Last week, eight cameras were installed around the park. Vetrano, who went for a run from her 84th Street home toward the park on the afternoon of August 2 and never returned, was found raped and fatally strangled hours later among the park’s tall weeds in the vicinity of 161st Avenue and 78th Street.
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Vetrano was strangled to death on August 2 after she went for a jog near her home in Howard Beach.
Karina Vetrano’s body was found brutally murdered and sexually assaulted in Spring Creek Park in Howard Beach, Queens, on August 2.
Katz’s office funded the cameras as part of a larger $1.2-million plan to place 34 of the devices around the borough. The medical examiner said she was strangled and sexually assaulted.
Several hours later, her body was found in the thick brush of the park, which sits on the Brooklyn-Queens border along Jamaica Bay.
News of the camera installation heartened Vetrano’s family, which, through a GoFundMe campaign, is offering a $200,000 reward [the city is offering a separate $35,000] for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer. But Police Commissioner Bill Bratton insisted there were no suspects.
Despite Phil and Cathy Vetrano’s hope for the police to bring their daughter’s assailant to justice quickly, authorities have admitted that they are not close to finding a suspect.
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Anyone with information regarding the Vetrano homicide that can prove helpful is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS, visit their website or send a text message to 274637 (CRIMES), then enter TIP577.
