{"id":7331,"date":"2025-10-18T07:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/7331\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T07:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:08:08","slug":"who-was-nicola-tanzi-elderly-italian-immigrant-killed-in-unprovoked-brooklyn-subway-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/7331\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Nicola Tanzi? Elderly Italian immigrant killed in unprovoked Brooklyn subway attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Brooklyn community came together Friday night to remember 64-year-old Nicola Tanzi, who was beaten to death outside the Jay Street-MetroTech subway station on Oct. 7, according to New York post report.<\/p>\n

\"Nicola Nicola Tanzi, who was beaten to death outside the Jay Street-MetroTech subway station on Oct. 7. (Representative image)(Pexels) <\/p>\n

More than 100 family members and friends attended a wake at Andrew Torregrossa & Sons Funeral Home to honor the longtime church<\/a> volunteer and security guard.<\/p>\n

Also read: Travis Decker timeline: From daughters\u2019 murders to discovery of remains<\/a><\/p>\n

Who was Nicola Tanzi ?<\/p>\n

Tanzi, an Italian immigrant<\/a> who lived in Bensonhurst, had worked near the station for 15 years. He was attacked without reason while holding a door open.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust a wonderful, caring, human being,\u201d his nephew David Tanzi said. \u201cHe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tanzi was known for living a simple life, avoiding modern technology, and spending his free time serving his church community. He attended St. Dominic\u2019s Church and Sacred Hearts of Mary and Jesus & St. Stephen Roman Catholic Church in Carroll Gardens.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a simple guy,\u201d said his brother Anthony. \u201cHe never had an email, he never had a cell phone. That\u2019s the way he liked it. He was involved in a lot of things\u2026 a lot more things than I\u2019d ever do. He decided he was going to retire\u2026 to come out to Long Island and do all the things we used to do as kids. He never got the chance. He was robbed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tanzi was cremated before the wake, with his urn surrounded by flowers and photos.<\/p>\n

Nicola Tanzi was the \u2018kindest person\u2019<\/p>\n

Longtime friend Richard Ravaloi said Tanzi was one of the kindest people he knew. \u201cNicky was always in a good mood, laughing and joking,\u201d he said. \u201cHe was just a nice guy, you know. He\u2019d never hurt anybody. He was just nice to be around. He was never in a bad mood. He went to work, and back every day from that subway station. To have something like that happen, and the way that it did, he didn\u2019t deserve that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Authorities charged 25-year-old David Mazariegos with first-degree murder<\/a>. Prosecutors said he sucker-punched Tanzi twice, knocked him to the ground, and kicked him repeatedly, even after he was unconscious.<\/p>\n

Tanzi suffered a fractured skull, crushed nasal bone, and multiple facial injuries. He later died at the hospital.<\/p>\n

Mazariegos allegedly told police he attacked Tanzi because he \u201cdidn\u2019t like the way he looked at him\u201d and \u201ctook his spirit.\u201d He is being held at Rikers Island without bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn community came together Friday night to remember 64-year-old Nicola Tanzi, who was beaten to death outside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,6456,100,99,6459,6460,6458,9,24,6457,63],"class_list":["post-7331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-community","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-first-degree-murder","tag-italian-immigrant","tag-jay-street-metrotech-subway-station","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nicola-tanzi","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331","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=7331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}