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The family of late Detective Dillon Stewart was joined by Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and other city officials in the dedication of a Prospect Park playground in Stewart's honor. The Parade Ground Playground, at the corner of Caton Avenue and Parade Place, near East 16th, was renamed the Dillon Stewart Playground. Stewart was killed on November 28, 2005, when he and his partner stopped a car for a traffic violation. Someone...

A Brooklyn jury found Allan Cameron guilty of killing police officer Dillon Stewart in 2005. Stewart's widow Leslyn, who is raising their two children, said, "Justice - I'm happy that the jury sent out the message of justice, loud and clear. [I'm] very, very happy. But at the same time very sad. Because of all we've had to deal with."

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: An armored robbery in Queens, a boat in distress east of the Steeplechase Pier in Brooklyn and a school bus accident in Staten Island. The bids are in for the West Side Yards, and the companies that submitted them are Extell Development Company, Brookfield Properties Developer LLC, The Related Companies, TS West Side Holding, LLC (A Joint Venture of Tishman Speyer and Morgan Stanley), and Hudson Center East LLC...

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a home invasion robbery on 11th St. in Brooklyn, an unusual rescue on Selwyn Ave. in the Bronx, and a shooting on Rugby Rd. and Foster Ave. in Brooklyn.
• The 30-year-old homeless man charged with raping and torturing a Columbia student in her apartment in April was found mentally fit to stand trial.
• Negotiations between Thor Equities and several Coney Island boardwalk tenants are nearly settled, allowing many attractions to remain through next summer.
• New York magazine notes that NYC may soon receive a movie theater that has a no-children-under-the-age-of-six policy.
• Norman Hsu, one of Sen. Clinton's primary fundraisers during her run for the Presidency, is being charged by federal prosecutors with running a Ponzi scheme and defrauding people of tens of millions of dollars.
• A Brooklyn car salesman scammed rides on a fire truck with members of a Bed-Stuy firehouse after producing a forged letter and bearing stolen FDNY gear.
• Not getting too far by striking, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance is now suing the city to prevent the mandatory installation of GPS equipment in cabs.
• As he led cops on a 70 mph chase through the streets of Flatbush before allegedly shooting officer Dillon Stewart, accused killer Allan Cameron was watching a porn movie on the DVD player in his Infiniti.
• Best use of 9/11 in a new fall season program (so far): Kitchen Nightmares, when a Long Island restaurant "owner," upon Gordon Ramsay criticizing him about the state of a kitchen, "blame everything on me! Blame fires in Chicago, Hurricane Katrina, 9-11" (via Television Without Pity)

In late November 2005, police officer Dillon Stewart and his partner, Paul Lipka, stopped a 1990 Infiniti for a traffic violation (driving with dealer plates) in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. One of the men inside fired five bullets into the unmarked police car (Stewart and Lipka were uniformed), and Stewart (pictured) and Lipka proceeded to chase the car. But then Stewart realized that he had been shot -- the bullet had missed his bulletproof vest by a quarter of an inch and hit his heart.

It came as a surprise to Gothamist when we first heard this story. Apparently only half of the officers in the NYPD are wearing the newest bulletproof vests. Yesterday, a group of City Council members called on the city to add 18,000 more bulletproof vests that use the latest technology at a cost of almost $10 million. The group said the cost for the vests will be in the council's budget proposal on Thursday.

Mayor Bloomberg is getting more support - not that he needed it - for his aggressive stand against firearms in the city as well as the NYPD's handling of crminals as the story of Damon Henry makes the rounds. Henry was shot over the weekend by the NYPD when he fired an Uzi (!!!) at them in East Flatbush. The Post says, "The pursuing police responded with about 30 rounds, hitting him in the torso and legs, blowing off a finger and his penis," according to police. Crime does not pay. It turns out that Henry once owned - and used the gun to shoot an officer - the same gun that killed police officer Dillon Stewart last year. Henry will be tried under a new law that has harsher penalties for people who attack the police - Henry could face a minimum of 20-40 years.

Only eight days after a funeral for police officer Dillon Stewart who was killed during a traffic stop, the NYPD, elected officials, and New Yorkers attended another funeral, one for police officer Daniel Enchautegui who was killed while trying to stop a burglary. About 20,000 people attended the Bronx funeral, and like Stewart, Enchautegui was posthumously promoted to first-grade detective. The Bronx DA's office said the two suspects in Enchautegui's death who have been recovering in a hospital from the shots the officer managed to get off before dying would be arraigned in their recovery rooms this morning. And the Post reported that Governor Pataki was negotiating tougher gun trafficking laws, in light of an increase in shootings.

The killing of police officer Daniel Enchautegui (left)continues to be investigated, as the two suspects, Daniel Armento and Lillo Brancato, were charged with second degree murder. Police now believe that Armento, 48 years old, and Brancato, 29 years old, were searching for Valium when they broke into a Bronx home. Enchautegui, who was off-duty and at home next door, had heard the break-in. Police believe that Echautegui identified himself as a police officer, but was still shot by Armento; though wounded, Echautegui managed to shoot both men. Armento and Brancato had started the night at a Bronx strip club, Crazy Horse, but went on the prowl for drugs. They broke into a house where they had previously purchased Valium; the Post reports that Armento was too fat to squeeze through a window, so Brancato had to go in. What they didn't know was that the owner had died and the house was empty. The two men are recovering at Jacobi Hospital, with the police and DA's office waiting to take them into custody.

New York lost another of it's Finest early this morning. Daniel Enchautegui, 28, a three-year veteran, was shot in the chest outside of his Bronx home while attempting to prevent a robbery in progress.

Officer Alton Walker, a friend, recalled in his eulogy a story the Jamaica-born Stewart had told him about moving to New York as a boy. On his first day in his Brooklyn apartment, Stewart thought it was a mansion, and didn't realize he shared the building with others until he visited the upper floors, Walker said.

- The wake for slain police officer Dillon Stewart was held today; his funeral is tomorrow (we thought it was interesting that Stewart had responded to Mark Fisher's shooting and testified during that murder trial)

- That he smokes a lot of pot - "I smoke weed morning till night, like everyone in the ghetto. I'm Jamaican. We don't use those other fancy drugs."Reverend Al Sharpton went to pay his respects to officer Stewart at Brooklyn's 70th Precinct, the very station where Abner Louima was abused. Police say that Cameron went to his girlfriend's apartment after the shooting and took a nap. The NYPD posthumously made Stewart a detective, which means a "$21,200 bump in the late officer's salary and ensures that his widow...will receive an estimated $80,000 annual pension." And NY and Philadelphia authorities are continuing to look at why Cameron was even free.

Allan Cameron, the man who shot police officer Dillon Stewart Monday morning during a traffic stop, was arraigned for Stewart's murder amongst other charges. It turns out that Stewart had 53 nickel bags of marijuana in his car when he was pulled over, as well as being the guy who shot a police officer earlier in the mornth. And, with his past run-ins with the law, the NYPD and Philadelphia police are now arguing and pointing fingers at who could have jailed him first. With two arrests in NYC and one in Phildelphia in early 2003, Philadelphia officials say that they asked the NYPD to arrest Cameron during a December 2003 court date - but he left the court, as the paperwork may have been lost in the shuffle - as the NYPD says that the Philly paperwork may have been incomplete. At this point, Cameron has denied shooting Stewart, though apologizing to television cameras during a perp walk, and it's unclear whether or not there was a second person in his car.

Police officer Dillon Stewart (pictured) was shot in the heart by a suspected police shooter in the early hours of Monday morning and died from his wounds a few hours later. Stewart and his partner Paul Lipka had stopped a car for a traffic violation (driving with dealer plates) in East Flatbush, Brooklyn when one of the men inside fired five bullets into the unmarked police car (Stewart and Lipka were in uniform, though), and one of the bullets entered Stewart's left armpit, missing his bulletproof vest by a quarter of an inch and hit his heart. However, Stewart and Lipka kept driving for blocks, trying to chase the car, Stewart only realizing he had been shot later. Surgeons operated on Stewart for hours, but were unable to save him.