UPDATE: Officials have ID'd the slain Nassau police officer as Geoffrey J. Breitkopf, 40, a 12-year vet.
A Nassau County Police officer was shot and killed Saturday night in Massapequa Park, police said.
The victim, a plain-clothed special operations officer, was reportedly chasing a suspect near the Long Island Rail Road along Front Street when he was shot by another cop.
The officer was transported to Nassau University Medical Center, where he died of his wounds at 9:19 p.m., according to NUMC Public Affairs Director Shelley Lotenberg.
Two other officers were sent to the hospital with trauma-related injuries, according to a police spokesman. The suspect, meanwhile, was also shot and killed.
According to detectives, police first came on the scene when a suspicious person with weapons was walking near Front Street. The officers chased the subject eastbound on Front Street, where he fled on foot to a residence at 5 Fourth Street. The suspect then barricaded himself inside a room at that location. Officers entered the residence. At that point, the suspect, identified in one report as Anthony DiGeronimo, emerged from the room with a knife and attacked the officers. That's when the officers shot and killed the suspect.
The Nassau Police officer was also shot, accidentally, at that time.
As for DiGeronimo, according to his Facebook profile, he was an anarchist, and he listed his religious view as Theistic Satanist.
This marks the second death in the line of duty this year for Nassau police. Prior, no county cops had been killed in the line of duty since 1993.
I want to take this time to THANK!! all the NCPD officers for every thing they do. You know like running towards danger instead of running away like everyone else. GOD bless them ALL.
If you all hold cops to such a high standard, go live in Malverne. There is a police force for a town that is literally one square mile. And that town border is where their jurisdiction ends. You then tell me that when your teenage son is being harassed for walking home from the bus station that you should still hold cops to that same standard. On a last note, I am STILL and EVEN MORESO ashamed to even be a human being in this world where there are people like you, holding one person's life over anothers.
Most officers retire from the force without ever being shot (or at). Many retire without ever firing their weapon in the line of duty.
Stop calling this person a "kid", he was of adult age and I have yet to hear how in any way this individual was contributing to society or attempting to better himself. There has been no mention of him having a job or attending school. Just a lot of pathetic pictures of him holding ridiculously large knives, making even more pathetic faces. A huge percentage of our military forces are his age and even younger, so are many Law Enforcement Officers. The parents and other individuals who knew how troubled this man was and did nothing bear much responsibility. This was a train wreck in the making for a really long time. All I can say to ANONYMOUS is your thought process is quite demented and you are in need of serious assistance.