Charges against the two men were pending Tuesday.

Rivera has been arrested by the NYPD 21 times, including for nine felonies, police sources said.

He was released from prison in 2021 after serving nearly five years for drug dealing, according to Department of Correction records. He was also locked up for assault in 2011 and released in 2014.

Jones, who was unarmed, has an ongoing gun case in Queens, records show. Jones, 41, was hit with weapon charges in April 2023. He was out on $75,000 bail and due back in court on Monday in that case.

“April 2023 — less than a year, gun charge, he’s back on the street,” Adams said. “This is what you call not a crime problem but a recidivist problem. The same bad people doing bad things to good people. Less than a year, he’s back on the streets.”

Jones served more than nine years in prison on attempted-murder and robbery charges, records show. He was released in 2012.

As Diller’s family tries to figure out how to go on without the young cop, the New York Police and Fire Widows’ and Children’s Benefit Fund, also known as Answer the Call, will be providing the family with $50,000 to offset any immediate financial concerns. The fund will also provide the family with a $10,000 yearly stipend.

“We believe the best way to honor our fallen heroes is to help the families they have left behind,” Lauren Profeta, Executive Director of Answer the Call, said Tuesday.

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