Philadelphia police officers killed in the line of duty since 2006

Officer Gary F. Skerski, 46, a 16-year veteran of the police force, was shot and killed May 8, 2006, while responding to a robbery at a cafe at Arrott and Adams Avenues in the Northeast.

Status: Solomon Montgomery pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in 2007 in a deal in which he exchanged a possible death sentence for life in prison without parole. Montgomery, 28, is serving his sentence at the state prison at Huntingdon in central Pennsylvania.

Officer Chuck Cassidy, 54, a veteran of 25 years, was shot and killed responding to the armed robbery of a doughnut shop in West Oak Lane on Oct. 31, 2007.

Status: John Lewis was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in November. Lewis, 24, is at the state prison at Greene in Southwestern Pennsylvania while his case is appealed to the state Supreme Court.

Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski, 39, a 12-year police veteran, was shot and killed May 3, 2008, as he pursued the getaway car of three men who had just robbed a Port Richmond bank.

Status: The shooter and the robbery's mastermind, Howard Cain, 33, was shot and killed by police the same day. His accomplices, Eric DeShann Floyd, 35, and Levon T. Warner, 41, were convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder. The jury on Monday will begin considering whether they should be executed or sentenced to life in prison.

Officer Isabel Nazario, 40, an officer for 18 years, died Sept. 5, 2008, when a stolen SUV driven by teenager Andre Butler broadsided her patrol car in West Philadelphia.

Status: Butler, now 18, pleaded guilty June 7, on the first day of his trial, to third-degree murder in an agreement with the District Attorney's Office. He is serving 10 to 20 years at the state prison at Camp Hill, near Harrisburg.

Sgt. Patrick McDonald, 30, on the force eight years, was shot to death Sept. 23, 2008, during a car stop in North Philadelphia. The driver, Daniel Giddings, 27, a state parolee who had walked away from his halfway house, fled and shot McDonald during a struggle. Giddings wounded Officer Richard Bowes before Giddings was shot and killed.

Sgt. Timothy Simpson, 26, a 20-year veteran, was killed Nov. 17, 2008, when he was responding to a robbery and a drunken driver hit his patrol car in Port Richmond.

Status: William Allan Foster, 43, of Levittown, a convicted thief and drug user charged with third-degree murder, homicide by vehicle, and other crimes, is scheduled to go to trial Oct. 17, 2011, before Common Pleas Court Judge Jeffrey P. Minehart. He remains in prison in lieu of $2 million bail.

Officer John Pawlowski, 25, on the police force five years, was shot and killed Feb. 13, 2009, after he and his partner responded to a fight between a cabbie and another man in Logan.

Status: Rasheed Scrugs, 34, who has a long record of arrests for theft, robbery, and gun crimes, is scheduled for trial on first-degree murder and related charges Oct. 4.