His faith was true blue. <\/p>\n
Police officer Rafael Ramos was remembered today as a devoted father, husband, and dedicated cop whose indomitable spirituality touched everyone around him. <\/p>\n
Ramos, 40, was ambushed and executed in his patrol car along with fellow officer Wengjian Liu, 32, gunned down by cop-hating madman Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, in a random attack in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn last Saturday. <\/p>\n
It was a brutal end for a gentle soul such as Ramos, who saw working for the NYPD as his chance to do Gods work. <\/p>\n
He felt that he was protecting and serving his community and that was a sort of a ministry for him, Rev. Marcos Miranda, president of the interfaith New York State Chaplain Task Force, told Arise America. <\/p>\n
Ramos, who studied at the Faith Evangelical College and Seminary in Washington State, spent 10 weeks training in the program and was just an hour away from graduating before he was murdered. <\/p>\n
He said this type of ministry, the chaplaincy, he could see himself doing this in the future as a full-time ministry after he retired from the NYPD, Miranda said. <\/p>\n
Rafael RamosPhoto: Getty Images <\/p>\n
Ramos, who friends called Ralph, leaves behind a wife, Maritza, his high school sweetheart who he married in 1993, and two sons, Jaden, 13, and Justin, a Bowdoin College sophomore. <\/p>\n
His funeral today is at Christ Tabernacle Church in Glendale, where Ramos was a 14-year member. <\/p>\n
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