Patrolman Anthony Lordi, Jr. was 44 when he was killed after a robbery attempt at Gino’s Restaurant on North Broad Street in Hillside, New Jersey. On the evening of Friday, December 14, 1979, Lordi was working a uniformed special assignment at the restaurant. Five people were involved in the crime: two went inside and three remained in a vehicle outside. One of the men who entered asked Lordi the time and, as Lordi lifted his arm to check his watch, the man pulled a handgun and tried to disarm him.

A struggle followed and Lordi was shot with his own service weapon. He was taken to a local hospital but died shortly after midnight, in the early hours of December 15, 1979. The suspects fled without taking any money. Several days later all five were apprehended, and the person who fired the fatal shot, a 23-year-old man, was located and arrested in Bradenton, Florida.

Can anyone who remembers that night or has information about the people involved step forward?