{"id":1261,"date":"2025-10-14T10:47:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/1261\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:47:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:47:26","slug":"sick-video-shows-fatal-nyc-subway-beatdown-of-italian-immigrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/1261\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick video shows fatal NYC subway beatdown of Italian immigrant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sickening new video shows the moment the crazed career criminal charged in the fatal Brooklyn subway beatdown stomps on the helpless victim<\/a> at least a dozen times \u2014 to the point that he knocks him unconscious.<\/p>\n

Victim Nicola Tanzi, 64, stood no chance against David Mazariegos, who allegedly is seen in the disturbing clip entering the Jay Street-MetroTech station on Tuesday and immediately sucker-punching the Italian immigrant twice in the face, knocking him to the floor.<\/p>\n

Mazariego, who has five open criminal cases, then continues his merciless assault \u2014 kicking Tanzi in the face over and over again while he\u2019s on the ground, the video shows.<\/p>\n

Disturbing video footage shows David Mazariegos stomping 64-year-old straphanger Nicola Tanzi to death. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n

The creep later told cops he took Tanzi\u2019s \u201cspirit\u201d<\/a> because he didn\u2019t like the way he looked at him, according to prosecutors. <\/p>\n

The unprovoked attack occurred right after Tanzi held the emergency door open for Mazariegos.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHe then proceeded to stomp on the victim not once, not twice, but over and over and over again, even while the victim\u2019s body was totally limp,\u201d Assistant District Attorney Shena Aishnani said last week at the suspect\u2019s arraignment. \u201cThe victim was completely unconscious and yet the defendant continued to stomp on his body.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Mazariegos, a career criminal with five open cases, is now facing first-degree murder charges in Tanzi\u2019s death. Steven Hirsch<\/p>\n

Aishnani added, \u201cPolice interviewed the defendant and he confessed to beating the victim, robbing him and taking his spirit, as he put it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mazariegos is charged with first-degree murder in the chilling attack.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said Tanzi, a devout Catholic and member of<\/a> the Italian club in Carroll Gardens, suffered skull fractures, a crushed nasal bone and several facial injuries \u2014 and died just a few hours later. <\/p>\n

Video footage shows Nicola Tanzi, 64, being kicked more than a dozen times after he is knocked to the ground. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n

The Italian-born victim was a parishioner at St. Dominic\u2019s parish, his family said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNicky had such a kind heart and was always a glass-is-half-full kind of person and he always had concerns for others,\u201d said John Heyer, the deacon of Sacred Hearts & St. Stephen Roman Catholic Church in Carroll Gardens.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I believe he\u2019d help and forgive the person who did this and [would have] gotten them the help that they needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicola Tanzi, an Italian immigrant, was a beloved Catholic parishioner and member of the Carroll Gardens Italian club. Facebook\/john.l.heyer<\/p>\n

Mazariegos was busted after the attack and bizarrely flashed a toothless grin at reporters before he was charged and ordered held at Rikers Island without bail. <\/p>\n

Records show he has five open cases in Manhattan and the Bronx, including for petty larceny, identity theft, criminal mischief and assault. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sickening new video shows the moment the crazed career criminal charged in the fatal Brooklyn subway beatdown stomps…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,57,238,9,56,63,65,64,1686,1687,58,1688],"class_list":{"0":"post-1261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-murders","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-subway-shoves","17":"tag-subways","18":"tag-us-news","19":"tag-viral-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}