It took less than a day for the parents of slain jogger Karina Vetrano to raise nearly $200,000 for a fund they hope will help bring their daughter’s killer to justice.
Grieving father Philip Vetrano started a GoFundMe page Wednesday asking for the public’s help in raising a $100,000 reward for anyone with information about his 30-year-old daughter’s rape-murder last week.
“We need your help in bringing this vicious animal to face the most sever[e] punishment allowable by law,” he wrote.
By Wednesday afternoon, the family had already surpassed their goal and bumped it up to $200,000.
The fundraiser was just $8,000 shy of its new target thanks to more than 2,800 people who have donated.
“With the bottom of my heart I give thanks to all of you that have donated,” Philip wrote.
He created reward fliers with a photo of his daughter, who he found lifeless just off the running path near their Howard Beach home last Tuesday, that he was distributing throughout the neighborhood.
“The 106th Detective Squad is looking for any information in regards to the above pictured female. On August 2nd 2016 the female was jogging in the area of Spring Creek Park in the confines of the 106th Precinct and later found DOA in a wooded area of the park,” the sign says, along with a number for the tips hotline.
This reward fund is in addition to the $20,000 the NYPD is offering for any substantial leads on the unsolved murder.