Officer in subway shooting returns home, hails partner

Officer in subway shooting returns home, hails partner
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
BY SOPHIA CHANG sophia.cha
October 23, 2008
As wounded New York City police officer Jason Maass returned to his West Babylon home yesterday, he gave a thumbs up to a group of waiting reporters and praised his partner, Shane Farina, who was recovering from surgery after Tuesday's subway shooting.

"My partner's a hero," said Maass, 28, who has been on the force for two years.

Farina, 38, of Center Moriches, underwent three hours of abdominal surgery at Elmhurst Medical Center yesterday and was in stable condition in the surgical intensive care unit, a hospital spokesman said yesterday. Maass was injured by a bullet grazing his back and bullet fragments in his pelvis.

The two plainclothes officers were shot Tuesday evening as they grappled with a suspected fare dodger inside the Queensbridge-21st Street subway station in Long Island City, investigators said.
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