NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A 30-year-old woman who worked as a prosecutor in the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office died last week.
Assistant District Attorney Brittany Heaney passed away early Thursday after having a medical episode Wednesday night, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez confirmed to the Daily News.
"One of our young up-and-coming prosecutors died," Gonzalez told the outlet. "She was only 30 years old. She was engaged to be married. She was one of my special victims prosecutors. Everyone really liked her."
Heaney's mother, Lisa Mazzaro Heaney, confirmed her death on Facebook Friday morning.
"It is with profound, unimaginable sorrow we share the news that our beloved oldest daughter, Brittany Devin, was called back to God yesterday morning," she wrote. "Brittany was a brilliant, compassionate woman who was honest, loyal and hardworking every day of her life."
"The world is a darker place without the light of her spirit brightening our lives," she added. "We will love her and carry her with every breath we take and every beat of our hearts."
In September, a senior assistant district attorney in the Brooklyn DA's office was fatally struck by a bus while riding her bicycle in Williamsburg.



