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Detective
Marc DiNardo
Jersey City Police
Department, New Jersey
End of Watch: Tuesday, July 21,
2009Age:
37
Years on The Job:
10
Badge Number:
2711
Cause of Death:
Shot and killed |
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Detective Marc DiNardo died from gunshot
wounds he received five days earlier when he and four other
officers were shot while attempting to apprehend two suspects
wanted for robbing and shooting a citizen.
On the morning of Thursday, July 16, 2009, a Jersey City Police
lieutenant and police officer were staking out a parked car
believed to have been the getaway car used in a violent robbery
in which a person was shot. At 5:15 a.m two suspects, one male
and one female, wearing bathrobes entered the vehicle, moved it
across the street and stepped back out. The lieutenant and
officer ordered the suspects to stop, but the male suspect
turned, pulled a shotgun from under his robe and began firing,
grazing one officer in the leg and shattering the windshield of
the unmarked police car used in the stakeout.
The suspect then fled to a third-floor apartment on Reed Street
and dozens of backup police officers from Jersey City, the
Hudson County Sheriff's Office and the Port Authority of New
York and New Jersey began arriving on the scene.
Officers spent the next hour and a half evacuating the building.
At about 6:45 a.m., members of the Jersey City Emergency Service
Unit, including Detective DiNardo, approached apartment 3B and
demanded that the occupants come out. When no one answered, the
officers used a battering ram to gain entry. Upon entering, the
officers were immediately fired upon by the suspect. Detective
DiNardo was shot in the face, and a second officer was shot in
the neck. Additionally, another Jersey City Police Officer was
wounded along with a police officer from the Port Authority of
New York and New Jersey Police Department.
Both suspects were shot an killed in an exchange of gunfire with
the officers as the officers entered the apartment.
It was later determined that the male suspect, who shot the
officers, was a violent career criminal who had recently been
released from prison, after serving five years for weapons
possession charges that Detective DiNardo had arrested him on.
Detective DiNardo was taken to the Jersey City Medical Center
where he died five days later from his wounds. His organs were
all donated for transplant.
Detective DiNardo had served with the Jersey City Police
Department for 10 years and was assigned to the Emergency
Service Unit. He is survived by his wife and three young
children.
Agency Contact Information
Jersey City Police Department
8 Erie Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302
Phone: (201) 547-5477
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Walk tall, walk tall and protect us from above with honor and dignity. May you lead the charge for
citizens right in heaven as you did here on earth
Darrell Thompson
Privet Security Officer St. Clair Co. MI,
Community College Campus Patrol #14
darrell@policespecial.com
www.sc4.edu
Rest in peace, and
may God allow him to keep watch over us on earth while he patrols his beat
in heaven.
Our prayers go out to the Officer and his Department and family.
May they all find peace in their hearts soon.
From all the Staff at Police Special Inc.
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