U.S. Marine Corps · United States 
Gilbert Moral Silvia
Gilbert Moral Silvia served in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Detective Gilbert Silvia was shot and killed while investigating a suspicious vehicle with a broken out window near 16th Street and Corcoran Street, NW. He was working a plainclothes assignment at the time. As he approached the vehicle he discovered that it was occupied. At the same moment the man inside opened fire, striking Detective Silvia in the stomach. He succumbed to his injuries two days later. Detective Silvia was a United States Marine Corps veteran and had served with the Metropolitan Police Department for 11 years.
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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.
Detective Silvia gave the Metropolitan Police Department 11 years.
Thank you for your service to the Washington community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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