Pictured is Officer Gregory Lordi of the Plainfield police department. He is one of a special kind of officer: He is the son of a cop, and he is the son of a cop killed on the job.
Gregory Lordi was a teenager in 1979 when his father, Anthony Lordi, Jr., was shot and killed in Hillside. The killing took place during a robbery attempt and was essentially an execution. At the time Anthony Lordi, Jr., was a 22-year veteran of the Hillside police department and was highly respected in the community and within the Hillside police.
We think that it takes a special kind of person to become a police officer after losing your police officer father under such circumstances. Gregory Lordi and his younger brother, Jeffrey, both became police officers.
And the killer from 30 years ago? Still in jail.
