Joyce Anne Carnegie

In the line of duty, Orange Police Officer Joyce Anne Carnegie, an African-American female, was shot and killed on April 8, 1999. Having served with the department for four years, she became the first female officer to be killed in the line of duty in Essex County and the second in the state of New Jersey. On that fateful day, she had stopped a man for questioning near the intersection of North Day Street and Freeway Drive West. The individual she stopped was a suspect in two recent muggings tha ...