NYPD charity and NY Assembly speaker pick up funeral tab for mom, disabled son found in squalid NYC apartment: ‘They are a godsend’

Fonte: New York Post

The mom found dead in a squalid Bronx apartment next to the body of her disabled 8-year-old son was remembered at a moving memorial service Sunday — with an NYPD charity and State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie picking up the tab. “NYPD With Arms Wide Open,” a nonprofit co-founded by veteran cop Merrit Riley to help special needs families, footed the food bill, and Heastie paid for the funeral service for Lisa Cotton and her young son, Nazir Milien, who were both found dead in their Wakefield apartment on April 18. 10 Lisa Cotton, 38, and her son, Nazir Mellien, were remembered at a funeral service Sunday.