Officer wounded in Watertown shootout returns to service, promoted to sergeant
Richard “Dic’’ Donohue was hit by a stray bullet during the April 19, 2013 firefight.
Richard “Dic’’ Donohue, the MBTA Police officer who was shot and gravely injured in the post-Boston Marathon bombing shootout in Watertown, is returning to service on Friday.
And he’ll do so as a freshly-promoted sergeant, the Transit Police said.
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Donohue was hit by a stray bullet during the April 19, 2013 firefight in Watertown between police and Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The bullet hit him in the right groin, severing his femoral artery, and Donohue almost bled to death. After almost two years of recovery, he was healthy enough to donate blood for the first time last month.
Scenes from the Watertown shootout
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