Wake Held for Firefighter Beaten to Death on Belt Parkway
He was a firefighter and a musician.
In both roles, he “lifted people up” with his music and his selfless devotion to saving lives. That’s how firefighter Faizal Coto was characterized by his friends and FDNY coworkers at his wake on Wednesday at the Leone Funeral Home on Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park.
Coto was off duty when he was killed Sunday in a road-rage attack on the Belt Parkway at Bay 8th Street. Police continue their probe into his murder and are holding a man in connection with the vicious attack, in which Coto was struck over the head and killed with what is believed to have been a baseball bat after a minor crash.