NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- The NYPD officer who died after a drunk hit-and-run driver struck him in Queens last week was remembered as a "true hero" at his funeral on Tuesday.
Anastasios Tsakos, 43, died after a 32-year-old Long Island woman with a suspended license hit him as he was directing traffic at the scene of an accident on the Long Island Expressway near Fresh Meadows on April 27.
Tsakos, who had a wife, a 6-year-old daughter and a 3-year-old son, was a "man who did everything right," Mayor Bill de Blasio said at his funeral service Tuesday morning.
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The service was held at St. Paraskevi Greek Orthodox Shrine Church in Greenlawn.
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"We're all mourning right now, we're all in pain right now," de Blasio said. "It does not make sense that such a good man, in every way, could possibly be gone."
"Every story I've heard is of a man who went the extra mile for someone else no matter what. A neighbor who needed help during COVID, a fellow officer, or a stranger he met in crisis," he added. "Whoever it was, he was there for them. Because that was his heart. To serve others."
