Karina Vetrano’s mother told reporters on Sunday that her daughter’s killer must know the world is seeking justice.
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The funds were raised through a GoFundMe page set up by her family and five “members of the Howard Beach community” where Vetrano lived. She jogged with her father, also a Howard Beach resident, almost every day until a recent back injury prevented him from accompanying her. We hope and pray that you will read this and recognize that an event like this is universal.
A corrected version of the story is below: NYC runner is found strangled, possibly sexually assaulted Police suspect a 30-year-old woman whose body was found in a New York City marsh was strangled and possibly sexually assaulted By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) – A woman was killed on an early evening run in a.
Officials told WPIX that they were able to ping her phone about four hours later, and a search party led by her father found Vetrano’s body.
Vetrano’s body was found facedown in a marshy area of Howard Beach hours after she went for a run near her family home August 2. Her burned and naked body was found in the woods about a half-mile from the home and she appeared to be the victim of a homicide.
Vetrano’s father usually goes jogging with her but did not do so that time because of back pains. “It’s scary out there lately”, she said.
“Somebody knows something. Somebody has to say something, and with this amount of money maybe they will”, Vetrano said Wednesday. The community has pitched in and helped wherever possible, like providing their homes’ security camera footage to try and identify people entering of exiting the park.
Though the exterior of the park is city property, the interior of Spring Creek Park, along with the entirety of the Gateway National Recreation Area, is owned by the federal government and managed by the National Park Service.
“A lot of work remains to be done”, NYPD Chief of Patrol Carlos Gomez, who is also a former commanding officer of the 106th Precinct. “The petition we need to be signing as a neighborhood is to close that park, lock it up and don’t let anybody in there whatsoever”. “Anything, anything, no matter how small you think it was”, said Vetrano, a retired firefighter. It was a park that Karina loved.
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‘She was talking to me then. “We need to make it safe”.
