Roll of Honor
Incident
Detective Marc DiNardo died from gunshot wounds he received five days earlier when he and four other officers were shot while attempting to apprehend two suspects wanted for robbing and shooting a citizen.
On the morning of Thursday, July 16, 2009, a Jersey City Police lieutenant and police officer were staking out a parked car believed to have been the getaway car used in a violent robbery in which a person was shot. At 5:15 a.m two suspects, one male and one female, wearing bathrobes entered the vehicle, moved it across the street and stepped back out. The lieutenant and officer ordered the suspects to stop, but the male suspect turned, pulled a shotgun from under his robe and began firing, grazing one officer in the leg and shattering the windshield of the unmarked police car used in the stakeout.
The suspect then fled to a third-floor apartment at 24 Reed Street and dozens of backup police officers from the Jersey City Police Department, Hudson County Sheriff's Office, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department began arriving on the scene.
Officers spent the next hour and a half evacuating the building. At about 6:45 a.m., members of the Jersey City Emergency Service Unit, including Detective DiNardo, approached apartment 3B and demanded that the occupants come out. When no one answered, the officers used a battering ram to gain entry. Upon entering, the officers were immediately fired upon by the suspect. Detective DiNardo was shot in the face, and a second officer was shot in the neck. Additionally, another Jersey City police officer was wounded along with a police officer from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department.
Both suspects were shot and killed in an exchange of gunfire with the officers when the officers entered the apartment.
It was later determined that the male suspect, who shot the officers, was a violent career criminal who had recently been released from prison after serving five years for weapons possession charges that Detective DiNardo had arrested him on.
Detective DiNardo was taken to the Jersey City Medical Center where he died five days later from his wounds. His organs were all donated for transplant.
Detective DiNardo had served with the Jersey City Police Department for 10 years and was assigned to the Emergency Service Unit.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife and three young children.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Detective DiNardo gave the Jersey City Police Department 10 years.
Thank you for your service to the Jersey City community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Detective DiNardo.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Detective Marc Anthony DiNardo is one of 17,623 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 54.2% of all 32,508 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 13.3 percentage points below the national rate of 54.2%.
At Jersey City Police Department, 14 of 41 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 34.1% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Felonious compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Marc Anthony DiNardo's cause is highlighted.
How Marc Anthony DiNardo Compares
Offender Outcome
Shot and killed
When Felonious Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Felonious deaths across the full memorial record. Marc Anthony DiNardo is highlighted in Jul.
Weapons Used Against Officers
Most common weapons in felonious officer deaths. Marc Anthony DiNardo was killed by shotgun.
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