Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Mark Tanouye
July 19, 2012 · Beachwood, Ocean County
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Mark Tanouye
- Age as recorded
- 52
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- European-American/White
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- July 19, 2012
- Location as recorded
- Beachwood, Ocean County226 Atlantic City Blvd. Beachwood NJ 08722 Ocean
- 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: Beachwood 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.
Police Sgt. Bruce Harris was on patrol when he spotted Mark Tanouye making a disturbance in the High Velocity Sports Bar parking lot. Tanouye was armed with a small-caliber handgun. Harris shot and killed Tanouye after he ignored orders to drop the weapon.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/07/police_shoot_and_kill_ocean_co.html (external link, as recorded in the dataset).
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This is one of 23 New Jersey records the dataset dates to 2012, and one of 28 it holds for Ocean County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Records from the same county and year
- Carmine A. Maggio (2012) January 31, 2012
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that Mark Tanouye died on July 19, 2012 in Beachwood, Ocean 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 "Beachwood 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 Beachwood, Ocean County, on July 19, 2012. The address as recorded is 226 Atlantic City Blvd. Beachwood NJ 08722 Ocean.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 16946. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩