Late-Night Service Honors NYPD Det. Miosotis Familia

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - The New York Police Department will hold a late-night candlelight vigil Wednesday to honor Detective Miosotis Familia, the NYPD officer killed after being ambushed in a mobile command unit in the Bronx.

Familia, a mother of three, was assassinated on July 5, 2017, by a gunman who was later killed by police. She was sitting in an NYPD Truck when it happened.

Police say she was killed for her uniform. She had served for 12 years in the 46th Precinct.

The vigil beings at 11:30 p.m. at the corner of Ryer Avenue and E. 181st Street in the Bronx.

At the time of the shooting, NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill called Familia's slaying "a direct attack on police officers assigned to safeguard the people of New York City.

"Make no mistake: Officer Familia was murdered for her uniform and for the responsibility she embraced," O'Neill said in a statement. "And for the NYPD, regularly achieving lower crime figures means absolutely nothing when one of our own is brutally shot and killed."

Her daughter, 20-year-old Genesis Villella, put her college education on hold to fill her mother's shoes, raising her 12-year-old twin siblings, Delilah and Peter.

Thanks to donations last year, Familia's family was given a mortgage-free three-bedroom apartment in the Skyview Towers overlooking the Hudson River in Riverdale.

During a National Peace Officers' Memorial Service in Washington DC last May, President Donald Trump recognized Familia's family in attendance.

"I just want to say that, to your entire family, it's such an honor to have you up here," said Trump. "She loved the department. She loved being a police officer. She loved her job. She was respected by everybody."