Family and friends gathered to remember fallen NYPD Detective Steven McDonald on the 9th anniversary of his death at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan on Saturday.
McDonald was a 29-year-old patrolman when he was shot three times on July 12, 1986, by a 15-year-old boy while he was questioning the teen about bicycle thefts in Central Park.
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One of the bullets shattered his spine, paralyzing him from the neck down and leaving him in need of a ventilator for the rest of his life. He died 31 years later on Jan. 10, 2017, from respiratory complications at age 59…