2 Charged After Pole Aiding Ill Son Is Shot
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HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. — Two men were charged Sunday in the shooting of a Pole who came to the United States to earn money for his son’s surgery, police said.
John Ray Rose, 22, and William Tyrone Duff, 24, were accused of shooting Witold Wroblewski during a robbery at a gas station just outside Riverhead in rural Long Island, police said. The men pleaded innocent at their arraignment and were being held without bond.
Wroblewski, who was in stable condition at University Hospital at Stony Brook, came to the United States to raise money so his 7-year-old son, Wojtek, could have an operation that would enable him to walk.
A fund-raising drive police started after the shooting has raised more than $60,000.
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