Leslie Haskins Jr.

Newark Police Division — Newark, NJ

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch March 13, 1970

Age 39

Tour of Duty 15 yrs

Badge 671

The Vigil Panel 106 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 57

Incident

Officer Haskins was shot and killed while attempting to intervene in a robbery at a tavern on Hawthorne Avenue while off duty. Two men entered the bar and held the bar owner at gunpoint. Officer Haskins opened fire on one of the men but the man returned fire, striking Officer Haskins in the head and chest. The suspects fled the scene but were arrested three days later. Officer Haskins had been with the Newark Police Department for 15 years. Due to debilitating injuries in an on-duty motorcycle accident 11 years earlier, he assigned to the Information Desk and Cell Block at police headquarters at the time of his murder.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Police Officer Haskins gave the Newark Police Division 15 years.
Thank you for your service to the Newark community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Police Officer Haskins.

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

Agency

Department Newark Police Division

Type Police Department

Location Newark, NJ

Platform Identity npdpd.essex.nj.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch March 13, 1970

Tour of Duty 15 yrs

Age 39

Badge Number 671

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Military Service

Leslie Haskins Jr. served in the the United States military (1947â1951) before joining law enforcement.

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Police Officer Leslie Haskins Jr. 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 97,784 officers honored here.

In NJ, 264 of 646 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 40.9% of this state's fallen. That is 40.9 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Newark Police Division, 28 of 58 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 48.3% of this agency's fallen.

Newark Police Division

of 58 officers

48.3% Felonious

NJ — Statewide

264

of 646 officers

40.9% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,784 officers

0% Felonious