 nypd officer jonathan dillard's tragic and shocking story made national headlines during a traffic stop jonathan was shot and killed by a career criminal he was the first line of duty death for the nypd in two years throughout his three years of service jonathan made more than 70 arrests and was awarded with excellent and meritorious police duty on several occasions jonathan who was just 31 years old leaves behind his wife stephanie and his one-year-old son ryan and his brothers and sisters in the nypd