The off-duty officer was killed last week in his father's Bronx apartment in an apparent murder-suicide.
Scores of city police officers, who spend entire careers dealing with other people's misfortune, supported one another Thursday night through a searing loss of their own.
"He wanted to give back to his community and was all about the youth," Henriquez said. "We went through COVID, and riots, and he was still in it. He was all about his community. He had great mentors and that's what he wanted to give back." Family friend Jose De La Cruz watched Martinez grow up not far from here, and said he saw it as his duty to give back to the community.
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