A school in Brooklyn is being renamed after a New York Police Department detective who was shot and killed.
According to CBS News, P.S. 331 in Dyker Heights will now be called the Detective Wenjian Liu School of Civics and Entrepreneurship. Detective Liu was killed nearly ten years ago in 2014.
“No words can express how I’m feeling right now”, his widow, Sanny Liu, said in an interview with News12 Brooklyn about the renaming.
Sanny gave birth to the couple’s daughter, Angelina, two years after Liu was killed.
“I would tell her, her father was a real American hero, he sacrificed his life for protecting his community,” Sanny told ABC 7 New York.
The school held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday to unveil a sign with the new name.
“Children will walk by this school and see the name of an Asian Amercian hero that established a cultural connection that validates their experiences and a place in our society,” Councilwoman Susan Zhuang told News12 Brooklyn.
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