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Capt. Anthony and Mia Duff leaving Yale New Haven Hospital on Aug. 22 amid cheers from hundreds of cops.
Capt. Anthony Duff did not fire his weapon when he confronted a murderer and got shot in the process.
So New Haven police reported Thursday.
The information came in a press release related to the ongoing investigation into the Aug. 12 incident in which Duff, while off-duty, came upon a fatal shooting, confronted the shooter, who then struck him several times and sent him to the hospital. The same shooter allegedly killed a man named Troy Clark.
Duff went home last week after ten days in the hospital. He appeared Thursday at the weekly Compstat data-sharing meeting of cops at 1 Union Ave.
New Haven police announced that they have taken over the investigation, which previously had been overseen by the State’s Attorney’s office, as is customary with cases involving local officers. It was transferred because, once state investigators determined that Duff had not fired his weapon, it was no longer an “officer-involved shooting.”
The incident gives lie to the argument that the way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun. Capt. Duff is by all accounts a good guy and he had a gun (and, unlike most civilians, had extensive training on how to use it). Nonetheless, a person was murdered.