Jones, known on the streets as Buddha, endured a troubled childhood that ended abruptly at age 15 with his arrest for shooting then-Officer Steven McDonald in Central Park. He spent the next nine ...

Legendary NYPD Detective Steven McDonald was remembered Friday at his ... McDonald famously forgave the cowardly 15-year-old gunman, Shavod Jones, months after he was left for dead on July 12 ...

The city knows Steven McDonald’s story, has known it for such a long time: He was shot in Central Park in the summer of 1986, when questioning a teenager named Shavod Jones about the theft of ...

Sponsor Message Jones died just days after his release ... even had an award named in his honor by the New York Rangers. Rest In Peace Steven McDonald. The Rangers remembered him in a video ...

MIDTOWN, Manhattan -- Steven McDonald ... When he moved to frisk one of them, the 15-year-old Jones shot McDonald three times, with one bullet piercing the officer's spinal column and leaving ...

Jones, however, was far from a model prisoner ... McDonald was a longtime Rangers fan after whom the hockey team named the “Steven McDonald Extra Effort Award.” “Steven exemplified the ...

But shortly after Jones' release from prison in 1995, he died in a motorcycle accident. The McDonalds' son, Conor McDonald, joined the NYPD and became a sergeant last year. In 2007, Steven's wife ...

"Rest in peace, Steven McDonald," the Rangers tweeted ... was not knowledgeable or capable enough to intervene. McDonald dreamed that Jones would join him on the speaking tours, creating an ...

Steven McDonald, whose message of forgiveness and ... McDonald was wounded when Shavod Jones, a troubled 15-year-old from Manhattan, shot the young cop while he was on patrol in Central Park.

NEW YORK -- Steven McDonald, a police officer best ... When he moved to frisk one of them, the 15-year-old Jones shot McDonald three times, with one bullet piercing the officer’s spinal column.