Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Stephanie Myers
September 9, 2017 · Bridgeton, Cumberland County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Stephanie Myers
- Age as recorded
- 45
- Gender as recorded
- Female
- Race as reported
- European-American/White
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- September 9, 2017
- Location as recorded
- Bridgeton, Cumberland CountyHopewell Road Bridgeton NJ 08302 Cumberland
- 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: New Jersey Department of Corrections
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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.
A concerned family friend called police, who found the bodies of Joseph P. Williams, 43, and Stephanie Myers, 45, in the basement of a Hopewell Road home, police said. Police said the preliminary investigation indicated Williams shot Myers before turning the gun on himself.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://www.thedailyjournal.com/story/news/crime/2017/09/11/2-corrections-dept-employees-dead-murder-suicide-bridgeton/652978001/ (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 36 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2017, and one of 26 it holds for Cumberland County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Records from the same county and year
- Joseph P. Williams (2017) September 9, 2017
- Darryl L. Fuqua (2017) February 10, 2017
- Devontae Troy Brooks (2017) January 13, 2017
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Stephanie Myers died on September 9, 2017 in Bridgeton, Cumberland 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 "New Jersey Department of Corrections". 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 Bridgeton, Cumberland County, on September 9, 2017. The address as recorded is Hopewell Road Bridgeton NJ 08302 Cumberland.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 8282. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩