For a cop in the NYPD, having a partner who has your back is vital. The link between cop partners is often lifelong, emotional and in recent days tragic. With the shooting deaths of NYPD officers Wenjian Lu and Rafael Ramos who were ambushed by Ismail Brinsley the list of NYPD partners killed in the line of duty has grown:
1972- Officers Greg Foster and Rocco Laurie were ambushed and gunned down in the East Village simply for being cops.
1975- Officer Andrew Glover and Sgt. Frederick Reddy were shot by Luis Serrano Velez during a traffic stop.
1978- Officers Norman Cerullo and Christie Masone were killed during a robbery in Brooklyn.
Officers Norman Cerullo and Christie Masone
1989- Detectives Keith Williams and Richard Guerzon were murdered as they transported Jay Stoney Harrison to Rikers Island Prison.
2003- Detectives James Nemorin and Rodney Andrews were killed during a botched gun buy on Staten Island
2004- Detectives Robert Parker and Dennis Rafferty were shot and killed when they attempted to arrest a suspect on a domestic violence complaint in East Flatbush
Detectives Robert Parker and Dennis Rafferty
2007- Auxillary NYPD officers Nicholas Pekearo,28, and Eugene Marshalik,19, chased down David Garvin, a mentally unstable man who had just killed bartender Alfredo Romero.
