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ALBANY---Home for the holidays.
Three months after New York State Trooper Donald Baker Jr. was wounded during the manhunt for fugitive Ralph "Bucky" Phillips, the officer has returned to his Clifton Park home.
Baker was released from Albany Medical Center Monday.
He had been transferred to Albany Med by helicopter on Nov. 8 from a Pennsylvania hospital where he spent 10 weeks after suffering gunshot wounds.
Baker, 38, and Trooper Joseph Longobardo, 32, members of the State Police Mobile Response Team, were shot Aug. 31 while on a surveillance near the home of Phillips' former girlfriend in Cassandaga, Chautauqua County. Longbordo died three days later.
Baker spent three weeks in a drug-induced coma at Hamot Medical Center in Erie, Pa. He began walking in early October.
Phillips had been on the run for five months after having escaped from the Erie County Jail in April.
Longobardo was shot in the leg, severing a major artery and breaking his femur. Baker was shot in the back, through a bulletproof vest, with the bullet exiting his abdomen.
Phillips was captured Sept. 8 after he was surrounded near the New York/Pennsylvania border. 11-27-06
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