At Rest

Deadly force
Apparently as the result of road rage, a former 20-year NYPD officer tracked down and fatally shot Vitale, a retired 21-year Port Authority Police Department veteran, as Vitale left his SUV for Chinese food. The shooter then barricaded himself in his house in an extended drunken standoff with a cache of weapons that included homemade grenades. The shooter was safely talked out to face murder charges.
This record exists so that Steven Vitale, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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