Post by XCAPT1 on Aug 9, 2008 21:47:30 GMT -5
Hamptons Officer Dies After Attack In Popular Bar
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (CBS) ¯ An off-duty Suffolk County correction officer who was on life support after police say he was nearly strangled by a bar patron died Saturday morning.
Andrew Reister, a 40-year-old father of two, was viciously assaulted inside a Southampton bar around 1:10 a.m. Thursday. He was moonlighting as a bouncer at the Southampton Publick House and restaurant that was packed for ladies' night when he was choked into unconsciousness.
The "near-strangulation," as police called the attack, left Reister in a coma. He died at Stony Brook University at 11:08 a.m. Saturday..
"I speak on behalf of all correction officers with a heavy heart. We're there for his family," said Vito Dagnello of the Suffolk County Correction Officer's Association.
They say 25-year-old Anthony Oddone was intoxicated and dancing on a table when witnesses say Reister ordered him to leave. Instead, Oddone allegedly attacked Reister and left him in coma. Some patrons tried to perform CPR.
Oddone, police say, is a caddie-master in the Hamptons at the exclusive, private Bridge County Club. A judge ordered Oddone held on $500,000 bail and moved him to Riker Island rather than hold him in the Suffolk County jail where his victim was a beloved and respected veteran officer and counselor to inmates.
"Andrew is an exemplary officer and he has accommodations in his file, he's been with us close to 15 years now," said Chief Michael Sharkey, Reister's boss.
Reister lived in Hampton Bays with his family. His children are aged 8 and 4. The officer's union has created a welfare fund to create scholarships for the children.
You can send your contributions to:
Suffolk County Correction
Officer's Andrew Reister Welfare Fund
400 West Main Street
Suite 202
Riverhead, NY 11901
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (CBS) ¯ An off-duty Suffolk County correction officer who was on life support after police say he was nearly strangled by a bar patron died Saturday morning.
Andrew Reister, a 40-year-old father of two, was viciously assaulted inside a Southampton bar around 1:10 a.m. Thursday. He was moonlighting as a bouncer at the Southampton Publick House and restaurant that was packed for ladies' night when he was choked into unconsciousness.
The "near-strangulation," as police called the attack, left Reister in a coma. He died at Stony Brook University at 11:08 a.m. Saturday..
"I speak on behalf of all correction officers with a heavy heart. We're there for his family," said Vito Dagnello of the Suffolk County Correction Officer's Association.
They say 25-year-old Anthony Oddone was intoxicated and dancing on a table when witnesses say Reister ordered him to leave. Instead, Oddone allegedly attacked Reister and left him in coma. Some patrons tried to perform CPR.
Oddone, police say, is a caddie-master in the Hamptons at the exclusive, private Bridge County Club. A judge ordered Oddone held on $500,000 bail and moved him to Riker Island rather than hold him in the Suffolk County jail where his victim was a beloved and respected veteran officer and counselor to inmates.
"Andrew is an exemplary officer and he has accommodations in his file, he's been with us close to 15 years now," said Chief Michael Sharkey, Reister's boss.
Reister lived in Hampton Bays with his family. His children are aged 8 and 4. The officer's union has created a welfare fund to create scholarships for the children.
You can send your contributions to:
Suffolk County Correction
Officer's Andrew Reister Welfare Fund
400 West Main Street
Suite 202
Riverhead, NY 11901
