Steven Mcdonald

Steven Mcdonald, James Comey, Joe Biden

... the election, including whether FBI Director James Comey followed established policies in the email investigation of Hillary Clinton. Democrats have blamed Comey's handling of the inquiry into Clinton's use of a private email server, and his late-October public letter about the case, as one reason for her loss to Republican Donald Trump. Congress Moves to Gut Obamacare. Congress is on the cusp of completing the first — and by far the easiest — step toward gutting President Barack Obama's divisive health care law. Friday's vote in the House would adopt a House-Senate measure to make it easier for a subsequent "Obamacare" repeal bill to advance through the Senate without the threat of a Democratic filibuster. The hotly contested health care law has delivered health coverage to about 20 million people but is saddled with problems such as rapidly rising premiums and large co-payments. VP Joe Biden Honored by Obama. President Barack Obama awarded a teary-eyed ...

Paralyzed New York Detective Who Became Voice For Peace Dies

... photo, Cardinal John J. O'Connor places a towel on Conor Patrick Mc Donald, the month-old son of paralyzed officer Steven Mc Donald, seated in wheelchair, while Mc Donald's wife. more. Photo: David Bookstaver, AP. Image 5 of 12. FILE - In this Oct. 30, 1986 file photo, NYPD Officer Steven Mc Donald, paralyzed after being shot in Central Park earlier in the year, receives a New York Mets baseball jacket from Mets' president Fred Wilpon, left, in Mc Donald's room in New York's Bellevue Hospital. They are jointed by then Mayor Ed Koch, second from left, and Mc Donald's wife Patti. Mc Donald, who was paralyzed by a bullet and became an international voice for peace after he publicly forgave the gunman, died Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017 at the age of 59. less. FILE - In this Oct. 30, 1986 file photo, NYPD Officer Steven Mc Donald, paralyzed after being shot in Central Park earlier in the year, receives a New York Mets baseball jacket from Mets' president Fred Wilpon. more. Photo: Mario Suriani, AP. Image 6 of 12. FILE- In this Jan. ...

Nypd Det. Steven Mcdonald Had A Special Holmdel Connection

... across the world.". After several days on life support, Det. Mc Donald was declared dead at 1 p.m. Tuesday at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island. A 2016 photo of Timmy Mc Donnell, who is now 22 and recovering from his traumatic brain injury. It's taken his nephew, Timmy, years to recover from the night he was hit by a drunk driver while crossing the street as a 20-year-old college student at Rutgers University. The traumatic brain damage Timmy suffered that night meant he had to learn how to walk and talk all over again. He's taking classes at Brookdale Community College and his dream is to return to Rutgers one day and complete his college degree, his father says. Then he wants to return to Holmdel and work as an elementary school teacher. The Mc Donnell family had a lot of input in the sentencing of the man who hit him, an two-tour Iraq war veteran who said he would seek help for alcohol addiction after the accident. “Six months in jail is not easy and we hope it sends a message that you have to pay for your mistakes, but it doesn’t have to ruin another life,” Mc Donnell told Patch at the time. “It wouldn’t help anyone to put the guy in jail for five ...

Paralyzed Nypd Detective Steven Mcdonald Dies At 59

... NFL capped off a 13-win regular season with a 43-8 Super Bowl XLVIII victory over the Denver Broncos - the first in franchise history. Rising starts such as cornerback Richard Sherman, linebacker Bobby Wagner and strong safety Kam Chancellor had arrived on the national scene. The Seahawks core that Pete Carroll and John Schneider envisioned when they took over the team in 2010 was coming together. 'Every game, every process’. In 2014 many of the core Seahawks returned and lead the team back to Super Bowl XLIX where they lost 28-24 against the New England Patriots. In doing so, the Seahawks became the first team to appear in back-to-back Super Bowls since the Patriots won back-to-back Super Bowls in the 2003-2004 NFL seasons. On Saturday, much of the young core from 2012 returns to the Georgia Dome to take on the No. 2 seed Atlanta Falcons as a group of veterans with extensive playoff experience. Since the 2013 loss to the Falcons, the Seahawks have gone 45-18-1 in the regular season and 7-2 in the playoffs, with three ...

Rangers Honor Late Steven Mcdonald

... he asked his wife to read a statement of forgiveness for his assailant. "I'm sometimes angry at the teenage boy who shot me. But more often, I feel sorry for him. I only hope he can turn his life into helping and not hurting people. I forgive him, and hope he can find peace and purpose in his life.". Mc Donald, further surprising his family and friends, set about making it happen. He struck up a correspondence with Jones and met members of his family. The shooter called him collect from prison one day to make amends. Mc Donald, who was still serving the NYPD as a goodwill ambassador, dreamed of the two of them touring the nation: an improbable pair, white and black, cop and convict, spreading the gospel of mercy and forgiveness. But life complicated matters. Jones asked for Mc Donald’s support in a parole hearing, and Mc Donald declined, chilling their relationship. When in 1995 his release did eventually come, Jones was dead three days afterward, in a motorcycle accident in Harlem. Julie Jacobson/AP. Mc Donald told their story anyway, turning his misfortune into a blessing. He visited Northern Ireland during ...

Former Top Cops Remember Det. Steven Mcdonald As 'living Saint

... “Steven Mc Donald is a living saint,” Kelly said. “It's not beyond the realm of possibility that the Catholic Church will recognize that.”. “Put together the pain and suffering that he suffered over the last 30 years and through it all, he has never wavered with his message of peace and forgiveness,” he said. “Understanding the countless people he’s inspired as he delivered this message all over the world with his deep and abiding faith immersed in Catholicism — it meets my criteria.”. Ex-Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly called Mc Donald "a living saint.". (James Keivom/New York Daily News). Kelly visited Mc Donald’s family at North Shore University Hospital shortly after the inspirational cop succumbed to a heart attack on Friday. Kelly visited again on Sunday, he said. “It was a room full of people,” Kelly told The News. “There were a lot of tears. Patti was engaged in consoling people and reassuring them that Steven was going to the right place.”. “The suffering he went through we can't properly empathize with,” Kelly continued. “I remember when he was shot. We all thought he was going to ...

Steven Mcdonald, A Symbol Of Forgiveness And An Nypd Icon, Dies At 59

... — and his hope for healing. "I'm sometimes angry at the teen-age boy who shot me," she read, according to The New York Times. "But more often I feel sorry for him. I only hope that he can turn his life into helping and not hurting people. I forgive him and hope that he can find peace and purpose in his life.". In the years that followed, Mc Donald opened and carried on a correspondence with the teen who shot him, Shavod Jones, who served 8 1/2 years in prison for attempted murder. The correspondence ended after Mc Donald "turned down a request from Mr. Jones's family to seek parole," according to the Times , saying "he was not knowledgeable or capable enough to intervene.". Jones died just days after his release from prison in 1995, from injuries sustained as a passenger during a motorcycle accident. Mc Donald went on to become something ...

Steven Mcdonald, Paralyzed Nypd Detective, Hospitalized

... who was paralyzed 30 years ago after he was shot on duty, had a heart attack, according to reports Check out this story on __link__: __link__ iap LOj. Cancel Send. A link has been sent to your friend's email address. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs. Steven Mc Donald, paralyzed NYPD detective, hospitalized. Andrew Wyrich , Staff Writer @Andrew Wyrich 8:29 a.m. ET Jan. 9, 2017. A New York Police Department (NYPD) car. (Photo: Spencer Platt, Getty Images). Detective Steven Mc Donald of the New York Police Department, who was paralyzed 30 years ago after he was shot on duty in Central Park, is in the hospital after suffering a heart attack, according to news reports. Mc Donald, 59, was sent to a Long Island hospital after having a heart attack Friday, according to reports. The officer’s family was at his bedside on Saturday as Mc Donald was on life support, ...

Paralyzed Detective Who Forgave Shooter Eulogized As Hero

... Shavod "Buddha" Jones and two other teenagers in Central Park. When he moved to frisk one of them, the 15-year-old Jones shot Mc Donald three times, with one bullet piercing the officer's spinal column and leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. About six months later, with Mc Donald still struggling to recover, he made a statement about Jones through his wife that defined the rest of his life: "I forgive him and hope he can find peace and purpose in his life.". His son, Conor - who is the same age his dad was when he was shot and now a fourth-generation officer - was interrupted by three ovations as he described his father as a "real Superman." He could count on his father to call him at 5 a.m. every day to check in before his son would go on patrol, he said. "He was the greatest man I could ask to be my father," he ...

Steven Mcdonald, Nypd Detective And Catholic Hero, Dies At 59

... him from the neck down. The officer needed a ventilator for the rest of his life. At the time of the attack, Officer Mc Donald had served on the Force for two years. President Ronald Reagan phoned the wounded officer while he recuperated at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital. Mr. Jones was convicted of attempted murder. In early 1987, several months after his attack, at his son’s baptism in the same hospital's chapel, Officer Mc Donald publicly forgave Jones saying, "I forgive him and hope that he can find peace and purpose in his life.". In the summer of 1988, Officer Mc Donald sent stamps and a box of stationery to Mr. Jones along with a note saying, "Let’s carry on a dialogue." He later met with Mr. Jones’s mother and attended services at a Baptist church in Harlem with his grandmother. A more detailed account of the officer's ...