is not a claim of fault or responsibility.

Department pages (matched by this site at high confidence)

What this site holds on the agencies named

Separate records, shown here so they can be found from this page. Nothing below is connected to this death. The Fatal Encounters dataset does not link the two, the Attorney General's releases do not, and neither does this site. The years each figure covers are printed for the same reason.

  • Mountain Lakes Police Department

    Reported 32 internal affairs investigations across 2021 to 2025. 2 major discipline records name officers at this agency.

  • Fairfield Police Department

    Reported 162 internal affairs investigations across 2021 to 2025. 2 major discipline records name officers at this agency.

  • Wayne Police Department

    Reported 240 internal affairs investigations across 2021 to 2025. 1 major discipline record names an officer at this agency.

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.

At approximately 4:38 p.m., a Mountain Lakes police officer attempted to stop a Lexus sedan that reportedly made an illegal U-turn. The car did not stop and police chased it at high speeds through multiple municipalities. The chase ended at the interchange of US-46, NJ-23 and I-80, when multiple police officers shot and killed Pullman.

Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://highlandscurrent.org/2020/06/16/beacon-man-killed-by-police-in-new-jersey/ (external link, as recorded in the dataset).

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This is one of 19 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2020, and one of 36 it holds for Passaic County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.

Records from the same county and year

Questions and answers

What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?

Fatal Encounters records that Bradley G. Pullman died on April 26, 2020 in Wayne, Passaic 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 "Mountain Lakes Police Department, Fairfield Police Department, Wayne Police Department". 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 Wayne, Passaic County, on April 26, 2020. The address as recorded is 320 NJ-23 Wayne NJ 7470 Passaic.

Sources

  1. [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 3432. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩