On the morning of February 24, 1985, Westchester County Police Officer Gary Stymiloski, 27, stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation on the Saw Mill River Parkway in Yonkers. While processing the stop, the vehicle’s driver, Alex Mengel, emerged and fatally shot Officer Stymiloski.

Mengel then took Officer Stymiloski’s patrol car with the officer’s body inside and fled, later abandoning the cruiser. He went on to a nearby restaurant parking lot, where he murdered a Mount Vernon woman and stole her vehicle to continue his escape. Mengel fled to Canada and was apprehended there. During efforts to return him to Westchester, Mengel attempted to escape while being transported by New York State Police and was shot and killed by the transporting officers.

Officer Stymiloski had served three years with the Westchester County Department of Public Safety. Does anyone have memories of Officer Stymiloski or information about the events that night?