John Anthony Dinapoli, a 52-year-old White / Caucasian male, was a 21-year veteran of the Holyoke Police Department. On the morning of December 22, 1999, while on an administrative assignment, he volunteered to back up fellow officers responding to a report of two men arguing on a street corner. Driving an unmarked cruiser, Officer Dinapoli began following one of the men involved in the disturbance.
As he was following the suspect on foot, the man turned and fired several shots into the p
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