Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Steven McDonald, NYPD Cop Paralyzed Three Decades Ago, Dead at Age 59

 
By Edgar Sandoval, Thomas Tracy and Larry McShane

NYPD Officer Steven McDonald, left for dead by a teen gunman, never heard the prognosis of his imminent demise.

The paralyzed cop miraculously survived for the next three decades, living to see the birth of his son and become a global voice for peace and forgiveness across an extraordinary and unexpected life.

McDonald died Tuesday at the age of 59 after suffering a heart attack at his Long Island home on Friday.

“No one could have predicted that Steven would touch so many people, in New York and around the world,” Police Commissioner James O’Neill said. 

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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)

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