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| Officer John Moynihan Boston Police Department |
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| Angelo West "41 year old shooter" |
Officer John Moynihan was a highly decorated Army Ranger who served in Iraq. He was part of the Boston youth violence task force and was a hero during the Boston bombing crisis. He had helped transit police officer Richard Donahue when he had been shot during the gun battle with the Tsarnaev brothers. He was honored in Washington D.C. by the National Associations of Police Organizations for his bravery. They awarded him one of the Top Cop awards. On March 27, 2015 John Moynihan and other police officers in unmarked vehicles with blue flashing lights pulled over a vehicle at 6:40 P.m. that Angelo west, a 41 year old convicted felon, was driving. There were reports of gunshots in the area and these officers were investigating. As Moynihan approached the vehicle and opened the the driver side door West flew out shooting Moynihan point blank below his right eye with a .357 magnum. West continued to fire at police as he ran and the officers who were interviewing the two passengers of the car opened fire on west killing him. West had been convicted on gun charges before and according to the law should not have been able to posses a gun in which case the gun he used on officer Moynihan was an illegally obtained firearm. Moynihan survived the gunshot and was taken to the hospital where he was put in a medically induced coma. He was not the only one hit in the shooting. A woman driving by was also hit but only suffered a minor flesh wound and recovered well.
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| Moynihan as honorary captain at New England Patriots game "Moynihan is center number 12 |
On Sunday the 29th of march Officer Moynihan was brought into surgery. The bullet entered below his right eye and was lodged below his right ear around the neck. He was in surgery for several hours to remove the bullet but was said it be in stable condition the whole time and the surgery was a success. Two months after the surgery he had just finished what he had hoped to be his last surgery. This one was to transplant different nerves from his foot, calf, and left side of his face to the spots that the bullet damaged on the right. Due to his injuries the right side of his face was partially paralyzed but not permanently. Moynihan had high hopes and was quoted saying “I’m feeling OK, kind of one day at a time,” he said. “It’s a slow, gradual process, but I’m happy, and the doctors are happy.” He was very thankful for the officers that took control of the situation and take down the threat saving his life. He was honored at the patriots game depicted in the picture above as an honorary captain. He had also been honored at a bruins game as well. Although he went down him and the men and women he worked with that day are heroes and this reminds us that the job they do protecting us is not a safe job and some people are out there to hurt them. Not all police officers are bad people, a great majority are good people out there just trying to make the world better.
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