Superintendent James J. Riordan, aged 57, was the First Deputy Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department. On June 6, 1981, he was fatally shot while off-duty at the Marina City Restaurant in Chicago. Riordan intervened when he saw a man harassing a woman with a switchblade. As he escorted the man out, the suspect, Leon Washington, pulled out a .380 caliber handgun and shot Riordan multiple times in the chest.
Washington, a former police officer from Davenport, Iowa, was arrested at
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