Photo: Paul Martinka
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Slain Officer Randolph Holder was laid out in his NYPD finest — uniform, an officer’s cap and white gloves — at his tearful wake in Queens on Tuesday.
A folded American flag was tucked under the left shoulder of the hero Guyanese native, who was cut down by a drug thug’s bullet while on duty in East Harlem last week.
Hundreds of grieving family, friends, cops and other supporters gathered for the wake.
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Randolph Holder
Slain Officer Randolph Holder was laid out in his NYPD finest — uniform, an officer’s cap and white gloves — at his tearful wake in Queens on Tuesday.
A folded American flag was tucked under the left shoulder of the hero Guyanese native, who was cut down by a drug thug’s bullet while on duty in East Harlem last week.
Hundreds of grieving family, friends, cops and other supporters gathered for the wake.
[. . .]
Randolph Holder
Photo: Reuters
The line of blue stretched several blocks at one point, with roughly 750 officers queued up along Merrick Boulevard to pay their respects at the daylong service in Jamaica.
“Why lord?!, Why lord?! Why!” sobbed a distraught woman who fell to her knees after stepping out of the white Cadillac escorting more than a dozen family members to the church.
The sobbing relative was quickly grabbed by another family member and led indoors.
Holder’s fiancee and high-school sweetheart, Mary Muhammed, arrived with the family wearing a royal-blue suit and black coat.
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The five-year NYPD veteran was murdered last Tuesday in Harlem after a fleeing suspect shot him in the head. The plainclothes cop and his partner has responded to reports of shots fired and a bicycle stolen at gunpoint.
Suspect Tyrone Howard — whose rap sheet clocks 28 arrests since age 13 — was charged with murder and robbery. The cop-slayer was diverted from a prison sentence in 2014 by a Manhattan judge, instead completing a no-jail rehab program.
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Holder will be buried in his hometown of Georgetown, Guyana.
http://nypost.com/2015/10/27/long-blue-line-of-mourners-pay-tribute-to-slain-nypd-cop/
Long blue line of mourners pay tribute to slain NYPD cop
By Kevin Sheehan, Reuven Fenton and Emily Saul
New York Post
October 27, 2015 | 10:49am
The line of blue stretched several blocks at one point, with roughly 750 officers queued up along Merrick Boulevard to pay their respects at the daylong service in Jamaica.
“Why lord?!, Why lord?! Why!” sobbed a distraught woman who fell to her knees after stepping out of the white Cadillac escorting more than a dozen family members to the church.
The sobbing relative was quickly grabbed by another family member and led indoors.
Holder’s fiancee and high-school sweetheart, Mary Muhammed, arrived with the family wearing a royal-blue suit and black coat.
[. . .]
The five-year NYPD veteran was murdered last Tuesday in Harlem after a fleeing suspect shot him in the head. The plainclothes cop and his partner has responded to reports of shots fired and a bicycle stolen at gunpoint.
Suspect Tyrone Howard — whose rap sheet clocks 28 arrests since age 13 — was charged with murder and robbery. The cop-slayer was diverted from a prison sentence in 2014 by a Manhattan judge, instead completing a no-jail rehab program.
[. . .]
Holder will be buried in his hometown of Georgetown, Guyana.
http://nypost.com/2015/10/27/long-blue-line-of-mourners-pay-tribute-to-slain-nypd-cop/
Long blue line of mourners pay tribute to slain NYPD cop
By Kevin Sheehan, Reuven Fenton and Emily Saul
New York Post
October 27, 2015 | 10:49am
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