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On a tragic day in June of 1993, Newark Police Detective John Sczyrek, a 30-year-old male, was fatally shot in a brazen attack within the supposed safety of the Essex County Courthouse. He was there to testify as the key witness in a narcotics case against two cousins. As he waited in a hallway on the 11th floor, a man approached him and opened fire with a. 357 Magnum handgun, striking the detective in the head. The shooter was identified as Eddie Lee Oliver Philson, the 25-year-old cousin of th ...Read More
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John Sczyrek
Male
White / Caucasian
Newark
NJ
1993-06-03
30
John
Sczyrek
11/19/2025
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I can't stop thinking about the bravery Detective Sczyrek showed in the moments leading up to his tr... ...Read More
04/13/2023
04/13/2023
