Greater New York Watch -- WSJ
24 October 2016 - 8:04AM
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The Bronx
Man Stole, Crashed NYPD Squad Car
Police are searching for a man who stole a marked police car in
the Bronx and crashed it Sunday morning, the New York Police
Department said.
The unlocked squad car had been unoccupied and left running in
the parking lot of the NYPD's 50th Precinct, which is located in
the Kingsbridge neighborhood, police said.
Around 6:20 a.m. a man got into the driver's seat of the car and
drove the vehicle about 2 1/2 miles south before crashing it into
four parked cars near Fordham Road and Sedgwick Avenue, police
said.
Surveillance video showed the man, who was last seen wearing a
gray hooded sweater and a black jacket, walking away from the crash
in front of 2304 Sedgwick Ave., police said.
The man was last spotted getting into a black Lincoln Town Car
and fleeing east on Fordham Road. No one was injured in the
incident.
Police are working to determine why the police car was left
idling as part of their investigation, a police official said.
--Pervaiz Shallwani
Windsor Locks, Conn.
Terrorism Response Exercise Is Planned
The Connecticut Department of Public Health is hosting a mock
exercise to test the state's and federal government's response to a
hypothetical terrorist bombing on a Metro-North commuter train.
The three-day Mass Fatality Management exercise will be held at
Camp Hartell Windsor Locks from Oct. 25-27. Various federal, state
and regional emergency management and law-enforcement officials are
scheduled to participate.
The exercise will include a series of lectures and hands-on
drills. It will test things like evidence collection and fatality
management at the crash site, morgue operations and family
assistance services.
Department of Public Health officials plan to brief the media on
Tuesday about the mock exercise at the New England Disaster
Training Center at Camp Hartell in Windsor Locks.
--Associated Press
Brookhaven
Car Collision Kills Mother, Daughter
Police on Long Island said a mother and her daughter were killed
in a motor vehicle crash.
Suffolk County police said the accident happened around 5 p.m.
Saturday in Selden when a vehicle making a left turn collided with
another car.
Seventy-three-year-old Marie Sanacore, of Coram, was pronounced
dead at the scene. Her mother, Nellie Furino, 96, also of Coram,
was taken to a hospital, where she died a short time later.
The other driver, 22-year-old Shuofang Yang, of South Setauket,
and a passenger were taken to the hospital with
non-life-threatening injuries.
An investigation is continuing.
--Associated Press
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
October 24, 2016 02:49 ET (06:49 GMT)