{"id":5384,"date":"2017-02-01T05:57:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T05:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=5384"},"modified":"2017-02-01T05:57:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T05:57:25","slug":"det-steven-mcdonalds-death-classified-a-homicide-nypd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2017\/02\/01\/det-steven-mcdonalds-death-classified-a-homicide-nypd-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Det. Steven McDonald\u2019s death classified a homicide, NYPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>NYPD Det. Steven McDonald\u2019s death last month from an apparent heart attack has been classified as a 2017 homicide, even though he survived being shot by a teenager in Central Park in July 1986, officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD\u2019s classification of McDonald\u2019s death as a homicide decades after he was injured is often done in cases where crime victims die as a result of assaults and shootings that take a toll later in life, a police spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald was shot by Shavod Jones and left a quadriplegic, though a wheelchair gave him mobility and a respirator he used to breathe allowed him to talk. He was an active member of the NYPD until he died at age 59.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald, who was stricken Jan. 6, was taken off life support Jan. 10. His funeral Mass at St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral in Manhattan on Jan. 13 drew thousands of mourners.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, who was sent to prison for attempted murder and was released in 1995, died in a motorcycle accident a few days after being freed.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s death has been factored into 2017 NYPD crime data. Through Sunday, there have been 17 killings for the year, compared with 22 in the same period in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYPD Det. Steven McDonald&rsquo;s death last month from an apparent heart attack has been classified as a 2017 homicide, even though he survived being shot by a teenager in Central Park in July 1986, officials said Tuesday. The NYPD&rsquo;s classification of McDonald&rsquo;s death as a homicide decades after he was injured is often done in cases where crime victims die as a result of assaults and shootings that take a toll later in life, a police spokesman said. McDonald was shot by Shavod Jones and left a quadriplegic, though a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5386,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions\/5386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}