New York City Police Department
September 11, 1976
Detective Brian J. Murray
During a TWA flight to Europe, Croatian terrorist hijacked a plane and threatened to blow up the aircraft. To establish their sincerity that actual bombs may be on the flight, the terrorists revealed the location of a real bomb in New York City. Detective Murray of the NYPD Bomb Squad was killed and his partner seriously wounded while attempting to render safe the explosive device removed from a locker in Grand Central Station. Detective Murray was the first Hazardous Devices School (HDS) graduate killed in the line of duty