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NYPD and City Mourn Steven McDonald While Celebrating His Amazing Grace

By MARK TOOR
Posted 1/13/17

“God has turned something terrible into something beautiful,” Detective First Grade Steven McDonald once said about his extraordinary life.

Detective McDonald, who died at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, L.I., on Jan. 10 at the age of 59, was working in plainclothes in Central Park July 12, 1986 when he stopped and questioned three teen­agers. One of them, 15-year-old Shavod Jones, pulled out a gun and shot him in the throat, wrist and face.

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