Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Robert Peper "Bo" Fisher
September 4, 2004 · Sea Isle City, Cape May County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Robert Peper "Bo" Fisher
- Age as recorded
- 17
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- Race unspecified
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- September 4, 2004
- Location as recorded
- Sea Isle City, Cape May CountyLandis Ave & 31st St Sea Isle City NJ 08243 Cape May
- Highest level of force as recorded
- Vehicle
Where the dataset places it
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Agencies as recorded
Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: Sea Isle City Police Department
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Department pages (matched by this site at high confidence)
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.
Robert "Bo" Fisher was drinking at the beach when police approached. The 17-year-old fled and was struck and killed by two cars as he tried to cross a busy street.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-l9Ys3cd80fRzZlSmpzckR0Z0U/view?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 10 it holds for Cape May County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Records from the same county and year
- Jefferson Thurman McNelly (2004) October 28, 2004
- Pablo Burrios-Salas (2004) September 18, 2004
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Robert Peper "Bo" Fisher died on September 4, 2004 in Sea Isle City, Cape May County, with "Vehicle" 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 "Sea Isle City 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 Sea Isle City, Cape May County, on September 4, 2004. The address as recorded is Landis Ave & 31st St Sea Isle City NJ 08243 Cape May.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 26960. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩