Bio & Incident Details
Age: 39
Tour: 13 years
Badge # 2883
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 2/13/1923
Weapon: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect: Not available
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Officer Reilly was shot and killed while assigned to the 21st Precinct.
Officer Reilly entered the service of the City of New York as a Patrolman in the Aqueduct Police Force, whose responsibility was to protect and guard the building of a water supply from the Catskill Mountains to the City of New York. He was in this service from 1910 to 1915. He was then appointed Prison Keeper in the Department of Corrections, City of New York, and served at the New York City Reformatory at New Hampton Farms, at the Harts Island Reformatory and other prisons. On March 16th, 1920, he was appointed to the position of Patrolman in the New York City Police Department and continued in such capacity until he died in Bellevue Hospital on February 16th, 1923 after being shot on the morning of February 13th, 1923, at 4:45 am.
Officer Reilly was survived by his wife and four young children. The children ranged in age from eight months to eight years.
