The grieving widow of the slain 22-year-old NYPD officer Jason Rivera yesterday posted a moving tribute to her husband she married three months ago.
Rivera was shot dead on Friday night during an ambush as he and his partner, Officer Wilbert Mora, visited a Harlem address to investigate a domestic-violence call.
The pair were allegedly shot by convicted felon Lashawn McNeil, 47.
'Fly high my beautiful angel,' Rivera's widow wrote on Instagram, together with a picture of his locker that she took at the NYPD's 32nd Precinct in central Harlem.
'Yesterday I visited the locker room where you used to FaceTime me at during your meal time or right before you had to go downstairs to the muster room for roll call at 15:00,' she said.
The widow of NYPD Officer Jason Rivera, 22, posted an emotional tribute to him online. 'Fly high my beautiful angel,' she wrote, together with a picture of Rivera's locker
The couple were married on October 9, 2021 and had some pictures taken in New Jersey
Jason Rivera, 22, right, was allegedly killed by convicted felon Lashawn McNeil, 47, left, as he visited a Harlem address to investigate a domestic-violence call
'Last night was suppose to be your day 5 & you were RDO [off] for the next three days. We both waited for your RDO's to spend them together. But now your soul will spend the rest of my days with me, through me, right beside me.
'I love you till the end of time,' the grieving widow - who has not been named - wrote.
Her Instagram profile also includes photos of the newly married couple out in Liberty State Park in Jersey City. In one posting, she describes her husband as 'my soulmate, best friend and lover from now until the end of time.'
Relatives, together with hundreds of NYPD officers and Mayor Eric Adams paid tribute to Rivera as his body was moved to a Manhattan funeral home on Sunday.
Officers Rivera and Mora were shot while answering a call about an argument between a woman and her adult son. McNeil is said to have ran from a back bedroom of the Harlem apartment and opened fire.
Rivera lost his life while Mora, 27, is still fighting for his and remains in Harlem Hospital having undergone two surgeries to remove a bullet that had become stuck in his brain.
Funeral services for Officer Rivera were being finalized, as his comrades in blue mourned his loss. The officer had previously written how he joined the force to make a difference in what he had described as a 'chaotic city.'
Jason Rivera is pictured together with his wife whom he had married last October
'I love you till the end of time,' Rivera's grieving widow, pictured, wrote
A solemn scene unfolded Sunday with a column of uniformed police officers, as well as a line of firefighters, flanking the streets as a hearse carrying the fallen officer left the medical examiner's office for a funeral home.
A wake has been planned for Thursday with a
