After crashing his vehicle on the bridge the man engaged other officers in a gunfight before committing suicide with Sergeant King's weapon.Ī police officer from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department was accidentally shot and wounded by a New Jersey State Police trooper during the shootout on the bridge.

If you knew or served with this Soldier and have additional information or photos to support this Page, please leave a message for the Page Administrator(s) HERE. The suspect then car-jacked two separate cars and led New Jersey State Police and other Long Branch police officers on a 50-mile high speed chase that ended on the George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and New York City, New York. This Military Service Page was created/owned by PFC John Albert Foscaldi to remember Ariens, Ricky Michael, SGT. Ricky Clousing sentenced to three months in the brig. He then used the patrol car's radio to taunt other officers. The suspect then took Sergeant King's service weapon and stole his patrol car. After learning that the FBI was searching for him, the suspect vowed that he would not go to prison and decided to kill as many police officers as he could before killing himself.Īs Sergeant King was standing at the counter of the restaurant waiting for his order, the suspect walked up behind him and shot him in the back of the head twice with a. Direct air support in support of Operation KING FISHER8 Sep 67.

The suspect was wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a murder he had committed in Massachusetts in 1996. Unknown to Sergeant King, the suspect had called 911 twice in the preceding few minutes in an attempt to lure a police officer to the area. Martin Luther King Jr sharing his dream and working to make that dream a reality. Sergeant King was on his meal break and had just ordered food at a local restaurant. Street named honoring Franklins Own Sergeant RICKY DEAN GILCHRIST. Sergeant Patrick King was shot and killed by a wanted murderer who had been arrested by the same agency two weeks earlier under an alias. Battalion Chief assigned to the NASA Ames Research Center Fire Department supporting the Ames Protective Services Office.

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