Hundreds of people showed up in Staten Island on Thursday to remember a former Atlanta Braves pitcher and police officer.
Varvaro, 37, retired from the MLB in 2016 to become a police officer at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He died Sunday on his way to the 9/11 memorial event.
“You can’t write this story,” Port Authority Police Superintendent Edward Cetnar said. “He volunteered that day to come in to serve because he loved the command of the World Trade Center where he worked.”
The crash happened early Sunday morning on the New Jersey Turnpike Hudson Bay Extension East.