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Drug dealer testifies in slain NYPD cop trial

Originally published: January 29, 2013 9:03 PM
Updated: January 29, 2013 9:24 PM
By WILLIAM MURPHY william.murphy@newsday.com

Fallen Police Officer Peter Figoski's daughter Corrine Figoski,

Photo credit: Charles Eckert | Fallen Police Officer Peter Figoski's daughter Corrine Figoski, center, exits the courtroom of the trial of Officer Figoski's alleged killers in Brooklyn Supreme Court. (Jan. 29, 2013).

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Christine Figoski, daughter of NYPD Officer Peter Figoski,

Peter Figoski, NYPD cop from LI, remembered Sgt. Patrick Divers — of Levittown — died

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NYPD cops from Long Island who died in the line of duty

A small-time Brooklyn drug dealer testified Tuesday that two robbers threatened to kill him in his basement apartment just minutes before one of them allegedly shot and killed NYPD Officer Peter Figoski when the officer encountered the fleeing gunman.

"They came in with two pistols," Jose Hernandez, 27, told the jury in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn at the murder trial of the two men accused...

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