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Wounded cop Kevin Herlihy back home on LI

Det. Kevin Herlihy, of Lynbrook, shot when he traded gunfire with a suspect in Harlem, has an emotional homecoming with his family just before noon Wednesday after leaving a Manhattan hospital. Videojournalist: Jim Staubitser (Feb. 15, 2012)

An NYPD detective came home to Lynbrook for an emotional reunion with his wife Wednesday less than 24 hours after being wounded in a shootout in a Harlem subway station.

"I'm home and alive," Det. Kevin Herlihy told reporters around noon Wednesday as he walked toward his wife, Adrienne, who was anxiously waiting on the home's walkway.

Herlihy, who has two sons -- 11 and 6 -- and a 13-month-old...

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