NYPD honors ‘Junior’ with Explorers graduate scholarships

This year's NYPD Explorers class received their graduating certificates Wednesday.
It's the same program Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz was a part of in his pursuit to become a NYPD detective.
Several college scholarships were handed out in memory of the Bronx teenager who was fatally stabbed in June outside a Belmont bodega.
Junior's mom believes her son is smiling down on the graduating class.
Two Explorers were awarded $5,000 from the New York City Police Foundation, a nonprofit organization that raises money for neighborhood policing initiatives.
Both scholarship recipients who will be attending college this fall say they want to pursue a career in law enforcement to improve safety in their community.
In addition to the two scholarship winners, four members of the NYPD Explorers program were given $1,000 each in scholarship money.