Monday, April 22, 2024 - The man who set himself on fire outside Donald Trump's criminal trial has donated his kidneys to 'save two people’s lives' after he died from his burns.
Conspiracy theorist and
researcher Maxwell Azzarello, 37, doused himself in fluid and lit his
clothes on fire near the Manhattan criminal court last week Friday.
The flames were extinguished by NYPD officers,
and he was rushed to hospital but died later that day.
Now nonprofit organ donation group LiveOnNY
has revealed that Azzarello was a donor and that both of his kidneys were
transplanted, allowing him to 'save two people’s lives on the national
waitlist.'
President Leonard Achan said: 'The 37-ye
ar-old man who tragically passed away after succumbing to injuries from self-inflicted burns while across from the Manhattan courthouse on Friday, was a registered organ donor.'
The Florida native was a graduate
of Rutgers University, where he received a master’s degree in city and regional
planning in 2012.
Friend and neighbour Bob Warren, 62, who lived next door to Azzarello in Saint Augustine, Florida revealed: ‘It was just a few days before he went to New York, we were sitting around in the back there, drinking beers and he was playing his guitar, and we were talking
‘He had some extreme views, some extreme
ideology and he just said, “I think I’m going to have to just go be a martyr.”’
Warren said: ‘He just moved into the
apartment next door about three weeks ago, but he’d been coming over to hang
out for about six, seven months before that.
‘He was a great guy. We used to chat. I’m a
Trump supporter. He thought everyone was involved in some conspiracy so we
would just stay away from some subjects. We got along fine.’
According to Warren, Azzarello had looked
at the move as a positive change as, though his father, Richard, 71, lives
locally, he had been living in a halfway house.
Warren described himself as, ‘completely
shocked’ to learn that his friend had followed through on his threat.
He said: ‘I just keep thinking he probably changed his mind four or five seconds after he lit himself up.’
Azzarello pulled a bunch of pamphlets out
of his backpack and threw them up in the air before dousing himself with fuel
and accelerant at 1.39pm Friday afternoon.
He died of his injuries shortly before 11pm
that night.
His white Toyota 4Runner truck sits where he left it outside his apartment building. ‘Trump is with Hillary, And they’re about to fascist coup us up,’ is written in permanent marker across the back.
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