A public school in Brooklyn was renamed in honor of a slain NYPD detective Thursday, a decade after he was shot and killed in the line of duty by a cop-hating maniac.
Dozens of grieving family members and NYPD officers celebrated as PS 331 in Dyker Heights was officially named the Detective Wenjian Liu School of Civics and Entrepreneurship.
“The students in this beautiful school will learn the story of my husband,” Liu’s widow, Sanny Liu, told The Post ahead of the unveiling ceremony.
“And my daughter, she will always know that her father was a police officer. And they will have a greater respect for the community.”
Liu and his partner Rafael Ramos were killed in a brazen street execution Dec. 20, 2014 — shot point-blank in the head by an “emotionally troubled” cop-hating lone gunman as the pair sat in their squad car in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Sanny and Wenjian Liu had only been married three months when he was killed, but she was able to give birth to their daughter Angelina thanks to artificial insemination two and half years after his senseless murder.
The girl, now 6, attends another school in the Dyker Heights neighborhood but will attend the elementary school named after her heroic father next year.
“There’s nothing better than that!” Sanny Liu said.
The school renaming also marked another milestone by becoming the first Big Apple public school to be named after an Asian American.
The dedication is fitting for the Dyker Heights community, which officials noted is nearly 60% Asian American. The school’s principal, who is of Tawainese descent, speaks both Mandarin and Cantonese.
“Not only for my daughter, but it’s meant so much for the Chinese, Asian community,” Sanny Liu noted.
The ceremony was joyous despite the circumstances, with both Liu and Ramos’ widow emphasizing that the wounds are still fresh.
Both have seen their families grow since the vicious slayings.
Little Angelina — who Ramos’ widow Maritza said looks “just like her father” — has grown up learning about her father’s bravery despite never meeting him.
“It doesn’t feel like 10 years. It was like yesterday, time continues on and obviously, it has been 10 years, but to me, it still feels like yesterday,” Maritza Ramos told The Post.
