Sword-wielding maniac revealed chilling reason for Brooklyn NYC subway murder: sources

A petty crook with a mile-long rap sheet allegedly confessed to savagely beating a stranger to death outside a Brooklyn subway station – coldly telling cops he didn’t like the way the victim “looked at him,” sources said.

The suspect – identified by law-enforcement sources as David Mazariego, 25 – is set to be charged with murder in the senseless Tuesday afternoon assault near the Jay Street-MetroTech Station.

But Mazariego first needs to arraigned in Manhattan after he was busted with a sword in Times Square hours after the slaying, sources said.

Sources said the sicko allegedly copped to attacking the still-unidentified victim because the hapless man held a subway gate door open for him – an act of kindness that the hotheaded hoodlum told cops he disliked.

A shockingly brutal attack followed, with the assailant repeatedly pummeling the victim’s face and stomping on his head up to 15 times, sources said.

The victim – described as man in his 50s who works in the area – has yet to be identified because his attacker took his wallet and ID after leaving him battered and unconscious near Lawrence and Willoughby streets, according to sources.

He died roughly an hour later in New York-Presbyterian Hospital Brooklyn Methodist.

The shocking attack prompted NYPD officials to send a department-wide emergency alert to cops’ phones during the manhunt for the killer that ended up leading to Mazariego’s arrest, said Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

“Eagle-eyed cops working near Times Square recognized this perp from the photos they had just received and immediately brought this dangerous criminal into custody,” she wrote on X.

Sources said cops found that Mazariego had a sword when they took him into custody, leading to a criminal possession of a weapon charge.