Philadelphia Police Officer Frederick Cione

Lest we forget...

   

 

Police Officer Frederick Cione
Philadelphia Police Department
Pennsylvania
End of Watch: Friday, January 30, 1970

 

Biographical Info
Age: 26
Tour of Duty: 1 year
Badge Number: 6398

 

Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Friday, January 30, 1970
Weapon Used: Handgun; .22 caliber
Suspect Info: At large

 

Officer Cione was shot and killed as he approached three men. A witness said Cione got out of his patrol car and approached three men along the 1700 block of West Oxford Street shortly after 0100 hours. One of them pulled a .22 pistol and fired three shots, one in the chest, one in the abdomen and one hitting and lodging in his gun holster and belt.

No suspects have ever been identified in this case and it remains the only unsolved murder of a police officer in the city's history.

Officer Cione was survived by his parents and his brother. A playground was named after him at Aramingo and Lehigh avenues with a giant mural depicting Officer Cione and Officer Joseph Friel, who was struck and killed by a drunk driver in the line of duty on December 4, 1994.

 

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