34-Year-Old Cold Case Solved
Published: October 6, 2005
On December 24, 1971, police officers Charles Cali and Frank Parrino responded to a phone call about two suspicious men at Stony Brook University, according to Deputy Chief Doug Little.
According to an October 5, 2005, Newsday article by Olivia Winslow, after the officers approached the two men, who tried to escape into the woods, one of the men, identified as Frank Nelson, shot Officer Cali in the arm, and the other man, identified as Ricardo Appling, fought with Officer Parrino and broke his wrist, Deputy Little added.
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Howdunit: How Crimes Are Committed and Solved (Howdunit)Appling turned himself into the police the following day, but Nelson, the shooter, was not apprehended by U.S. Marshals until September 29, 2005, at a North Carolina construction site, where he was working, according to Newsday.
Chief Little stated that since the 1971 shooting, several law enforcement agencies, including the Suffolk County District Attorney and U.S. Marshals, collaborated on this case, and because of their “tenacious, excellent, outstanding police work,” the now 67-year-old Nelson is “facing justice.”
Nelson is still in South Carolina but will soon be charged by the Suffolk County District Attorney.
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