Raymond Facey. (
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Darrell Fuller is being transports from Jamaica hospital on Wednesday. (Riyad Hasan)
Fellow officer Joseph Lobello carries out Nassau County ESU officer Arthur Lopez’s uniform with his badge number displayed #2232 and it still has the black mourning band on it from the previous death of a Nassau Highway Patrol officer’s funeral last week. (VICTOR ALCORN)
The grief-stricken widow of a motorist gunned down on the Cross Island Parkway was furious yesterday that the alleged killer was even allowed on the streets given his criminal history.
“He didn’t deserve to die like this,” said June Facey, the widow of Raymond Facey. “He was a sweet, wonderful person. He’s the last good man that God had made and I got him. Why did they let this animal out to kill my husband, after he had already tried to kill someone?”
Raymond Facey was killed shortly after parolee Darrell Fuller allegedly gunned down Nassau police officer Arthur Lopez during a traffic stop yesterday morning.
According to court records, the 33-year-old Fuller previously served five years for attempted murder.
He was busted on Oct. 3, 2004, after pointing a handgun at the victim’s head, then firing three rounds, striking the victim in the back and buttocks. He got out in 2009 on a conditional release, but was then busted again, this time for possession and sale of drug.
“I loved my husband dearly,” June Facey said. “He was a special person; he was a family man, grandfather, father, husband, brother. With the smiles and the things he gave to me, I’ll survive because I have to keep him going. I have to keep his name. I have to keep him in my heart.”
Facey said she had not yet planned a funeral, but he may be buried in his native Jamaica.
“I’m not ready to put away my husband,” Facey said. “He loved his home.”
Fuller, who shot himself before being taken into custody on Tuesday night, was moved from being under “guarded condition” at Jamaica Hospital to Nassau County Police Headquarters this afternoon.
Meanwhile, Lopez’s heartbroken colleagues went to the slain cop’s home today to collect his formal attire, which still had a black band covering his badge number from the funeral for police officer Joseph Olivieri, who was killed last week in a collision with a drunk driver.
Lopez, 29, will be buried in his formal uniform. Services for the slain officer will be held this Saturday at St. Christopher’s Church in Baldwin.
Lopez and Facey were not the first two victims to experience the wrath of the psychotic Fuller.
David McDonald, the attempted murder victim from 2004, said he felt lucky to be alive after hearing that the man who shot him in Queens in 2004 was arrested for the vicious double murder.
“My blood ran cold when I heard,” McDonald said. “I told myself this guy could have killed me at any time since he got out of prison…I’m a lucky guy.”
McDonald was at a house party in Jamaica eight years ago when the DJ announced McDonald’ s car had to be moved.
McDonald moved the car, but Fuller wasn’t satisfied. McDonald refused to move the car again.
That’s when the thug went inside the house and came back out with a gun, approached McDonald from the side, and pointed the weapon at his head.
“He said, ‘move away from my gate before I shoot you.’ And I looked at the gun…and started to walk away,” McDonald said.
Fuller shot him in the hip, where the bullet still remains.
McDonald had no idea that the thug responsible for the shooting pain in his hip was on the loose.
“They didn’t notify me that this guy was getting out of prison. I didn’t know he was out,” he said. “You know how people are — when they go to prison and come out, they still hurt you.”
“I’m still nervous. I’m cold footed, knowing he did a horrible murder like that…even though they’ve got him in custody, I’m still nervous.”