P.O. Gerard L. Carter

Police Officer Gerard L. Carter, 28, of the NYPD Staten Island Housing Unit, passed away July 31, 1998 at 1:06 a.m. at St. Vincent's Hospital on Staten Island.

Carter was shot in the head as he and his partner sat in a marked police car outside the West Brighton Housing Project. They were there to serve a warrant on 17-year-old Shatiek Johnson for skipping a one-day community service sentence for fare beating.

He was arrested Monday morning and is now being held without bail on Rikers Island.

Johnson has also done time on a manslaughter conviction for beating a homeless man to death when he was 15.

Police Officer Carter is survived by his son Louis Carter.