The parents of murdered Paramedic Alison Russo-Elling pleaded with New York Mayor Eric Adams to use his experience as a police officer to stop the city’s spiraling crime rate.
Russo-Elling, 61, a 25-year FDNY veteran, died last week when she was stabbed in a random attack on the street. Her wake on Monday drew out hundreds of firefighters and community members to mourn her death.
“We are so sad at the way she died and also just to lose her,” said FDNY Chief of Department John Hodgens. “The members of her station looked up to her. She kept them in line. She was known affectionately as the ‘mother hen’ of her station.”
Russo-Elling’s parents took the opportunity of the wake to plead with Mayor Eric Adams to do stop escalating crime in the city.
The New York Post reports Catherine Fuocco, Russo-Elling’s mother, said to Adams, “Weren’t you a police officer for 30 years . . . You know what to do. Please, give me back my city.”
A 34-year-old New Yorker with a history of mental illness has been arrested and charged in her death.
