Hero cops awarded for saving woman, 70, during Bay Ridge home invasion
Four 68th Precinct officers that responded to a gruesome home invasion on Ovington Avenue last month were awarded Community Medals of Valor on Friday, February 3 as the group’s swift action is said to have helped save the life of the 70-year-old woman who lived there.
On Friday, January 20, 68th Precinct officers responded to the scene, 359 Ovington Avenue, after a call was made to 911 by the victim’s neighbor, who lives in the apartment underneath, at around 10:15 p.m. that evening.
The responding cops — NYPD Sergeant Nicholas Danna along with Police Officers Sanad Musallam, Michael Pascale and Christian Aleman — went up to the apartment, where they also heard the victim screaming for help, and knocked on the door. When no one answered, they kicked it in and saw the victim on the floor, with her face, arms and torso bloody and her apparent assailant “still on top of her,” a police source told this paper shortly after the incident.