Anna Torres' bedridden mom advised The Publish that she was within the different room as her daughter was gunned down by a disgruntled buyer.
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The bedridden mom of a tarot card reader who was shot within the head and killed stated she lay by helplessly in one other room, watching as her daughter was gunned down in chilly blood.
“I noticed every part taking place to my daughter,” Aurea Ruiz, 74, stated in a telephone interview with The Publish in regards to the deadly taking pictures of her daughter Anna Torres, 51.
“She opened the door. I used to be in one other room … so I couldn’t see who was on the opposite facet. I’m bed-bound,” Ruiz stated. “All I noticed was a hand with a gun. I assumed it was a pretend gun due to the colour. He was one or two ft away from the door. I heard my daughter saying, ‘No, no, no.’ I stated, ‘Anna, what’s occurring, honey? What occurred?’ ”
She then noticed the gunman stroll into the home, though he was carrying a hoodie and he or she couldn't see his face.
“And that’s when the taking pictures began,” she stated. “I noticed the gun taking pictures her. I heard three photographs however may have been extra. I heard, ‘pop, pop, pop.’ There have been few seconds in-between, not a lot time aside … She fell close to the steps to go upstairs. I can’t stroll, I stayed in mattress.”
Giuseppe Canzani, 41, allegedly admitted to taking pictures Torres after she’d answered the door to her Ozone Park residence round 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, killing her “as a result of she was a witch,” based on sources.
Canzani believed the clairvoyant — who did fortune and tarot card readings out of her residence — had forged a spell on him, cursing him, one supply stated.
Ruiz was helpless to go to her daughter’s help.
“I used to be going to throw myself down out of bed however I might by no means make it due to my leg,” Ruiz stated. “If I may stroll, I might run to my daughter and he must shoot me, too.
“I cried as a result of as a result of I couldn’t do something.”
Torres took care of Ruiz, the mother recalled, waking her up each morning, ensuring she took her treatment, asking what she needed for breakfast and laying out water, her toothbrush and toothpaste on her bedside desk.
“She was like my nurse,” Ruiz stated. “She was cooking for me.”
Now the household is in mourning.
“She was stunning inside and outside, great, giving,” Ruiz stated. “She was very beneficiant and I’m going to overlook her very a lot.”
Ruiz stated she didn't know Canzani.
“I don’t perceive why that man did it as a result of there are such a lot of folks she did work for who liked her,” Ruiz stated. “She helped so many individuals.”
The picture of the gun within the killer’s hand, and the weapon firing, she stated, “I can’t get that image of my head.”
Longtime consumer Miriam Lester, 47, had been utilizing Torres’ companies for greater than 20 years and slammed Canzani for suggesting the psychic would hurt anybody.
“Even when she was a witch, she shouldn't be gonna do this to no one. Even when she is a witch she does good to assist folks,” Lester stated.
Three folks at what's believed to be Canzani’s Howard Seashore residence refused to remark Saturday, earlier than one man tried to run down a Publish reporter and photographer with a automotive.
The older gentleman drove his automobile onto the sidewalk and into the yard within the course of the reporter, narrowly lacking her, then backed the automobile within the course of the photojournalist’s automotive. Nobody was harm.
Further reporting by Khristina Narizhnaya
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