Dignified Transfer Held For Slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller

QUEENS, N.Y. - The body of slain NYPD Police Officer Jonathan Diller was transported from Jamaica Hospital to the medical examiner's office in Manhattan on Monday night in a dignified transfer procession.

The emotional procession honoring slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller, a three-year veteran of the police department, departed from Jamaica Hospital after 11:30PM on Monday.

The procession of more than 50 police vehicles traveled westbound on the Long Island Expressway toward the Office of Chief Medical Examiner on 1st Avenue in Manhattan. First responders from multiple departments, including the FDNY, lined the expressway to pay tribute to the fallen officer.

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Diller was shot and killed by Guy Rivera, 34, while conducting a traffic stop on a vehicle illegally parked at a bus stop on Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway on Monday at 5:48PM, according to NYPD officials. The wounded 31-year-old police officer was urgently rushed to Jamaica Hospital in a critical condition with a police escort, where he was later pronounced dead by hospital staff.

After Diller was shot under his bullet resistent vest, his partner returned fire at Rivera and struck him in the back. Rivera was also transported to Jamaica Hospital, where he is listed as being in a stable condition.

Rivera, a "career criminal" as police describe him, has been arrested 21 times prior to the fatal shooting of Officer Diller. He was last released from a New York prison in 2021 after serving five years for criminal possession of a controlled substance, records say.