murder of Lauretha Vaird

When

1996

Kind

Murder

Coordinates

39.95° N, 75.16° W

Description

1996 murder of a female police officer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Date from

year in its Wikidata description

Placed at the town its description names, Philadelphia.

1996 murder of a female police officer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lauretha A. Vaird was a Philadelphia Police Department officer who was shot dead by the rapper Christopher "Cool C" Roney during a botched armed bank robbery in January 1996. Roney attempted to rob the bank with another rapper, Warren "Steady B" McGlone, and another man, Mark Canty. During the robbery, Vaird was mortally wounded by a gunshot wound in the abdomen and died soon after.

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