Massapequa, NY
Police & Fire
Police Boost Patrols At Long Island Malls, Popular Areas After Mass Shootings Police Boost Patrols At Long Island Malls, Popular Areas After Mass Shootings
Police Boost Patrols At Long Island Malls, Popular Areas After Mass Shootings Long Island law enforcement officials are assuring resident they are on high alert following the massacre of 31 people in two separate mass shooting incidents over the weekend. The first shooting happened at a Walmart at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, just after 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 3 local time (and 1 p.m. Eastern time). In that incident, 22 people were killed and 26 injured. Twelve hours later, at around 1 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 4, another gunman opened fire in the historic Oregon District in downtown Dayton, Ohio, killing nine people and injuring 37. Nassau County Police Commissioner P…

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by Kathy Reakes
Pascack Valley, NJ
Police & Fire
Bergen Prosecutor: Rockland Stalker's Bogus 'Active Shooter' Call Brings SWAT To Park Ridge Bergen Prosecutor: Rockland Stalker's Bogus 'Active Shooter' Call Brings SWAT To Park Ridge
Bergen Prosecutor: Rockland Stalker's Bogus 'Active Shooter' Call Brings SWAT To Park Ridge UPDATE (MAY 8, 2019): As coincidences go, it's odd: A bogus 911 "active shooter" call that brought a SWAT team and swarms of other responders to a Park Ridge home had nothing to do with a bank robbery across town that occurred at almost the same time, authorities said. Questions of a possible connection arose after authorities last week announced that Austin Parks, 48, of Spring Valley had been charged with making the April 17 call. However, a senior law enforcement official told Daily Voice that the call was "unrelated...oddly" to the robbery at nearly the same time of an Oritani Bank bra…

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by Jerry DeMarco