Accountant-turned-cop dies a hero.Back in 2000, Dillon H. Stewart had been an accountant with WNYC--New York City's public radio station--for nine years. So when he told Brenda Williams-Butts, the station's director of community affairs, that he wanted to become a police officer, she wondered why. "It's just something I want to do," she quoted him as saying in a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times interview. "I think it will give me the money and security to take care of my family." By 2005, after trading debits and credits for robbers and drug dealers, he was an officer with five years on the job. He was assigned to the 70th Precinct in Brooklyn, where he was part of a unit patrolling some of the area's most crime-plagued neighborhoods. During his career, he had received four commendations for bravery. Officer Stewart died in the line of duty In the Line of Duty may refer to:
While fleeing the officers, Cameron repeatedly fired shots at them from his open window. One bullet struck officer Stewart in the armpit arm·pit n. The hollow under the upper part of the arm below the shoulder joint, bounded by the pectoralis major, the latissimus dorsi, the anterior serratus muscles, and the humerus, and containing the axillary artery and vein, the infraclavicular part , just above the edge of his protective vest. Stewart, who was driving, kept up the pursuit, despite his wound. Eventually, his injury forced him to stop the chase. Lipka fired shots at the fleeing Cameron, but Cameron temporarily escaped. Officers brought Stewart to Kings County Hospital, where he died after emergency surgery. The bullet had pierced his heart. The shooter was later captured and charged with first-degree murder, as well as the attempted murder of the off-duty officer in the earlier incident. Office Stewart left a wife and two daughters, aged six years and six months. According to the New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10 , New York Police New York Police may refer to:
And Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said of Stewart, he was "a hero to all of New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. ." |
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