The widow of the NYPD cop killed in the Park Avenue mass shooting has given birth to the couple’s third son — naming him “Most Merciful’’ in Arabic, officials and sources said.
Slain NYPD Officer Didarul Islam’s wife, Jamila Akhter, went into labor Sunday night and welcomed their “beautiful baby boy” at Mount Sinai Hospital, Mayor Eric Adams said at an unrelated press conference Monday.
The newborn’s name is Arham.
“Out of tragedy, a new life has entered this world,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch wrote in an emotional post on X above two photos — one of baby Arham and the other of his brothers, ages 5 and 7, beaming while holding him.
“Together, they will carry forward their father’s legacy of service and courage — a legacy the NYPD will guard and uphold with the same devotion Didar gave to this city,” the top cop said. “Jamila, Ahyan, Azhaan, and now, Arham will forever be part of the NYPD family.”
Adams had announced Arham’s birth earlier in the day during a briefing on another mass shooting in the city, this time in Brooklyn on Sunday.
“I stopped by the hospital in the lobby yesterday to talk with family members, mother was in labor, and we’re really excited that she gave birth to a beautiful, young child,” he said.
The couple’s other boys, Ahyan, 7, and Azhaan, 5, idolized their dad.
“We want to continue to let them know God works in mysterious ways,” Adams said of Islam’s family. “And as mayor, I want to assure the detective and his family that we’re going to continue to be there for them.
“They are our family and the family of this great city, New York,” said Adams, a former NYPD captain.
Islam, 36, was working an approved off-duty security job the evening of July 28 when gunman Shane Tamura walked into the lobby of the skyscraper that houses the NFL headquarters at East 51 Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan and opened fire with an AR-15.
Tamura rattled off 47 rounds, killing Islam and three other people — building security guard Aland Etienne, Blackstone executive Wesley LePatner and Rudin Management worker Julia Hyman — and injuring one more before he fatally turned the gun on himself on the 33rd floor.
Tamura, 27, who worked at the Horseshoe hotel and casino in Las Vegas, had no affiliation with the NFL but played football in high school and blamed the league for covering up chronic traumatic encephalopathy, also known as CTE, a brain disease caused by repetitive head trauma from which he believed he suffered.
It’s not yet clear if Tamura had the disease.
Islam’s sons beamed with pride over their father’s NYPD employment, with little Ahyan wearing the police department’s blues while at his preschool in Bronxdale, said a teacher who taught both boys in the Bronx.
“He said, ‘I wear my police uniform just like my dad,’” teacher Tajwattie Singh had told The Post.
Islam was posthumously promoted to detective first grade and remembered by NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch for serving “with steadiness, with heart, with conviction” during his somber funeral.