Mamdani mourns accused knife-wielding killer with lengthy rap sheet and murder victims family is livid

Mayor Zohran Mamdani publicly mourned an accused career criminal killer who died on Rikers Island this week — and the family of the victim killed in the sick, unprovoked attack is now livid, The Post has learned.Hizzoner said on X that he was “deeply saddened” by the in-custody death — the seventh so far this year at the troubled jail complex — adding that, “my thoughts are with his family and loved ones as they grieve this loss.”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.To the family of victim Jose Miranda, the mayor’s statement was “a slap in the face.” “It’s terrible,” his grieving mother, Marisol Miranda, told The Post on Thursday, adding, “That’s not fair.

That’s not fair at all.”The Rockland Country resident said that the mayor’s 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.“I’m not happy with what [Mamdani] did and I need him talking about my son.He was killed,” she said.Angel Miranda, the victim’s younger brother, agreed: “That’s not right.”“He could have paid his regards but acknowledged us too,” Miranda, 41, noted.

“He should have mentioned us first and then, ‘Sorry the person that did it also has passed away too.’ “At least give us a little heads up and a little gratuity towards us.We lost a family member.

You can never replace that.I’m still going through it,” he said.“It was a slap in the face,” Miranda added.His mom said she had been dreading Woodward’s murder trial and having to hear “what he did to me, what he did to my son” in open court.But she said that as a Christian woman, she did not want to speak badly about the accused killer.“I leave e...