When the phone rang late at her quiet Long Island home, Betty Bier — an NYPD wife and mother — felt a sinking sense of deja blue. Her instincts were right: Her son, second-generation NYPD hero ...

When the phone rang late at her Long Island home, Betty Bier — NYPD wife and mother — knew what was coming. “My husband was a cop, and he was shot once when my kids were little,” said Bier ...

Bier’s mom, Betty, said her son, a divorced father of a boy, 4, was expected to make a full recovery. “Thank God my son was sitting up talking — otherwise, I would’ve been a basket case.

Bier is expected to survive being shot in the legs. It was another near-tragedy for Bier’s mother Betty Bier, whose husband — retired Det. Richard Bier — also had to overcome being shot in t ...

"Last night, I couldn't hug him enough," his mother, Betty Bier, told NBC 4 New York at the hospital. "We're just all very worried." Bier's father, a former NYPD detective, was grazed in the face ...

Don't know that I've ever talked to anybody as enthusiastic about his job." Bier's mother, Betty, told WCBS 880's Sophia Hall it was gut-wrenching to get a call saying her son had been shot.

His mother, Betty Bier, said afterward that the shooting of her son was a repeat of a violent part of the family’s NYPD history. In 1971, her then-husband and Bier’s father survived a gunshot ...