NYPD officer Jason Rivera was killed and his partner, Officer Wilbert Mora, was wounded while responding to a call in a Harlem apartment
NEW YORK -- The 22-year-old New York City police officer who was shot to death while responding to a call in a Harlem apartment came from an immigrant family and grew up in a community with strained police relations, but joined the force to make a difference in the"chaotic city," he once wrote.
Mora was still"fighting for his life" on Saturday, said Mayor Eric Adams. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, visited Mora and his family in the hospital and gave the wounded officer a blessing, according to a spokesman the archdiocese. "It's hard to believe, but it's only been three weeks, and it has been nonstop since then," Adams told residents at a gun violence roundtable Saturday."But I want you to know in a very clear way that I am more energized. I'm not tired. I'm not stressed out.
"He was so eager to make a difference in this community," said McGraw, founder of We All Really Matter.Police said the gun used in Friday night's shooting, a .45-caliber Glock with a high-capacity magazine capable of holding up to 40 extra rounds, had been stolen in Baltimore in 2017. Adams said a woman who made an emergency call Friday said she was ill and that her son who had come up to take care of her had become"problematic." Adams said the woman did not specify the problem.
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