A Gravesend school is honoring one of New York’s finest with its first 4K run.

Dozens came out Sunday to participate in the first annual Magen David Yeshivah Police Officer Jeff Herman Memorial 4K Family Fun Run/Walk.

The school recently noticed that the park across the street, where hundreds of its students play every day, was named after Officer Jeff Herman, who died on the job 25 years ago while responding to a domestic violence call. When school officials made the realization, they decided to honor Herman’s efforts.

Herman’s wife, mother and son, who was only a couple months old when his father died, were all present at the race.

Herman’s softball team also hosts an annual game in his honor in the same park.

On May 30, 1989, shortly after midnight, Police Officers Jeff Herman and William Lynch, working Anti-Crime Patrol in the 71st Precinct responded to an assignment ?Dispute With A Gun? at 250 Hawthorne Street.

As the officers started to interview a female caller at the entrance of her apartment, her boyfriend appeared from the rear of the apartment, and fired seven shots from a .380 automatic. Although seriously wounded by the initial shots, Officer Herman managed to return fire. As he was attempting to aid both his gravely wounded partner and the wounded female complainant, Officer Lynch fired twice at the gunman. Three days later Officer Herman died of his injuries.

The gunman was later identified as Albert Smith, 32 and located. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound moments before he would have been arrested.

(Source: News12)