Eleuterio Maldonado-Afanador
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Policeman

Eleuterio Maldonado-Afanador

Puerto Rico Police Department — San Juan, 127
Felonious
End of Watch October 5, 1974
Age 36
Gender Male

Incident

Officer Maldonado-Afanador was stabbed to death by several suspects on horses who would not let him pass in his car. When he got out of his car to ask them to move, they stabbed him.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Policeman Maldonado-Afanador served with the Puerto Rico Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the San Juan community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Policeman Maldonado-Afanador.

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

Agency

Type Police Department
Location San Juan, 127
Platform Identity prpd.pr.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch October 5, 1974
Age 36
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious
Weapon Edged weapon

The Sacrifice · Felonious

Eleuterio is one of 15,743 officers killed feloniously in the United States, 57.1% 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 1974, 162 officers in the United States were killed feloniously, the 22nd heaviest of 213 years on record. The heaviest was 1921, with 248.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Eleuterio was 36. Of the 14,219 killed feloniously in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 31 and 47; the middle age was 38.

Age at death
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When

October holds 7.9% of these deaths in the United States; December holds the most, 9.4%. Saturdays: 16.3%.

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How

Felonious deaths account for 57.1% of all 27,552 deaths in the United States, the most common cause. The weapon recorded was edged weapon, in 2.2% of these deaths.

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His people

Puerto Rico Police Department has at least 120 officers remembered here, Eleuterio among them.

Across the years

Policeman Eleuterio Maldonado-Afanador

Puerto Rico Police Department · End of Watch October 5, 1974

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 19-W

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