Suspect accused of killing NYPD's Jonathan Diller 'looks like he's smiling' in bodycam video: testimony

The fishy accused of gunning down NYPD serviceman Jonathan Diller appeared to beryllium smiling successful constabulary bodycam video conscionable moments aft the fatal shooting, according to grounds from 1 of Diller’s chap officers.

NYPD Detective Derval Whyte took the witnesser basal successful a Queens courtroom Wednesday, describing however helium "watched my person get changeable for nary reason" during a regular postulation halt successful March 2024. Whyte went connected to recount Diller’s last moments, the New York Post reported.

"He’s connected his back, he’s motionless," helium said of Diller. "I heard him say, ‘I’ve been shot.’ I went implicit to find the gunshot wound. I rolled him backmost and distant and recovered the slug coiled supra his belly."

Body camera footage played for the tribunal showed the moments officers attempted to revive Diller successful the contiguous aftermath of the shooting. The footage besides showed a antheral connected the crushed successful handcuffs who appeared to beryllium grinning, the outlet reported.

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Guy Rivera, charged successful the fatal shooting of NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller, listens to opening statements arsenic his proceedings begins astatine Queens Criminal Court successful the Kew Gardens vicinity of Queens, March 10, 2026. (Dave Sanders/Pool/The New York Times)

When helium was asked to picture the footage, Whyte said, "That’s the defendant. He looks similar he’s smiling."

Diller, a 31-year-old joined father, was inspecting a suspicious conveyance parked extracurricular a T-Mobile store successful Far Rockaway connected March 25, 2024, erstwhile 35-year-old Guy Rivera, who was seated successful the rider seat, allegedly fired 3 rounds astatine the officer, striking him successful the stomach. 

Rivera, a vocation transgression with astir 2 twelve anterior arrests, according to police, pleaded not blameworthy to first-degree execution charges aft prosecutors said helium gunned down Diller.

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Assistant District Attorney Ken Zawistowski described the fatal brushwood during the trial’s opening statements past week.

"[Rivera] took retired his weapon and pointed it astatine serviceman Diller," Zawistowski said.

Stephanie Diller, widow of slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller, becomes affectional arsenic she attends her husband's execution trial. (Fox News)

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"He changeable serviceman Diller underneath his bulletproof vest, causing his intestines to beryllium ripped done and causing his iliac artery to beryllium severed — 1 of the body’s astir captious arteries," Zawistowski continued.

Fox News Digital's Julia Bonavita and Olivia Palombo, on with Fox News' Sandy Ibrahim contributed to this report.