A retired police officer was shot when he interrupted a burglary in progress – and the suspects managed to escape before being arrested after a police chase.
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Peter Schmidt, who was shot once in the arm and once in the torso, was released Tuesday from Westchester County Medical Center in Valhalla, police said.
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“The Greenburgh police family is very grateful and proud of the fearless acts of Peter Schmidt Sr. and Peter Schmidt Jr. while confronting two armed felons and our thoughts and prayers are with them while Pete Sr. recuperates at home”, McNerney said at a press conference following the arraignment, flanked by the younger Schmidt and Greenburgh officers who worked in the case.
Arraigned in Greenburgh Town Court on Tuesday afternoon were Taqiy A Walton, 34, of 9 Sears Ave.in Elmsford and Adam R. Larregue, 20, of 142 Winthrop Ave.in Elmsford.
The home at that address, which is in Schmidt’s neighborhood, was unoccupied.
The retiree’s son, a Greenburgh police officer who was off-duty, ran to the scene and saw a vehicle leaving.
Retired Officer Schmidt is stable at this time.
The police chief said that after retiring in 2005, the highly-decorated Schmidt served a year in Mosul, Iraq, training soldiers in 2008. Schmidt was mowing his lawn when he observed someone possibly breaking into the vacant home. Schmidt was shot twice.
The man, whose identity has not yet been released, suffered injuries but they did not appear to be life-threatening, Town Supervisor Paul Feiner told The Journal News.
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Within minutes, the City of Yonkers Police Department reported they had the BMW stopped on the Sprain Brook Parkway in the area of the Cross County Parkway.
