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Patrick Rafferty

Case from Brooklyn, NY dated Sep 10, 2004

Victim Details

Patrick H. Rafferty

Male

White / Caucasian

Brooklyn

NY

2004-09-10

39

Patrick

Rafferty

07/12/2026

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On a September evening in 2004, a domestic dispute call in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn set in motion a tragic chain of events that would end in the deaths of two New York City Police Department detectives. Thirty-nine-year-old Detective Patrick Rafferty and his partner, Detective Robert Parker, responded to a call from a woman who reported that her son was attempting to steal her car. The detectives, both assigned to the 67th Precinct Detective Squad, located the suspect, Marlon L ...
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    Hey folks, I can't stop thinking about the courage it must have taken for Detective Rafferty to retu... ...Read More
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