Police Brutality / Individual record
Mark Guirguis
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Mark Guirguis in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2017-01-01 in Allen, TX. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-577
- Incident date
- January 1, 2017
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Allen, TX
- Agency
- Allen Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 21
What happened
Mark Guirguis, 21, was shot and killed by Allen, Texas, police on January 1, 2017, after officers responded to a suspicious pickup truck near South Jupiter Road. A caller reported a white truck driving through the neighborhood with its occupants shining flashlights and repeatedly honking its horn. Officers attempted a traffic stop. According to the department, the driver accelerated backward toward an officer who was near a tree, and officers fired into the truck. Guirguis died and another occupant was injured. Police later reported the Ford Ranger had been stolen and that Guirguis had an outstanding warrant, separate claims that did not themselves establish the immediate danger at the moment of the shooting. Texas Rangers investigated.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 2187
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Flee status (source)
- car
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1555
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Additional source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset