🌱 Woman Shot In Back By Ex-Boyfriend + Cell Phone Store Attack

Welcome back, Sachem! Let's get you started this Thursday with everything you need to know going on today in Sachem.

A young woman in Yaphank was shot in the back by her ex-boyfriend. Local first responders created a new, safer way to raise money online for police, firemen and others. Police are looking for two men who hit a cell phone store employee with a piece of wood.

First, today's weather:

Some sun, then clouds. High: 59 Low: 52.

Here are the top stories in Sachem today:

1. Peggy Spellman Hoey reports that an oil tanker overturned on Veterans Memorial Highway, causing delays in Ronkonkoma Wednesday morning. (Patch)
2. Patch talks to local first responders who created an online fundraising platform called Fund the First. It's verified so scammers can't impersonate first responders and supports first police, fire, emergency medical services, and other health care workers. (Patch)
3. News 12 reports that a 23-year-old woman was shot by her ex-boyfriend in Yaphank. It happened at 9 p.m. Monday night. She was treated at the hospital and released. (News 12)
4. Suffolk police are searching for two men who assaulted a cell phone repair store employee in October. They went inside IFIXSCREENS on Montauk Highway at about 3:45 p.m. on Oct. 16, and struck an employee with a piece of wood, then ran away from the store. (Patch)

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