Multiple factual disputes surroinding the death of a Long Island police officer who died by friendly fire have prompted a federal judge to allow the officer’s widow to press forward with a wrongful death suit.
The suit stems from events in March 2011 when police converged on the home of an emotionally disturbed man wielding weapons. Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Officer Glenn Gentile fatally shot a man approaching the scene with an assault rifle who turned out to be plainclothes Nassau County Police Officer Geoffrey Breitkopf.
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