Officer Rank: Police Officer
Memorial Panel: 17-W: 23
Department: New York City, New York, P.D.
End of Watch: 09/11/2001
Cause: Terrorist Attack
Age: 39
Length of Service: 17
Officer Valentin was among over seventy law enforcement officers from a total of seven federal, state, and local agencies who were killed when terrorist hijackers crashed two of four hijacked planes into the New York City World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001. The New York City Police Department lost twenty-three officers in this incident. Officer Valentin was assigned to the Emergency Service Unit, Squad 7.
