Trooper Andrew Lawrence sustained a serious leg injury when the motorcycle he was operating was forced from the road near the City of Hudson. His leg was pinned beneath his machine and was so badly crushed that it was amputated at the Hudson City Hospital. He died five days after the accident from complications caused by gangrene infection.

Trooper Lawrence had been employed with the New York State Police for 4 years.

Trooper Donivan was shot and killed while he and three other plainclothes officers patrolled Wilton Road in Saratoga County after a rash of robberies. They were flagged down by a man who had parked a vehicle across the roadway. When the they stopped the man attempted to rob them and a gunfight ensued in which Trooper Donivan was fatally wounded. Three suspects were apprehended following his murder.

Corporal Harold Mattice was shot and killed by a suspect while investigating an arson call. The suspect was on parole for raping his niece and was hiding in the home. When the officers approached the suspect opened fire, fatally wounding Corporal Mattice. The suspect then committed suicide.

Corporal Mattice was survived by his wife, young son, and a daughter that was born one month after his death. Trooper Mattice was the first New York State Trooper to die by gunfire and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Berne, New York.

Trooper Skiff succumbed to injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident one week earlier when the sidecar he was riding in struck a trolley car in Ogdensburg.