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One Dead, Two Injured In Attempted Murder/Suicide Involving Westchester Correction Officers One Dead, Two Injured In Attempted Murder/Suicide Involving Westchester Correction Officers
One Dead, Two Injured In Attempted Murder/Suicide Involving Westchester Correction Officers This story has been updated. One man is dead and two others suffered injuries in an overnight shooting involving three off-duty Westchester County correction officers at a single-family residence in Yonkers. Members of the Yonkers Police Department responded to the residence at 82 Buckingham Road on a report of a shooting incident with multiple victims at approximately 11:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, said Dean Politopoulos, Yonkers PD spokesman. Upon arrival, officers made entry into the home to discover three people down on the floor with multiple gunshot wounds, and a fourth uninjured pe…

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by Joe Lombardi
Lifestyle
46-Mile Motorcycle Ride Honors Fallen Westchester Officers 46-Mile Motorcycle Ride Honors Fallen Westchester Officers
46-Mile Motorcycle Ride Honors Fallen Westchester Officers On what would have otherwise been a rainy weekend, 80 local law enforcement officers revved their engines Sunday at the start of a 46-mile ride for fallen colleagues.  Organized by the County’s Correction Officers Benevolent Association, the fourth annual Memorial Motorcycle Ride began in Croton-on-Hudson and ended at the gates of the Westchester County Department of Correction on the Grasslands campus. The motorcyclists and their passengers began the ride by passing under American flags extended from the ladders of firetrucks of the Montrose and Croton-on-Hudson Fire departments. The ride…

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by Kathy Reakes
Police & Fire
Westchester County Jail Female Officer Hospitalized After Assault By Inmate Westchester County Jail Female Officer Hospitalized After Assault By Inmate
Westchester County Jail Female Officer Hospitalized After Assault By Inmate WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. - A female correction officer at the Westchester County Jail was hospitalized after being assaulted by an inmate, according to multiple sources. While working on her assigned post, Westchester Correction Association President Brooke Jones said that a female officer was punched in the mouth by an inmate on Wednesday, Jan. 17, causing her to fall backward and strike her head, sending her to the Westchester Medical Center Emergency Room for treatments to a head wound. The condition of the correction officer was not immediately available on Thursday afternoon. “As corr…

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by Zak Failla