紐約市警總局昨(2日)特別表揚華裔警員陳格力哥利(Gregory Chin,譯音),舉行簡單而隆重的頒獎儀式。處長基利(Raymond W. Kelly)高度評價陳格力哥利的英勇行為,他說:「休班警員陳格力哥利冒著生命的危險,拯救兩名無辜市民,成功阻止更嚴重的罪案發生,他冷靜又敏捷的反應,代表紐約市警的優秀和專業。」
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冒生命危險拯救兩無辜市民 華警陳格力哥利獲表揚
[本報記者張奕衡紐約報道]
星島日報
2007-01-03
紐約市警總局昨(2日)特別表揚華裔警員陳格力哥利(Gregory Chin,譯音),舉行簡單而隆重的頒獎儀式。處長基利(Raymond W. Kelly)高度評價陳格力哥利的英勇行為,他說:「警員陳格力哥利冒著生命的危險,拯救兩名無辜市民,成功阻止更嚴重的罪案發生,他冷靜又敏捷的反應,代表紐約市警的優秀和專業。」
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly holds a bullet resistant vest during a press conference at Kings County Hospital at Kings County Medical Center after two police officers were shot on Monday July 9, 2007. "We have every reason to believe that [Officer Herman Yan's] life was saved by his bullet-proof vest," Kelly said. (Charles Eckert, Freelance) Jul 9, 2007
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly hold a press conference at Kings County Hospital at Kings County Medical Center. Bloomberg said he spoke to officer Russell Timoshenko's parents. "I gave thanks from a concerned city, but as a parent I can't come close to understanding their feelings," he said. (Charles Eckert, Freelance) Jul 9, 2007
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New York City Police Officer Herman Yan walks to the pharmacy after leaving the hospital Tuesday, June 10, 2007, and returning to his home in Brooklyn. Yan was shot twice earlier in the week. A video of the shooting reveals that Yan kept shooting at his attackers even after he was injured by a bullet. (No Credit, Newsday) Jul 10, 2007
本報記者昨(9)日下午趕到位於布碌崙的國王郡醫院(Kings County Hospital)發現,醫院處於高度戒備狀態,不僅醫院外警車成排,全副武裝的警察來回走動,連醫院內部也佈滿警察,嚴格檢查進入人員的身分。同時,通往病房的電梯和樓梯口處都有警察看守,除執行任務的警察和醫護人員外,任何人都必須出示ID並有人接引方可進入。採訪期間,記者發現有身穿便衣的警務高官進入醫院探望。
Quick-thinking student credited with saving lives. Zach Petkewicz and two other students shoved a table against the door and held it there as gunshots continued to ring out from the hallway outside the classroom.
Quick-thinking student credited with saving lives POSTED: 0253 GMT, April 17, 2007
BLACKSBURG, Virginia (CNN) -- Monday's toll inside Virginia Tech's Norris Hall might have included 11 more students had it not been for a long, rectangular table and a quick-thinking senior who used it to deflect the rampage of his fellow classmate.
Zach Petkewicz said he didn't recognize the sounds that pierced the door and cinder-block walls of his classroom as gunshots until he heard a scream from the hallway of the engineering building.
"The girls in my class peeked out in the hall and saw a gunner come out of a classroom with his gun pointed down," Petkewicz told CNN.
"They immediately slammed the door shut, told us, everybody kind of went into a frenzy, a panic. I hid behind the podium and then just kind of looked up at the door. Like, there's nothing stopping this guy from just coming in. And so I said, 'We need to barricade this door.' "
Petkewicz described his state of mind unabashedly: "I was completely scared out of my mind originally, just went into a cowering position, and then just realized you have got to do something."
Petkewicz and two other students shoved a table against the door and held it there as gunshots continued to ring out from the hallway outside the classroom.
"He came to our door, tried the handle and couldn't get in because we were pushing up against it -- and tried to force his way in and got the door to open up about 6 inches -- and then we just lunged at it and closed it back up and that's when he backed up and shot twice into the middle of the door, thinking we were up against it trying to get him out."
But Petkewicz said that instead he and the other students had placed themselves in front of the cinder-block walls, where they listened to what was going on out of sight a few inches away.
"I just heard his clip drop to the ground, and he reloaded and I thought he was coming back for a second round to try to get his way in there. He didn't say a word, and he just turned and kept firing down the hall and didn't try to get back in."
As the drama was unfolding, Petkewicz said, other classmates were on their cell phones with 911 operators, who told them police were on their way.
Soon, "I could hear police shouting all around the building. They were there really fast, it was just a matter of getting up and getting to us and getting this guy out of the picture."
The shooter -- identified as Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old English major and South Korean native from Centreville, Virginia -- used one of his two guns to take care of that himself, police said.
Asked what he would say to those who call him a hero, Petkewicz looked away, began blinking rapidly, shrugged his shoulders, shook his head back and forth, removed his right hand from the pocket of his blue jeans and used it to stroke his forehead, then said in a voice choked with emotion, "I'm just glad I could be here."
Norris Hall is shut for the remainder of the semester.
Students Come To Rescue When Bus Driver Passes Out Middle School Students Hailed As Heroes
POSTED: 7:31 pm EDT March 23, 2007 UPDATED: 1:03 pm EDT March 24, 2007
HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- If your school bus driver passes out at the wheel, what would you do?
That very thing happened to three boys who jumped into action and took control of the bus. Now, they're hailed as heroes.
The students said when they noticed something was wrong with their bus driver Thursday morning they were afraid yet they stepped up to the plate and saved the driver and themselves from danger.
"He put his hand on his neck and he started to shake. His face was all red, so I ran up," Chris Schreiber said.
Once at the front of bus 16, 12-year-old Chris Schreiber grabbed the wheel and called his 12-year-old friend, Jason Conti and his 14-year-old brother, Sean, to help stop their school bus.
The bus was heading into oncoming traffic on Nottingham Way in Hamilton Township, Mercer County.
"I grabbed this part of the wheel," Jason said referring to part of the steering wheel.
"I got the brake," Sean said.
"And we had to talk to each other, 'hit the brake now.' Once we were in the right lane I told him to slam the brake down," Jason said.
The brave trio steered the bus to a grinding halt in front of Valentino's Deli. They said the bus just missed a power pole with two other students on board, plus the driver who had passed out. Everybody got off safely. The deli called an ambulance for the driver. The students called their parents.
"(Her son) said, 'Mom, you're not gonna believe this. (We were) just in a bus accident. We stopped the bus.' I said, 'Stop joking.' They said, 'We're OK. Don't cry Mom,'" said Patti Marks, Chris and Sean's mother.
To their surprise, the boys have made the cover of the local newspaper and their school is hailing them heroes.
The students said they knew what to do Thursday morning because of annual bus evacuation drills at Reynolds Middle School.
"It taught us how to turn off the ignition, where the brakes are and stuff," Jason said.
Their principal said he feels these three saved the day, so he ordered pizzas for lunch.
"I'm so proud. To keep composure under pressure and be able to step in and avoid an accident is incredible," Principal Joseph Slavin said.
The bus driver, John O'Brien, told a newspaper Friday that he had a previous seizure about a year ago and that he did not disclose it when applying for a commercial driving license, as required by state law.
The state Motor Vehicle Commission said it is obligated to and will perform a medical review of the 37-year-old's medical records.
State law says any physician who treats a patient for seizures must contact the MVC within 24 hours, but it does not appear that O'Brien's previous seizure was reported to officials at the time.
Copyright 2007 by NBC10.com The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
陳偉平與同袍蘭格(A. Eric Lenger)是因為2004年8月9日追捕一名持槍兇嫌,並勇救受傷女事主而獲獎。當日上午一名兇嫌持槍在滿地寶向前妻連開多槍,當時手部受傷的陳偉平,從警方通訊無線電中聽到請求支援,不顧本身的傷勢,立刻飛車前往支援,他與蘭格和兇嫌在高貴林港的洛歇公路(Lougheed Hwy.)發生駁火,兇嫌中槍倒地,送醫後不治死亡。
18歲的湯瑪斯·羅沙堤(Thomas Rosati) 勇救踏冰落河3兄弟, Photo of Thomas Rosati, on the deck behind his Bellmore home on the afternoon of February 18, 2007. Earlier today Thomas saved 3 kids after they broke through the ice in the canal behind him. (Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara) Feb 18, 2007
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Photo of frozen canal behind Thomas Rosati's house, in Bellmore where 3 kids fell through the ice and were saved by Rosati on the morning of February 18, 2007. (Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara) Feb 18, 2007
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Thomas Rosati, in his Bellmore home with his mom, Maryann, on the afternoon of February 18, 2007. Thomas saved 3 kids after they broke through the ice in the canal behind his house. (Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara) Feb 18, 2007
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Tommy Fortunato talks about falling through the ice with his two younger brothers on the morning of February 18, 2007. He and his brothers were pulled from the ice in Bellmore by Thomas Rosati. (Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara) Feb 18, 2007
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James and Jake Fortunato who were saved along with their older brother Tommy after they all fell through the ice in Bellmore on the morning of February 18, 2007. They were all pulled from the ice by Thomas Rosati. (Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara) Feb 18, 2007
Bellmore teen saves 3 from icy canal Thomas Rosati dashed barefoot from his home to rescue three brothers, ages 8, 10 and 16, who had fallen into icy canal
BY ERIK GERMAN erik.german@newsday.com Feb 19, 2007
Thomas Rosati is just a regular guy. He lifts weights, he plays sports, he delivers pizzas part-time.
But yesterday the 18-year-old from Bellmore did an extraordinary thing -- dashing barefoot from his home to rescue three brothers, ages 8, 10 and 16, who had fallen into the icy canal behind Rosati's home.
"He saved our lives," said James Fortunato, 10, of Bethpage."I thought I was going to die."
Ice rescues were the last thing on Rosati's mind at 11:30 a.m. yesterday, as he snoozed the morning away in a second-floor bedroom overlooking his family's backyard dock.
A few blocks south, the three Fortunato brothers, visiting their father's house for the weekend, decided to go out for doughnuts. But they chose a treacherous route -- straight north on the iced-over canal that snaked north from their house, past Rosati's dock, to the Dunkin Donuts on Merrick Road.
The ice, a foot thick near their father's house, grew thinner as the brothers skipped and slipped their way north. After the oldest brother, Thomas, 16, broke through momentarily, the trio tried climbing to safety on a private dock. But they said a woman came out from a nearby house and shouted for the trio to get off her property. The boys scrambled back onto the ice and headed north, looking for another way out.
A half block later, their footing gave way, plunging the three boys into the icy water, Thomas said.
The still-napping Rosati was awakened by his mother, Maryann Rosati, shouting for help. He dashed onto the family's backyard deck wearing just boxers and a T-shirt. Maryann -- cordless phone to her ear, screaming at the 911 dispatcher -- pointed to the canal.
"I saw three heads in the water," Thomas Rosati said.
Rosati ran down two flights of stairs, vaulted a chest-high fence and tore across the dock toward the sodden, sinking brothers. He felt neither the February chill nor the blisters on his feet from a long basketball game two days before.
"I just sprinted," he said.
He lay down, clutched the dock with his left hand, reaching with his right toward the water's surface several feet below. The hand he extended in aid was still bruised stiff and purple from a recent sprain. A friend had accidentally slammed it in a car door a few days back. Rosati doesn't remember feeling that either.
He grasped the coat sleeve of Jacob, 8, and fished the 80-pound boy from the water with one arm.
He did the same for James -- who weighs about 100 pounds by his father's estimate -- and for 16-year-old Thomas, who weighs 190 and change.
"One arm, he pulled all of us out," James said.
A fifth-grader at Center Boulevard Elementary in Bethpage, James said meeting Rosati was a first for him.
"I didn't really have a hero before this," James said. "I didn't even know one."
Copyright 2007 Newsday Inc.
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Master Officer Kenneth Hammond is joined by his wife Sarita to talk about the Monday night events. The Ogden Police Department held a news conference Tuesday to commend Hammond, who was hailed as a hero for his actions during the Trolley Square shooting spree. Hammond was having dinner with his wife at Rodizio Grill, a restaurant in Trolley Square, when the 18-year-old shooter began firing at shoppers at the mall, and Hammond, hearing the shots, went after him. (Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune )
兩名男子 Julio Gonzalez, Pedro Nevarez 在街上張開雙臂將小童後來從四樓接救. Julio Gonzalez, left, and Pedro Nevarez, right, describe how they caught Timothy Addo after he fell four stories from a fire escape. (Charles Eckert, Freelance) Jan 5, 2007
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The fire escape that Timothy Addo climbed out on before falling four stories on January 04, 2007. Addo, who was caught by Julio Gonzalez and Pedro Nevarez before hitting the ground, suffered minor injuries. (Charles Eckert, Freelance) Jan 5, 2007
19歲的蒙哥馬利(Christopher Montgomery)在清理戲院座位時,發現2.4萬元款項,但他沒有據為已有,而是交給戲院經理,最後全數歸還失主。 An undated high school yearbook picture of Christopher Montgomery, the young man who found $24,000 in cash at the Rockville Center Fantasy Movie Theater on Dec. 15, 2006 that belonged RoseMarie Limoncelli. (Handout) December 16, 2006
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失主 39歲的露絲瑪莉.李蒙齊利(Rosemarie Limoncelli) RoseMarie Limoncelli stands outside the Rockville Center Fantasy Movie Theater where she lost $24,000 in cash, and then got it back, thanks to the initiative and honesty of a theater employee. (Nick Brooks, Nick Brooks) December 16, 2006
對於蒙哥馬利來說,物歸原主可能是理所當然的事,但對於幾乎失去2萬4000元的李蒙齊利來說,卻是一場惡夢。李蒙齊利說,蒙哥馬利拒絕接受現金獎賞,但她希望他至少能接受家電及電腦店P.C. Richard & Son的禮券。
唐娜說:「我經常教導孩子,好心有好報。」
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Wesley Autrey, who risked his life to save a man who had fallen onto the tracks of a New York City subway, reacts after being introduced by U.S. President George W. Bush during his State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol January 23, 2007 in Washington, DC. In addition to the war in Iraq, Bush was expected to touch on a wide range of topics including energy, education, immigration and health care. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Jan 23, 2007