Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Craig Berner
July 27, 2013 · Moorestown, Burlington County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Craig Berner
- Age as recorded
- 52
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- European-American/White
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- July 27, 2013
- Location as recorded
- Moorestown, Burlington CountyWestfield Road Moorestown NJ 08057 Burlington
- Highest level of force as recorded
- Vehicle
Where the dataset places it
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Agencies as recorded
Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Moorestown 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.
- Moorestown Police Department
Reported 21 internal affairs investigations across 2021 to 2025. 2 major discipline records name officers 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.
Sgt. William McGovern of the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office fatally ran over a motorcyclist and called 911 last July 27. Then, minutes after he learned the victim was off-duty Moorestown Patrolman Craig Berner, McGovern left the scene on Westfield Road to feed a friend's cat, according to law enforcement records.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/local/20140728_Officer_s_widow_seeks_answers_in_fatality.html (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 23 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2013, and one of 19 it holds for Burlington 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 Craig Berner died on July 27, 2013 in Moorestown, Burlington County, with "Vehicle" 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 "Moorestown 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 Moorestown, Burlington County, on July 27, 2013. The address as recorded is Westfield Road Moorestown NJ 08057 Burlington.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 15227. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩