Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Rodney Terry
February 21, 2013 · Lawnside, Camden County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Rodney Terry
- Age as recorded
- 47
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- Race unspecified
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- February 21, 2013
- Location as recorded
- Lawnside, Camden County400 block South Charleston Ave Lawnside NJ 08045 Camden
- 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: Lawnside 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.
Rodney Terry was arrested about 6:30 p.m. after police saw him throwing rocks and yelling at a home. Terry was handcuffed and placed in the rear of a police cruiser, police said. Police called EMS because of his behavior, and when the EMTs removed him from the vehicle, he was dead.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://www.nj.com/camden/index.ssf/2013/02/williamstown_man_dies_in_custo.html (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 23 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2013, and one of 52 it holds for Camden County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Records from the same county and year
- Henry A. Yip Sr. (2013) September 25, 2013
- Victoria M. "Vicki" Yip (2013) September 25, 2013
- Traci Lei Clayton (2013) May 14, 2013
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Rodney Terry died on February 21, 2013 in Lawnside, Camden 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 "Lawnside 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 Lawnside, Camden County, on February 21, 2013. The address as recorded is 400 block South Charleston Ave Lawnside NJ 08045 Camden.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 16021. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩