{"id":68297,"date":"2025-12-12T02:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/68297\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T02:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:18:06","slug":"nyc-brute-who-killed-tarot-card-reader-he-thought-cursed-his-family-slapped-with-prison-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/68297\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC brute who killed tarot card reader he thought cursed his family slapped with prison time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now prison is in the cards.<\/p>\n<p>A disgruntled Queens customer who gunned down his tarot card reader because he thought she was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/05\/nyc-murder-victim-was-tarot-card-reader-killed-by-customer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201ca witch<\/a>\u201d was sentenced to 23 years behind bars Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Giuseppe Canzani, 45,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/06\/giuseppe-canzani-suspect-in-queens-nypd-cop-mother-anna-torres-killing-made-three-confessions-prosecutors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">admitted to fatally shooting<\/a> Anna Torres, 51,\u00a0with a .45-caliber gun at her Ozone Park\u00a0home\u00a0in May 2022 because he believed she had cast a spell on his family, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Giuseppe Canzani was sentenced to 23 years in prison for murdering Queens tarot card reader Anna Torres. Jesse Ward for DailyMail.com\/P00L<\/p>\n<p>Canzani shot Torres in her Ozone Park home in 2022 because he thought she cast a spell on his family. Facebook \/ Anna torres<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe defendant shot Anna Torres in broad daylight in the doorway of her own home, sending pedestrians running for their lives at the sound of the gunfire,\u201d Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis senseless act of violence shattered the victim\u2019s family and shocked the Ozone Park community. Nothing can undo what happened, but we hope today\u2019s sentencing provides Ms. Torres\u2019 loved ones another step forward in the healing process,\u201d\u00a0 Katz said.<\/p>\n<p>Canzani, of Howard Beach, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/04\/woman-shot-dead-in-broad-daylight-in-nyc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shot the clairvoyant in the neck and arm then fled <\/a>in a Chevrolet Traverse before allegedly admitting to cops he had killed her.<\/p>\n<p>Canzani seen on surveillance video returning to his car with a gun after killing Torres.<\/p>\n<p>Canzani getting walked out of the 106th Police Precinct in Queens on May 5, 2022. BRIGITTE STELZER<\/p>\n<p>Torres seen in an undated Facebook photo. Facebook \/ Anna torres<\/p>\n<p>Canzani pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the first degree in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Queens Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Holder sentenced him Thursday\u00a023 years in prison followed by five years of post-release supervision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now prison is in the cards. A disgruntled Queens customer who gunned down his tarot card reader because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[57,238,9,24,63,35425,122,124,123,35426,58],"class_list":["post-68297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-metro","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-psychics","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sentences","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68297","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=68297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}