NYPD widow announces she’s pregnant with slain Officer Jason Rivera’s child at tearful one-year memorial service

Heartbreak gave way to shock and joy Saturday at a St. Patrick’s Cathedral memorial for two slain NYPD officers, with the teary widow of one cop announcing the couple’s surprise pregnancy to cheers.

“Through sorrow and pain can also be a great birth,” declared Dominque Luzuriaga, the last speaker at the crowded service honoring her husband Jason Rivera and his partner Wilbert Mora

“We are expecting our miracle this spring,” one year after their Jan. 21, 2022, line-of-duty deaths.

“I know he will always be here in spirit, protecting us,” the widow as she wiped away tears, and the audience inside the Midtown church rose to their feet in applause.

A high-ranking police source confirmed Dominique got pregnant using her late husband’s semen, which was collected after he died. The wife of Officer Wenjian Liu, killed on duty in December 2014, delivered a daughter after his death with sperm taken from her late husband.

The stunning announcement came after Luzuriaga, fighting back tears, detailed the dark difficult days after Rivera’s death.

“I lost my husband, my partner, my friend,” she said. “… There are still days I feel alone. I feel like I’m walking through a dark tunnel.”

Mora, 27, and his rookie partner Rivera, 22, were gunned down one year earlier while answering a domestic violence call, with the pair ambushed by an ex-convict living with his mother inside a Harlem apartment.

The slain Mora gave the gift of life to five strangers with a donation of his heart and four other organs.

Mayor Adams and NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell, who spoke at the funerals of both officers last year, returned to St. Patrick’s to remember the heroic cops where the wounds were still open 365 days later.

“A tremendous amount of sadness and grief remains, but our mission to build a safer city is never ending,” said Adams, a former city cop. “Let us live as detectives Rivera and Mora lived: with dedication to this city, to each other and to the noble pursuit of peace.”

Sewell, on the job only three weeks when the NYPD was hit with the double tragedy, said the department continued to honor the memories of the two slain officers.

“In this hallowed space, we honor and remember two vibrant souls … committed to this city,” she said. “Jason and Wilbert live on. We carry the batons … of the lives, the dreams and the legacies of these First Grade detectives.”