Man Indicted For Killing Adoptive Mother In Canarsie

CANARSIE – Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced today that a 28-year-old man has been arraigned for allegedly killing his 70-year-old adoptive mother whom authorities found bound and strangled in her home.

According to the investigation, on July 18, 2017, Noreen Mulzac, a retired nurse, was found strangled to death inside her Canarsie home. Her legs were bound with electrical cords and her house ransacked. Investigators found that the woman’s son, Jayvon Mulzac, had been at her house the day of the murder and used her cell phone.

In August, Mulzac was arrested twice in Pittsfield, Massachusetts for disturbing the peace and for breaking and entering, the New York Daily News reports. He was extradited back to Brooklyn yesterday.

In another incident in 2006, Mulzac was arrested for beating and robbing his mother with two other men, according to the newspaper. In that case, Mulzac pleaded guilty to criminal possession of stolen property and was sent to prison for three years.

Mulzac was arraigned today at Brooklyn Supreme Court on an indictment charging him with second-degree murder, first-degree robbery, and first-degree unlawful imprisonment. He is being held without bail and is scheduled to return to court on February 14, 2018. He faces up to 25 years to life in prison if convicted.

“The dastardly killing of a beloved senior citizen, allegedly by her own son, is truly shocking,” Acting District Attorney Gonzalez said. “We are committed to bringing this defendant to justice for this brutal and unspeakable crime.”