Nov 1, 2007 4:31 pm US/Eastern
Guard Shot Breaking Up Halloween Egg-Throwing
Neville Webb Shot In The Head And Chest, Critically Hurt
MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (AP) ―
A security guard who tried to stop Halloween egg-throwers was shot in the head and chest and was "fighting for his life," the police commissioner said Thursday.
Neville Webb, 52, of White Plains, was in extremely critical condition at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx after the Wednesday night shooting in Mount Vernon, said Commissioner David Chong.
Chong said Webb, a former correction officer, went out to break up a group of young men who were throwing eggs at cars and people just before 9 p.m.
"When he went out to stop them it appears that one individual shot him," the commissioner said. "This poor security guard was just doing his job."
"It just seems to me that there is a culture out there that really doesn't value human life," Chong said. "Surely if it's stemming from the simplicity of Halloween and egg throwing and criminal mischief, it really has escalated into something quite more brutal than that."
He said police had some leads to follow in the search for the shooter.
Webb's son, Christopher Webb, is a candidate in Tuesday's Mount Vernon City Council elections.
"My family is grieving and his friends are grieving," Christopher Webb said Thursday. "That man would not have harmed anyone."
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