Cop killer Ronell Wilson turned Father’s Day into a day of tragic remembrance, the sobbing widow of one of his victims told jurors today.
Rose Nemorin, 41, said that her three distraught children huddle around her slain husband, James Nemorin’s, tombstone and sadly relay the latest events in their young lives.
“My babies were hoping that their daddy would answer back,” she said of their frequent visits to the fallen detective’s grave. “But of course, he did not.”
Wilson was convicted in 2006 of the execution-style shooting of undercover detectives Nemorin and Rodney Andrews during a gun buy-and-bust sting gone wrong on Staten Island.
The Bloods gang banger was later sentenced to death but eluded lethal injection after an appeals court tossed the sentence on a technicality.
Prosecutors in his ongoing sentencing retrial rested their case yesterday with Nemorin’s emotional testimony.
“I ask God every day, why, why such a great gift, a great human being was taken away,” she said as rapt jurors looked on.
Wilson sat stoically as the shattered widow described the void her husband’s passing left in her once happy household.
“It’s unfair that that this loving man was taken away from us,” she sobbed. “He was just trying to make this world a better place for your family, for his family, for everyone.”
Instead of hugging their father, Nemorin told jurors, her children are now forced to trek to the cemetery.
“We go tot he cemetery and hug that cold piece of wall,” she said.