The ashes of former NYPD officer David Hofer, a graduate of NYU who served in Manhattanu2019s Ninth Precinct for five years, are carried into Saint Patricku2019s Cathedral by officers of the Euless, Texas police department in New York. Hofer,who became a police officer in Texas, to escape the streets in New York, was killed in a shootout last week in Euless. Behind them is his fiance Marta Danylyk.