A vigil was held in the Bronx on Thursday night to honor two recent victims of gun violence.
"Two women cut short in the prime of their life; it's really sad," one mourner said.
Mourners gathered near Bronx-Lebanon Hospital to pay their respects to 32-year-old Dr. Tracy Tam. A disgruntled former employee of the hospital fatally shot her during a shooting rampage Friday.
Mourners also paid tribute to Miosotis Familia, 48, a Bronx city police officer who a man allegedly assassinated in the borough early Wednesday morning.
Those NY1 spoke with said it is important to stand with two women who dedicated their lives to helping others.
"I'm here to support the doctor that died, and this morning when I woke up I heard an officer got shot," one mourner said. "There's a lot of wicked things happening. We have to take care of each other."
"You can't live without the police. Then when you call the police, police feel unsafe," one woman said.
Officials said Tam was covering a colleague's shift when she was killed.
Officer Familia was a 12-year NYPD veteran and a mother of three.