The hole left in Dominique Luzuriaga Rivera’s heart left by her husband Police Officer Jason Rivera’s murder has been filled with their newborn son — a birth some 18 months after the young cop was gunned down in Harlem, the Daily News has learned.
Luzuriaga Rivera announced the birth of her and her fallen husband’s child on her Instagram account Wednesday.
“A baby fills a place in your heart you never knew was empty,” Luzuriagia Rivera said. “Meet my little prince Wesley.”
Luzuriagia Rivera didn’t say when Wesley was born but posted a picture of an infant’s hand with the date “6/12/23″ according to WPIX 11, which first reported the birth.
She revealed she was pregnant with the late rookie cop’s child in January during a St. Patrick’s Cathedral memorial service for Rivera and his partner Wilbert Mora, marking the one-year anniversary of their deaths.
“Through sorrow and pain can also be a great birth,” she said. “I am blessed to say that Jason and I will be expecting our miracle this spring.”
The audience inside the Midtown church rose to their feet in applause after she shared the revelation.
“Although Jason won’t be here in physical form to see and experience our miracle, I know he will always be here in spirit, waiting and protecting and loving us,” she said, wiping away tears.
Rivera, 22, and Mora, 27, were gunned down while answering a domestic violence call, with the pair ambushed by an ex-convict living with his mother inside a Harlem apartment.
The slain Mora gave the gift of life to five strangers with a donation of his heart and four other organs.
At her husband’s funeral mass last year, Luzuriaga Rivera called out Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg over what critics called his lax approach to prosecuting criminals.
“The system continues to fail us,” she said from the pulpit. “We are not safe anymore, not even the members of the service. I know you are tired of these laws, especially the ones from the new…
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