NYC (Brooklyn) Mayor Eric Adams and NY Police Interim Police Commissioner Tom Donlon Delivers Remarks at Street Co-Naming in Memory of Detective Troy Patterson  On April 29, 2023, the DEA lost a very special member: Det. Troy Patterson, who was shot in the head while trying to thwart being robbed on January 16, 1990. His survival at the time of the shooting was deemed extremely precarious. The bullet passed through his right ear, went through his brain, and lodged between his left ear and his skull. Doctors predicted that if Patterson lived, he would be blind. For 33 years, Det. Patterson remained in a catatonic state, but remained assigned to the NYPD. Det. Patterson’s life and death serve as a constant reminder of the horrific toll that gun violence takes on our profession, on our City, on our State, and on our nation