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- A Hate Crimes Commander Laid To Rest in Suffolk, But Questions Remain
- Written August 11, 2011 by Ted Hesson, The Huffington Post
The stretch of Sunrise Highway in Moriches was largely open in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, August 6, when an unmarked Suffolk County Police Department sedan rifled by at an estimated 90-100 mph.
For reasons presently unknown, 57-year-old Det. Sgt. Robert Reecks—a longtime commander of the Suffolk hate crimes unit—drove off the road and crashed into a concrete abutment. The car was wrecked, according to a motorcyclist who witnessed the accident. “He hit that abutment and it just disintegrated,” the witness told Newsday. By the time a paramedic reached the scene, Reecks was dead.
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