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PITTSBURGH (Newsradio 1020 KDKA) - Ten years ago on April 4, 2009 Sue Sciullo heard something that no parent should ever hear, she was going to have to bury her son.
Pittsburgh Police Officer Paul Sciullo was one of three officers who lost their life during a fatal ambush in Stanton Heights.
Sciullo along with Eric Kelly and Stephen Mayhle were fatally shot while responding to a domestic disturbance call.
Mrs. Sciullo will not let the pain of that day ruin her and her family and tells KDKA Radio’s Marty and Wendy the City of Pittsburgh and its people have been amazing to them.
“Out of this evil there has been so much good shown to us that nobody hears about, everybody’s wonderful.”
When Sciullo woke up Thursday morning she said the first thing she did was kiss his son’s picture and it is “very painful and very hard but you have to go on.”
Sciullo says she is able to go on thanks to her “wonderful” family and the spirit of Officer Sciullo.
“When it comes to our grandchildren and our children and our family they will never have a moment of unhappiness on any holiday, any birthdays because they did nothing to deserve unhappiness and this murderer will never will never take away more from us than he already has.”
Officer Sciullo’s presence continues to be felt by his family.
“He’s with us all the time,” said Sciullo. “When someone passes and you’re sitting quietly you’ll see like a shadow and when we see that we always say Paul, come and sit with us for a while and honestly it feels like he’s sitting down with us, we can actually feel him.”
Sciullo adds that you never move on from the loss but you learn to live another way.
“The hurt is with you 24 hours a day and even 10 years have passed and that hurt is the same as it was the first day it happened but you have to learn to live with it because really if you don’t, I think you dishonor the life that they lived.”
Sciullo tells Marty that while they have lost their son, they have gained a family in the police department.
“When the (Tree of Life) Synagogue shooting happened, after it was all over, so many (Pittsburgh Police Officers) called us to see if we were okay because they knew all the events that happened were similar to what happened when Paul, Eric and Stephen were killed,” said Mrs. Sciullo. “If we pick up the phone and call them, they’re here, they never forget any of us and they never forget any of us.”
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