Jose Ramon Bonilla-Gonzalez

Puerto Rico Police Department — San Juan, 127

Veteran → Veteran → Accident

End of Watch July 26, 1993

Age 54

Tour of Duty 24 yrs

The Vigil Panel 139 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 363

Incident

Officer Jose Bonilla-Gonzalez, Officer Gutierrez-Colon, and Officer William Burgos-Colon were killed in a helicopter accident while attempting to clear an area downstream of the Carraizo Dam prior to the floodgates being opened. The helicopter struck a set of power lines above the dam, causing it to crash. Officer Bonilla-Gonzalez was a United States Army Vietnam War veteran and had served with the Puerto Rico Police Department for 24 years with FURA's Air Unit.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and five children.

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Tributes

I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Police Officer Bonilla-Gonzalez gave the Puerto Rico Police Department 24 years.
Thank you for your service to the San Juan community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

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

Agency

Department Puerto Rico Police Department

Type Police Department

Location San Juan, 127

Platform Identity prpd.pr.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 26, 1993

Tour of Duty 24 yrs

Age 54

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Jose Ramon Bonilla-Gonzalez served in the U.S. Air Force (1961â1967) before joining law enforcement.

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Police Officer Jose Ramon Bonilla-Gonzalez is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,759 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.

Puerto Rico Police Department

of 364 officers

21.2% Accident

127 — Statewide

of 388 officers

21.9% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Accident