including two police officers who gave their lives in the lie of duty here in new york city. wilbur mora and jason rivera, they were ambushed while responding to domestic violence violence call last january. rivera died that day. he left behind his childhood sweetheart and wife and did not live to see the birth of his child. the 27-year-old was shot in the head. he had a bullet lodged in his brain. he was on life support and died days later. house lawmakers also passed a new resolution on monday that memorialized police officers killed the line of duty and expressed condolences to their loved ones. while the house resolution was approved with near unanimous support, two progressive congresswoman voted against honoring those fallen officers. democratic squad members rashida tlaib and cori bush were the only two lawmakers to vote nay. i have the honor at the blue lives matter nyc gala to be present and help give out the archangel awards the families of those fallen officers. my
including two police officers who gave their lives in the lie of duty here in new york city. wilbur mora and jason rivera, they were ambushed while responding to domestic violence violence call last january. rivera died that day. he left behind his childhood sweetheart and wife and did not live to see the birth of his child. the 27-year-old was shot in the head. he had a bullet lodged in his brain. he was on life support and died days later. house lawmakers also passed a new resolution on monday that memorialized police officers killed the line of duty and expressed condolences to their loved ones. while the house resolution was approved with near unanimous support, two progressive congresswoman voted against honoring those fallen officers. democratic squad members rashida tlaib and cori bush were the only two lawmakers to vote
tragically killed in the line of do you tell, all epitomizing service. god bless you. thank you. and representing the nypd s inspector, how are the police doing? we always worry about us. how about them? the police are doing great. what makes the city so great is the beings between the nypd and the community. events like this tree lighting tonight are what help to strengthen that partnership between us and the communities we serve. it is a privilege to be able to represent the men and women of the nypd here tonight as we honor and remember the sacrifices made by our fallen heroes, detective jason riviera and wilbur mora. we miss you immensely.
seated in his vehicle. he reportedly had no time to defend himself when the driver opened fire without warning. authorities are calling the incident a brutal murder. return to another fox news alert, hundreds gather at a funeral home 222-year-old fallen officer jason rivera as his partner wilbur mora transferred to the hospital clinging to life. speak with the officials calling on washington to step in and stop the flood of illegal guns and ashley strohmier joins us live. ashley, this was an absolutely tragic story and part of a horrible weekend. it really was an officer is still in critical condition after shot in the head friday night and transferred to nyu in the hospital sunday. now it happened when he and his partner jason rivera dispatched in harlem and here is the audio of that dispatched call. what is going on?
a somber scene in new york city once again after nypd officer wilbur mora who was shot in the line of duty succumbed to his injuries tuesday. his fellow officers lining the streets of new york last night paying tribute to their fallen colleague who the nypd commissioner called three times a hero for choosing a life of service, for sacrificing his life to protect others, and forgiving life even in death through organ donation. hundreds of uniformed officers lined up outside the hospital on tuesday as word quickly spread the 27-year-old police officer wilbur mora who was injured while responding to a domestic incident in harlem last friday did not survive. he and his partner were both shot in the head during the call, both were killed by a suspect who also died in the incident. this as the nypd releases new video of a suspect in the