Officer

Franklin Torres

Puerto Rico Police Department — San Juan, 127
Felonious
End of Watch November 11, 1990
Age 44
Gender Male

Incident

Sergeant Franklin Torres was struck and killed by a drunk driver while he was changing a tire on his patrol car. Sergeant Torres and his partner drove down the Baldorioty de Castro Avenue in Santurce when his patrol car blew a tire. While stopped in the emergency lane to fix the tire, a vehicle driven by drunk driver rear-ended the patrol car, throwing both sergeant Torres and his partner from the car. Sergeant Torres was transported to the Rio Piedras Medical Center where he died days later. His partner survived with injuries. The driver who caused the accident had .24 percent alcohol level in the blood, when the limit is .08 percent. Sergeant Franklin Torres served the Puerto Rico Police Department, where he was assigned to Precinct 366 Loiza Street.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Officer Torres 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, Officer Torres.

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

Agency

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

Service Record

End of Watch November 11, 1990
Age 44
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious
Weapon Automobile

The Sacrifice · Felonious

Franklin 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 1990, 88 officers in the United States were killed feloniously, the 71st heaviest of 213 years on record. The heaviest was 1921, with 248.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Franklin was 44. 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
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When

November holds 8.1% of these deaths in the United States; December holds the most, 9.4%. Sundays: 15.2%.

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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 automobile, in 4.9% of these deaths.

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His people

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

Across the years

Officer Franklin Torres

Puerto Rico Police Department · End of Watch November 11, 1990

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 56-E

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