The off-duty officer was killed last week in his father's Bronx apartment in an apparent murder-suicide.
Family members sobbed outside of St. Elizabeth's Church in Inwood Friday morning as the hearse, led by a police motorcade, arrived.Loved ones wore white t-shirts emblazoned with a silhouette of the officer, complete with angel wings and a bat in his hand to acknowledge the sport he played and loved the most.NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban and Mayor Eric Adams were both on hand to pay their respects.
At only 26, friends say Officer Martinez was a rising star in the NYPD. After just five years, he'd already passed the sergeant's test, and was working towards a detective shield in Bronx narcotics, where he and Sgt. Lissette Henriquez became fast friends. Martinez was well known among Hispanic fraternal organizations in the NYPD, and the department's baseball league.
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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