Robert Parker

On a Friday evening in September 2004, a decorated NYPD detective, Robert Parker, a 43-year-old male, found himself in a fatal struggle on a street in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn. He and his partner, Detective Patrick Rafferty, were responding to a domestic violence call from a woman who reported her son was trying to steal her car. The detectives were familiar with the suspect, a man with a lengthy criminal record.

Arriving on East 49th Street, the detectives strategically drov ...

Robert L. Parker - The Detectives' Endowment Association

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