Roll of Honor
Incident
Location: New York Incident Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Weapon: Aircraft; Passenger jet Offender: 19 suicide attackers
Trooper First Class Eugene Baron died as the result of cancer contracted while assisting with rescue and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site following the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001.
Trooper Baron had served with the Connecticut State Police for 18 years prior to medically retiring.
September 11, 2001 - The Years After
Trooper First Class Eugene Kenneth Baron, Jr. was assigned to the search and recovery at the World Trade Center site after September 11, 2001. He was 38 years old that fall.
He died on May 25, 2020 - 18 years and 8 months later - of an illness contracted there. He was 56.
He is one of 599 officers honored here, and one of 2 at Connecticut State Police.
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
He is survived by three children, parents, two sisters, his girlfriend and her two children.
In Our Keeping
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- April 2, 2026
- Last updated
- July 23, 2026
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Tributes
You walked into it and it took years to finish the job.
Trooper First Class Baron gave the Connecticut State Police 18 years.
Thank you for your service to the people of Connecticut. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Trooper First Class Baron.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Trooper First Class Eugene Kenneth Baron, Jr. is one of 2,974 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 9.1% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In CT, 7 of 169 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 4.1% of this state's fallen. That is 5 percentage points below the national rate of 9.1%.
At Connecticut State Police, 2 of 26 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 7.7% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Eugene Kenneth Baron, Jr.'s cause is highlighted.
How Eugene Kenneth Baron, Jr. Compares
Offender Outcome
19 suicide attackers
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Eugene Kenneth Baron, Jr. is highlighted in May.
Incident Location
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