{"id":1265546,"date":"2022-02-02T14:16:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T19:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1265546"},"modified":"2022-02-02T14:17:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T19:17:23","slug":"nypd-prepares-to-honor-murdered-hero-wilbert-mora-with-funeral-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nypd-prepares-to-honor-murdered-hero-wilbert-mora-with-funeral-service\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD Prepares to Honor Murdered Hero Wilbert Mora with Funeral Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnypd-prepares-to-honor-murdered-hero-wilbert-mora-with-funeral-service%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1265546&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">For the second time in less than a week members of the New York Police Department (NYPD) will gather Wednesday at St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral to solemnly farewell another of their own who fell in the line of duty.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Wilbert Mora\u2019s funeral is set for mid-morning at the historic Roman Catholic cathedral. It is the same Fifth Avenue place of worship where his police partner, Jason Rivera, was eulogized and posthumously promoted to detective on Friday, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/28\/photos-nycs-5th-avenue-a-sea-of-blue-as-police-gather-to-honor-fallen-officer-jason-rivera\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Both officers were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/21\/2-nypd-officers-dead-shooting-domestic-call\/\">shot<\/a> Jan. 22 while responding to a call about a domestic argument in a Harlem&nbsp; apartment.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting suspect, 47-year-old Lashawn McNeil, opened fire on Rivera and Mora as they approached him in a long hallway. McNeill was then shot twice by a third officer and died soon after.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New York\u2019s Fifth Avenue was a \u201csea of blue\u201d Friday as police gathered to honor fallen New York Police Officer Jason Rivera. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZxIjlfJtlN\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZxIjlfJtlN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1487229389670658050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell called Mora \u201cthree times a hero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor choosing a life of service. For sacrificing his life to protect others. For giving life even in death through organ donation,\u201d she said in announcing his Jan. 25 death.<\/p>\n<p>AP <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-york-new-york-city-7a908c66ad8590fd7e9ab010c24766c8\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;Mora, 27,&nbsp;joined the NYPD in October 2018, after graduating from John Jay College of Criminal Justice.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19651378\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/Wilbert-Mora.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19651378\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/Wilbert-Mora.jpg\" alt=\"Fallen New York City Police Department (NYPD) Officer Wilbert Mora rescued citizens even after his death by donating his organs to people.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Fallen New York City Police Department Officer Wilbert Mora rescued citizens even after his death by donating his organs to those in need. (NYPD)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A student of Dominican descent who\u2019d grown up in East Harlem, he was interested in improving relations between police and the neighborhoods they patrolled, according to one of his professors, Irina Zakirova.<\/p>\n<p>Mora spent several days on life support in hospital after the incident so he could donate his organs, at his request. He was pronounced dead on Jan. 25.<\/p>\n<p>Mora\u2019s organ donations benefited five people, according to the organization that handled the gift.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19719746\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1367377012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19719746\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1367377012-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Police officers salute as the procession of Officer Jason Rivera leaves St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral on January 28, 2022 in New York City. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld\/Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_19719754\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1367376985.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19719754\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1367376985-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Members of the public watch from a second floor store window as NYPD officers salute during the procession of Officer Jason Rivera leaves St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral on January 28, 2022 in New York City. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">Mora was given a hero\u2019s farewell at his wake at St. Patrick\u2019s on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">Before last month, the NYPD had last lost an officer in the line of duty when Anastasios Tsakos was hit by a suspected drunken driver in May 2021 at the scene of an earlier wreck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">No on-duty NYPD officer had been fatally shot since September 2019, when Brian Mulkeen was hit by a fellow officer\u2019s fire during a struggle with an armed man.<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in less than a week members of the New York Police Department (NYPD) will gather Wednesday at St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral to solemnly farewell another of their &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}