JOSEPH T SWIERCZYNSKI

Officer Rank: Policeman
Memorial Panel: 35-W: 28
Department: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, P.D.
End of Watch: March 20, 1919
Cause: SHOT
Age: 27
Years of Service: 2
Description: Police Officer Swierczynski was shot while in pursuit of two robbery suspects who had fled into a saloon. Officer Swierczynski was transported to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest and was pronounced dead. The shooter was convicted of first degree murder.
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