New York Metropolis police have arrested and charged a suspect with homicide in connection to a vicious and lethal assault in a Downtown Brooklyn subway station.
Late Wednesday afternoon, authorities named the suspect as 25-year-old David Mazariegos. He has been charged with two counts of homicide, theft and grand larceny.
Police say he punched, kicked and stomped on his sufferer, 64-year-old Nicola Tanzi, and even allegedly admitted to detectives he did it as a result of he did not like the way in which the sufferer checked out him.
Authorities say Mazariegos has 17 prior arrests, together with for assault earlier this 12 months, petit larceny and graffiti.
He was arrested at round 10 p.m. Tuesday when NYPD officers assigned to the subway in Occasions Sq. noticed him sitting on the sidewalk. Police say he had a katana sword, with a blade size of greater than 20 inches, resting in his lap on the time of this arrest.
Police say he was additionally in possession of 4 of the Brooklyn subway assault sufferer’s bank cards, together with one the suspect had allegedly simply used to make a purchase order at Goal at 237 W. forty second Avenue on Tuesday night time.
The suspect was launched on these expenses, which embrace petit larceny and legal possession of stolen property, after which instantly taken again into custody in connection to the subway homicide in Brooklyn. He’s anticipated to be arraigned in that case on Thursday.
Detectives are additionally taking a look at similarities between Tuesday’s homicide and the demise of a employee who confronted a shoplifter in at a Morton Williams in Hell’s Kitchen final month.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch praised the division’s area consciousness system, which despatched images of the suspect to officers’ telephones, ensuing within the suspect’s fast arrest.
In the meantime, investigators launched new particulars on what led to the lethal assault.
Police say the suspect was pulling on the exit gate on the Jay Avenue-MetroTech station, trying to achieve entry round 3 p.m. Tuesday when Tanzi approached.
The 2 exchanged phrases, and the suspect sucker punched the 64-year-old, knocking him to the bottom.
In accordance with investigators, video from MTA safety cameras recorded the suspect then punching, kicking, and stomping the sufferer’s head 15 instances whereas he was on the bottom.
Police say the suspect was then seen boarding a Bronx-bound No. 2 prepare.
The sufferer suffered a fractured cranium and was taken to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in crucial situation, and was later pronounced useless.
Candles burned on the scene of the crime on Wednesday in reminiscence of the Tanzi, who was remembered by others as a pleasant man.
Those that knew the sufferer, believed to be a safety guard, mentioned they had been pondering of his household.
It was the fourth murder within the subway system this 12 months, down from eight presently final 12 months.
Transit crime is down 4.3% to this point this 12 months. In September, severe crime was down 31% in comparison with the identical month final 12 months.
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