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Officers responding to a 911 call encountered Daniel Ackley, 33, outside his family's Burns Road home in Millville shortly after 9:30 p.m. last Tuesday, Acting State Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said.
"After officers arrived, they encountered Mr. Ackley holding a machete outside the house," Bruck said.
As Ackley "advanced toward the officers," one of them fired his service weapon, the attorney general said.
Officers and emergency medical personnel rendered first aid to Ackley before he was airlifted to Cooper University Hospital in Camden, where he was pronounced dead at 10:56 p.m., Bruck said.
A graveside service was scheduled this Wednesday morning at Head of the River Cemetery in Woodbine.
Both state law and his own guidelines require the attorney general to investigate any and all deaths that occur “during an encounter with a law enforcement officer acting in the officer’s official capacity or while the decedent is in custody."
The guidelines guarantee that the investigation is done “in a full, impartial and transparent manner," he said.
Once the investigation is complete, the results are presented to a grand jury -- ordinarily consisting of 16 to 23 citizens -- that determines whether or not there's cause to suspect any wrongdoing on the part of law enforcement.
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