The heartbroken family of a murdered Hollywood Police officer gave emotional statements Thursday at the death penalty trial of the man who pleaded guilty to the killing.

Jason Banegas, 22, pleaded guilty in October to 10 different charges including first-degree murder in the October 2021 killing of Officer Yandy Chirino.

Jurors are trying to decide whether Banegas should be sentenced to death in the killing and on Thursday heard from Chirino's grief-stricken family. Hollywood Police Department

His sister, Yaily Chirino, could only introduce herself before she broke down into tears, and a family advocate had to share her statement about her brother.

"Not a day passes without weight of his memory. We wake up with grief, go through our days with disbelief and fall asleep with a pain th

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