NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, February 25, 2015, 12:11 AM
GoFundMe A memorial page set up by Harrison EMS has collected over $50,000 for the surviving family of Alissa Hochman, 17, and her sister, Deanna, 13. An online fund-raising campaign to help support the family of two Westchester teens killed by their ex-cop father has raised nearly $55,000 as of Tuesday night.
The Gofundme.com page for the family of Alissa, 17, and Deanna Hochman, 13, was set up by the Harrison EMS Monday. The pair were killed by retired cop Glen Hochman, 52, while they slept before he turned the gun on himself last Saturday, police said.
Purple and black bunting was draped across the Harrison EMS Headquarters on Pleasant Ridge Road Tuesday. Alissa had served as a junior explorer at the station for two year.
"The bunting is for when a member of service passes away," Chief Joseph Bilotto, 45, said. "It's in their honor (and) to show that we're a family in mourning."
The girls' father, a 22-year veteran of the White Plains Police Department, was a founding member of the EMS crew.
The tight Westchester community was still struggling to understand why Glen Hochman killed the two teens and the family's pets.
Seth Wenig/AP Alissa and Deanna Hochman were killed by their retired cop father Glen Hochman in their Westchester home on Saturday. "It's affected everybody," Bilotto said of the tragedy. "It's a very small community. I grew up here, I went to school here, I run the organization here, and it just goes to show from the GoFund that everybody in the community comes together."
The girl's mother, Anamarie Hochman, 50, and their sister Samantha, 22, spent Tuesday at a relative's house where neighbors and friends dropped off food and coffee throughout the day.
Bilotto said Alissa boyfriend, who found Glen Hochman's body in the garage at the family's Harrison home, was "doing well."
A wake for the sisters will be held Thursday from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Coxe & Graziano Funeral Home in Mamaroneck
A joint funeral is planned for 10 a.m. Friday at St. Gregory the Great Roman Catholic Church in Harrison.
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