Police barriers closed off Merrick Road, from Fowler Avenue to John Street, last Saturday as dozens of New York City police officers and firefighters lined the street outside Our Lady of Peace Church. They stood at attention as eight NYPD officers carried the casket of Lynbrook resident and NYPD Sgt. Christopher Christodoulou, 45, to a hearse after his funeral service.
An NYPD helicopter roared overhead, police vehicles blasting sirens drove by, and as the hearse brought Christodoulou to St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale for his burial, the Pipes & Drums of the Emerald Society of the NYPD played “Going Home.”
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