Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan
Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan was some might call a hero cop. He served seventeen years in the Police Department and had a few interesting entries to his record. Before the Powell's incident, he had already shot two other men. One of those men was trying to push him off a roof and the other much younger was looting cars in front of his apartment. Most impressively, citations in the New York Daily News reported that Gilligan had disarmed suspects and had saved lives on many occasions. In addition, he rescued women and children from a fire, stopped a man from a suicidal jump as well as used mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to revive a woman who had attempted suicide. Physically Gilligan was a handsome man of six feet having a good stature.
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