A Beloved Stray Cat Was Fatally Mauled. But Was It Intentional Cruelty? Tuxedo was “the mayor” at the Brooklyn housing complex where he lived and was killed by two dogs. A man accused of torture in the death says he is innocent. Latonya Walker, who cares for stray cats that live at the Breukelen Houses, with Tuxedo last April. Credit...Pete Thompson Feb. 9, 2021 At the public housing complex in Brooklyn where he lived for nearly a decade among a colony of fellow strays, Tuxedo the cat was known to at least some people as “the mayor” — a fat, black-and-white fixture that hung around residents while they worked on their cars.