POLICE INVESTIGATE UNATTENDED DEATH

On October 2, 2010, at approximately 2 a.m., Ocean City Police responded to the area of 74thStreet and the beach, in reference to a person missing on the beach.

Officers observed a man later identified as a friend of the victim (name not being released), performing CPR on an unconscious female who appeared to have been in the ocean. Officers continued CPR at the scene until Ocean City Fire Department Paramedics arrived.

The victim, identified as Tara Chanise Taylor, 32 of Lanham, Maryland, was transported to Atlantic General Hospital Emergency Room where she was pronounced dead by hospital doctors.

The incident is not believed to be suspicious, however, police are investigating. The victim’s body has been sent to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Maryland, in Baltimore for autopsy.