On the afternoon of March 10, 1993, a decorated undercover detective with the Manhattan South Narcotics unit, Luis Lopez, was killed in the line of duty. At 35 years of age, the eight-year veteran of the force was engaged in a buy-and-bust operation on East First Street. He was arranging to purchase a significant quantity of marijuana and several firearms from a group of individuals.
The operation took a fatal turn when Detective Lopez went to retrieve the $10,000 in buy money from his ve
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