Joseph Taylor

In the late summer of 1977, a 34-year-old male New York City Police Detective named Joseph D. Taylor responded to a call that would tragically be his last. On Monday, August 29th, a report came in of a man with a shotgun inside an apartment at 14 Linden Street in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. Detective Taylor, a nine-year veteran of the force assigned to the 83rd Precinct, along with his partner, approached the fourth-floor apartment with their service weapons drawn, positioning themsel ...

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