Karina Anne Vetrano was born July 12 , 1986 , in New York to Phillip and Cathie Vetrano . She had two siblings ; a brother and a sister . Her father , a New York City Fire Department retiree , was one of the first responders at Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks . She attended Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens and graduated from St. John 's University with a master 's degree in speech pathology . An aspiring writer , she appeared in a 2013 short film inspired by her writings and directed by her screenwriter friend Petros Georgiadis . She lived in the same Queens neighborhood as her parents and worked with children with autism in Manhattan as a speech pathologist
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Murder of Karina Vetrano