It was six years ago on the eve of St. Patrick’s Day when EMT Yadira Arroyo was responding to a 911 call and her ambulance was hijacked. Her killer was just convicted this month.
Years after Jose Gonzalez allegedly killed a Bronx EMT as he attempted to steal the ambulance she was riding in near the intersection of White Plains Road and.
The fourth annual holiday toy giveaway held in EMT Yadira Arroyo’s name drew hundreds of kids across from the Bronx park christened in her honor after the FDNY EMS veteran’s death at the hands of a madman while on the job on in March 2017.