Friday 17 June 2022 12:52 AM Funeral is held for murdered female NYPD officer, 31, stabbed to death 'by her ... trends now
Tearful NYPD officers lined the streets of the Bronx on Thursday as the funeral was held of a young female officer who investigators say was stabbed to death by her estranged husband.
Traffic was halted along the usually busy Fordham Road as the police procession made it's way from the funeral home to the cemetery where Officer Arianna Reyes-Gomez, 31, was to be buried.
Her husband Argenis de Jesus Baez Pinzano, 34, has been charged with the murder, and is even said to have told cops that Reyes-Gomez asked him to kill her.
There were emotional scenes at the Riverdale Funeral Home both inside and out as colleagues arrived by the busload.
The funeral of Arianna Reyes-Gomez, 31, took place in the Bronx on Thursday
Officers could be seen embracing one another as the sadness of the occasional overwhelmed
Officers took a moment to hug one another as they remembered their fallen comrade
Many officers could be seen with tears in their eyes as they stood outside the funeral home
For some it was simply too much and they were unable to fight back tears any longer
Eight officers carried the casket of Arianna Reyes-Gomez at Riverdale Funeral Home
A couple of officers can be seen embracing on another outside the funeral home on Thursday
New York City Mayor Eric Adams attends the funeral of NYPD Transit Officer Arianna Reyes-Gomez at Riverdale Funeral Home
Mayor Eric Adams could be seen leaving the funeral home following the ceremony
Friends and family of Reyes-Gomez were also seen coming out of the funeral home
The NYPD-flag draped coffin was taken to a hearse which would transport it to a cemetery
Arianna Reyes-Gomez, 31, was found unconscious and unresponsive with multiple stab wounds to her body at around 2:50am on Monday. Her estranged husband Argenis de Jesus Baez Pizano, right, has been charged with the murder
Officers formed a line outside the home as they waited in silence as they paid their respects to the fallen officer who was 31-years-old.
Before heading inside the home, fellow officers greeted one another and hugged.
Many of those pictured could be seen welling up as the emotion and sadness of the occasion simply overwhelmed them.
Some of New York's Bravest could be seen wiping away tears from their cheeks as they bid a final farewell to the officer who was remembered as someone who bravely protected the public.
'A lady that protected us, she couldn't protect herself,' the Rev. Oswald Dennis said. 'We're here to pray for her. We're here to pray for her children. We're here to pray for her family members.'
NYPD officers saluted Reyes-Gomez coffin as it made its way into the street outside
Officers with the NYPD could be seen lining the road as the ceremony got underway
Officers saluted as the hearse passed by. An NYPD police helicopter hovered overhead
Police Commissioner of the City of New York Sewell Keechant L. Sewell attended the funeral
Pedestrians line the route of procession for NYPD Transit Officer Arianna Reyes-Gomez, 31
NYPD officer salutes as the procession for NYPD Transit Officer Arianna Reyes-Gomez
The cortege was flanked by police cars and motorcycles
The hearse is pictured traveling along Fordham Road on its way to the cemetery in the Bronx
Officer Reyes-Gomez joined the NYPD in April 2019 and had been assigned to patrol the New York City subway. She was recently commended for saving a man from an overdose.
Prosecutors say Reyes-Gomez was killed by her husband, 34-year-old Argenis Baez Pizano at her Grand Concourse apartment in the early hours of Monday.
Surveillance footage saw the husband struggle with Reyes-Gomez at her door to her apartment before he forced himself inside.
He left one minute later holding holding a knife and leaving a bloody footprint.
On Wednesday, Pizano said his estranged wife 'is the one who told me to kill' her.
His partner 'is the one who told me to do this. She told me what to do,' Pizano told police, Assistant District Attorney David Birnbaum said during Pizano's
