Det. Brian Menton Released From Jacobi To Cheers And Fanfare

YONKERS, NY — Det. Brian Menton is going home after being critically wounded by a suspect last month while investigating an arms trafficking ring.

The cause for celebration called for a motorcade with police departments from across the Hudson Valley represented. Menton was escorted in an ambulance as bagpipes played and a jubilant crowd of law enforcement officers and supporters cheered his recovery.

The detective with 27 years of experience was shot in the abdomen during an illegal gun investigation as part of the Westchester County Safe Streets task force.

The shooting took place inside of a bodega at 115 Elm Street on April 20. Inside the store, Bryant Jackson fired once, hitting the detective in the abdomen. An FBI agent assigned to the task force returned fire, fatally wounding Jackson.

Police officials have since released security footage that appears to show the moment that 28-year-old Jackson shot Det. Brian Menton in the stomach at close range in the Yonkers shop. The FBI agent who fatally shot Jackson can be seen entering a bodega on Elm Street in Yonkers with his weapon drawn.

Menton's twin brother, who is also on the police force, was being credited with helping to save his brother's life, rushing him in his own police car to a trauma center considered among the best for the treatment of gunshot wounds. Menton was rushed to emergency surgery after he suffered damage to his kidneys and intestines and "lost a lot of blood," according to then Police Commissioner John Mueller.