The daughter of a slain NYPD police officer was given a $20,000 check Thursday by a group that supports cops — a gesture that left her “floored.”
“Oh, my God!” Genesis Villella, 21, gushed. “The check I got today it blew me away. It was really unexpected.”
Blue Lives Matter NYC raised the money selling T-shirts with a fallen angel draped over a thin blue line on the front, and her mother’s name with the Wonder Woman symbol on the back.
“It was the last movie we saw together,” Villella said. Her mom, Miosotis Familia, was assassinated in July by a parolee as she sat in a police car in Fordham Heights, Bronx. Cop-hater Alexander Bonds was then shot dead by two police officers nearby.
Commissioner James O’Neill called the heartless slaying “absolutely an unprovoked attack.”
Villella now has sole custody of her 12-year-old twin siblings, Peter and Delilah. She said she was grateful to the organization and its founder Joseph Imperatrice, an NYPD sergeant.
“It’s just great to know that there are people out there across the world who just want to support me and my siblings in something that was so traumatic for us,” Villella said. “I just think it’s going to be really helpful moving ahead.”
She’s considering using some of the money to take the kids away for a break. Since her mother was killed, she’s also been given a free house and a car.