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NYPD Officer Anastasios Tsakos of East Northport, was struck and killed while responding to a fatal crash on the LIE on Tuesday, April 27.
Photo: NYPD Facebook page.
The NYPD officer who was struck and killed while investigating another accident on the LIE in the early hours of Tuesday morning was an East Northport resident with a 6-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son, according to reports.
Town of Huntington Supervisor Chad A. Lupinacci directed all flags in the township to be flown at half staff in honor of Officer Anastasios Tsakos, the 43-year-old who lived in East Northport. The highway officer was a 14-year veteran of the NYPD, according to a New York Post story.