NYPD degrees bears the legacy of father and cousin who were killed in service

By Sheetal Banchariya and Leonard Greene
New York Daily News

New York – law enforcement authorities are not just a task for NYPD recruit Robert Corrtioni. It is the family business.

“I have my cousin Kevin Gillespie. I have my father. I have an uncle, two uncle, one in Nassau [County]One was in NYPD, ”said Corrii, 28,“ I also have several cousins. Apart from Kevin, it is together with nine family members who were in law enforcement authorities. The most [are] Now retired. Only two are still active. My mother was not happy that I was a policeman initially, but then she came by. “

Corni is one of 612 recruits that complete the police academy on Thursday. His cousin Gillespie was shot in the Bronx in 1996, and his father. Robert Cassioni, a Homeland Security Officer, died recently A 9/11 cancer.

In other words, it is in his blood.

“From the time of my birth, it was always something that had always grew up in family celebrations,” said Corrii. “And my family is very close. Many of my cousins, I think, brother, my brother [and] Sisters and many of them told stories and just spoke to them during the holidays. It is always the topic of conversation about how the job was and it always fascinated me. “

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A name that often appeared Kevin Gillespie, who was born before Hassoti. The 33 -year -old Gillespie and his partner had stopped a stolen car in the Bronx when the men opened the fire inside when they approached the vehicle.

A shot hit Gillespie in the shoulder, over his vest. The ball went directly over his upper body and hit several organs. He died an hour later in a local hospital.

Gillespie has been in use for four years.

“I never had the privilege to meet him,” said Corri. “I was born in 1997; it was killed in March '96. However, the effects of the action are something that I knew at a very young age. My father would always tell me stories about it when he saw Kevin – how happy he was to finally get the job and how he was so happy to be a policeman. He worked hard and what happened.”

This sense of purpose was reinforced when Corri was only one child during the attacks on September 11th.

“As a 3-year-old, I have lively memories of seeing it on TV because I knew my father was there,” he recalled. “I was lucky that my father came home that day. Years later we have to do with the effects. Unfortunately, he died from his efforts.

“When he died, the support we received from everyone was incredible,” continued Corri. “And last year we were lucky enough to go to Washington National police monument And put his name on the wall. And just see that and the names ring and see [officers’] Children younger than me, that really touched me. And then it was always in mind to become a police officer, but then it really was, I want to do that. “

While Corni patiently waited for his chance to do “this”, he worked more than a decade as a bartender in Long Island and Queens.

“I met a lot of people, including police officers,” he said. “Even as a bartender, they act as support for certain people. They need someone with whom they can speak and they help them.”

Now that he is preparing to take to the streets, Hissi says that he feels his father and cousin with him.

“It means that the world continues its legacy,” he said. “I know that you are behind me wherever I go.”

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