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 individual must be locked up.”
Kimberly Patino, 32, stated 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 Submit. “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 stated, 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 “working” exterior and confronted the creep, telling him “What the f–ok are you gonna do?” as she dialed 911.
The maniac bolted, in the end ending up on a service street alongside the Whitestone Expressway, the place he accosted an Uber driver, in response to police.
Dubuisson’s alleged makes an attempt to carjack the ride-share driver ultimately 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 stated.
Patino, an emergency room technician at NewYork Presbyterian Queens hospital, slammed the revolving door felony justice system for permitting Dubuisson — a disturbed profession felony out on parole — to stroll free.
“I simply don’t perceive what’s going on with the legislation,” she stated. “This individual 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 develop into victims over and over and over?”
Patino stated 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 gasoline station throughout the road.
He managed to hop inside an SUV, solely to be fought off by a gasoline station employee, she stated.
“[As] that was occurring, I simply saved observing him,” stated 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 gave the impression to be a deal with below the person’s grey hoodie — moments earlier than he crossed the road “to attempt to come and get me,” along 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 stated.
The driving 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 happening as they drove again to their command, police stated. 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 Heart in a police cruiser, and Dubuisson was taken into custody, cops stated.
He was charged with theft, assault, menacing, tried theft and two counts of tried assault.
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As soon as Patino heard what occurred, she stated it dawned on her that “it may’ve been me.”
“Thank God I’m observant,” she stated. “I had my automobile on all the pieces. Like, God forbid, what if I didn’t see him? I’m simply nonetheless in shock [from] all the pieces. What if my husband wasn’t dwelling?….I may’ve been lifeless.”
Dubuisson already had 10 unsealed arrests on his report and a historical past of psychological health-related incidents earlier than Friday, legislation enforcement sources stated.
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 stated.
“I heard that this man actually simply bought out of jail yesterday, they usually’re nonetheless processing paperwork, and he’s already attacking individuals,” Patino stated.
She lamented that the violence will “worsen and worse as a result of no one does one thing.”
“It has to start out with the mayor,” Patino stated. “It has to start out with individuals up there setting an instance. They’re not doing something.”
