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The Knights of Columbus honored the memory of detective Peter Figoski.
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Father Bret Stockdale of St.Anthony’s gave the sermon for Sundays blue mass.
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St. Anthony’s Priests (left) joined with the Police Officers (back row) and Knights of Columbus (kneeling) who were all present at the Blue Mass.
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Lynbrook Knights of Columbus organized a Blue Mass at St. Anthony’s Church in Oceanside and a breakfast at St. Mary’s Maris/Stella Knights of Columbus catering Hall in Lynbrook for on April 21 to honor fallen police officer, detective Peter Figoski. The Knights of Columbus blue mass is in support of active officers and those who died in the line of the duty. Detective Peter Figoski was shot and killed in 2011 while responding to a robbery call on Pine Street, in Brooklyn, at approximately 2 a.m.
Figoski was taken to Jamaica Hospital where he died from his wound. Figoski had served with the New York City Police Department for 22 years and was assigned to the 75th Precinct. He was posthumously promoted to the rank of Detective.
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