A Queens girl confronted by the violent repeat offender who later tried to carjack one other driver – sparking a wild scene that ended with an NYPD detective shot by pleasant hearth Friday – slammed New York’s lax-on-crime system, seething that “this particular person must be locked up.”
Kimberly Patino, 32, mentioned she was about to go to the gymnasium when she noticed a suspicious man – who cops later decided to be four-time violent convicted felon Kevin Dubuisson, 28 – come at her from throughout the road.
“I see him, and he actually locks eyes with me,” Patino recalled in an interview with The Publish. “He’s like, ‘Imma f–king kill you, you white b–h.’
“Thank God my husband was dwelling. And I’m yelling, ‘Babe, babe, come, come!’” she mentioned, including the terrifying stranger was “not more than, a pair inches away from me and my automobile.
“And he’s yelling, ‘Imma f–king kill you! Imma f–king kill you!’”
Patino’s husband got here “operating” exterior and confronted the creep, telling him “What the f–ok are you gonna do?” as she dialed 911.
The maniac bolted, finally ending up on a service highway alongside the Whitestone Expressway, the place he accosted an Uber driver, based on police.
Dubuisson’s alleged makes an attempt to carjack the ride-share driver finally led to a confrontation with cops that ended with NYPD Det. Corey Fisher — a 12-year-veteran — getting shot in his proper hand and left leg, authorities mentioned.
Patino, an emergency room technician at NewYork Presbyterian Queens hospital, slammed the revolving door prison justice system for permitting Dubuisson — a disturbed profession prison out on parole — to stroll free.
“I simply don’t perceive what’s going on with the regulation,” she mentioned. “This particular person must be locked up, or there must be extra punishment on someone that has a violent historical past.
“This metropolis is popping into trash,” Patino added. “How are we permitting individuals to go round carjacking individuals and hurting individuals and letting individuals grow to be victims over and again and again?”
Patino mentioned she first noticed the suspect not lengthy earlier than he got here at her automobile. She was strolling her canine in entrance of her dwelling on Parsons Boulevard close to twenty eighth Avenue round 8:30 a.m. when she noticed a person who “appeared misplaced,” tugging on automobile doorways at a Mobil fuel station throughout the road.
He managed to hop inside an SUV, solely to be fought off by a fuel station employee, she mentioned.
“[As] that was occurring, I simply stored observing him,” mentioned Patino. “I’m proper throughout the road, and I had my automobile on, with the home windows down, as a result of I used to be going to go to the gymnasium.”
Patino recalled seeing what seemed to be a deal with beneath the person’s grey hoodie — moments earlier than he crossed the road “to attempt to come and get me,” together with his eye on her automobile, a 2022 Dodge Durango.
Quickly after he was scared off by Patino’s husband, Dubuisson allegedly walked as much as the Uber, a black Toyota Highlander, declared he was robbing it and flashed what the driving force believed to be a gun, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch mentioned.
The motive force referred to as 911, and patrol officers descended on the scene – quickly to be joined by Queens South narcotics detectives who noticed what was occurring as they drove again to their command, police mentioned. They blocked the automobile in, sparking a confrontation that ended with the cops firing their weapons shortly earlier than 9 a.m., inadvertently hanging their colleague.
Fisher, who suffered non-life-threatening accidents, was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Middle in a police cruiser, and Dubuisson was taken into custody, cops mentioned.
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As soon as Patino heard what occurred, she mentioned it dawned on her that “it might’ve been me.”
“Thank God I’m observant,” she mentioned. “I had my automobile on every little thing. Like, God forbid, what if I didn’t see him? I’m simply nonetheless in shock [from] every little thing. What if my husband wasn’t dwelling?….I might’ve been lifeless.”
Dubuisson already had 10 unsealed arrests on his document and a historical past of psychological health-related incidents earlier than Friday, regulation enforcement sources mentioned.
The recidivist was on parole after being launched from jail in March on a theft conviction – and had been nabbed as not too long ago as Thursday for fare evasion however lower free, authorities mentioned.
“I heard that this man actually simply bought out of jail yesterday, and so they’re nonetheless processing paperwork, and he’s already attacking individuals,” Patino mentioned.
She lamented that the violence will “worsen and worse as a result of no person does one thing.”
“It has to begin with the mayor,” Patino mentioned. “It has to begin with individuals up there setting an instance. They’re not doing something.”
