NYPD officers carry the casket of NYPD Officer Didarul Islam in the Bronx on Thursday.
Photographer: Bing Guan/BloombergFrom Blackstone to the Bronx, Tears for Lives Lost in an Instant
Thousands gathered to mourn the NYPD’s Didarul Islam and Blackstone’s Wesley LePatner, who died in Monday’s mass shooting.
Officer Didarul Islam loved the New York Police Department and his hard-won life in America, so much that he donated thousands of dollars to open a mosque in his Bronx neighborhood, known as Little Bangladesh. He was pulling a special detail as a security guard Monday evening. His third child is due any day now.
Wesley LePatner adored her work as a senior executive at Blackstone Inc. and became a mentor to women there, all while devoting herself to her friends, family and two children. She was walking across the lobby that night. A Yale graduate, summa cum laude, she helped found a synagogue on the Upper East Side.