PHILA. OFFICERS KILLED SINCE 2006
Philadelphia police Officer John Pawlowski, 25, was shot and killed Friday night at Broad Street and Olney Avenue in North Philadelphia. He is the seventh city officer killed in the line of duty since May 2006. The other fallen officers: Sgt. Timothy Simpson, Officer Patrick McDonald, Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski, Officer Isabel Nazario, Officer Chuck Cassidy and Officer Gary Skerski.
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Officer John Pawlowski
Another Philadelphia police officer has been gunned down in the line of duty, this time in an apparent shoot-out shortly after 8 p.m. Friday in front of the Olney Transportation Center at Broad Street.
The officer, identified as John Pawlowski, 25, was the first to be killed in the line of duty in 2009. He was recently married and his wife is pregnant with their first child.
The officer, identified as John Pawlowski, 25, was the first to be killed in the line of duty in 2009. He was recently married and his wife is pregnant with their first child.
Officer Patrick McDonald
Slain officer Patrick McDonald, a tough, hard-nosed son of a fireman, emerged as a kind and generous leader in Morrell Park, a tidy N.E. Philadelphia enclave.
Sgt. Timothy Simpson
Sgt. Timothy Simpson, father, brother, son, husband, friend, and heart-and-soul police officer, was laid to rest yesterday beneath a pine tree in a Bucks County cemetery, in a cold wind that seemed fitting in its unrelenting bitterness.
Officer Isabel Nazario
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Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski
Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski was mourned and celebrated this afternoon during a funeral Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
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Officer Chuck Cassidy
Under the gilded dome of the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul, the family of Chuck Cassidy yesterday remembered the slain officer as "a gentle man with a perfect heart" and challenged the city to come together to stop the violence.
Before an audience of thousands, Cassidy's brother-in-law, Tony Conti, said if that happens, "at least we will have a sense of an answer" for why he died.
Officer Gary Skerski
Anne Skerski batted back the tears, forcing them inside. At times, she wiped her eyes with a crumpled tissue. She opened her mouth to breathe.
She sat in the front row of the courtroom gallery, surrounded by about 15 family members, and looked at the man who last year killed her husband, Officer Gary Skerski, a 16-year police veteran, during an armed robbery at Pat's Cafe, a tavern at Castor Avenue and Arrott Street in Frankford.
She sat in the front row of the courtroom gallery, surrounded by about 15 family members, and looked at the man who last year killed her husband, Officer Gary Skerski, a 16-year police veteran, during an armed robbery at Pat's Cafe, a tavern at Castor Avenue and Arrott Street in Frankford.
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