Cop Hurt in Hit-and-Run in Critical But Stable Condition

SCPD Photo: Nicholas Guerrero joined the SCPD in 2010.

The Suffolk County cop who was mowed down in a hit-and-run crash during a traffic stop in Huntington on Monday is in critical, but stable condition as of Tuesday morning, police said.

Second Precinct officer Nicholas Guerrero, 36, is being closely monitored in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit at Stony Brook University Hospital, police said.

According to police, Guerrero and fellow Second Precinct Crime Section officer Heriberto Lugo initiated a traffic stop on Partridge Lane in Huntington at about 1:35 p.m. on Monday. While attempting to speak to the occupants, Guerrero and Lugo were struck by the vehicle, which then fled the scene, police said.

Two Northport men inside the vehicle were arrested later Monday.

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