Benefit Slated for Stricken Police Officer

John Schneider retired from the police force after 32 years of service in Baltimore County, and three years later suffered from a major stroke.  Eight months after his stroke, he contracted transverse myelitis, an autoimmune disease that attacked the functioning side of his body.

He was paralyzed from the waist down but is now walking around with supervision after a year in the Ellicott City Health and Rehabilitation Center on Ridge Road, according to his sister, Carol Shute.

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