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Police probe link between Queens, LI pellet-gun shootings

Pellet-gun shootings were reported in Nassau and Suffolk counties on the same day a detective was shot by a pellet gun in Queens, and police are trying to figure out if a Riverhead woman is behind the

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Oct 17, 2016, 9:40 PM

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