An alleged street rage maniac was busted weeks after he stabbed a Bronx livery cab driver – as prosecutors revealed the cabbie repeatedly insisted that he didn’t “need to struggle.”
Darin Dominick, 56, surrendered to cops Wednesday morning in connection to the early Nov. 26 assault on Ghanaian immigrant Osei “Ozzy” Kusi, 39, at White Plains Highway and Randall Avenue in Fort Hill, cops mentioned.
Each automobiles had been stopped at a pink mild round 2:30 a.m., when Dominick – who was behind Kusi – stormed as much as his automobile and banged on the motive force’s facet window with a baseball bat, in accordance with a grievance filed in Bronx Prison Courtroom.
Kusi obtained out of his automotive and pleaded, “I don’t need to struggle you, I don’t need to struggle you,” prosecutors mentioned.
However Kusi was quickly on the bottom and felt a “sharp object repeatedly strike his torso,” in accordance with the legal grievance.
His alleged attacker then obtained again behind the wheel of his personal automotive and drove off, prosecutors charged.
“That is tried homicide,” New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers spokesperson and founder Fernando Mateo declared on the time. “He left him there to die.”
In the meantime, Kusi was rushed to Jacobi Medical Heart, the place he was handled for eight puncture wounds to his torso and a bleeding lower on his mouth, prosecutors mentioned.
He obtained quite a few stitches and repeatedly misplaced and regained consciousness throughout his remedy, in accordance with the court docket doc.
Dominick – who turned himself in on the NYPD’s forty third Precinct – additionally faces assault, menacing and harassment raps, in accordance with cops and the legal grievance.
Throughout his Wednesday arraignment, Decide Anna Mikhaleva ordered him held on $75,000 bail or $250,000 bond, over prosecutors’ request for $300,000 bail or $900,000 bond, the DA’s workplace mentioned.
He’s subsequent scheduled to seem in court docket on Christmas Day.
“This assault shook our neighborhood,” Mateo mentioned in a press release. “The fast work of the forty third Precinct and the suspect’s give up present that nobody can hurt a hardworking New Yorker and easily disappear. Justice should now comply with.”
Dominick has three prior arrests that date again a long time — from 1997 for aggravated unlicensed operator, 1992 for legal mischief and 1998 for theft, authorities mentioned.
