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1 shot as corrections cops love triangle turns deadly

Victim was blasted in the chest by the new boyfriend of his estranged wife

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A retired corrections officer was fatally shot in Queens Village.

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By Natasha Velez and Georgett Roberts
NY Post

NEW YORK — A love triangle between three corrections officers turned deadly early Friday when one of them was fatally shot by another during a confrontation on a Queens street, police sources said.

The victim — identified by police as 46-year-old off-duty corrections cop Jeffrey Ragland — was blasted in the chest by the new boyfriend of his estranged wife, both also corrections officers, on 108th Avenue near 227th Street in Queens Village around 4:30 am, sources said.

Ragland was rushed to Long Island Jewish Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

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