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Juan Cotto-Santana
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Agent

Juan Cotto-Santana

Puerto Rico Police Department — San Juan, 127
Felonious
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End of Watch December 4, 1993
Age 52
The Vigil Panel 310 · Column 4 · Line 9 ›
Gender Male
Incident Media Service The Sacrifice Memorials 1 Department 363

Incident

Agent Juan Cotto-Santana was shot and killed while intervening in a robbery at a store on Highway 174 in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. He shot multiple times after identifying himself as a police officer while he attempted to draw his weapon. The subject who shot him fled and remains at large. Agent Cotto-Santana was on sick leave after having been shot in the shoulder during another robbery attempt in the same store one week prior.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Agent Cotto-Santana served with the Puerto Rico Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the San Juan community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Agent Cotto-Santana.

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

Agency

Department Puerto Rico Police Department
Type Police Department
Location San Juan, 127
Platform Identity prpd.pr.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch December 4, 1993
Age 52
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious
Weapon Gun

The Sacrifice · Felonious

Juan is one of 15,742 officers killed feloniously in the United States, 57.1% of the 27,551 remembered there.

34,102 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 1993, 101 officers in the United States were killed feloniously, the 51st heaviest of 213 years on record. The heaviest was 1921, with 248.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Juan was 52. Of the 14,219 killed feloniously in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 31 and 47; the middle age was 38.

Age at death
Where he stood among them
Age by years of service
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When

December holds 9.4% of these deaths in the United States, more than any other month. Saturdays: 16.3%.

By month
By day of the week
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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 gun, in 22.8% of these deaths.

Every cause
Weapons recorded
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His people

Puerto Rico Police Department has at least 120 officers remembered here, Juan among them.

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Where

Agent Juan Cotto-Santana

Puerto Rico Police Department · End of Watch December 4, 1993

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 46-W

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