Sergeant Francis X. Fullerton, Sr., was a 48-year-old Moorestown Police Department officer who was critically wounded on Tuesday, April 3, 1979, after a gunfight during a search for suspects in a liquor store robbery in Hammonton, New Jersey. Four men had fled the robbery, led police on a roughly 40-mile pursuit that ended when their car struck a concrete wall in Moorestown; the suspects then ran on foot and officers, including Fullerton, canvassed the area for the armed fugitives.

Fullerton died of his gunshot wounds on June 1, 1979. He had served 24 years, was a husband and father of two sons, one of whom was in the police academy at the time. All four suspects were eventually captured; the 26-year-old gunman who fired the fatal shots was convicted of murder and armed robbery and given life plus 30 years, while the other three received lengthy prison terms. A park in Moorestown was later named in his honor.