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Robert Tuite Jr.
December 28, 2008 · Teaneck, Bergen County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Robert Tuite Jr.
- Age as recorded
- 34
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- European-American/White
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- December 28, 2008
- Location as recorded
- Teaneck, Bergen CountyNew Jersey Turnpike Teaneck NJ 07666 Bergen
- Highest level of force as recorded
- Medical emergency
Where the dataset places it
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Agencies as recorded
Agency or agencies involved, as recorded: New Jersey State Police
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Department pages (matched by this site at high confidence)
What this site holds on the agencies named
Separate records, shown here so they can be found from this page. Nothing below is connected to this death. The Fatal Encounters dataset does not link the two, the Attorney General's releases do not, and neither does this site. The years each figure covers are printed for the same reason.
- New Jersey State Police
Reported 4,389 internal affairs investigations across 2021 to 2025. 106 major discipline records name officers at this agency.
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.
Investigators were unclear about what caused Tuite's death. The New Yorker was found unconscious in his white 2007 BMW on the left lane of the turnpike. State troopers tried to administer a sobriety test, which Tuite vigorously resisted. Cuffed, he experienced some kind of medical emergency and died shortly after.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/12/ag_unit_investigates_death_of.html (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 23 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2008, and one of 32 it holds for Bergen County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Robert Tuite Jr. died on December 28, 2008 in Teaneck, Bergen County, with "Medical emergency" 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 "New Jersey State Police". 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 Teaneck, Bergen County, on December 28, 2008. The address as recorded is New Jersey Turnpike Teaneck NJ 07666 Bergen.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 21719. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩