Megan K. Carr-Wilks
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Detective

Megan K. Carr-Wilks

End of Watch September 19, 2017
Age 55
Tour of Duty 20 yrs
Badge 328
Gender Female

Incident

Detective Megan Carr-Wilks died as the result of cancer that she developed following her assignment to the search and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site following the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks.

Detective Carr-Wilks had served with the NYPD for 20 years.

September 11, 2001 - The Years After

Detective Megan K. Carr-Wilks was assigned to the search and recovery at the World Trade Center site after September 11, 2001. She was 39 years old that fall.

She died on September 19, 2017 - 16 years later - of an illness contracted there. She was 55.

She is one of 600 officers honored here, and one of 451 at New York City Police Department.

The most recent of these deaths was October 24, 2025.

Officers who worked the search, rescue, and recovery at the World Trade Center site breathed contaminated air for weeks and months afterward. Many developed cancers and respiratory disease, and they have gone on dying of it ever since.

Seventy-two officers were killed on the morning itself. Hundreds more have died in the years that followed. They are honored here together, because the same attack killed them all. With some it simply took longer.

Survivors

She was survived by her husband, two sons, and brother.

In Our Keeping

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Tributes

You walked into it and it took years to finish the job.
Detective Carr-Wilks gave the New York City Police Department 20 years.
Thank you for your service to the New York community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Detective Carr-Wilks.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Type Police Department
Location New York, NY
Platform Identity nypd.newyork.ny.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch September 19, 2017
Tour of Duty 20 yrs
Age 55
Badge Number 328
Gender Female
Assignment Queens Child Abuse Squad

Incident Details

Cause Illness
Cause Detail 9/11 related illness
Weapon Aircraft; Passenger jet

The Sacrifice · Illness

Megan is one of 2,028 officers lost to illness in the United States, 7.4% of the 27,552 remembered there.

34,103 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 2017, 52 officers in the United States were lost to illness, the 8th heaviest of 108 years on record. The heaviest was 2021, with 564.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Megan was 55. Of the 1,996 lost to illness in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 42 and 58; the middle age was 51. Megan had served 20 years; the middle length of service was 20 years.

Age at death
Where she stood among them
Age by years of service
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When

September holds 11.2% of these deaths in the United States; October holds the most, 14.9%. Tuesdays: 13.3%.

By month
By day of the week
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How

Illness deaths account for 7.4% of all 27,552 deaths in the United States, the 3rd most common cause. The weapon recorded was aircraft; passenger jet, in 29.5% of these deaths.

Every cause
Weapons recorded
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Her people

New York City Police Department has at least 120 officers remembered here, Megan among them.

Across the years
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Where

Detective Megan K. Carr-Wilks

New York City Police Department · End of Watch September 19, 2017

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 5-E

Also Remembered

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial — requiem.nw →

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