The Navy-bound Bronx teenager who was killed when he tried to play peacemaker between two girls will be buried in his favorite outfit — his Batman shirt.
Victor Maldonado, 19, was obsessed with the comic book superhero, his mother said Wednesday.
“He had Batman everything,” Luz DeJesus said. “Pillow, blanket, T-shirt. That’s what I’m burying my son in.”
Ex-con DeShawn Coleman, 34, was arraigned Wednesday night on murder charges and remanded until Oct. 5, when he will be assigned an attorney.
DeJesus spoke as she departed for the murder arraignment of Coleman, who has a long rap sheet.
“I don’t wish anyone dead,” Maldonado’s grieving mom said. “But I hope (Coleman) gets the punishment.”
Police have also questioned Coleman’s sister.
“She told him, ‘Oh, since you don’t know how to mind your own business, I’m going to go get my brother,’ ” DeJesus said. “My son didn’t think anything of it. The guy came out and shot my son.”
The sister’s name has not been released. Maldonado, who was preparing to take his physical next week to enlist in the Navy, was gunned down Monday in the Kingsbridge section when he tried to broker a peace between the warring girls.
They were fighting because Coleman’s sister had walked into a building at 2805 Heath Ave. and failed to say thank you to the other girl, who had been holding the door for her, the grieving mom said.
“He said, ‘Don’t argue about something so small,’ ” DeJesus said of her slain son. “All of this is about a door.”
Minutes later, Maldonado lay mortally wounded on a Bronx street. He died early Tuesday, police said.
DeJesus said her son delayed the Navy physical by a week so he could attend his sister’s Sweet 16 bash.
“He wanted to make sure he was there for my daughter before he left,” DeJesus said.
Instead, DeJesus and daughter Nayiliana will be greeting mourners at Maldonado’s wake on Sunday and Monday, from noon to 9 p.m., at the Williams Funeral Home, 232nd Street and Broadway, in the Bronx.
