Second man arrested in killing of young Brooklyn video game developer

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Michael Diaz, Jr., former homicide prosecutor, represented the Victim’s family to receive justice by increasing the charges from a single defendant misdemeanor battery charge, to a felony homicide for the two co-conspirators.

A second man has been charged in the November killing of video game developer Jose Zambrano Rodriguez.

Damian Diaz, 29, was arrested in Queens, police said, and arraigned Saturday on manslaughter charges in Brooklyn Criminal Court.

Diaz, along with his cousin, 25-year-old Joshua Hernandez, allegedly beat Rodriguez, 26, in a random attack outside a Brooklyn bar in the early morning hours of Nov. 17, Assistant District Attorney Christopher Myco said in court Saturday.