The 20-year-old man suspected of delivering the deadly blow to a Queens taxi driver in a caught-on-video gang assault is a theft recidivist with an intensive arrest document, law-enforcement sources stated Friday.
Austin Amos has been busted 10 earlier instances, together with for theft, sexual misconduct and home violence offenses, and he’s listed by the NYPD as a “theft recidivist,” sources stated. Three of the arrests are sealed.
The Queens man was charged with manslaughter and gang assault Thursday after he and a bunch of three buddies allegedly killed cabbie and pa of 4 Kutin Gyimah on Saturday morning after skipping out on a taxi fare.
Nickolas Porter, 20, and a 15-year-old lady have additionally been charged in reference to the incident, police stated. One other teen lady is but to be apprehended, prosecutors stated.
At their Friday night time arraignments in Queens Felony Court docket, Amos was remanded with out bail, and Porter was ordered held on $75,000 bail, based on a courtroom clerk.
Earlier than Thursday’s expenses, Amos was final busted in February 2020 for fare evasion and in January of that yr for armed theft, regulation enforcement sources stated.
In July and October 2019, he was arrested twice for violating an order of safety, and that February, he was charged with sexual misconduct and theft, sources stated. The entire expenses stemmed from home violence-related incidents.
Amos is known as in 12 home incident reviews, together with 11 during which he's named because the aggressor, sources stated.
Following the 2019 arrests, Amos, who was a minor on the time, took a conditional plea on the finish of the yr that required him to endure counseling, remedial training and probation, courtroom data present. He accomplished the necessities and the fees had been later lowered to disorderly conduct, data say.
The tendencies of the opposite arrests weren’t instantly clear.
Early Saturday morning round 6:30 a.m., Amos, Porter and three teen ladies hailed a yellow cab pushed by Gyimah, 52, and refused to pay and took off working in numerous instructions when he dropped them off close to Seaside 54th Road and Arverne Bouelvard, prosecutors stated.
Gyimah ran after the group on foot and caught as much as one of many teen ladies, the suspect who's but to be apprehended. Footage reveals the 2 getting right into a battle, main Amos to allegedly bounce in and punch Gyimah a number of instances, knocking him to the bottom, prosecutors stated.
Amos, Porter and two of the teenager ladies then surrounded Gyimah and proceeded to kick and punch him as he lay on the pavement.
When the cabby regained his footing and stood up, Amos delivered two last blows to Gyimah’s face, inflicting him to fall again and smack his head on the pavement the place he stopped transferring, prosecutors alleged.
The group then took off, leaving Gyimah to die, prosecutors allege.
Whereas 5 individuals had been a part of the group, solely Amos, Porter and two of the teenager ladies participated within the assault, prosecutors stated. It’s not instantly clear if the fifth passenger is being sought in reference to the incident.
“My husband was a superb man. He was every thing we had. … He was the one one I appeared as much as, and now his life has simply been reduce quick similar to that,” Gyimah’s spouse, Abigail Barwuah, stated at a press convention at her house Thursday.
Barwuah urged the remaining suspect to show themselves in.
“They’re gonna be caught,” she stated. “Wherever they're, even when they don't seem to be caught by man, God goes to convey them in.”
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