Police commissioner who helped catch Gilgo Seaside serial homicide suspect declares shock resignation

Harris Marley

International Courant

Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison introduced a shock resignation late Thursday night, in line with a report. The resignation comes months after Harrison helped lead his division to arrest Gilgo Seaside serial homicide suspect Rex Heuermann.

Harrison mentioned in a memo to his officers that being police commissioner “one of many biggest highlights” of his profession, FOX 5 reported. He additionally mentioned he would formally notify Suffolk County Government Steve Bellone on Friday about his resignation, in line with the New York.

“Serving because the Suffolk County Police commissioner for the previous two years was not solely a privilege however one of many biggest highlights of my legislation enforcement profession and that’s due to you,” Harrison mentioned within the memo, the Put up reported.

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Rex A. Heuermann, the architect accused of murdering at the very least three girls close to Lengthy Island’s Gilgo Seaside, seems earlier than Choose Timothy P. Mazzei in Suffolk County Court docket on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, in Riverhead, N.Y.  (James Carbone/Newsday by way of AP, Pool))

Heuermann was caught and arrested in July. He faces a number of homicide prices stemming from the mysterious disappearances of a number of girls within the Nineteen Nineties, which grew to become chilly instances after they went unsolved.

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