Bernardino Grottano was an NYPD detective killed 100 years ago in the line of duty, but he was never given a proper burial.
That changed on Monday morning, with a high honors funeral in Brooklyn for the slain detective, PIX11 reports.
Inside the cemetery, under a blue sky, there were rows of blue uniforms, including some with top brass. There were also relatives of Grottano from as far away as Michigan, as well as an honor guard, highly-decorated veteran officers, and even canine officers.
Detective Grottano seized a robbery suspect who was fleeing from an officer in Brooklyn on May 19, 1924. When Grottano grabbed the man, the man shot him. The detective died days later and was buried in a mass grave inside Green-Wood. All that marked his final resting place was a small, numbered stone marker.
