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At Inwood Street and 107th Avenue in South Jamaica, Queens, a car was parked where Officer Edward Byrne was killed 25 years ago.
By TIM STELLOH
Published: February 26, 2013
The old police cruiser sat at the corner of 107th Avenue and Inwood Street in Queens, just as it did 25 years ago. On Tuesday afternoon, this throwback ? a refurbished Caprice Classic ? served not only as a powerful reminder of Edward Byrne, the 22-year-old rookie officer who was shot and killed inside it while on patrol one morning in 1988, but of the pervasive violence that defined the era.
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Officer Byrne, a rookie, was shot while on duty in 1988.
Nearby, more than a hundred officers ? many of whom were in their dress blues ? had gathered at the intersection on the anniversary of Officer Byrne?s killing. Under a tent, the officer?s relatives sat in folding chairs; a framed photo of him was affixed to a chain-link fence that surrounded a nearby home.
?Twenty-five years ago, the world changed,? said Patrick J. Lynch, the president of the Patrolmen?s Benevolent Association. The killing of Officer Byrne, Mr. Lynch said, ?was the catalyst that helped us take back this city, corner by corner, door by door, street by street.?
Officer Byrne joined the Police Department only months before that February morning in 1988. He had been assigned to guard the home of a resident who had agreed to testify against a local drug lord. At 3:03 a.m., four men surrounded the vehicle. ?Without uttering a word, they fired into the car, striking Officer Byrne in the head,? Officer George Dumont recalled at the ceremony.
Darin Hamilton, a retired detective who was a rookie at the same time as Officer Byrne ? and who had been guarding the same home the night before the killing ? recalled in an interview how, at the time of the murder, this section of Queens seemed like the epicenter of the drug war.
?If they weren?t selling, they were lookouts,? Mr. Hamilton said. ?It seemed to be surrounded and saturated in this area.?
Mr. Hamilton added: ?You didn?t have the walking up and telling people to put their hands behind their back sort of thing. Everybody fought or ran.?
The four men who killed Officer Byrne were eventually convicted, as was the gang leader who ordered the murder. The killing led to a crackdown on drug gangs, including the creation of a tactical narcotics team.
?They were very, very aggressive in cleaning the drugs out of the neighborhood,? Mr. Hamilton said.
On this block, those efforts seem to have stuck. In a two-story home adjacent to where Officer Byrne?s cruiser was parked, Chris Ramlagan recalled how when he first moved to the house in 1993, gunshots were common at night. Crack paraphernalia littered the street every morning.
?It changed,? Mr. Ramlagan said. ?And it?s still changing.?
A couple of miles away, at a park named after Officer Byrne, Anthony Williams, 16, lobbed a ball at a basketball hoop. Mr. Williams did not know who Officer Byrne was or what had happened to him. Still, the officer?s legacy endured.
?There aren?t a lot of drugs that come through here anymore,? Mr. Williams said. ?It?s safe.?
By TIM STELLOH
Published: February 26, 2013
The old police cruiser sat at the corner of 107th Avenue and Inwood Street in Queens, just as it did 25 years ago. On Tuesday afternoon, this throwback ? a refurbished Caprice Classic ? served not only as a powerful reminder of Edward Byrne, the 22-year-old rookie officer who was shot and killed inside it while on patrol one morning in 1988, but of the pervasive violence that defined the era.
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Officer Byrne, a rookie, was shot while on duty in 1988.
Nearby, more than a hundred officers ? many of whom were in their dress blues ? had gathered at the intersection on the anniversary of Officer Byrne?s killing. Under a tent, the officer?s relatives sat in folding chairs; a framed photo of him was affixed to a chain-link fence that surrounded a nearby home.
?Twenty-five years ago, the world changed,? said Patrick J. Lynch, the president of the Patrolmen?s Benevolent Association. The killing of Officer Byrne, Mr. Lynch said, ?was the catalyst that helped us take back this city, corner by corner, door by door, street by street.?
Officer Byrne joined the Police Department only months before that February morning in 1988. He had been assigned to guard the home of a resident who had agreed to testify against a local drug lord. At 3:03 a.m., four men surrounded the vehicle. ?Without uttering a word, they fired into the car, striking Officer Byrne in the head,? Officer George Dumont recalled at the ceremony.
Darin Hamilton, a retired detective who was a rookie at the same time as Officer Byrne ? and who had been guarding the same home the night before the killing ? recalled in an interview how, at the time of the murder, this section of Queens seemed like the epicenter of the drug war.
?If they weren?t selling, they were lookouts,? Mr. Hamilton said. ?It seemed to be surrounded and saturated in this area.?
Mr. Hamilton added: ?You didn?t have the walking up and telling people to put their hands behind their back sort of thing. Everybody fought or ran.?
The four men who killed Officer Byrne were eventually convicted, as was the gang leader who ordered the murder. The killing led to a crackdown on drug gangs, including the creation of a tactical narcotics team.
?They were very, very aggressive in cleaning the drugs out of the neighborhood,? Mr. Hamilton said.
On this block, those efforts seem to have stuck. In a two-story home adjacent to where Officer Byrne?s cruiser was parked, Chris Ramlagan recalled how when he first moved to the house in 1993, gunshots were common at night. Crack paraphernalia littered the street every morning.
?It changed,? Mr. Ramlagan said. ?And it?s still changing.?
A couple of miles away, at a park named after Officer Byrne, Anthony Williams, 16, lobbed a ball at a basketball hoop. Mr. Williams did not know who Officer Byrne was or what had happened to him. Still, the officer?s legacy endured.
?There aren?t a lot of drugs that come through here anymore,? Mr. Williams said. ?It?s safe.?
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68jk09 said:
This Skell isn't sorry for killing a cop !!! I'm sorry that he's ONLY going to the American Prison system for 45 years to life. I know of other countrys that would deal with this individual in a very different way. And I bet he'd be sorry then.
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After Criticism, NYPD Changes Policy and Begins Investigating More Traffic Crashes
In a marked shift of protocol, the New York Police Department has begun conducting robust investigations of traffic crashes that result in critical injuries but not certain or likely death.
In the past, investigators from a specialized unit, the Accident Investigation Squad, were sent only when at least one victim had died or was deemed by first responders to be ?likely to die.?
The new policy was outlined in a letter sent last week from the police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, to the City Council. Under it, the department?s crash investigators will be summoned ?when there has been a critical injury or when a Police Department duty captain believes the extent of the injuries and/or unique circumstances of a collision warrant such action,? Mr. Kelly wrote.
Though the change had not been made public, Paul J. Browne, the department?s chief spokesman, said on Sunday that the police ?had already begun to respond to instances where the injuries were serious but not fatal.?
Dozens of investigations stemming from the new rules have been conducted since September, law enforcement officials said, including one involving a crash that severed a woman?s leg in Manhattan in February and another after a multicar, nonfatal pileup on the Whitestone Bridge last year. In many of these cases, including the Whitestone crash, criminal charges have resulted.
Mr. Kelly said in his letter that the department would also increase the size of the investigation squad and revise its Patrol Guide to reflect which crashes warrant investigations.
And in a symbolic semantic change that some advocates for crash victims have long requested, the department will begin using the term ?collision? instead of ?accident? to describe crashes, Mr. Kelly said. The squad itself will soon be renamed the Collision Investigation Squad.
?In the past, the term ?accident? has sometimes given the inaccurate impression or connotation that there is no fault or liability associated with a specific event,? Mr. Kelly wrote.
The increase in investigations could be important for both prosecutors, who expect to build better cases from the more frequent collision reports, and transportation engineers eager for a deeper trove of crash data.
?I think it will give us more information about what we can do when we design our streets,? Janette Sadik-Khan, the city?s transportation commissioner, said in a phone interview. She noted, as Mr. Kelly did in his letter, that the changes were made possible, in part, because the streets had already become safer in recent years. In 2011, the city recorded 237 traffic deaths, a 40 percent drop from a decade earlier, though preliminary 2012 figures suggest an increase.
Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, suggested in an interview on Saturday that understanding the causes of a greater number of crashes ?is going to help us see what flow works.?
Mr. Kelly?s letter followed hearings last year in which City Council members were critical of the department?s response to crashes. The Council has introduced several bills calling for some of the changes addressed in Mr. Kelly?s letter, and in December, the district attorneys for the city?s five boroughs sent a joint letter to the Police Department supporting the policy shifts.
?Prosecutors rely on this crucial unit to gather evidence to determine whether criminality exists,? said Daniel R. Alonso, the chief assistant to the Manhattan district attorney. ?As such, we greatly support the commissioner?s efforts.?
Recently, a spate of grisly and high-profile traffic deaths has heightened public concern about traffic safety. On Feb. 28, a 6-year-old boy, Amar Diarrassouba, was fatally struck by a truck as he walked to school in East Harlem. Three days later, a hit-and-run crash in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, claimed the lives of two newlyweds and, the next day, their son, who had been delivered prematurely after the collision.
Mr. Browne said the plans to overhaul investigation guidelines were discussed before the recent fatal crashes.
Paul Steely White, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives, a cycling and pedestrian advocacy group that has been sharply critical of the city?s enforcement of traffic laws, hailed the changes as ?a very significant step toward a safer, more humane city.?
He recalled a 2011 crash that killed Clara Heyworth, a 28-year-old marketing manager who was fatally struck by a car while crossing a Brooklyn street. An investigation into her death was initially halted because she was still alive at the time and not deemed likely to die by emergency room doctors, the previous standard. The Accident Investigation Squad did not begin its formal investigation until three days after she died from her injuries.
?While the A.I.S. team was waiting to see if the patient dies or not, the crash scene was going cold,? Mr. White said.
In a recent case of a woman whose leg was severed after a car smashed into her on a Manhattan sidewalk, the squad?s investigators responded rapidly to the scene despite an initial assessment that she would survive. An investigation, still continuing, had already begun when the woman died at the hospital hours later.
Mr. Kelly said in his letter that the threshold for investigating crashes would draw in part on existing guidelines that emergency responders used to identify critically injured victims: anyone receiving CPR, in respiratory arrest or requiring a ventilator or circulatory support.
The amendments, including the decision to banish ?accident? from the department?s traffic-crash vocabulary, showed how far the city had come, Mr. White said.
?An accident is when a meteor falls through your house and hits you in the head,? he said. ?Collisions can be prevented.?
In a marked shift of protocol, the New York Police Department has begun conducting robust investigations of traffic crashes that result in critical injuries but not certain or likely death.
In the past, investigators from a specialized unit, the Accident Investigation Squad, were sent only when at least one victim had died or was deemed by first responders to be ?likely to die.?
The new policy was outlined in a letter sent last week from the police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, to the City Council. Under it, the department?s crash investigators will be summoned ?when there has been a critical injury or when a Police Department duty captain believes the extent of the injuries and/or unique circumstances of a collision warrant such action,? Mr. Kelly wrote.
Though the change had not been made public, Paul J. Browne, the department?s chief spokesman, said on Sunday that the police ?had already begun to respond to instances where the injuries were serious but not fatal.?
Dozens of investigations stemming from the new rules have been conducted since September, law enforcement officials said, including one involving a crash that severed a woman?s leg in Manhattan in February and another after a multicar, nonfatal pileup on the Whitestone Bridge last year. In many of these cases, including the Whitestone crash, criminal charges have resulted.
Mr. Kelly said in his letter that the department would also increase the size of the investigation squad and revise its Patrol Guide to reflect which crashes warrant investigations.
And in a symbolic semantic change that some advocates for crash victims have long requested, the department will begin using the term ?collision? instead of ?accident? to describe crashes, Mr. Kelly said. The squad itself will soon be renamed the Collision Investigation Squad.
?In the past, the term ?accident? has sometimes given the inaccurate impression or connotation that there is no fault or liability associated with a specific event,? Mr. Kelly wrote.
The increase in investigations could be important for both prosecutors, who expect to build better cases from the more frequent collision reports, and transportation engineers eager for a deeper trove of crash data.
?I think it will give us more information about what we can do when we design our streets,? Janette Sadik-Khan, the city?s transportation commissioner, said in a phone interview. She noted, as Mr. Kelly did in his letter, that the changes were made possible, in part, because the streets had already become safer in recent years. In 2011, the city recorded 237 traffic deaths, a 40 percent drop from a decade earlier, though preliminary 2012 figures suggest an increase.
Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, suggested in an interview on Saturday that understanding the causes of a greater number of crashes ?is going to help us see what flow works.?
Mr. Kelly?s letter followed hearings last year in which City Council members were critical of the department?s response to crashes. The Council has introduced several bills calling for some of the changes addressed in Mr. Kelly?s letter, and in December, the district attorneys for the city?s five boroughs sent a joint letter to the Police Department supporting the policy shifts.
?Prosecutors rely on this crucial unit to gather evidence to determine whether criminality exists,? said Daniel R. Alonso, the chief assistant to the Manhattan district attorney. ?As such, we greatly support the commissioner?s efforts.?
Recently, a spate of grisly and high-profile traffic deaths has heightened public concern about traffic safety. On Feb. 28, a 6-year-old boy, Amar Diarrassouba, was fatally struck by a truck as he walked to school in East Harlem. Three days later, a hit-and-run crash in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, claimed the lives of two newlyweds and, the next day, their son, who had been delivered prematurely after the collision.
Mr. Browne said the plans to overhaul investigation guidelines were discussed before the recent fatal crashes.
Paul Steely White, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives, a cycling and pedestrian advocacy group that has been sharply critical of the city?s enforcement of traffic laws, hailed the changes as ?a very significant step toward a safer, more humane city.?
He recalled a 2011 crash that killed Clara Heyworth, a 28-year-old marketing manager who was fatally struck by a car while crossing a Brooklyn street. An investigation into her death was initially halted because she was still alive at the time and not deemed likely to die by emergency room doctors, the previous standard. The Accident Investigation Squad did not begin its formal investigation until three days after she died from her injuries.
?While the A.I.S. team was waiting to see if the patient dies or not, the crash scene was going cold,? Mr. White said.
In a recent case of a woman whose leg was severed after a car smashed into her on a Manhattan sidewalk, the squad?s investigators responded rapidly to the scene despite an initial assessment that she would survive. An investigation, still continuing, had already begun when the woman died at the hospital hours later.
Mr. Kelly said in his letter that the threshold for investigating crashes would draw in part on existing guidelines that emergency responders used to identify critically injured victims: anyone receiving CPR, in respiratory arrest or requiring a ventilator or circulatory support.
The amendments, including the decision to banish ?accident? from the department?s traffic-crash vocabulary, showed how far the city had come, Mr. White said.
?An accident is when a meteor falls through your house and hits you in the head,? he said. ?Collisions can be prevented.?
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3-25-13.....REST IN PEACE TO OUR BROTHER IN BLUE.....PRAYERS FOR THE COMFORT OF THE FAMILIES...............................................................
NYPD officer, Joseph Pritchard, killed in crash on LIE RIP
Originally published: March 25, 2013 7:35 AM
Updated: March 25, 2013 3:49 PM
Police tell News 12 Long Island an adult man was killed when a box truck hit a pickup truck around 2:24 a.m. (March 25, 2013 3:22 PM)
Fatal car crash on LIE in Dix Hills
Police say an NYPD officer from North Babylon was killed in a two-car crash early this morning on the Long Island Expressway near exit 51.
Police have identified the victim as Joseph Pritchard, 30, of North Babylon, who was assigned to Midtown South Police.
Police say Pritchard was stopped for an unknown reason in the westbound right lane of the LIE.
NYPD officer, Joseph Pritchard, killed in crash on LIE RIP
Originally published: March 25, 2013 7:35 AM
Updated: March 25, 2013 3:49 PM
Police tell News 12 Long Island an adult man was killed when a box truck hit a pickup truck around 2:24 a.m. (March 25, 2013 3:22 PM)
Fatal car crash on LIE in Dix Hills
Police say an NYPD officer from North Babylon was killed in a two-car crash early this morning on the Long Island Expressway near exit 51.
Police have identified the victim as Joseph Pritchard, 30, of North Babylon, who was assigned to Midtown South Police.
Police say Pritchard was stopped for an unknown reason in the westbound right lane of the LIE.
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Funeral Mass Friday 3-29-13 10am @ Our Lady Of Perpetual Help 210 South Wellwood Ave Lindenhurst.
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Never Forget, New York City Police Officer Phillip CARDILLO.
On April 14, 1972, a 10-13, or police officer's call for assistance from a man claiming to be a Detective Thomas, was received by police, coming from 102 East 116th Street, the Nation of Islam mosque #7 in Harlem, where Malcolm X used to preach before his conversion to orthodox Islam. Officer Phillip Cardillo and four other officers responded, entering the mosque.[1] According to the New York Police Department, the officers were attacked by around 15 to 20 congregants were beaten, and stripped of their guns. During the mele, Officer Cardillo was assaulted, stripped of his firearm and was shot at point blank range. Mosque representatives maintained that the officers entered with guns drawn and interrupted prayer despite repeated requests to leave their guns outside. During the initial attempt to enter the mosque, police officers, including Cardillo's partner Officer Vito Navarra, claimed that prior to being forced out, they witnessed a man named Louis 17X Dupree standing over the dying Cardillo with a gun in hand. After reenforcements arrived, allowing police to retake the mosque, Dupree and several others were initially arrested at the scene. However before Dupree could be taken into custody, Louis Farrakhan and Congressman Charles B. Rangel arrived at the scene, threatening a riot if Dupree was not released. [2]
Soon after, more officers arrived on the scene. An angry mob began to form around the police barricade, and began pelting officers with projectiles and calling them "pigs." Several high ranking police officials ordered all officers out of the mosque and sent away all white officers.[1] It was hours later before 300-500 people were able to peacefully exit from the mosque after negotiations.[3] Due to the lower police force and a still angry crowd, police abandoned the scene. A promise was made by Rangel and Farrakhan, according to then Chief of Detectives Al Seedman, that Dupree and the other suspects would turn themselves in at the police precinct the following day, though none ever did. Rangel denies making such a promise. A new police policy was summarily enacted, identifying the mosque as a "sensitive location," thus preventing an investigation into the shooting for two years.[1] Officer Cardillo died six days later at St. Luke's Hospital as a result of his wounds.[4]
The 'Detective Thomas' from the original false alarm 10-13 call was never identified. Many of the officers of the NYPD, including Detective Randy Jurgensen who was the Cardillo cases lead detective, believed the fake call to be either a diversion or a trap, possibly set by elements of the Black Liberation Army, which the NYPD blamed for numerous murders of police officers.[1] According to Cardillo's family, police investigators failed to follow procedure in investigating the shooting.[5] Due to political pressure, the 24th precinct released a dozen suspects in the shooting without identifying them. The release of the suspects severely hampered the investigation.[6] In a decided break with tradition, neither mayor John V. Lindsay nor the police commissioner at the time Patrick V. Murphy attended officer Cardillo's funeral. An unrepentant Farrakhan would later state that the officers "charged into our temple like criminals and were treated like criminals."
[edit] Trial
Two years after the shooting, prosecutors brought charges against the mosque school's dean, Louis 17X Dupree, after an informant who witnessed the incident testified against him. After the first trial culminated in a hung jury, Dupree was later acquitted at the second, largely because ballistic evidence could not be recovered and Dupree's attorney's argued that either Cardillo shot himself or he was shot by another police officer.[6]
[edit] Aftermath
According to Randy Jurgensen and Robert Cea, Dupree, who later changed his name to Khalid Ali, was arrested in North Carolina on narcotics charges. He is currently serving a fifteen year sentence in Georgia State Penitentiary. In 2012, local police officers proposed to the Harlem city council that part of the street in front of the mosque be renamed after Officer Cardillo.[7]
On April 14, 1972, a 10-13, or police officer's call for assistance from a man claiming to be a Detective Thomas, was received by police, coming from 102 East 116th Street, the Nation of Islam mosque #7 in Harlem, where Malcolm X used to preach before his conversion to orthodox Islam. Officer Phillip Cardillo and four other officers responded, entering the mosque.[1] According to the New York Police Department, the officers were attacked by around 15 to 20 congregants were beaten, and stripped of their guns. During the mele, Officer Cardillo was assaulted, stripped of his firearm and was shot at point blank range. Mosque representatives maintained that the officers entered with guns drawn and interrupted prayer despite repeated requests to leave their guns outside. During the initial attempt to enter the mosque, police officers, including Cardillo's partner Officer Vito Navarra, claimed that prior to being forced out, they witnessed a man named Louis 17X Dupree standing over the dying Cardillo with a gun in hand. After reenforcements arrived, allowing police to retake the mosque, Dupree and several others were initially arrested at the scene. However before Dupree could be taken into custody, Louis Farrakhan and Congressman Charles B. Rangel arrived at the scene, threatening a riot if Dupree was not released. [2]
Soon after, more officers arrived on the scene. An angry mob began to form around the police barricade, and began pelting officers with projectiles and calling them "pigs." Several high ranking police officials ordered all officers out of the mosque and sent away all white officers.[1] It was hours later before 300-500 people were able to peacefully exit from the mosque after negotiations.[3] Due to the lower police force and a still angry crowd, police abandoned the scene. A promise was made by Rangel and Farrakhan, according to then Chief of Detectives Al Seedman, that Dupree and the other suspects would turn themselves in at the police precinct the following day, though none ever did. Rangel denies making such a promise. A new police policy was summarily enacted, identifying the mosque as a "sensitive location," thus preventing an investigation into the shooting for two years.[1] Officer Cardillo died six days later at St. Luke's Hospital as a result of his wounds.[4]
The 'Detective Thomas' from the original false alarm 10-13 call was never identified. Many of the officers of the NYPD, including Detective Randy Jurgensen who was the Cardillo cases lead detective, believed the fake call to be either a diversion or a trap, possibly set by elements of the Black Liberation Army, which the NYPD blamed for numerous murders of police officers.[1] According to Cardillo's family, police investigators failed to follow procedure in investigating the shooting.[5] Due to political pressure, the 24th precinct released a dozen suspects in the shooting without identifying them. The release of the suspects severely hampered the investigation.[6] In a decided break with tradition, neither mayor John V. Lindsay nor the police commissioner at the time Patrick V. Murphy attended officer Cardillo's funeral. An unrepentant Farrakhan would later state that the officers "charged into our temple like criminals and were treated like criminals."
[edit] Trial
Two years after the shooting, prosecutors brought charges against the mosque school's dean, Louis 17X Dupree, after an informant who witnessed the incident testified against him. After the first trial culminated in a hung jury, Dupree was later acquitted at the second, largely because ballistic evidence could not be recovered and Dupree's attorney's argued that either Cardillo shot himself or he was shot by another police officer.[6]
[edit] Aftermath
According to Randy Jurgensen and Robert Cea, Dupree, who later changed his name to Khalid Ali, was arrested in North Carolina on narcotics charges. He is currently serving a fifteen year sentence in Georgia State Penitentiary. In 2012, local police officers proposed to the Harlem city council that part of the street in front of the mosque be renamed after Officer Cardillo.[7]
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Off-duty cop fatally shoots husband, child in Brooklyn murder-suicide: sources
?By JESSICA SIMEONE and LORENA MONGELLI
?Last Updated: 10:44 AM, April 15, 2013
?Posted: 10:18 AM, April 15, 2013
Three people are believed to be dead in an apparent murder-suicide in Brooklyn this morning, sources said.
Police and EMS responded to a 911 call of a man shot inside of a building at East 56th Street and Farragut Road about 8:30 a.m., the FDNY said.
The shooter, an off-duty female police officer from the 108th Precinct in Queens, shot her husband and 1-year-old child, police sources said.
The shooter was found dead inside of the family's first-floor apartment in Brooklyn. She was lying on the bed with the fatally shot baby while her husband was found shot to death in the front doorway, police sources said.
The shooter's 19-year-old son from a previous marriage was also in the house at the time, but was able to escape unharmed through a back window and ran into police as they arrived on the scene.
The shooter was a 13-year veteran of the NYPD.
There was believed to be no alleged motive in the murder-suicide.
Futher details surrounding the violence were not immediately known.
?By JESSICA SIMEONE and LORENA MONGELLI
?Last Updated: 10:44 AM, April 15, 2013
?Posted: 10:18 AM, April 15, 2013
Three people are believed to be dead in an apparent murder-suicide in Brooklyn this morning, sources said.
Police and EMS responded to a 911 call of a man shot inside of a building at East 56th Street and Farragut Road about 8:30 a.m., the FDNY said.
The shooter, an off-duty female police officer from the 108th Precinct in Queens, shot her husband and 1-year-old child, police sources said.
The shooter was found dead inside of the family's first-floor apartment in Brooklyn. She was lying on the bed with the fatally shot baby while her husband was found shot to death in the front doorway, police sources said.
The shooter's 19-year-old son from a previous marriage was also in the house at the time, but was able to escape unharmed through a back window and ran into police as they arrived on the scene.
The shooter was a 13-year veteran of the NYPD.
There was believed to be no alleged motive in the murder-suicide.
Futher details surrounding the violence were not immediately known.
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NYPD announces new restoration plan for Police Arlington burial ground in Cypress Hills Cemetery
The Police Department's Honor Legion says plans are in the works to restore stolen and vandalized memorial plaques at the historic site
By Lisa Colangelo ? Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 ?The New York Daily News?
On Saturday, retired and active police officers are set to gather at the Police Arlington in Cypress Hills Cemetery at 11 a.m. for a somber annual remembrance ceremony.
And for the first time in years, plans are in the works to restore at least some portions of the little-known NYPD burial ground on the Brooklyn-Queens border.
The once-grand site was pillaged decades ago when vandals stole bronze plaques and a statue.
Officials from the NYPD Honor Legion said this week they are planning to replace some of the plaques.
Replacing the massive statue of a Metropolitan Police officer ? which mysteriously disappeared in the 1960s ? is another story.
But the announcement marks some progress in the four-year campaign by a group of dedicated volunteers to get some attention for the site by the Honor Legion.
?I?m encouraged they are looking to become active,? said Dan Carione, a retired NYPD deputy inspector, who has helped lead efforts to restore the site since 2009.
?But restoring the site back to what it was historically is not the preference of any individual, it?s an obligation of what we owe to the history of the site,? he said.
Andrew Siroka, executive director of the Honor Legion, said the group is replacing the plaques but is not sure if they will be installed for the ceremony on Saturday.
?If we don?t have the plaques installed, we?re hoping to have some kind of representation, said Siroka. ?People will be able to see what?s going to be there.?
The site was established more than 100 years ago for members of the Metropolitan Police Force of New York.
Several police officers who lost their lives in the line of duty are buried there, including Patrolman Henry Haywood, one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has attended the ceremonies and supports a revival of the site.
While supporters have received numerous offers from artisans who want to build a replacement statue, those decisions are solely in the hands of the Honor Legion.
The icy relations between the Honor Legion and the volunteers seems to be thawing a bit.
This year, the Honor Legion is co-sponsoring the memorial service with the Traffic Squad Benevolent Association.
Siroka pledged the group is working on a ?respectful and decent restoration? within budget constraints.
?Right now, a flagpole is going on top of that pedestal,? he said. ?You have to remember the tombstones are the actual history.?
Meanwhile, Carione encouraged active and retired law enforcement officers as well as interested members of the public to attend the Saturday ceremony to show respect for the fallen and support for a vital piece of NYPD history.
?It?s a brief and dignified service to the memories of our history and our deceased,? he said.
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NYPD announces new restoration plan for Police Arlington burial ground in Cypress Hills Cemetery
The Police Department's Honor Legion says plans are in the works to restore stolen and vandalized memorial plaques at the historic site
By Lisa Colangelo ? Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 ?The New York Daily News?
On Saturday, retired and active police officers are set to gather at the Police Arlington in Cypress Hills Cemetery at 11 a.m. for a somber annual remembrance ceremony.
And for the first time in years, plans are in the works to restore at least some portions of the little-known NYPD burial ground on the Brooklyn-Queens border.
The once-grand site was pillaged decades ago when vandals stole bronze plaques and a statue.
Officials from the NYPD Honor Legion said this week they are planning to replace some of the plaques.
Replacing the massive statue of a Metropolitan Police officer ? which mysteriously disappeared in the 1960s ? is another story.
But the announcement marks some progress in the four-year campaign by a group of dedicated volunteers to get some attention for the site by the Honor Legion.
?I?m encouraged they are looking to become active,? said Dan Carione, a retired NYPD deputy inspector, who has helped lead efforts to restore the site since 2009.
?But restoring the site back to what it was historically is not the preference of any individual, it?s an obligation of what we owe to the history of the site,? he said.
Andrew Siroka, executive director of the Honor Legion, said the group is replacing the plaques but is not sure if they will be installed for the ceremony on Saturday.
?If we don?t have the plaques installed, we?re hoping to have some kind of representation, said Siroka. ?People will be able to see what?s going to be there.?
The site was established more than 100 years ago for members of the Metropolitan Police Force of New York.
Several police officers who lost their lives in the line of duty are buried there, including Patrolman Henry Haywood, one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has attended the ceremonies and supports a revival of the site.
While supporters have received numerous offers from artisans who want to build a replacement statue, those decisions are solely in the hands of the Honor Legion.
The icy relations between the Honor Legion and the volunteers seems to be thawing a bit.
This year, the Honor Legion is co-sponsoring the memorial service with the Traffic Squad Benevolent Association.
Siroka pledged the group is working on a ?respectful and decent restoration? within budget constraints.
?Right now, a flagpole is going on top of that pedestal,? he said. ?You have to remember the tombstones are the actual history.?
Meanwhile, Carione encouraged active and retired law enforcement officers as well as interested members of the public to attend the Saturday ceremony to show respect for the fallen and support for a vital piece of NYPD history.
?It?s a brief and dignified service to the memories of our history and our deceased,? he said.
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Prayers for Det. Paul Lipka
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NYPD Detective Paul Lipka was riding his motorcycle along when he slammed into a vehicle that turned in front of him. Sources said it was not likely that he would survive his injuries. His ex-partner, Officer Dillon Stewart, had been shot and killed in 2005 after the pair was fired upon by a perp who ran a red light.
By Jennifer Fermino AND Joe Kemp / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, June 21, 2013, 6:22 PM.
An off-duty city cop ? and former partner of an officer killed in the line of duty ? was clinging to life on Friday, after a car hit him while riding his motorcycle in Staten Island, police sources said.
NYPD Detective Paul Lipka, 40, was riding along Richmond Terrace, just blocks from his Livingston home, when he slammed into a 2009 Nissan that suddenly turned in front of him at Snug Harbor Road about 9:30 a.m., the sources said.
Sources said it was unlikely that Lipka would survive the accident.
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Sources said it was unlikely that Lipka would survive the accident.
Lipka ? who was working with Officer Dillon Stewart when he was shot and killed more than seven years ago ? was rushed to Richmond University Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition.
The 43-year-old driver of the car remained at the scene, cops said. Police were still investigating the crash.
Lipka's former partner Officer Dillon Stewart was killed in the line of duty in the early hours of November 28, 2005.
Lipka's former partner Officer Dillon Stewart was killed in the line of duty in the early hours of November 28, 2005.
Sources said Lipka, a 12-year veteran assigned to the NYPD?s Brooklyn warrant squad, was not likely to survive his injuries.
?He was given his last rights,? said one cop source, who worked with both Lipka and Stewart. ?This is bringing back all the old feelings about losing Stewart. (Lipka) was the best. He was a great cop ... He was so hardworking.?
Leslyn Stewart, widow of slain detective Dillon Stewart, with their children Alexis and Samantha, then 8 and 2, respectively.
Lipka and Stewart were sitting in an unmarked police car parked in East Flatbush when the pair spotted a car running a red light early Nov. 28, 2005.
The two uniformed cops pulled the car over, but the driver, Allan Cameron ? who was wanted for the shooting of an off-duty cop during a robbery ? squeezed off six rounds at the cops? green sedan.
One of the bullets pierced through Stewart?s side and tore through his heart ? but the wounded cop continued to chase after the gunman until backup arrived to make the arrest.
Stewart, 35 ? a married father of two ? died a short time later at a hospital.
Prayers for Det. Paul Lipka
Ex-partner of cop killed in the line of duty struck by caramd-lipka-jpg.jpg
NYPD Detective Paul Lipka was riding his motorcycle along when he slammed into a vehicle that turned in front of him. Sources said it was not likely that he would survive his injuries. His ex-partner, Officer Dillon Stewart, had been shot and killed in 2005 after the pair was fired upon by a perp who ran a red light.
By Jennifer Fermino AND Joe Kemp / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, June 21, 2013, 6:22 PM.
An off-duty city cop ? and former partner of an officer killed in the line of duty ? was clinging to life on Friday, after a car hit him while riding his motorcycle in Staten Island, police sources said.
NYPD Detective Paul Lipka, 40, was riding along Richmond Terrace, just blocks from his Livingston home, when he slammed into a 2009 Nissan that suddenly turned in front of him at Snug Harbor Road about 9:30 a.m., the sources said.
Sources said it was unlikely that Lipka would survive the accident.
Aaron Showalter/New York Daily News
Sources said it was unlikely that Lipka would survive the accident.
Lipka ? who was working with Officer Dillon Stewart when he was shot and killed more than seven years ago ? was rushed to Richmond University Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition.
The 43-year-old driver of the car remained at the scene, cops said. Police were still investigating the crash.
Lipka's former partner Officer Dillon Stewart was killed in the line of duty in the early hours of November 28, 2005.
Lipka's former partner Officer Dillon Stewart was killed in the line of duty in the early hours of November 28, 2005.
Sources said Lipka, a 12-year veteran assigned to the NYPD?s Brooklyn warrant squad, was not likely to survive his injuries.
?He was given his last rights,? said one cop source, who worked with both Lipka and Stewart. ?This is bringing back all the old feelings about losing Stewart. (Lipka) was the best. He was a great cop ... He was so hardworking.?
Leslyn Stewart, widow of slain detective Dillon Stewart, with their children Alexis and Samantha, then 8 and 2, respectively.
Lipka and Stewart were sitting in an unmarked police car parked in East Flatbush when the pair spotted a car running a red light early Nov. 28, 2005.
The two uniformed cops pulled the car over, but the driver, Allan Cameron ? who was wanted for the shooting of an off-duty cop during a robbery ? squeezed off six rounds at the cops? green sedan.
One of the bullets pierced through Stewart?s side and tore through his heart ? but the wounded cop continued to chase after the gunman until backup arrived to make the arrest.
Stewart, 35 ? a married father of two ? died a short time later at a hospital.