Rachel Aiello, the widow of the ex-NYPD officer Jason Aiello, who was fatally shot in a shootout ruled "suicide by cop" this summer, is preparing to file a wrongful death suit against the city. The Advance reports that a successful motion to preserve 911 tapes of the incident filed by her lawyer last month stated, "[Aiello] was armed, but there was ample opportunity to disarm him without the use of deadly force." Police responded after......

A lawyer representing the family of the former NYPD sergeant Jason Aiello, who was fatally shot by police outside his Staten Island home, told the Daily News, "If Jason was black, there would be a thousand people protesting outside 1 Police Plaza. The mayor would be on television apologizing. But this isn't an Al Sharpton case." Police, responding after 911 calls about Aiello, say he was armed with two guns and fired at them, so......

There was another police-involved shooting this morning: Around 7AM, retired NYPD sergeant Jason Aiello, who had escaped from a hospital's psychiatric ward, was outside his home in Rosebank, "armed with a few weapons and screaming." Police say they repeatedly asked Aiello to drop his weapons, but when he didn't, he was shot in the head. WABC 7 suggests it could have been "suicide by cop," and the police told the Advance Aiello's children were "in......