Trans New Yorker charged with murdering father, critically wounding sister, after claiming home invasion

Hank BerrienDecember 30, 2022

Brooklyn deliveryman’s son has been charged after claiming that his attack on his father was caused by a home invasion.

Nikki Secondino (22), a biological woman who identifies herself as a woman has been charged in the murder of Carlo Secondino (61). The crime took place at his Brooklyn home in Bensonhurst. Carlo Secondino was killed on the spot. Nikki Secondino is also accused of stabbing his 19 year-old sister Liana. Liana remains in critical condition at Maimonides Hospital.

The 22-year-old trans daughter charged with murdering her father inside the family’s Brooklyn apartment grinned for the cameras Thursday night as she was led out of an NYPD station house. The trans-daughter smiles throughout his arrest. https://t.co/5jd4Jvpbk7

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“Her bloody fingerprints are all over my door from when she was banging on the door, hoping I would open it,” neighbor Susie Lew, 61, told The New York Post This is the suspect. “And then when she stopped the banging and I didn’t hear any more movement in the hallway, I slowly opened my door and heard the father yell my name out — ‘Susie, call the cops!’”

Police say that they arrived on the scene to find Carlo and Liana with several stab wounds, while Nikki had only minor injuries.

“He was lying on the kitchen floor, blood all over his chest, completely all saturated and red. He was just lying there not moving,” Lew was recalled.

One neighbor said, “I saw the blood in the hallway so I immediately closed my door and I didn’t want to get involved.”

“I know that there was always fights. He was always working here all day, but during the day he would always say she’s crazy, she’s got some issues, problems, she doesn’t want to work,” said Yadira Gomez, who co-owns Mike’s Diner, where Carlo Secondino worked. “She was fighting him yesterday and he told the other girl, ‘Go to your friend’s house. Don’t stay here,’ because he was worried.”

“These girls were abandoned by their mom when they were little, so he was the only one there as a mother figure and father figure,” Gomez said. “Everybody loved that guy here. It’s a big loss for everybody. He would work. He never said no to nothing, helped everybody.”

In a YouTube video Discussing his identity “transition,” Nikki Secondino expressed concern for his parents. “They kind of accepted me as their second daughter, slowly but surely It kind of went from that, my body changing, to my name. My name was Nicholas.”

Secondino also spoke of people who criticized his parents for going along with the change in identity and his father’s defense of it: “My dad is very Italian … he’s religious, but he says ‘If you think that everything in the Bible is true, then you must be crazy. If you think that Mary, the mother of Jesus, got impregnated by some supernatural force without human sperm and you’re gonna tell me how to raise my child, no thank you.’ So my dad had a strong personality, he didn’t let it [the criticism] affect it.”