75-year-old retired Lengthy Island detective shot lifeless by his son: cops

A 75-year-old retired detective was shot lifeless by his son whereas preventing inside their Lengthy Island residence Wednesday morning, officers mentioned. 

Christopher Miller, 43, allegedly blasted his father — former Suffolk County Police Division detective John “Jack” Miller — a number of occasions with a shotgun throughout an explosive argument inside their Dix Hills home round 7:25 a.m., in keeping with cops.

The mayhem unfolded when the youthful Miller got here residence after getting launched from a neighborhood hospital following a Monday automobile crash, in keeping with Information 12 Lengthy Island.

His father didn’t hear from him and reported him lacking a day earlier than the bloodshed. 

The son “lately moved into the home together with his father following a divorce,” mentioned Lieutenant Detective Kevin Breyer of the Suffolk County Police Division on the scene. 

After the lethal capturing, Christopher Miller ran and hid in a close-by shed on Seaman Neck Highway, main the spooked house owner to name 911.

Responding cops took him again to his residence, the place they discovered the daddy lifeless in a pool of blood.

Police arrested Christopher Miller and charged him with homicide. 

He was taken to the hospital for accidents sustained from the crash, cops mentioned.

His arraignment is pending on a later date.