Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Gregory A. Alli
October 11, 2004 · Budd Lake, Morris County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Gregory A. Alli
- Age as recorded
- 34
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- European-American/White
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- October 11, 2004
- Location as recorded
- Budd Lake, Morris CountyPine St. and Sunrise Ave. Budd Lake NJ 07828 Morris
- 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: Mt. Olive 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.
Sumandor Alli, 72, had called 911, just as he had done before whenever his son, Gregory, stopped taking his medication and acted out. This time, however, Gregory, a schizophrenic, had turned violent, stabbing his father with a blunt knife. When Mount Olive patrolman Joseph Abrusci arrived at the front door of the Budd Lake home about 1:30 a.m., Gregory Alli charged him, waving a serrated knife and ignoring the officer's commands to drop it, police said. Abrusci shot and killed him.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hEF46g-kyNZiJRuQgyuSz3JB11MO1mmUwlY2liN6z1U/edit?usp=sharing (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 31 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2004, and one of 14 it holds for Morris County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Records from the same county and year
- Jaime Chaverra-Bonilla (2004) September 28, 2004
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Gregory A. Alli died on October 11, 2004 in Budd Lake, Morris 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 "Mt. Olive 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 Budd Lake, Morris County, on October 11, 2004. The address as recorded is Pine St. and Sunrise Ave. Budd Lake NJ 07828 Morris.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 26863. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩