Fatal Encounters record · Independent third-party dataset
Name withheld by police
February 21, 2012 · Ocean City, Cape May County
Fatal Encounters records that police withheld this person's name.
Details as recorded
Every value below is shown exactly as Fatal Encounters recorded it.[1]
- Name as recorded
- Name withheld by police
- Age as recorded
- not reported
- Gender as recorded
- Male
- Race as reported
- Race unspecified
- Date of the injury resulting in death
- February 21, 2012
- Location as recorded
- Ocean City, Cape May County112 E. 14th St. Ocean City NJ 08226 Cape May
- 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: Ocean City Police Department
An agency appears here because it appears in the record's as-reported agency field, nothing more. Its presence is not a claim of fault or responsibility.
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.
Ocean City police received a call shortly before 11 a.m. from an out-of-state relative who had received a suicide note in the mail that morning from an Ocean City resident. When police went to check on the man's welfare, they spied him in a back bedroom with what appeared to be a firearm pointed at his chest. He shot and killed himself.
Source reported by Fatal Encounters: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J9YgvOn6uPEn_MRUERTjG5ejY-KQTvHmi5IKSBu-Nhk/edit?usp=sharing (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 10 it holds for Cape May County across 2000 to 2021. Browse every New Jersey Fatal Encounters record by year.
Questions and answers
What does the Fatal Encounters dataset record about this incident?
Fatal Encounters records that a person whose name police withheld died on February 21, 2012 in Ocean City, Cape May 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 "Ocean City 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 Ocean City, Cape May County, on February 21, 2012. The address as recorded is 112 E. 14th St. Ocean City NJ 08226 Cape May.
Sources
- [1]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Row 17560. Derived from the public Fatal Encounters national dataset (coverage 2000-2021; collection ended December 2021), https://fatalencounters.org/. Retrieved July 10, 2026. ↩