An New York detective, who was shot over $20 while washing his car in Brooklyn in 1990, has died after spending more than three decades in a coma.
Officer Troy Patterson, a six-year department veteran of the NYPD, was newly engaged and off-duty when he was ambushed by three armed thugs looking for a few bucks outside PS 3 in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
During the botched robbery, the then-27-year-old cop was shot in the head with a 38-caliber pistol.
