GoFundMe page for slain Queens jogger Karina Vetrano raises money for reward

She took a trail that was nothing out of the normal in Spring Creek Park in the Howard Beach neighborhood.

She added that she could never forgive their child’s murderer.

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The news comes after a tumultuous week for the Vetrano family and the larger Howard Beach community, marked by Vetrano’s funeral Saturday at St. Helen’s Catholic Church at 157-10 83rd St. and a packed town hall meeting for anxious residents held at the same spot Monday evening.

Karina’s father, Philip Vetrano, discovered her body in a marshy area near a jogging path as he aided police in their search last Tuesday evening. Some in the area are even calling for the feds to “burn the weeds down”, but not Karina’s father.

According to the New York Daily News, Vetrano went jogging about 5 p.m. near her family home.

The NYPD believes the attack was a random one, and Boyce has said police believe there to be a “severe community threat”. Police said she was found hours later in the area and an autopsy showed that she died from strangulation.

Police believe she was strangled to death and sexually assaulted on August 2 no arrests have been made. Last year, Vetrano earned a graduate degree in speech pathology at St. John’s University. Vetrano graduated from there in 2004 and her father 30 years before that.

At least a dozen sex offenders in Queens have been interviewed in the case, police said. Incoming Chief of Department Carlos Gomez and Deputy Inspector Michael Kemper were on hand and praised the community for its cooperation.

“I’m sorry for you, because you will pay”, Phil Vetrano said at a news conference Wednesday. No suspect or person of interest has been named in the case yet. He also said there was no reason to believe there was a connection with the Sunday murder of a NY jogger in MA, although he said the two police departments were “comparing notes”.

The family raised the funds via the popular page GoFundMe, and was set up by five individuals of the Howard Beach community where Vetrano lived. “Today it’s this, this is keeping me alive today”, he wrote.

She explained: ‘If you enter the park, if you leave the park you will be photographed’.

Last week, police say Vetrano chose to run by herself after her father suffered an injury. We hope and pray that you will read this and recognize that an event like this is universal.

A jogger who was murdered and sexually assaulted told her heartbroken father “it’s okay daddy, I’ll be alright”, before setting off on her final run.