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Rodney Jencsik
October 5, 2015 · Woodbridge Township, Middlesex County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Rodney Jencsik
- Age as recorded
- 50
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- European-American/White
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- October 5, 2015
- Location as recorded
- Woodbridge Township, Middlesex CountyFreddie Ave Woodbridge Township NJ 07001 Middlesex
- 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: Woodbridge 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.
Police shot Jencsik at the end of a three-hour standoff when he left his home pointing a gun at officers, according to authorities. Jencsik is accused of fatally stabbing a woman and critically injuring a man before the standoff.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/local/middlesex-county/2015/10/06/man-shot-dead-police-woodbridge-standoff/73442052/ (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 31 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2015, and one of 26 it holds for Middlesex County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Records from the same county and year
- Talbot "Talby" Anthony Schroeder Sr. (2015) January 14, 2015
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Rodney Jencsik died on October 5, 2015 in Woodbridge Township, Middlesex 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 "Woodbridge 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 Woodbridge Township, Middlesex County, on October 5, 2015. The address as recorded is Freddie Ave Woodbridge Township NJ 07001 Middlesex.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 11533. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩