Bio & Incident Details
Age: 40
Tour: Not available
Badge # Not available
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 8/26/1963
Weapon: Officer's handgun
Suspect: Released after 37 years
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Sergeant Voto and Officer Gary Tedesco were shot and killed at a local bar during a call. The suspects had robbed an apartment in Brooklyn, New York. In celebration, they partied with friends into the early morning at the Angel Lounge in Lodi. The men, former convicts, in their mid-20's, were drinking heavily, popping barbiturates and making enough of a racket that neighbors called the police several times to complain. When Sergeant Voto and Officer Tedesco arrived to quiet the bar down, the suspects attacked the officers and took their guns. The suspects then pistol whipped the officers and shot and killed them.
One suspect was shot and killed by Detectives from the New York City Police Department in a hotel room in Manhattan. The second was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, but was released by the New Jersey State Supreme Court in 2001 after serving 37 years. His original death penalty conviction was overturned in 1972 when the death penalty was declared unconstitutional.
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