LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — A trooper was shot on Long Island’s Southern State Parkway and was suspended without pay. On Wednesday, New York State Police gave a press conference to talk about the investigation.
Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly says that Trooper Thomas Mascia, 27, is being looked into because his story has “inconsistencies.”
At a news conference on Wednesday, Troop L Commander Major Stephen J. Udice said, “Based on what we know so far, we have reason to believe that the incident did not happen the way it was reported.”
Officials say they are looking into Mascia on both a criminal and a private level. They stopped looking for any possible vehicles or people who might have been involved in the killing.
A state police officer can violate our rules and laws even if there is no crime to be charged. “It was found that Thomas Mascia broke our rules and regulations,” Major Udice said.
Earlier, Mascia told State Police that he was on watch on the Southern State Parkway on October 30 when he saw what he thought was a lost driver. Mascia says he was shot in the right leg when he got out of his police car and walked up to a black sedan that was parked on the side of the road.
Monday, State Police carried out a search request at Mascia’s home as part of their investigation into a crime. Around one hundred thousand dollars in cash and a bunch of guns were found in the trooper’s West Hempstead family home.
Mascia was just let out of a nearby hospital on Friday.
Source: Police in New York State are still looking into the shooting of a trooper on a LI highway
