On a cold winter afternoon, December 21, 1981, New Jersey State Trooper Philip Joseph Lamonaco, a 32-year-old male, was on patrol along Interstate 80 in Knowlton Township. An 11-year veteran of the force and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who had served in Vietnam, Lamonaco was a respected and decorated officer, having been named Trooper of the Year in 1979. That day, during a seemingly routine traffic stop, his life was tragically cut short in a violent encounter that would launch one of the large
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