A Howard Beach man was sentenced to 23 years in prison Thursday for fatally shooting a tarot card reader shortly after she opened the front door of her Ozone Park home in May 2022 because he thought she was a witch who had put a curse on him.

Giuseppe Canzani, 43, of 88th Street, pleaded guilty on Sept. 8 to manslaughter in the first degree in satisfaction of the charges against him for gunning down 51-year-old Anna Torres, the mother of an NYPD cop.

According to the charges, on May 4, 2022, at 2:26 p.m., Canzani knocked on the front door of Torres’ residence at 94-59 109th Ave. in Ozone Park. When Torres answered the door, Canzani shot her in the neck and arm and sped away in a black Chevrolet Traverse he had parked in front of a nearby home. Police from the 106th Precinct in South Ozon

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