Paralyzed detective who forgave shooter eulogized as hero

NEW YORK (AP) — Steven McDonald, a police officer best known for forgiving a teenage gunman who left him paralyzed in 1986, was remembered at his St. Patrick’s Cathedral funeral on Friday as a hero who never gave in to self-pity and lived a full life despite his disability.
“We learned the right way to live from him,” Mayor Bill de Blasio told McDonald’s widow, Patti Ann, police officer son and other mourners packed into the Manhattan church. “He was synonymou