Danny Daniel: Man who fatally stabbed NYC woman on Thanksgiving charged with murder

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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK: A 61-year-old man named Danny Daniel has been charged with murder in connection to the Thanksgiving Day shooting death of Angelina Renita Parker, a beloved woman who held the position of Vice President at New York’s housing authority.

After the murder, Parker's family condemned the accused killer, asserting that he deserves to spend his life behind bars.

Danny Daniel was arrested in murdering NYC woman 

Danny Daniel was apprehended in South Carolina on November 27 and extradited to Brooklyn on Thursday, following Parker's shot in the nect on November 23, about 11pm. Notabaly, the victim also possessed 31 years of teaching experience, adding to the sorrow felt by many mourning her death.

He faces charges of murder and criminal possession of a weapon in connection to the killing of Angelina Renita Parker outside her public housing development at 340 Bainbridge Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to authorities.

Pending charges are being considered as detectives persist in their investigation to determine the motive.

It is worth noting that Daniel has no prior arrests, as confirmed by authorities.

How did NYC woman’s relatives react?

Outside the 81st Precinct station house on Friday morning, several of Parker’s relatives gathered as detectives escorted Daniel into an unmarked black car.

“You deserve to be in jail for life,” yelled one relative. “You’re a piece of s–t, Danny!”

“You deserve to be 10 feet under!” someone in the group shouted, emphasizing that the slain woman was the vice president of NYCHA’s Brevoort Houses.

Another in the crowd added, “The vice president of the Brevoort, the legend of Brevoort, bro! How do you feel?”

The brother of the slain woman, Vernon Parker, 63, expressed his anguish, stating that the gunman “killed my sister for no reason.”

“She was helping him, and then he was stalking her all day long,” Vernon said. “All of these phone calls, stalking her, ‘Where you at, where you at?’ She’s with family! It’s Thanksgiving Day!”

Although the NYPD mentioned an on-and-off relationship between Parker and Daniel, relatives contended that the two were merely friends. However, this was insufficient for the accused gunman.

“They were just friends, but he wanted more. He wanted more, and he was just a miserable soul,” said the victim’s niece, Chai Parker.

“I’ve seen them speak and things like that, but never, you know, lovey-dovey,” Chai said. “It’s just Danny. This is Danny, the drunk from the projects. So I just believe he was just very jealous of the love that she received from everyone, men, women, children.”

Known in the projects for 'stalking' Parker, the accused killer allegedly called his target’s 89-year-old mother three times during Thanksgiving dinner.

“My grandmother says she told him, ‘I’m sure she’s fine.’ You know, just, ‘I’ll tell her you called.’”

When he eventually found Parker, the callous killer allegedly “put a gun on her neck – that’s what it seems like – and it went out her jaw,” Chai said.

“That right there is brutal to me,” the grieving relative said. “Why does she deserve that? I know she didn’t fight you.”

In addition to her leadership role in her housing complex, Parker taught pre-k and kindergarten for 31 years. Although she was never married, she served as a mother figure for her niece and others.

“She was just like the glue to our family,” Chai said.

Meanwhile, Daniel was merely known for his drinking habit, according to his victim’s niece.

“He just never had a good story to him,” Chai said. “It was never nothing good about him. Not gonna say it was bad. But he never had a story period. It was just like, oh, that’s Danny boy. Oh, the drunk, the guy that drinks.”

Chai added, “A part of me feels bad for him because I don’t see him as a malicious killer,I just feel like something took over him, something that he couldn’t even control. The devil, he’s at work, you know, and it’s sad to say that Danny was weak. He was weak for the devil and that caused him to do something so terrible.” as per New York Post.