A gunman with a rifle killed Islam and three other people before killing himself, in what Mamdani called the worst mass shooting the city had seen in 25 years. But Islam's family embraced Mamdani, and invited the then-candidate, also a South Asian Muslim, to sit beside them at the funeral. "For his family and for the officers who knew him here at the 47, the weight of his absence has endured," Tisch said. Islam's brother-in-law, Officer Kamrul Hasan, said every family gathering since has felt incomplete. "His answer is always, 'Yes, I miss my father so much,'" Hasan said.