The person accused of repeatedly stabbing an East Harlem McDonald’s employee sobbed into his lawyer’s shoulder throughout his first courtroom look Wednesday — the place a decide set his bail at $150,000.
Ezekiel Dunn-Jennings, 28, sniffled and shook his head in the course of the temporary listening to in Manhattan Legal Court docket, as an lawyer with Neighborhood Defender Providers of Harlem patted him on the again.
Dunn-Jennings, who had his fingers cuffed behind his again and a big bandage round his pinky finger, is charged with tried homicide, assault and weapons possession within the grisly March 9 assault.
Prosecutors say Dunn-Jennings went berserk contained in the fast-food joint on Third Avenue close to East 117th Avenue at round 12:40 a.m. — stabbing Mickey D’s employee Angel Miguel Salazar at the least seven occasions.
Dunn-Jennings acquired into an argument with staffers on the restaurant and began “cursing” and “threatening to punch and kill” them, Assistant District Lawyer Ashley Maldonado De La Fuente stated in the course of the arraignment.
He then taunted Salazar to come back out of the kitchen and hit him — and the 23-year-old hero emerged with a broomstick to defend his co-workers.
The 2 got here to blows, and Dunn-Jennings allegedly repeatedly knifed Salazar, who continues to be hospitalized.
“He has to pay for what he did,” Salazar instructed The Submit by telephone from his hospital mattress on Tuesday, after Dunn-Jennings turned himself in.
Certainly one of Dunn-Jennings’ attorneys, Lisa Freedman, famous that her shopper had surrendered to authorities as she requested Choose Anna Lewis to free him on supervised launch.
Friedman argued that Dunn-Jennings doesn’t have a “substantial prison file” and that he “at all times involves courtroom.”
Dunn-Jennings — who has 4 prior arrests, for assault, prison mischief and menacing — cried as one other lawyer, Matthew Daloisio, tried to consolation him.
The ADA stated that a “giant portion of the crime” was captured on surveillance video and that bloody pants have been discovered within the suspect’s condominium — lower than three blocks from the McDonald’s — as she requested for $150,000 bail.
Dunn-Jennings had claimed he acted in self-defense as he was walked out of the twenty fifth Precinct late Tuesday morning, saying, “I used to be hit within the head. I used to be attacked first.”
“I’m sorry what occurred to that man,” he added when requested if he regretted his alleged actions. “He was a good-looking man. I didn’t imply to harm him.”
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