Guard Killed During Halloween Mischief

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MOUNT VERNON — A Westchester County security guard has died a day after being shot in the head and chest while trying to stop Halloween revelers from throwing eggs.

Neville Webb, 52, of White Plains, died last night at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, where he was taken in extremely critical condition following the incident in Mount Vernon, Police Commissioner David Chong said.

Webb, a former correction officer, went out to break up a group of young men who were throwing eggs at cars and people just before 9 o’clock on Halloween night, Mr. Chong said.

“When he went out to stop them it appears that one individual shot him,” the commissioner said after the shooting. “This poor security guard was just doing his job.”

“It just seems to me that there is a culture out there that really doesn’t value human life,” Mr. Chong said. “Surely if it’s stemming from the simplicity of Halloween and egg throwing and criminal mischief, it really has escalated into something quite more brutal than that.”

He said police had some leads to follow in the search for the shooter.

Webb’s son, Christopher Webb, is a candidate in Tuesday’s Mount Vernon City Council elections.

“My family is grieving and his friends are grieving,” Christopher Webb said yesterday. “That man would not have harmed anyone.”


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