Murderer-Mourning Mamdani Grieves for Meat-Cleaver Killer

This is what you get in a one-party town, a demon. Horrific.

As one reader opined, “It must be nice to win guaranteed elections based on mail-in ballots from deceased voters. It gives the elected official power to do and say whatever they feel like without any consequences. ”

Video captures vicious knife attack in NYC laundromat that left one dead, another seriously wounded

First, the prisoner who died: Clarence Woodward is a homeless man who was a parolee from prison in 2024 when he has charged with a “unprovoked meat cleaver murder in a Bronx laundromat, police said” (Daily News).

Mamdani posts emotional message mourning accused knife-wielding killer —and is slammed by victim’s family

By Haley Brown, Joe Marino, Khristina Narizhnaya and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon, NY post, Aug. 27, 2026:

Mayor Zohran Mamdani publicly mourned an accused career criminal killer who died on Rikers Island this week — and the family of the victim slain 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.”

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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.

Screenshot of a tweet by Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani, expressing sadness over a death at Rikers Island and committing to improve jail conditions and close Rikers.

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 everything in God’s hands. He’s the one who can judge,” Marisol Miranda said.

Woodward faced life in prison if he’d been convicted of murder, manslaughter, attempted murder, assault and weapons charges in the Aug. 8, 2024, attack at 303 Laundromat in the Claremont section of The Bronx.

Jose Miranda posing for a photo in a kitchen.
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Murder victim Jose Miranda was known as a friendly and well known presence in his Claremont neighborhood.
Obtained by the NY Post
He’d been out after a stint in state prison for only about a month when police said Woodward randomly attacked Miranda and another man at around 2:40 a.m. inside the business, which was open 24/7.

The homeless parolee first stabbed Jose Miranda, who was sitting in a chair, multiple times in the legs, torso and back, leaving him mortally wounded, police said.

He then attacked the second victim, a 47-year-old homeless man who had been sleeping inside the laundromat, stabbing him in the legs and torso, according to cops.

Shocking surveillance images showed the blood-splattered scene, with one man laying in a pool of blood on the floor and the second victim slumped over on a box while the suspect stood over them both.

Another image showed the killer moments before he plunged the knife into Miranda’s back.

Video captures vicious knife attack in NYC laundromat that left one dead, another seriously wounded
Cops later found two meat cleavers on the stoop outside the business, WABC-TV reported at the time.

Woodward, who had been held without bail since his arrest in the aftermath of the attack, last had a court hearing in the case on July 28, with a return date of Sept. 29, online records show.

Woodward, who was living in a Brooklyn homeless shelter back then, already had 29 unsealed arrests on his rap sheet, dating back to a 2002 criminal trespass bust in The Bronx, law enforcement sources said.

His criminal record also included four felony robbery arrests, five assaults and several weapons, drug possession and larceny charges, the sources said.

He served a five-year prison sentence for attempted robbery and assault, and was released on parole from the upstate Collins Correctional Facility on July 3, 2024 — just a month before the bloody Bronx stabbings.

Woodward’s last arrests before he was shipped to state prison were a pair of assault cases in June 2019 and busts for robbery, weapons possession and petty larceny in May 2018, according to sources.

“Our department mourns the loss of Clarence Woodward and we share our deepest condolences with his family and loved ones,” he said.

Woodward’s death was the seventh at Rikers so far this year, according to advocacy group Vera, which also said 15 people died in city DOC custody last year.

“We do not yet know the cause of death, but we do know that too many New Yorkers have died on Rikers Island. The Department of Correction and its oversight partners will investigate the circumstances surrounding his death,” Mamdani added in his own statement.

“Our administration is fully committed to the critical work of creating better conditions in our city’s jail system and closing Rikers Island as quickly as possible.”