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Article: Retired officer killed in gunfight with police
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- July 23, 2008
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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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