A beloved Italian churchgoer who was ruthlessly beaten to death outside a Brooklyn subway station was remembered for his kindness, cheerful laugh and unwavering faith, as more than 100 family members and friends gathered Friday night to honor his life.
Nicola Tanzi, 64, was killed on Oct. 7 when a recidivist psycho savagely attacked him for no reason as the devout Catholic held a door open at the Jay Street-MetroTech Station – near where he had worked as a security guard for 15 years.
“Just a wonderful, caring, human being,” David Tanzi said of his uncle during a somber wake held at Andrew Torregrossa & Sons Funeral Home in Brooklyn.
“[He] would do anything for anybody and his faith. He had an infectious laugh. I think if you asked anybody that had met him, that would remind anybody of him now.
”The Italian-born victim moved to New York City decades ago, living a quiet and simple life in Bensonhurst — without a cell phone or email — working as a MetroTech public safety officer and volunteering at his local churches.
A devoted parishioner at St. Dominic’s Church who was also active at Sacred Hearts of Mary and Jesus & St. Stephen Roman Catholic Church in Carroll Gardens, Tanzi is survived by his five brothers.
“He was a simple guy,” Tanzi’s devastated younger brother Anthony told The Post, noting that his slain sibling had planned to retire in June and relocate to Long Island. --->READ MORE HERE
The man accused of kicking a 64-year-old to death outside a Brooklyn subway station for no reason last week was participating in a taxpayer-funded art “diversion” program — and painted pictures of cops being murdered, The Post can reveal.
Deranged David Mazariegos — arrested less than 24 hours after Nicola Tanzi was attacked and died of his injuries on Oct. 8th by Jay St-Metrotech station — posted a series of artworks online depicting himself beheading America’s Founding Fathers and NYPD officers as pigs.
Other posts include the American flag burning as a black man stood triumphantly over a beheaded white man and the Burger King logo, with the text changed to “Murder King, you’ll get it our way.”
He also made videos of himself brandishing nunchucks on a subway platform.
Many of the gruesome pictures were posted while Mazariegos, 25, was attending two taxpayer-funded rehabilitation art therapy programs on a daily basis.
Mazariegos was an intern to art director Anthony DeJesus at the Harlem-based Youth Justice Network, where he was commissioned to paint murals. He was also a member of The Animation Project where he became a certified mentor to coach high school students in May.
When Mazariegos was hauled into the dock on July 8 over a separate charge of attacking a man over the age of 60, his lawyer used his association with the art programs in her argument for him to get bail.
Manhattan Judge Robert Rosenthal worried aloud about freeing Mazariegos during that case, saying “the severity of [his crimes] is increasing over time.”
But lawyer Gretchen Reeser of Legal Aid Society said Mazariegos is in a “program full time with Youth Justice Network,” as an intern.
“He goes there Monday through Thursday, each day of the week, and he participates in groups and art classes and things like that,” she said in a court transcript obtained by The Post.
She failed to mention that much of his art was of violent fantasies and killing police officers.
Mazariegos posted $1,000 bond and was released a few days later.
The taxpayer-funded Youth Justice Network is a voluntary program which aims to “break cycles of incarceration,” according to its website.
Its mission statement claims: “We commit to the day that not a single young person will spend another night in jail.”
Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a proponent of using such programs for criminals as an alternative to jail. --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a relevant story:
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