Three long-time Philadelphia police officers contracted terminal brain cancer after spending years working at a converted pre-Civil War military facility, according to a lawsuit.
The families of officers Joe Cooney, Michael Deal and Andrew Schafer filed a civil complaint last December against a group of developers and public entities over the historic Frankford Arsenal in Philadelphia, claiming the site was never properly cleared of known carcinogens, KYW Newsradio reported Monday. Cooney passed away just last month.
