Eliezer Hernández-Cartagena

Carolina Police Dept. — Carolina, 031

Felonious

End of Watch January 11, 2021

Age 41

Tour of Duty 23 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 6

Incident

Agent Eliezer Hernández-Cartagena and Agent Luis Marrero-Díaz, of the Puerto Rico Police Department, were murdered while attempting to arrest a man who had just murdered Agent Luis Salamán-Conde, of the Carolina Municipal Police Department.

Agent Salamán-Conde had responded to a vehicle crash on Avenida Roberto Clemente. One of the drivers involved in the crash opened fire on him with an AK-47 rifle, killing him. The man then carjacked another vehicle and fled onto the Baldorioty de Castro Expressway. Officers from the Carolina Municipal Police Department and Puerto Rico Police Department pursued the vehicle along the expressway until it stopped near the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport.

The subject opened fire again, fatally wounding Agent Luis Marrero-Díaz. As he attempted to flee in the car a second time he fatally struck Agent Eliezer Hernández-Cartagena. He was able to flee into a nearby residential area where he remained at large. He was found fatally shot on Jan. 12 with a cardboard sign on his chest declaring him responsible for the officers' deaths.

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23 years. You could have gone home.
Agent Hernández-Cartagena gave the Carolina Municipal Police Department 23 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the Carolina community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Agent Hernández-Cartagena.

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

Agency

Department Carolina Police Dept.

Location Carolina, 031

Platform Identity caropd.carolina.pr.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch January 11, 2021

Tour of Duty 23 yrs

Age 41

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Agent Eliezer Hernández-Cartagena 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 031, 4 of 7 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 57.1% of this state's fallen. That is 2.9 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At Carolina Police Dept., 4 of 7 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 57.1% of this agency's fallen.

Carolina Police Dept.

of 7 officers

57.1% Felonious

031 — Statewide

of 7 officers

57.1% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious