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Wounded NYPD Cop from Garden City Park Receives Combat Cross
Sgt. Kevin Brennan receives Combat Cross after sustaining gunshot wound to head in 2012.
A NYPD Officer from Garden City Park who suffered a gunshot wound to the head while pursuing a suspect has been awarded the Combat Cross.
Sgt. Kevin Brennan, 29, received the medal Tuesday afternoon at NYPD headquarters in Manhattan during the annual medal day ceremony.
On Jan. 31, 2012, Brennan and two other officers in plain clothes had responded to calls of shots being fired at the Bushwich Houses public housing project in Brooklyn, encountering three men – one of whom was 21-year old Luis Ortiz – running from the scene. Brennan followed Ortiz into an apartment building but the other officers had difficulty getting a door open that had closed behind him and found Brennan on the hallway floor when they entered.
Brennan was released from the hospital several weeks after being shot and has since returned to duty.
"Today is a good day," he told Newsday.
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