Man, 61, charged with murder over Thanksgiving slaying of beloved NYC woman, 69: ‘You’re a piece of s–t!’
A 61-year-old man has been charged with murder in the Thanksgiving Day shooting death of a beloved 69-year-old Brooklyn woman, cops said Friday – as the victim’s irate family ripped the accused killer as a “piece of s–t” who deserves to spend his life behind bars.
Danny Daniel was nabbed in South Carolina on Nov. 27 and extradited to Brooklyn on Thursday, where he was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in connection to the slaying of Angelina Renita Parker outside her public housing development on Bainbridge Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, authorities said.
Several of Parker’s relatives gathered outside the 81st Precinct station house Friday morning, as detectives escorted Daniel into an unmarked black car.
“You deserve to be in f–king jail for f–king life,” one relative yelled. “You’re a piece of s–t, Danny!”
“You deserve to be 10 feet under!” someone in the group shouted, adding that the slain woman was the vice president of NYCHA’s Brevoort Houses.
“The vice president of the Brevoort, the legend of Brevoort, bro! How the f–k do you feel?”
The slain woman’s brother, Vernon Parker, 63, said 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!”
While the NYPD said Parker and Daniel had an on-and-off relationship, relatives claimed that the two were always just friends – but that was never enough 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, 42.
“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.”
The accused killer – known in the projects for “stalking” Parker – called his target’s 89-year-old mother three times during Thanksgiving dinner to ask for her, Chai said.
“My grandmother says she told him, ‘I’m sure she’s fine.’ You know, just, ‘I’ll tell her you called.’”
When he finally 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.
She was taken to Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, where she was pronounced deceased, cops 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 – and 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.”
Daniel does not have an arrest history with the NYPD, according to cops.
“A part of me feels bad for him because I don’t see him as a malicious killer,” Chai said. “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.”
“I want the world to know…that he did a bad thing,” she added. “Nobody deserves it. You know, crime happens. But nobody deserves that. She had so much life.”
“To be murdered, to beat all odds that were set against you, 69 years, for it to be taken that way so brutally, it’s just insane to me,” she added. “That’s a story for no one.”
