Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Charles Arroyo
October 18, 2008 · Egg Harbor City, Atlantic County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Charles Arroyo
- Age as recorded
- 31
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- Hispanic/Latino
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- October 18, 2008
- Location as recorded
- Egg Harbor City, Atlantic County457 Havana Avenue Egg Harbor City NJ 08215 Atlantic
- Highest level of force as recorded
- Medical emergency
Where the dataset places it
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Agencies as recorded
Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Egg Harbor Township Police Department
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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.
Police received a late-night call from Charles Arroyo's sister, Betsy, who was concerned for her brother and mother, Isabel, at a residence in Egg Harbor City. When police arrived, they found Arroyo fighting with his mother. He fought with police and died, but police said it was "excited delirium" and not the beating that killed the schizophrenic man.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/prosecutor-excited-delirium-and-not-a-police-beating-caused-egg/article_05af94bc-5204-11de-9148-001cc4c002e0.html?mode=jqm (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 23 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2008, and one of 22 it holds for Atlantic 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 Charles Arroyo died on October 18, 2008 in Egg Harbor City, Atlantic County, with "Medical emergency" 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 "Egg Harbor Township 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 Egg Harbor City, Atlantic County, on October 18, 2008. The address as recorded is 457 Havana Avenue Egg Harbor City NJ 08215 Atlantic.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 21952. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩