NEW HYDE PARK, Lengthy Island (WABC) — It was an emotional day on Lengthy Island as buddies, household, and associates got here collectively to recollect an NYPD officer killed by an out-of-control automotive at a nail salon in Deer Park.
A big signal was arrange on the road with an image of Officer Emilia Rennhack exterior the house the place her funeral was held Saturday in New Hyde Park.
Rennhack was certainly one of 4 folks killed when an alleged drunk driver crashed right into a nail salon in Deer Park final Friday.
Pictured left to proper: Jiancai Chen, Emilia Rennhack and Meizi Zhang
Additionally killed within the crash have been Jiancai ‘Kenny’ Chen, 37, of Bayside, Queens, Yan Xu, 41, of Flushing, Queens, and Meizi Zhang, 50, of Flushing, Queens.
The 30-year-old was off-duty on the time, getting her nails carried out for a marriage.
Officer Rennhack was assigned to the 102nd Precinct in Queens, the place her husband is a detective.
Police say Steven Schwally, 64, was drunk when he plowed an SUV by means of Hawaii Nail Salon.
Schwally, of Dix Hills, has been charged with DWI, and extra costs may nonetheless be filed in opposition to him.
This isn’t Schwally’s first DWI incident. He pleaded responsible to related costs in Suffolk County in March 2013.
Schwally was held on $1 million money bail at his arraignment Monday afternoon in Central Islip.
Prosecutors say he’s a Marine Corps veteran who resides at a Motor Inn in Commack.
He informed police he had 18 beers the night time earlier than the crash, and stopped ingesting at 4 a.m.
Schwally is due again in courtroom on July 12.
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