Sgts. Dixon and Schofield laid a wreath at the plaque dedicated to Officer Machuca.
The Cornwall police department was joined by former town supervisor Richard Randazzo.
February 12, 2009
A Cornwall police officer who died in the line of duty twenty years ago was honored at a ceremony Tuesday morning outside Cornwall Town Hall.
On February 10, 1989, police officer John Machuca was responding to a call on Angola Road when a drunken driver plowed into his squad car. Officer Machuca, 40, was serving part-time in the department at the time of his death.
On Tuesday, following a memorial Mass at St. Thomas of Canterbury Church, officers gathered at a bronze plaque dedicated to Officer Machuca that is embedded in a rock boulder outside Town Hall. A simple purple wreath was laid there in his honor by Sergeants Steven Dixon and Douglas Schofield.
