..."They're strong girls, just like their mother"...
COP-KILL CLUE: SLAY WEAPON BELONGS TO NYPD FIANCE
New York Post
By LARRY CELONA
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October 4, 2007
Ballistics tests show the gun that killed a Brooklyn cop in her Long Island home belongs to her NYPD fianc�... Chaparro's gun, which had been recently fired, was recovered at the house, the source said. Ballistics tests showed it was the murder weapon... Meanwhile, Garcia's grieving family was so angry at Chaparro that he was barred from attending her wake and funeral, another source said...
FUNERAL FOR NYPD OFFICER FOUND SLAIN IN BAY SHORE HOME
New York Daily News
TAMER EL-GHOBASHY
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Friday, October 5th 2007
...Garcia's eldest daughter, Ashley, 11, hugged her weeping baby sister, Joslin, 7, as they were surrounded by hundreds of cops in dress blues who came to pay a final tribute to the woman known as the "Precinct Princess"...
"Sonia was my CMO - my chief morale officer,"
Inspector James O'Connel, Garcia's former commanding officer at the 77th Precinct, told the mourners who filled the pews of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in New Lots, Brooklyn.
"She started her day kissing every member and saying, 'Good morning, I love you,'" he said as some in the church laughed through their tears. "She was the Precinct Princess"...
TEARS FOR A BRAVE 'COP'S COP'
New York Post
By Matt Nestel and
Andy Geller
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October 5, 2007
..."All we can say is we want justice for Sonia," said Debra Salcedo, 33, a childhood friend. "I want her to die an honorable death. We don't want her death swept under the rug"...
NYPD OFFICER LAID TO REST IN CYPRESS HILLS
Newsday, NY
Laura Rivera
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October 5, 2007
Among so many mourners who wept openly for police officer Sonia Garcia at her burial in Cypress Hills Thursday, her two daughters, their eyes dry, drew close at their mother's coffin. Ashley, 11, who was wearing her mother's police hat, turned to her sister Joselin, hugged her, and placed the hat on her head... a four-deep line of police officers stood at attention Thursday morning as the hearse carrying Garcia's coffin approached the church.... two city police helicopters whirred overhead... Garcia's mother said through tears: "She was a good mother, daughter and partner who never did wrong to anybody. "She was my friend, my sister, my life, my everything. How will I live without her?"...
FIANCE 'KILLED OUR GIRL'
By DOUGLAS MONTERO
NEW YORK POST
October 11, 2007
The parents of slain police officer Sonia Garcia are in agony: The man they believe killed their daughter still walks the streets.
"Everyone knows who the killer is, and I don't understand why the killer is not in jail," her father, Luis Hernandez, said yesterday, speaking out for the first time since his daughter was killed on Sept. 29...
...Speaking at home in Brooklyn's Boerum Hill, the victim's mother, Lucia Hernandez, said: "They've got to do whatever they've got to do to give us justice. "
Garcia's father trembled with rage... Garcia's sister, Evelin Hernandez, said the girls just started school again yesterday, but it is still a struggle for all of them... "They're strong girls, just like their mother," she said.
"We wake up every morning and we hope that it's a dream . Then we realize that it's for real"...
