NYPD honors slain policeman Edward Byrne in Queens

Hundreds of New York’s finest dignitaries gathered in Queens early Saturday morning to memorialize a rookie policeman who was ambushed and killed while sitting in his private car there 34 years ago. Mourners remember Edward Byrne at a midnight party on the corner of 107th Ave. and Inwood St. In southern Jamaica – steps away from where he was shot dead on February 26, 1988 while guarding the home of a drug witness. He was only 22 years old. He didn’t ask why. “He took his job and understood its…

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