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Putnam Valley shooting
victim questions speed of prosecutor's probe
(Original publication: October 1,
2007)
Douglas Greenwich, a beefy electrician from Putnam
Valley, lifts his T-shirt and shows a 2-inch red scar on his back.
It marks one of the spots where, he says, he was shot in
June by process server Dennis Illuminate.
Illuminate
first shot Greenwich in the chest, without provocation, after serving
him with divorce papers in the driveway of his home, say Greenwich's
lawyers, Joseph A. Orlando and Joseph T. Redd.
In the
three months since, Greenwich, 52, has recovered and returned to work,
and a special prosecutor in White Plains has been given the case.
But
Orlando and Redd wonder why the prosecutor, Stephen Lewis, has yet to
interview their client or present the case to a grand jury - and why
Illuminate, 65, a former Kent police officer and councilman, still
carries a gun.
"Our client is eager to get this moving
forward," Orlando said last week. Greenwich was present, but silent,
during the interview.
"I think that this is an
attempted-murder case, and it's being treated like it's petty larceny,"
said Redd, a former prosecutor in Westchester and the Bronx.
"He
shot someone in the chest and again in the back from point-blank. These
were attempted death shots, yet there has been no effort to pull this
man's pistol permit. ... This needs to be moved along."
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