Bio & Incident Details
Age: 48
Tour: 25 years
Badge # Not available
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 1/12/1976
Weapon: Handgun
Suspect: Paroled in 1994
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Sergeant Sellick was shot and killed during a bank robbery.
He was shot in the face at about 7:15 p.m. at the First Federal Savings and Loan Association while trying to disarm the gunman. He later died in the emergency room at Mountainside Hospital.
Within three days the gunman and three accomplices were arrested. The gunman was convicted of murder and armed robbery and sentenced to life on June 30, 1976. He was paroled on May 26, 1994. The other three was also convicted of murder and armed robbery and sentenced to life. All three have been paroled.
Sergeant Sellick's killer and his three accomplices were members of the New World of Islam, a black muslim religious group responsible for more than 100 robberies and several murders in New Jersey.
Sergeant Sellick was a 25-year veteran of the Montclair
Police Department.
