Puerto Rico Police Department, Puerto Rico
End of Watch: Tuesday, November 17, 1992
Age: 29
Tour of Duty: Not available
Badge Number: Not available
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: November 17, 1992
Weapon Used: Rifle
Suspect Info: Not available
Police Officer Julio Ferreira-Bonilla was shot and killed while investigating the presence of two men with a high-powered rifle at a housing project.
Officer Ferreira-Bonilla was patrolling with his partner in an undercover vehicle by the Ramos Antonini Housing Project in Rio Piedras when they came to a dead-end street and saw a person running with an assault rifle. The officers chased the person on foot, resulting in a shootout between armed suspects on a roof terrace of a building and the officers who took cover behind a parked car. Officer Ferreira-Bonilla, who was not wearing a bullet-proof vest, was fatally wounded when bullets pierced the car.
He was taken to Rio Piedras Medical Center where he died.
Officer Ferreira-Bonilla worked with the Puerto Rico Police Department in the Vice Control Unit of San Juan.