Colwyn Police Officer Stephen Rozniakowski Gets Life in Prison For Fatal Shooting

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Colwyn Police Officer Stephen Rozniakowski Gets Life in Prison For Fatal Shooting

December 4th, 2017

Awake Goy

The ex-cop who snuffed out the life of Valerie Morrow will spend the rest of his life in prison.

Stephen “Roz” Rozniakowski, 35, of Norwood, was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole Wednesday after pleading guilty to murder in the first degree for Morrow’s shooting death Dec. 15, 2014.

Rozniakowski, a former Colwyn police officer, also pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury for shooting Morrow’s 15-year-old daughter in the arm and one count of aggravated assault attempting serious bodily injury for firing on Morrow’s widower, Thomas Morrow Jr., for which he received a consecutive sentence of 10 to 20 years.

Thomas Morrow did not comment Wednesday, but said at a preliminary hearing in April 2015 that his late wife had an affair with Rozniakowski during a separation. The Morrows reconciled and the affair ended, but Rozniakowski continued to harass and stalk the victim.

District Attorney Jack Whelan said at a 2015 press conference that Rozniakowski had been served with a protection from abuse order obtained by Valerie Morrow just hours before the shooting.

Rozniakowski donned a bulletproof vest of unknown origin, then took a police-issued police radio and a non-police-issued handgun with him to the victim’s Glenfield Avenue home in Glenolden at about 9 p.m. that night.

Rozniakowski kicked in the front door and went upstairs, where he fatally shot Valerie Morrow and injured her daughter. Thomas Morrow, a part-time police officer with the Morton Police Department, was getting up for his overnight shift and heard the commotion in the hallway, according to Whelan. He retrieved a weapon from his nightstand and went into the hallway, where he fired at the assailant.

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