Victim remembered by sis as ‘generous’ sponsor of artists

The sister of a Goldman Sachs researcher fatally shot on a subway on his way to a Sunday brunch said her brother was a New York University graduate, a selfless humanitarian and steadfastly loyal to family and friends.

Griselda Vile, 43, devastated by the slaying of her older brother Daniel Enriquez in a cold-blooded ambush, told the Daily News the killing was both senseless and incomprehensible.

“How did we become a statistic?” she lamented. “To be shot in the chest and to die alone, this is everybody’s worst nightmare. There are so many other families in New York going through this right now.”

Enriquez, 48 — on his way from his Brooklyn home to meet friends for brunch, his sister said — was sitting in the last car of a Manhattan-bound Q train when gunfire erupted about 11:45 a.m., police said.

Enriquez was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, but he could not be saved.

According to his sister, Enriquez worked as a research assistant for Goldman Sachs, but his true passion was for the arts — working to sponsor artists in any way he could.

“He helped a lot of aspiring directors, filmmakers, painters and sculptors, that’s just him being himself,” said Vile. “When people would fall on hard times, he would help them.”

As she fought back tears, Vile recalled countless times he put up money for vacations, dinners, outfits and art supplies for friends and family.

“My brother would give his shirt off his back to his friends,” Vile said. “He was a loyal, loyal person. He loved life so much.”

Vile said she learned of her big brother’s slaying while she and her husband and their two small children were eating pizza and watching a new Marvel superhero movie.

“They’re devastated,” Vile said of her little ones. “They’re in shock. For them to be so little and to hear that he was murdered in cold blood ..., ” she said, her voice trailing off.

The shooter, who hopped off the train at the Canal St. station, is still being sought.

“Maybe he was sleeping, maybe he was listening to music,” Vile said of her brother. “But this person had no heart, no soul. This was pure evil.”

As the heartbroken sister tried to make sense of the killing, she begged Mayor Adams to address a sharp uptick in violent crime in the subways.

So far this year, the world’s largest subway system has seen 15 shooting victims. There were none in the same period in 2021.

“Stop talking about the environment and your diet when your own citizens are dying on a day they should be with their families,” Vile said.