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Incident
Detective Anastasios Tsakos was struck and killed by a vehicle being operated by an intoxicated driver.
Detective Tsakos responded to assist at the scene of a fatal automobile collision on the Long Island Expressway near the entrance to the Clearview Expressway. He was redirecting traffic when a 2013 Volkswagen driven by a 32-year-old woman swerved to avoid other cars and hit Officer Tsakos as he stood next to his marked patrol vehicle.
Detective Tsakos was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
The driver fled the scene in her vehicle but was later apprehended. An investigation revealed that the driver was intoxicated and driving with a suspended driver's license. In 2023, she was convicted of vehicular manslaughter, reckless endangerment, leaving the scene of a deadly accident, and driving while intoxicated. She was sentenced to 27 years in prison plus five years of supervision on her release. She is required to serve a minimum of 22 years in prison.
Detective Tsakos served with the New York City Police Department for 13 years and was assigned to Highway Unit 3.
Detective Tsakos was posthumously promoted to the rank of Detective.
Detective Tsakos responded to assist at the scene of a fatal automobile collision on the Long Island Expressway near the entrance to the Clearview Expressway. He was redirecting traffic when a 2013 Volkswagen driven by a 32-year-old woman swerved to avoid other cars and hit Officer Tsakos as he stood next to his marked patrol vehicle.
The driver fled the scene in her vehicle but was later apprehended. An investigation revealed that the driver was intoxicated and driving with a suspended driver's license. In 2023, she was convicted of vehicular manslaughter, reckless endangerment, leaving the scene of a deadly accident, and driving while intoxicated. She was sentenced to 27 years in prison plus five years of supervision on her release. She is required to serve a minimum of 22 years in prison.
Detective Tsakos served with the New York City Police Department for 13 years and was assigned to Highway Unit 3.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife, 6-year-old daughter, and 3-year-old son.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Detective First Grade Tsakos gave the New York City Police Department 13 years.
Thank you for your service to the New York community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Detective First Grade Tsakos.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Detective First Grade Anastasios Tsakos is one of 1 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.
In NY, 728 of 2,147 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 33.9% of this state's fallen. That is 33.9 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At New York City Police Department, 365 of 1237 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 29.5% of this agency's fallen.
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