Roll of Honor
Incident
Agent Aníbal Morales Aponte succumbed to injuries he received when his patrol motorcycle was struck by a driver who ran a red light at Rafael Cordero Avenue in Caguas.
At 6:20 a.m., Agent Morales Aponte was driving on Rafael Corero Avenue when a driver made an illegal left turn and crashed into Agent Morales Aponte. He was transported to the Rio Piedras Medical Center, where he died of his injuries six days later.
Agent Morales Aponte had served with the Puerto Rico Police Department for 29 years and was assigned to the Caguas Motorized Unit.
Survivors
He is survived by his twin daughters, mother, life partner, and two stepdaughters.
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29 years. You could have gone home.
Agent Morales Aponte gave the Puerto Rico Police Department 29 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the San Juan community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Agent Morales Aponte.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Agent Aníbal Morales Aponte is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,784 officers honored here.
In 127, 85 of 388 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 21.9% of this state's fallen. That is 21.9 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At Puerto Rico Police Department, 77 of 364 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 21.2% of this agency's fallen.
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