Wheelchair stolen from Long Island Iraq double amputee war vet

Wheelchair stolen from Long Island Iraq war vet
Equipment was covered with an embroidered purple heart, military stickers

BY JOE KEMP / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Friday, January 20 2012, 3:47 PM

A wounded Iraqi war veteran who lost both legs when his Humvee was hit by a bomb had his wheelchair stolen from the front yard of his Long Island home, cops said.

Christopher Levi — who served as a corporal in the U.S. Army and was critically injured after his five-car convoy was bombed in Baghdad in 2008 — noticed the wheelchair was missing about 5:45 p.m. Thursday, he told police.

The Army Ranger said he left the wheelchair on the front lawn of his Holbrook home to run errands in his handicapped accessible vehicle.

The blue wheelchair dons an embroidered Purple Heart, a U.S. Army seal and several military stickers.

He told reporters that he considered the theft to be “despicable, malicious, immature.”

The VA gave him a loaner wheelchair, but he wants to find his own.
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