Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Edward Nortrup
January 19, 2020 · Matawan, Monmouth County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Edward Nortrup
- Age as recorded
- 39
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- European-American/White
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- January 19, 2020
- Location as recorded
- Matawan, Monmouth County208 Broad St. Matawan NJ 7747 Monmouth
- 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: Roselle Park 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.
An off-duty Roselle Park police officer, Edward Nortrup, hit two cars and rolled his vehicle. Before first responders could extract him from his vehicle, he shot himself in the head.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://www.nj.com/monmouth/2020/01/off-duty-police-officer-fatally-shot-himself-after-car-crash-authorities-say.html (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 17 it holds for Monmouth County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Records from the same county and year
- Hasani Best (2020) August 21, 2020
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Edward Nortrup died on January 19, 2020 in Matawan, Monmouth 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 "Roselle Park 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 Matawan, Monmouth County, on January 19, 2020. The address as recorded is 208 Broad St. Matawan NJ 7747 Monmouth.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 3974. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩