The tearful ex-girlfriend of a stolen automobile driver who wounded seven throughout a horrific Manhattan police chase slammed the courtroom for letting the younger hellion out on bail in her home violence case.
The emotional former associate of suspected automobile thief Kyle Fernandez was seen quietly crying as Manhattan ADA Meaghan Dunigan learn out her sufferer influence assertion in Manhattan Supreme Court docket Thursday.
“Two years in the past, I skilled probably the most traumatic days of my life,” the assertion learn. “Kyle Fernandez, somebody I as soon as trusted, assaulted me — pushing, punching, and breaking my telephone — in an act of violence that left me scared and susceptible.”
The assault passed off on Jan. 16, 2023, when Fernandez punched his sufferer, ripping off her necklaces and smashing her cellphone earlier than chopping her wrist with the cracked display screen, in keeping with a felony grievance.
Fernandez, 20, was out on bail in that case when he allegedly stole a automobile and drove intoxicated throughout a horror police chase that wounded seven folks on Aug. 1 of that yr.
On Thursday, Fernandez was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in each the home violence and drunk driving circumstances.
The girlfriend, who remained nameless, slammed the “system” for letting Fernandez out on bail within the first place — permitting him to drunkenly plow his automobile via pedestrians, together with youngsters.
“I lived with the information that the one who harmed me and others was given a number of probabilities regardless of his menace to public security,” the assertion went on. “This expertise highlighted how this system usually delays justice for victims of home violence, and in doing so, dangers the security of others.”
He had posted bail in each circumstances — $7,500 on the assault prices and $50,000 within the drunk driving case.
Fernandez’s former beau added that he had “repeatedly demonstrated he lacks the empathy and understanding essential to be a secure and accountable member of society.”
She urged the courtroom and the justice system to “mirror on this case” and known as for quicker motion in home violence circumstances.
Fernandez didn’t hassle apologizing to his ex-girlfriend when he was given the possibility to talk in courtroom.
He did, nevertheless, whine about how the case had been “dragging on,” main an incredulous Choose Althea Drysdale to chop him off.
“You have got two indictments earlier than the courtroom, and also you’re telling me the case is dragging on?” she stated.
Throughout a earlier listening to, Dunigan stated Fernandez had displayed “extraordinarily egregious conduct” when he drove up on a sidewalk throughout night rush hour whereas making an attempt to evade a police cease.
She famous that he had admitted to being excessive on medicine when he allegedly sped off in a stolen automobile, operating a purple mild and turning the unsuitable method down a one-way road near Grand Central, hanging a bicyclist.
He then allegedly drove onto the sidewalk on the intersection of Lexington and East forty second Road, hitting a car and ramming a number of pedestrians.
Showing at Manhattan Felony Court docket following the rampage in August 2023, Fernandez mumbled “stuff occurs, man,” when requested by The Submit why he did it.