Members of the Newark Police Department salute Newark Detective Joseph Azcona as his body is taken from the medical examiner's office in Newark. Hundreds of vehicles escorted Detective Azcona's ...

Joseph Azcona’s mother speaks out Azcona’s mom, Martha Vargas, 56, remembered the Newark cop as her “baby.” “That was my baby.

Newark police Detective Joseph Azcona, 26, was killed when a 14-year-old boy allegedly gunned him down in his car March 7. Jose Azcona Mourners embrace at Azcona’s funeral on Friday.

A 14-year-old shot and killed a police officer and wounded another Friday evening in New Jersey, authorities said, in a chaotic scene that witnesses described as seeing officers running down a busy ...

NEWARK, New Jersey (PIX11) — The city of Newark continues to mourn the loss of Detective Joseph Azcona who was fatally shot on the job just days ago. Family, friends, and fellow officers ...

In the wake of Detective Joseph Azcona's death at the hands of a 14-year-old suspect, Newark officials and activists reflect on the deep-rooted problems plaguing their community and the urgent ...

If convicted at the federal level of the March 7 killing of Detective Joseph Azcona, the teen could face a longer prison sentence than allowed by state law for young offenders.

Authorities identified Newark police detective Joseph Azcona as the officer who was allegedly shot and killed by a 14-year-old while on duty on Friday, March 7, during a press conference a day later.

An uncle of slain Newark police detective Joseph Azcona said the family is in shock from the young law officer’s death — and he said he knew who to blame for the tragedy. “It’s the parents.

Detective Joseph Azcona was investigating illegal gun activity when he was killed A 14-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with murder in the fatal shooting in Newark on Friday of Detective ...

The slain officer, 26-year-old Joseph Azcona, was part of a team of Newark police detectives and federal agents that had gone to capture a suspect in an illegal weapons sting when the officer was ...