Over the weekend, two NYPD officers who murdered by deranged gunman. Rafael Ramos, one of of the policemen gunned down, has two sons, a 13-year-old and a current college student.
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The New York Daily News reports that Steinbrenner’s foundation will provide the money needed to support the education of both of Ramos’ sons.
Ramos’ partner Wenjian Liu, who was also gunned down alongside Ramos, was recently married but had no children.
The foundation, now run by Fuchs’ daughter Casey, has paid for the educations of thousands of children of fallen NYPD, FDNY, state police and Port Authority workers in the tri-state area, as well as 700 children who lost a parent in the terrorists attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
The foundation was started in 1982 after Steinbrenner witnessed a news account of a mother and four children folding an American flag at the funeral of their father, a police officer who was gunned down on duty.
