A Long Island cop was mistakenly shot and killed by another officer while responding to a call about a Satanist decked out "Rambo-style" last night. The incident began when Theresa Kelly called Nassau County police after seeing neighbor Anthony DiGeronimo, dressed in Army fatigues and a white hockey mask stalking the streets in Massapequa Park, attacking and slashing cars with a giant knife. "I heard a loud thud against my window. I looked up and there was a man there wielding a knife and hitting my window. He was smirking and he was laughing. I screamed and he started to walk out of the driveway," 71-year-old Kelly told the Post.
Residents told the News that DiGeronimo was also covered in chains, and 12-year-old Brian Mullins was suitably freaked out: "He was dragging about an 8-inch chef knife across the windows of two cars. He had murderous-looking eyes staring me down. I thought he was staring into my soul." Police arrived, and the suspects father begged them not to shoot his son. But DiGeronimo lunged at the cops, forcing at least two officers to shoot the man dead. But tragically, after the shooting, a Nassau County special operations cop stepped into DiGeronimo's home; an MTA officer, standing near the door, saw the gun and shot the cop in the face.
DiGeronimo lists his religion as theistic satanist and his political views as anarchist on his Facebook; friend Evan Krohn told the News that he wasn't surprised by the tragic events of the evening. "Everyone knows he has weapons. He was always a strange kid. He would walk around the park with machetes."
