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Eddie Jones III

December 23, 2012 · Gloucester Township, Camden County

Details as recorded

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

Name as recorded
Eddie Jones III
Age as recorded
39
Gender as recorded
Male
Race as reported
African-American/Black
Date of the injury resulting in death
December 23, 2012
Location as recorded
Gloucester Township, Camden County1261 Chews Landing Rd Gloucester Township NJ 08021 Camden
Highest level of force as recorded
Gunshot

Where the dataset places it

The location Fatal Encounters recorded for this death: Gloucester Township, Camden County

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Agencies as recorded

Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Gloucester 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.

Jones overpowered Officer Ruth Burns inside the station in Gloucester Township, a Philadelphia suburb, police said. He fired at her and two officers who had been in a nearby room and came rushing to aid their colleague. The two officers fired on Jones, killing him.

Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/28/three-cops-reportedly-shot-inside-new-jersey-police-station.html (external link, as recorded in the dataset).

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This is one of 23 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2012, and one of 52 it holds for Camden County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.

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Questions and answers

What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?

Fatal Encounters records that Eddie Jones III died on December 23, 2012 in Gloucester Township, Camden 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 "Gloucester 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 Gloucester Township, Camden County, on December 23, 2012. The address as recorded is 1261 Chews Landing Rd Gloucester Township NJ 08021 Camden.

Sources

  1. [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 16288. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩