Post by Logan on Feb 1, 2016 18:05:00 GMT -6
Ex-teacher viciously murdered in Manhattan homeless shelter remembered as brilliant, generous
An ex-teacher whose fight with mental illness landed him in a Manhattan homeless shelter where he was fiendishly murdered was remembered Sunday as a brilliant man with a generous heart.
Days after Deven Black, 62, was nearly beheaded in a grisly shelter slaying, family and friends recalled the life of a man betrayed by a brain once envied by his colleagues.
“When I say that my father was smart, I’m referring to his wisdom and intelligence, but also the staggering, broad knowledge that filled his brain,” said Jonas Black, his only son. “My father was a curious man who never stopped learning.”
Jonas told more than 200 mourners at Congregation Sons of Israel in Nyack that his family is donating his father’s brain for mental health research.
Read more: www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ex-teacher-slain-homeless-shelter-remembered-brilliant-article-1.2515751
An ex-teacher whose fight with mental illness landed him in a Manhattan homeless shelter where he was fiendishly murdered was remembered Sunday as a brilliant man with a generous heart.
Days after Deven Black, 62, was nearly beheaded in a grisly shelter slaying, family and friends recalled the life of a man betrayed by a brain once envied by his colleagues.
“When I say that my father was smart, I’m referring to his wisdom and intelligence, but also the staggering, broad knowledge that filled his brain,” said Jonas Black, his only son. “My father was a curious man who never stopped learning.”
Jonas told more than 200 mourners at Congregation Sons of Israel in Nyack that his family is donating his father’s brain for mental health research.
Read more: www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ex-teacher-slain-homeless-shelter-remembered-brilliant-article-1.2515751