Maniac charged in FDNY EMTs death stares blankly as brutal knifing is played in NYC court: Its really disturbing

The maniac accused of ruthlessly knifing a beloved FDNY EMS lieutenant to death did a bizarre stint on the stand at his murder trial Friday — and chillingly showed no emotion when confronted with videos of the horrific, random attack.Peter Zisopoulos, 36, stared intensely into the gallery in Queens Supreme Court — packed with teary-eyed EMS personnel — as prosecutors played footage of a man knocking over 9/11 first-responder Alison Russo-Elling, getting on top of her and stabbing her 19 times on an Astoria sidewalk.“It may look like a past picture of mine,” Zisopoulos, seemingly unfazed by the brutal videos, admitted on the stand.The alleged killer denied being the man in the video, saying the corner where the savage 2022 attack took place looked “a little bit” familiar.The video showed the killer enter Zisopoulos’ Astoria apartment building, but he replied “I don’t know” when asked if the attacker went into the unit he shared with his mother.Trial attendees — who included Russo-Elling’s grieving daughter — wept openly as the two graphic videos played.The courtroom gallery became exasperated, with some rolling their eyes, as Zisopoulos was repeatedly caught in apparent lies during his testimony.For instance, Zisopoulos — dressed in an orange Department of Correction jumpsuit and sporting black eye-glasses — claimed he was asleep in his apartment when Russo-Elling, 61, was killed while on her lunch break, just a half-block from her stationhouse Sept.

29, 2022.Prosecutors pointed out that Zisopoulos told The Post in a jailhouse interview a year after the murder that he had been home watching “Star Wars” and that surveillance video of the attack was “photoshopped” to frame him.He’d apparently given police a third version, saying he’d woken up at 8 a.m., eaten breakfast, watched the news and then gone back to sleep, until he was awoken by cops knocking at his door.“You gave an interview to a New York Post reporter, and you...