When Mike Sheehan retired from the NYPD as a Detective, he found a second career in TV news.

Sheehan worked as a Reporter for WPIX in New York.

As a veteran detective, he spent 25 years with the NYPD and worked on high-profile cases, including the controversial Central Park Five case in 1989, where five black teens were wrongly convicted of rape.

He then moved onto WPIX and helped break a number of stories for the station.

Sheehan died over the weekend from cancer, he was 71 years old.

WPIX remembered their former Reporter in their newscast.