An alleged highway 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 Street and Randall Avenue in Fortress Hill, cops stated.
Each vehicles have 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 driving force’s aspect window with a baseball bat, based on a grievance filed in Bronx Felony Court docket.
Kusi bought out of his automotive and pleaded, “I don’t need to struggle you, I don’t need to struggle you,” prosecutors stated.
However Kusi was quickly on the bottom and felt a “sharp object repeatedly strike his torso,” based on the prison grievance.
His alleged attacker then bought 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 reduce on his mouth, prosecutors stated.
He acquired quite a few stitches and repeatedly misplaced and regained consciousness throughout his remedy, based on the courtroom doc.
Dominick – who turned himself in on the NYPD’s forty third Precinct – additionally faces assault, menacing and harassment raps, based on cops and the prison grievance.
Throughout his Wednesday arraignment, Choose 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 stated.
He’s subsequent scheduled to look in courtroom on Christmas Day.
“This assault shook our neighborhood,” Mateo stated in a press release. “The short 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 observe.”
Dominick has three prior arrests that date again a long time — from 1997 for aggravated unlicensed operator, 1992 for prison mischief and 1998 for theft, authorities stated.
