Gregory A. Alli

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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

Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Mt. Olive Township Police Department

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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).

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.

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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.

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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.

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Does this record mean police caused or were at fault for this death?

No. Fatal Encounters documented deaths that occurred during police encounters of any kind, including vehicle pursuits and crashes, suicides that occurred in police presence, and medical emergencies. This record documents that a death occurred during an encounter; it is not a finding of fault, misconduct, or wrongdoing, and it has no connection to the discipline records elsewhere on this site.

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