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Mayor Zohran Mamdani publicly mourned an accused career criminal killer who died on Rikers Island this week \u2014 and the family of the victim killed in the sick, unprovoked attack is now livid, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

Read more Lindsay Clancy\u2019s lawyer calls her a \u2018darn good mother\u2019 during closing arguments in trial for murdering her 3 kids<\/a><\/p>\n

Hizzoner said on X that he was \u201cdeeply saddened\u201d by the in-custody death \u2014 the seventh so far this year at the troubled jail complex \u2014 adding that, \u201cmy thoughts are with his family and loved ones as they grieve this loss.\u201d<\/p>\n

The inmate was identified as 41-year-old Clarence Woodward, an ex-con with nearly 30 arrests on his rap sheet, who was found unresponsive in his cell shortly after 5 a.m. Tuesday while awaiting trial for murder in the gruesome 2024 attack at a Bronx laundromat.<\/p>\n

To the family of victim Jose Miranda, the mayor\u2019s statement was \u201ca slap in the face.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s terrible,\u201d his grieving mother, Marisol Miranda, told The Post on Thursday, adding, \u201cThat\u2019s not fair. That\u2019s not fair at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Rockland Country resident said that the mayor\u2019s sorrow was misplaced, and should have instead been aimed at her beloved son, a 45-year-old dad of two who worked as a barber when he was stabbed to death.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not happy with what [Mamdani] did and I need him talking about my son. He was killed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Angel Miranda, the victim\u2019s younger brother, agreed: \u201cThat\u2019s not right.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe could have paid his regards but acknowledged us too,\u201d Miranda, 41, noted. \u201cHe should have mentioned us first and then, \u2018Sorry the person that did it also has passed away too.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cAt least give us a little heads up and a little gratuity towards us. We lost a family member. You can never replace that. I\u2019m still going through it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was\u00a0a\u00a0slap\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0face,\u201d Miranda added.<\/p>\n

His mom said she had been dreading Woodward\u2019s murder trial and having to hear \u201cwhat he did to me, what he did to my son\u201d in open court.<\/p>\n

But she said that as a Christian woman, she did not want to speak badly about the accused killer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI leave everything\u00a0in\u00a0God\u2019s hands. He\u2019s\u00a0the\u00a0one who can judge,\u201d Marisol Miranda said.<\/p>\n

Woodward faced life in prison if he\u2019d been convicted of murder, manslaughter, attempted murder, assault and weapons charges in the Aug. 8, 2024, attack at 303 Laundromat in the Claremont section of The Bronx.<\/p>\n

He\u2019d been out after a stint in state prison for only about a month when police said Woodward randomly attacked Miranda and another man at around 2:40 a.m. inside the business, which was open 24\/7.<\/p>\n

The homeless parolee first stabbed Jose Miranda, who was sitting in a chair, multiple times in the legs, torso and back, leaving him mortally wounded, police said. <\/p>\n

He then attacked the second victim, a 47-year-old homeless man who had been sleeping inside the laundromat, stabbing him in the legs and torso, according to cops.<\/p>\n

Shocking surveillance images showed the blood-splattered scene, with one man laying in a pool of blood on the floor and the second victim slumped over on a box while the suspect stood over them both.<\/p>\n

Another image showed the killer moments before he plunged the knife into Miranda\u2019s back.<\/p>\n

Cops later found two meat cleavers on the stoop outside the business, WABC-TV reported at the time.<\/p>\n

Read more Juror in Lindsay Clancy case burst into tears during prosecution closings<\/a><\/p>\n

Woodward, who was living in a Brooklyn homeless shelter back then, had 29 unsealed arrests on his rap sheet, dating back to a 2002 criminal trespass bust in The Bronx, law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n

His criminal record also included four felony robbery arrests, five assaults and several weapons, drug possession and larceny charges, the sources said.<\/p>\n

He served a five-year prison sentence for attempted robbery and assault, and was released on parole from the upstate Collins Correctional Facility on July 3, 2024 \u2014 just a month before the bloody Bronx stabbings.<\/p>\n

Woodward\u2019s last arrests before he was shipped to state prison were a pair of assault cases in June 2019 and busts for robbery, weapons possession and petty larceny in May 2018, according to sources.<\/p>\n

City Department of Correction Commissioner Stanley Richards called Woodward\u2019s death a \u201ctragedy\u201d that would be \u201cthoroughly investigated\u201d in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur department mourns\u00a0the\u00a0loss of Clarence Woodward and we share our deepest condolences with his family and loved ones,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Woodward\u2019s death was the seventh at Rikers so far this year, according to advocacy group Vera, which also said 15 people died in city DOC custody last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not yet know the cause of death, but we do know that too many New Yorkers have died on Rikers Island. The Department of Correction and its oversight partners will investigate the circumstances surrounding his death,\u201d Mamdani added in his own statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur administration is fully committed to the critical work of creating better conditions in our city\u2019s jail system and closing Rikers Island as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The democratic socialist mayor has posted similar statements about the other inmates who have died in custody so far this year. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear if he knew what Woodward had been charged with when he posted about his death, and City Hall didn\u2019t answer The Post\u2019s questions. <\/p>\n

Woodward\u2019s defense attorney and the Bronx District Attorney\u2019s Office also didn\u2019t comment.<\/p>\n

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Bronx residents who spoke to The Post on Thursday were similarly taken aback by the mayor\u2019s eulogizing of Woodward, who they said was a known troublemaker in the neighborhood. <\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people would talk bad about him,\u201d Alfredo Avila, who works as a barber in the neighborhood, said about Woodward, calling him \u201ckind of crazy.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cHe was always on drugs. He had just come out of jail.\u201d<\/p>\n

By contrast, he said Miranda was a nice guy who \u201cdidn\u2019t look for trouble with nobody. He was sleeping at the laundromat because he didn\u2019t have another place to live.\u201d<\/p>\n

Herman Gonzalez, who manages the local Bronx Super Shop Fair supermarket, agreed that the slain man, who was nicknamed \u201cEl Bori,\u201d was well liked on the block \u2014 and chided Mamdani for shedding a tear for \u201can assassin.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s totally upside down,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cHe should realize why that guy was in jail.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more Could Lindsay Clancy go free? Her potential fates as jury decides whether she\u2019s criminally responsible for strangling 3 kids<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Additional reporting by Larry Celona<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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