Slain NYPD Detective Miosotis Familia honored on 1-year anniversary

Thursday, July 5, 2018
NEW YORK (WABC) -- One year later, New York City is honoring a fallen NYPD detective.

The street outside the 46th Precinct was renamed in honor of Detective Miosotis Familia in a ceremony Thursday morning with Commissioner James O'Neill and Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The entire ceremony was streamed live on abc7ny.com and the Eyewitness News app.

The 48-year-old was just blocks away from the precinct last July 5 when she was assassinated while sitting in a mobile command unit with her partner.

Officers confronted the shooter, fatally shooting him.

Detective Familia's three children, 20-year-old Genesis and 12-year-old twin siblings Delilah and Peter, were on hand for the renaming.

Genesis delivered an emotional statement remembering her mother's heroism.
RAW VIDEO: Daughter of Detective Miosotis Familia speaks

The renaming event followed an emotional ceremony overnight.

At midnight, officers, friends and family, including Familia's children, attended a vigil at the 46th Precinct. Everyone held candles in her honor.

The vigil was held at the time she died one year ago.

Her partner said Detective Familia had a tough job but always found a way to be positive.

"You'd be hard pressed to find an individual to say they ever saw this woman in a bad mood," Officer Vincent Maher said. "She had the ability to seek out every single person that she worked with every night."

Also on Thursday, a private memorial Mass was held to remember Detective Familia.

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