New York Daily News

Notorious killer Zimmerman now takes aim at Jay

- Erin Durkin BY LEONARD GREENE

GOV. CUOMO announced a new effort Sunday to rein in the spread of the violent gang MS-13.

The state will spend millions on after-school and job-training programs to try to shield teens who might otherwise be recruited by the gang, which has been growing — especially on Long Island.

“It is a gang . . . that is more evil and insidious than almost anything we’ve seen before,” Cuomo said Sunday on the John Catsimatid­is AM 970 radio show.

The state plans to spend $2 million to extend after-school programs to schools and nonprofits in parts of Long Island plagued by the gang, and $5 million to give job training to young people believed to be at risk of gang recruitmen­t.

There’s also $3 million for medical, mental health and addiction treatment, English classes and counseling for at-risk kids, including immigrants who entered the country on their own.

The state is sending a team of state troopers and investigat­ors to help in gang hot spots.

“We want to reach out to the young people in the schools and give them an alternativ­e. MS-13 targets children, 11 to 15 years old,” Cuomo said. “So we want to have after-school programs, training programs, vocational programs to give them an alternativ­e to belonging to the gang.” CONTROVERS­IAL gunman George Zimmerman took a verbal shot at JAY-Z, threatenin­g to “beat” him and feed him to “an alligator” over the rapper’s role in a Trayvon Martin documentar­y, a report said.

Zimmerman (photo right), who gunned down 17-year-old Trayvon (photo below) on Feb. 26, 2012, said he has a score to settle with the rap- per, whose real name is Shawn Carter, over the way Jay’s camera crew treated his family, according to entertainm­ent website Blast.

Zimmerman was whining about a production team that made unannounce­d visits to the homes of his parents and an uncle in Florida, and he said JAY-Z and executive producer Michael Gesparro indirectly “harassed” his family.

“I know how to handle people who f--k with me,” the 34-year-old Zimmerman said Saturday, crassly adding, “I have since February 2012.”

Zimmerman says he holds JAY-Z and Gasparro responsibl­e, and “anyone who f--ks with my parents will be fed to an alligator.”

JAY-Z is the man behind a six-part documentar­y series, “Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story,” based on the book “Suspicion Nation” by lawyer Lisa Bloom. The project will chronicle Trayvon’s short life and Zimmerman’s 2013 acquittal.

JAY-Z didn’t comment, but fellow rap star Snoop Dogg fired back on Instagram.

“If one hair on jays hair is touched that’s when the revolution will b televised. We one, and to thank the system, let the Bitch a-- muthaf--a get away with murder try it again. Trayvon Martin Gone but not forgotten.”

Trayvon was killed wile visiting his father in Sanford, Fla., after Zimmerman followed him, defying a police dispatcher’s order to back down and wait for police.

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