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Detective

Marc Anthony DiNardo

Jersey City Police Department — Jersey City, NJ

Felonious

End of Watch July 21, 2009

Age 37

Tour of Duty 10 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Media Service The Sacrifice Memorials 1 Department 40

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

Agency

Department Jersey City Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ

Platform Identity jpd.hudson.nj.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 21, 2009

Tour of Duty 10 yrs

Age 37

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Cause Detail Gunfire

Weapon Shotgun

The Sacrifice · Felonious

Marc is one of 15,743 officers killed feloniously in the United States, 57.1% of the 27,551 remembered there.

34,117 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 2009, 59 officers in the United States were killed feloniously, the 129th heaviest of 213 years on record. The heaviest was 1921, with 248.

Every year on record · United States

Who

Marc was 37. Of the 14,220 killed feloniously in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 31 and 47; the middle age was 38. Marc had served 10 years; the middle length of service was 6 years.

Age at death

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When

July holds 9.3% of these deaths in the United States; December holds the most, 9.4%. Tuesdays: 13.4%.

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How

Felonious deaths account for 57.1% of all 27,551 deaths in the United States, the most common cause. The weapon recorded was shotgun, in 7% of these deaths.

Every cause

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