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Back in 2000, Dillon H. Stewart had been an accountant with WNYC--New York City's public radio station--for nine years. So when he told Brenda Williams-Butts, the station's director of community affairs, that he wanted to become a police officer, she wondered why.
"It's just something I want to do," she quoted him as saying in a New York Times interview. "I think it will give me the money and security to take care of my family."
By 2005, after trading debits and credits for robbers and drug dealers, he was an officer with five years on the job. He was assigned to the 70th Precinct in Brooklyn, where he was part of a unit patrolling some of the area's most crime-plagued neighborhoods. During his career, he had received four commendations for bravery.
Officer Stewart died in the line of duty on November 28. Around 2:45 that morning, Stewart and his partner, Paul Lipka, were in their patrol car when they spotted a car running a red light. They pursued the vehicle, not knowing that it was driven by Allan Cameron, who had shot and wounded an off-duty police officer on November 19.
While fleeing ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Accountant-turned-cop dies a hero.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Dillon H....