Latest on NYPD funeral: Mourners pack Long Island church

A member of the police honor guard has his badge covered in mourning as he arrives for the funeral mass for New York City police officer Brian Moore, Friday, May 8, 2015, at the St. James Roman Catholic church in Seaford, N.Y. As many as 30,000 police officers from across the United States are expected to pay their respects at the Long Island funeral for the young police officer slain on patrol. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) A member of the police honor guard has his badge covered in mourning as he arrives for the funeral mass for New York City police officer Brian Moore, Friday, May 8, 2015, at the St. James Roman Catholic church in Seaford, N.Y. As many as 30,000 police officers from across the United States are expected to pay their respects at the Long Island funeral for the young police officer slain on patrol. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

By Associated Press May 8, 2015 2 min read

SEAFORD, N.Y. (AP) – 12:15 p.m.

A police chaplain says a young New York City police officer who was shot to death on patrol had a vocation to be a hero.

Monsignor Robert Romano says Officer Brian Moore always ran into the trouble, not away from it.

Romano is officiating at a funeral Mass for the 25-year-old officer at a Roman Catholic church on Long Island.

There funeral in Seaford, New York is taking place under heavy security. A sniper stood on top of a police van as a hearse carried his body from a funeral home, and snipers watched from the roof of a nearby elementary school.