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Gulia Dale III

July 4, 2021 · Newton, Sussex County

Details as recorded

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

Name as recorded
Gulia Dale III
Age as recorded
61
Gender as recorded
Male
Race as reported
African-American/Black
Date of the injury resulting in death
July 4, 2021
Location as recorded
Newton, Sussex County10 block Clive Place Newton NJ 7860 Sussex
Highest level of force as recorded
Gunshot

Where the dataset places it

The location Fatal Encounters recorded for this death: Newton, Sussex County

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Agencies as recorded

Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Newton 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.

Three Newton police officers arrived at a home at about 9:30 p.m. in response to a 911 call. During an encounter outside the home, two Newton police officers shot and killed Gulia Dale. Police said that a semi-automatic handgun was recovered. Details as to what precipitated the killing were withheld by police.

Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://www.nj.com/news/2021/07/man-fatally-shot-by-police-in-sussex-county-ag-says.html (external link, as recorded in the dataset).

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This is one of 25 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2021, and one of 9 it holds for Sussex 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 Gulia Dale III died on July 4, 2021 in Newton, Sussex 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 "Newton 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 Newton, Sussex County, on July 4, 2021. The address as recorded is 10 block Clive Place Newton NJ 7860 Sussex.

Sources

  1. [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 921. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩