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

The family of a former NYPD cop is in mourning. The ex-police sergeant sadly passed away while surfing on Sunday in Long Island with some friends. It's a shocking development. According to his family,

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.

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

A former sergeant for the New York Police Department has died in a suspected drowning on Long Island. Jack Shapiro was surfing at Gilgo Beach on Sunday, January 19th when, just after 2:00 pm local time,