Article: Retired officer killed in gunfight with police

NEW YORK -- A retired police sergeant whose erratic behavior frightened his family into committing him to a psychiatric hospital fled the ward Tuesday and was killed by officers during a gunbattle outside his home.

The barrage of gunfire turned a Staten Island neighborhood into a live shooting gallery, with officers firing 19 shots at the distraught former officer, who shot eight rounds and died within a few feet of his three children, ages 3, 5 and 7.

The shoot-out came hours after Jason Aiello's cousins and wife took him to the psych ward because they were concerned about his increasingly bizarre behavior. Aiello kept quoting Scripture and said he needed to get away and take his family out ...

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