A memorial service in Queens Sunday honored a rookie NYPD officer shot to death 29 years ago.

It was held at 107th Avenue and Inwood Street in Jamaica at 12:15 this morning.

That's the time and place that Officer Edward Byrne was shot and killed in his squad car while guarding a witness in a drug case.

Police Commissioner James O'Neill attended the ceremony, along with Byrne's brother who serves as Deputy Commissioner for Legal Matters.

Both men praised the work the department has done in the years since the shooting.

"To make this city so much safer than what it was back in 1988 is nothing short of extraordinary and incredible,"

"The fact that homicide shootings, overall crimes down, none of that happens by accident. It happens as a result of the hard work and the men and women in this great police department."

Officer Edward Byrne was just 22-years-old.