There's been an enormous response to a Queens man who's raising reward money to find the person who killed his daughter in a Howard Beach park. After reaching his initial goal of $100,000 in less than a day — he is now trying to raise a total of $200,000. Our Michael Herzenberg has the story.

"I'm pleading with the public with the country, five dollars, ten dollars, whatever," said Phil Vetrano, who found his daughter's lifeless body, strangled in a park near his home. "We need to raise a lot of money quickly."

A determined Vetrano appealed for donations Wednesday, announcing a page on the website Go Fund Me, to raise reward money for information leading to his daughter's killer.

"There was a predator, a vicious killer that came here and took a life of a brilliant, bright, beautiful young girl while she was just out there enjoying herself in what she called her happy place," Vetrano said.

Karina Vetrano went out for a run last week in Spring Creek Park near her Howard Beach home. Two hours later, her father became worried and called a friend in the NYPD. Cops and her father found her off the running path in the park. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled.

Phil Vetrano says that every day since then, he's walked to the location where his daughter died.

"I need to stay involved I'm involved then I feel I'm accomplishing something if I wake up and there's nothing for me to do then the bottoms gonna drop out," he said.

Phil Vetrano says police have been tirelessly following leads, but need someone to step up with a tip to help catch his daughter's killer.

He has a message for the person responsible.

"I'm sorry for you because you will pay," the grieving father said. "You will pay here and you will pay now and you will pay in eternity. There's nowhere to hide we will find you."

The NYPD has separately offered up $20,000 in reward money for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible.

Anyone with information on the case should contact the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS, or text CRIMES and then enter TIP577, or visit www.nypdcrimestoppers.com