A surfer was pulled unresponsive from the water at Gilgo Beach and later pronounced dead at a hospital, Suffolk County police announced on Sunday, Jan. 19. Marine Bureau officers responded to the ...

Jack Shapiro Sr., a retired NYPD sergeant from ... The elder Shapiro, 54, was pulled from the waters off Gilgo Beach unresponsive Sunday at about 2:20 p.m. and died at Good Samaritan Hospital ...

Tributes are pouring in for Jack Shapiro, a retired NYPD sergeant, devoted father, and avid surfer, who died tragically while surfing at Gilgo Beach on Sunday, Jan. 19. Jack Shapiro, 54, of Holbrook, ...

Jack Shapiro, 54, of Holbrook — who officials say retired from the NYPD more than a decade ago — became unresponsive as he surfed just off the Babylon beach around 2:20 p.m. Sunday, ...

A surfer pulled unresponsive from the ocean waters off Gilgo Beach on Sunday afternoon ... a good Samaritan brought Jack Shapiro, 54, of Holbrook, back to the shore at about 2:20 p.m. Shapiro ...

Jack Shapiro, 54, was found unresponsive in the waters off Gilgo Beach by a good Samaritan around 2:15 p.m., News 12 Long Island reported. The helpful bystander brought Shapiro, a Holbrook ...

A former New York City police sergeant died from an apparent drowning while surfing in Long Island’s frigid waters on Sunday.

LONG ISLAND - A former NYPD officer died after being found unresponsive off the coast of Gilgo Beach on Sunday, according to the Associated Press. Jack Shapiro, 54, was pulled ashore by a bystander ...

Jack Shapiro, a 54-year-old outdoorsman and retired Brooklyn cop, was winter-surfing off Gilgo Beach with friends around 2:20 p.m. when he plunged into the surf and had to be pulled to shore ...

Jack Shapiro, 54, of Holbrook was identified as the victim after being pulled to shore by a bystander off the coast of Gilgo Beach, just after 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 19, the Associated Press reported, ...

Jack Shapiro, 54, a former NYPD sergeant and avid surfer, died from apparent drowning at Long Island's Gilgo Beach. He was found unresponsive and pronounced dead after arrival at a hospital. The cause ...