A Lengthy Island driver slashed one other motorist with a boxcutter and bit his fingers in a wild, road-raged fueled burst of violence Tuesday, cops mentioned.
Jayson Heitner, 26, was behind the wheel of a Jeep round 3:40 p.m. when he struck a 2017 Mercedes Sprinter van heading north on West Neck Highway close to Previous Hickory Lane in Huntington, Suffolk County Police mentioned.
Heitner flew right into a rage and approached the 60-year-old Sprinter driver with a boxcutter in hand, resulting in a bodily combat, cops mentioned.
He then slashed the older man throughout his face and physique, and bit a number of of his fingers through the brawl, authorities mentioned.
The sufferer was taken to a neighborhood hospital, the place he required fast medical consideration, together with a number of stitches to shut his wounds, in line with the felony criticism.
Heitner was arrested and charged with second-degree assault, a felony, the court docket doc mentioned.
He pleaded not responsible throughout his Wednesday arraignment in First District Courtroom and was ordered held on $75,000 bail, $150,000 bond or $750,000 partially secured bond.
He’s due again in court docket on Monday.
Heitner’s lawyer, Chase Brown, claimed the motive force of the much-larger Sprinter hit his shopper’s Jeep Grand Cherokee first – and that that his shopper was defending himself from the motorist, who admitted in court docket that he was holding a knife.
“He had a knife in his hand when my shopper went as much as the automobile to ensure he was OK,” Brown instructed The Publish by telephone. “He’s the one who began it. We sit up for exonerating my shopper. There’s a transparent self-defense declare.”
Heitner is in class to turn out to be a doctor’s assistant and he’s now working as a paramedic, Brown mentioned.
